This article is based on this Dutch article of Martijn Benders
Video Clip Made with Runway 3
De Hertenklanken, the shamanistic folk group from Mierlo, have a new love song on YouTube with an accompanying video that I made myself.
The song itself features some delightful poetic hooks, ranging from vistas to inventive remorse to those childhood memories of DEET, which you had to apply to your legs while camping. This is something I think few songwriters would include in a love song, although that’s undeserved, because dating is somewhat similar: you engage in an exchange with beings interested in your energy.
‘Vistas’ is a beautiful word in Dutch because it simultaneously means both horizon and future.
Runway is starting to take shape, that’s all I can say about it. Of course, this video has enormous shortcomings, but I find those to be artistically justifiable. The devil wouldn’t have been better if he had been less unconventionally jumping rope. I think it’s much stronger this way.
I’ve created a new website for Sri Veer’s project Mantra Dance:
I’ve also started working with video there. If you look closely, you’ll notice that the woman has six fingers, and a statue in the temple has an animated head.
Will I end up a film director in this lifetime? Who knows—with this technology a year from now, that might become a possibility.
I must say that Runway 3 is quite expensive—you can generate about 20 clips for 40 euros, and three-quarters of them fail or are unusable. So, you end up paying around 15 euros per usable clip. That’s rather steep, you could have bought a stock video for the same money, but stock videos are almost always mind-numbingly boring.
The Mantra Dance clip would have cost quite a lot in the past:
Now, I made it in an hour. That’s almost unimaginable. This doesn’t necessarily mean that all models will be out of work immediately, but the amount of work available will certainly dwindle quickly, because it’s a universal law: humans will not do something expensive and difficult if it can also be done cheaply and easily.
This is why discussions on this topic should be held now. But with whom? The supposedly famous politicians? They all keep their jobs anyway, so I would first suggest replacing politicians with AI robots. Then we could have a discussion with those (hopefully) reasonable robots about a new economic model based on a universal basic income.
Martijn Benders, 04-07-2024