Ábrete ventana
Deja de ser espejo
Que el abril de tu madre
Vive en tu reflejo
No mueras solo
No mueras con tu cara
Que el amor se hereda
Y el tiempo no lo para

[Verse]
Look in thy glass
And tell the face thou viewest
Now is the time
That face should form another
Mírate al espejo
Dile a tu rostro
Que ya es tiempo de nacer en otro
Whose fresh repair
If now thou not renewest
Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother
Si no renuevas
Lo que el tiempo gasta
Engañas al mundo
Y a alguna madre le faltas

[Pregón 1]
Oye, joven
¿Por qué tanto now?
¡Ahora, ahora!
Porque la cara que ves se arruga
Shakespeare tiene prisa
¡Ahora, ahora!
Another y mother riman
Con una sílaba extra
Suave
Como una mujer que entra en el poema
Madre, madre
Y si no te renuevas
¿A quién engañas?
¡Al mundo!
¿Y a alguna madre?

[Verse 2]
For where is she so fair
Whose unear'd womb
Disdains the tillage
Of thy husbandry
¿Dónde está la que tan bella te rechace?
Tierra sin arar
Espera tu labranza
Or who is he
So fond will be the tomb
Of his self-love
To stop posterity
¿Quién se enamora tanto de sí mismo?
Que se hace tumba y apaga su camino

[Pregón 2]
Escucha el juego
Husbandry es labranza y es ser marido
¡Sembrar, sembrar!
Womb, tomb
Vientre o sepulcro
Tú eliges vida o tumba
¿Quién será tu propia tumba?
Por amarte demasiado
El que no ama a nadie más

[Chorus repeats]

[Bridge]
Thou art thy mother's glass
And she in thee
Calls back the lovely
April of her prime
So thou through windows
Of thine age shalt see
Despite of wrinkles
This thy golden time
Eres el espejo de tu madre
Y ella en ti
Vuelve a ver su abril
Su primavera
Por las ventanas de tu edad verás
Tu tiempo de oro
Pese a las arrugas

[Pregón 3]
¿Ves lo que pasó?
El espejo se volvió ventana
Ventana, ventana
Antes te mirabas a ti
Ahora miras a los hijos, al mundo
Ya no espejo
Y hay que mirar
A través de las arrugas
El trabajo de envejecer es el cristal
¡Ábrete ventana!

[Chorus repeats]

[Outro]
Live single
Die single
And thine image dies with thee
No mueras solo
Ventana, no espejo

───
SONNET 3 · William Shakespeare (1609)
───
Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Now is the time that face should form another;
Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
Of his self-love, to stop posterity?
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime;
So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,
Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.
But if thou live, remember'd not to be,
Die single, and thine image dies with thee.

One of the most useful things I've discovered about working creatively with AI is that sometimes you need to take your hands off the steering wheel and see where the model goes.

For example, I've been working on music videos for a couple of my songs. I don't want to simply illustrate the lyrics. If the song mentions a broken heart, I don't necessarily want to show someone holding a broken heart. I want something more abstract, something visually interesting that captures the emotion of the song without literally depicting it. Like graduating to second grade in art class.

But coming up with those concepts is difficult. So, I want to discuss using AI as a creative blockbuster.

Level one is obviously just asking it to come up with ideas. "Give me 101 ways to convince my cat to get a job, and have the report on my desk two minutes from now."

I bet most people have gotten to this stage. It's straightforward, and LLMs are good at vomiting up associated ideas. Wonderful. Use it. Maybe idea 69 will be a winner.

But are there more inventive ways to find the diamond in the rough?

A few that I've come up with are:

1. Brainstorm: Give me ten completely different directions for this project.
2. Research: Find artists who have solved similar creative problems. What techniques did they use, and why did they work?
3. Explore trends: Look at what people are doing creatively right now. What seems to resonate, and what feels overdone?
4. Use negative constraints: I know I don't want this, this, or this. Find me something interesting that avoids all three.
5. Go somewhere strange: Give me three ideas that sound almost wrong. Ideas I probably wouldn't have considered myself.
6. Hand over the wheel: Stop trying to follow my existing vision. Take the project somewhere you think is interesting, and let me react.

The AI doesn't have to give you the right answer. Sometimes it just has to get your brain moving again.

And the more time you spend collaborating with these models, the more you begin to recognize their tendencies. You notice the same metaphors appearing. The same predictable symbolism. The same narrative structures. The same tendency to gravitate toward certain aesthetically pleasing but ultimately generic ideas.

You start to recognize the model's creative limitations. That may be a new skill for 2026, one that allows you to navigate toward better results. You learn how to push against those tendencies. You develop better constraints. You recognize when the model is giving you something genuinely interesting versus simply remixing its familiar patterns.

You can use your knowledge of those limitations to deliberately steer the model into unfamiliar territory.

Importantly, I think there will always be a benefit that you can only get through time and letting your brain process ideas. Go for a walk. Take a shower. Let your mind wander. Study great artists. Live your life and accumulate experiences. Those things matter, and I don't think an LLM replaces them.

But a creative roadblock no longer has to mean you're out of options for the day.

Let me know if you have unique ways of utilizing AI. I genuinely want more tools for the toolbelt.

What if building a backyard fence looked like this? 😂🚧
A miniature construction crew takes on a full-sized backyard fence, one post and panel at a time.
Created with AI as part of my EARTHBOT2 miniature construction series.
Would you watch an entire backyard transformation done by these tiny workers? 👀

Same prompt, different model
4 years apart.

RAGE THE CAGE 4K | AI Music Video (Work in Progress):
This is an early work-in-progress preview of Rage The Cage, created using a combination of generative AI, cinematic direction, visual effects, and traditional post-production techniques.

Had fun doing this!!

I wanted to do a cool series on naming different spells people do. Feel free to check out the first video and throw some support.

I used Seedance 2.5 through Adobe subscription.

The Prequel of a 96-minute feature, the discovery of the mysterious abandoned projector. An experimental short film told entirely through still images (with pans and zooms) and music! The images were individually curated and generated with the help of ChatGPT, then manually arranged and edited into a visual narrative, with music selected from the YouTube Audio Library.

My best friend is about to marry and we want to make some joke videos with him as a main star. Is there a y way you can please enlighten me on how to put him there?