Music

I Made a Music Video in a Morning. Here's How.

I had a song. By lunch I had a finished music video: 24 shots, three minutes and 43 seconds, every mouth moving in time with the words, all of it painted in a rough, blocky, hand-made style. The whole thing took 4 hours and 39 minutes, start to finish.

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033 Newsletter, Aug 29, 2026

Everyone Arrived at the Same Corner This Week I just published a post called Tenacity Makes Twenty. Curation Keeps One. It came out of a question from a creator in India who wanted to know how to get hired making images and video. My answer was that the making is

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The Weekend Art Batch - 002

Aug 26. Funny Movie Scene My friend Chris aka Hammelart replied to my first entry with a brilliant Video of Leslie Nielson! What I found really funny is what he does with those items lying on the ground. Your browser does not support the video tag. Aug 27. 1 Million

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Tenacity Makes Twenty. Curation Keeps One.

Someone from India messaged me on Discord this week. He wanted career advice on how to get a job (making images and videos). It's a fair question to ask on a server full of people making images and videos. It's also a question I couldn'

Music

It Takes a Village

Creating Music Video clips in Minimax H3

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The Tuesday Art Drop - 002

Aug 25. Tribal Drums Aug 24th. 80s Hip Hop We Invented The Street 0:00 /0:00 1× Aug 23. Superstar Superstar 0:00 /0:00 1×

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032 Newsletter, August 22 2026

Art

The Radiologist Teaches Birdwatching

A fable about looking right at it. The Walk It began, as these things often do, with Theo. Theo arrived at the preserve gate at 5:40 a.m. carrying a spotting scope, two cameras, and a laminated card bearing the one bird he had come to see — a cerulean

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The Poker Player Teaches Driver's Ed

The "Drunk Driver" Fallacy — retold for anyone with a learner's permit. The Class It began, as these things often do, with Dev. Dev had passed his road test on Tuesday and had been describing it ever since as "flawless." By Friday the story included

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The Weekend Art Batch - 001

Aug 22. New Sheriff in Town JOHNNY COME Lately 0:00 /0:00 1× Aug 21. Painted In Blue Aug 20, Smoke Coming Out From... Your browser does not support the video tag. Aug 19. The sound of ...

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The Tuesday Art drop - 001

Am breaking art posts into 2 smaller ones per week

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Designology

How to Find Your PlaceType and Align Your Life With Design Dr. Sally Augustin is an environmental psychologist, and her argument is that the reason your living room doesn't work is not that you bought the wrong sofa. It's that you bought someone else's

Art from week 2, Aug 2026

Aug 14th. Miss Galaxy Bye Bye, Miss Galaxy Sky 0:00 /0:00 1× Aug 13th. 3D Printer Thats a bad spool on the rise0:00/146.0001671× 0:00 /0:15 1× August 12th. I don't know I dont know0:00/180.3609791× SUNO has changed it

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031 Newsletter, August 13th 2026

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1st Anniversary Edition

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The Murphy Bed We Didn't Buy

reflections

The Diderot Effect Came for My Television

The problem with coveting a $2K TV stand. On Happiness and the Rat Race.

reflections

Your Thinking Has an Org Chart

Use NotebookLM to Ground. Use Claude or Gemini or ChatGPT to reason or ideate.

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The Room With the Bay Windows

I bought a book today. Off eBay, secondhand, $7.31, a title I'd been circling for a while: Designology, by Sally Augustin, who is an environmental psychologist by trade and whose whole argument is that the rooms you live in are quietly doing something to you whether you&

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030 Newsletter, August 9 2026

Book Reviews

The Man Who Was Never Asked

On Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi, with J.R. Moehringer (2009) I'd never have picked this up book on my own. I heard Sam talking about the book on the My First Million podcast and ordered it from the library that evening, which is very nearly the

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029 Newsletter, August 7 2026

Investing

A retirement quiz you'll want to fail now, not later

I've built a retirement planner. It's free, it lives at planner.sebastianantony.com, and I'll tell you all about it — but not before you've earned it. Six questions first. They're the six questions the app was built to answer, and

Investing

The Senior Portfolio Planner: what's under the bonnet

This is the technical companion to my retirement-quiz post. The Senior Portfolio Planner is a free retirement modelling app in four parts: Parts 1–3 live in the planner itself, and Part 4 ships as Ballast (ballast.sebastianantony.com), a standalone companion that runs the deepest analysis on a

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Art from week 1, Aug 2026

Aug 7th, Hidden The Hider 0:00 /0:00 1× Aug 6th, Brand new Like a Version0:00/189.6801671× Aug 5, Destiny Foreseen0:00/219.1209791× Aug 4, Proud to be Aug 3, this is a box Your browser does not support the video tag. Aug 2, AAA Aug