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005 Newsletter - Feb 7, 2026

This week was focused more on AI, art, music, and design.

Sebastian Antony

07 Feb 2026 • 3 min read

Curl up with a good book if you don't like Curling once every 4 years...

This week, I think my posts are mostly focused on design, AI art, and music.

I was floored with this

A tutorial that shows you how to imagine a fantasy flooring in your own space, with a free offer for my newsletter subscribers.

Timelapse construction video clip

As architects who raised a family in a messy cluttered home, we had forgotten many of the principles of good design that could help make our space feel luxurious. A couple of YouTube channels I saw that explain how to do this. Hope we can apply many of these principles when we move to a new home to retire...

Imaginary room showcasing some of the tips in this post.

Studio Ghibli-style ASMR AI videos.

There are some channels showing beautiful Studio Ghibli-style animation with ASMR sounds. This blog post features a video that shows how to create these.

Eileen family's first car was a tan-colored Volkswagen Beetle

A profitable YouTube niche

I was originally listening, watching some videos from Faceless Finance channels, but where the content resonated with me. I even gave a $5 tip to one of those videos. Then suddenly I discovered that these are being created by AI. In this post, I share examples of these, both the channels and how to create these videos. I don't know if I'll end up creating a channel in the future 😂

In reality, over the past week, my tech heavy investment portfolio graph trended down 😒

I heard a RUMI song that I found haunting.

I played this on repeat many times early in the morning, 3-4 am. Then I got obsessed trying to dissect the music and created my own version of a similar Rumi poem.

Didn't I tell you? is a haunting music video

AI art samples

This post features examples of my entries for the daily AI art challenge on three different days in the past week. All three challenges have videos.

Visit this post to find out why I'm holding an M made out of bones.😉

Sesame Street and parklets

This post explores how the urban planning principles of Jane Jacobs influenced both the design of Sesame Street stoop and parklets. It also briefly explores parklets in San Francisco, London, and New York.

Connections - Sesame Street to parklets, both connect people

Rust Angel.

This music video was my entry for the daily challenge on February 1st, and the post explains how I created it in less than an hour using OpenArt.

A 3 minute music video created in under an hour.

Bonus

Here are two writing tips from Jono Hey (sketchplantations) who does brilliant illustrations, and has a wonderful book for the visual learners.

And that's all for this week. The Winter Olympics opening ceremony was a visual and auditory treat, really beautiful. I loved it, and look forward to watching some winter sports over the coming week.

SouperBowl today (collection at evening Mass in church of Canned Soup and non-perishable goods), followed tomorrow by Bad Bunny etc. at Superbowl

More icy weather (in the east coast at least) this weekend. Stay warm...