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Music videos, made with AI.

Each one started as a paragraph I typed. Claude wrote the lyrics and ran the rest: one model sang the song, one painted the frames, one made them move, and Claude’s own code cut the film to the beat. How each one was made, and what it cost, is under it.

Newest · 2:54

Keep the Light On

A dad, a desk lamp, and a job that keeps getting easier for the machines.

He learned to code in 2023. Then the models started finishing his lines, then his files, then the whole design. So after his son is asleep he switches the lamp on and learns. He builds something he’s proud of, and the comments call it slop. He keeps going anyway, for the two people down the hall.

  • 25 paintings
  • 22 animated clips
  • 50 shots
  • Every cut on the beat

What it cost. About $1.40 for the paintings and the animation, plus one song.

How it was made

  1. The song came first.ElevenLabs Music wrote and sang it from the lyrics. It came back at exactly 80 beats per minute, with a timestamp for every sung word.
  2. One sheet for the whole family.The dad, the mom and the son were painted once, side by side. Every scene after that was painted with that sheet as its reference, so they stay the same three foxes in all 25 paintings. Six scenes were refused by the image model’s own filter and had to be repainted from another angle.
  3. Each painting got one stage direction.An image-to-video model (it takes a still picture and returns a few seconds of it moving) was handed a painting and a line like “the tower wobbles and falls, the little fox laughs”. A clip cost two to five cents, and all 22 were used.
  4. Drawn on threes.The clips come back small and soft. A second model redraws each frame sharp, and each drawing is then held for three frames, the way hand-drawn animation is shot. The camera still moves on every frame.
  5. His screen is live code.Everything on his monitor is drawn by a program, timed to the word being sung: the code that finishes itself, the bars climbing past the line marked “my job”, the three comments.
  6. Cut to the beat.Every cut lands on the beat. The lamp clicks on the word “on”. The seasons change outside the same window, and the lyrics are typed like comments in his editor.
Lyrics

Verse 1Twenty twenty-three, I learned to write codeLate nights, hello world, a brand new roadGot the job, got the badge, felt the door swing wideTold my wife “we made it,” with our kid by my sideThen a chat box started finishing my linesFirst a function, then a file, then the whole designEvery few months there’s a smarter oneDoing in a minute what took me a monthChatGPT, Anthropic, they don’t sleep, they don’t tireEvery update’s reaching one rung higherI read the release notes like weather reportsStorm rolling in, and I’m still on the shore

ChorusSo I keep the light on, after everybody’s sleepingKeep the light on, got a family I’m keepingOne more lesson, one more tryI’ll learn it all before the morning lightI keep the light on, keep the light onFor you, for you

Verse 2Clock out at five, then the real shift startsDinner, bath time, glow-in-the-dark starsWe build a tower out of blocks on the floorHe laughs when it falls, says “Daddy, one more”I read him his story, I turn out his lightThen walk down the hall to my desk for the nightPrompts and agents, tabs and docsTeaching myself while I’m watching the clock’Cause the math in my head never lets me restRent, food, shoes, what if I’m nextIf I don’t learn this fast, if I fall behindHow do I look my family in the eye

BridgeNow I can build things I never could beforeA game, a little world, I open up the doorI post it up and wait, then the comments drop“It’s slop.” “Just slop.” “AI slop.”Nobody claps, nobody staysOne little window in a great big waveBut down the hall there’s a night-light onAnd a small voice saying “Dad, you made that one?”

Last chorusSo I keep the light on, let ’em call it what they wantKeep the light on, for my wife and for my sonOne more lesson, one more tryI’m still here in the morning lightI keep the light on, keep the light onFor you, for you

Earlier · 2:48

Learn Again

The next five years of work, as one unbroken zoom through 24 paintings.

A lofi forecast: the jobs that fade quietly, the ones that don’t, and the one skill that outlasts both. The camera dives through a screen in every scene into the next, without a cut, then rewinds the whole way home.

  • 24 paintings
  • One unbroken shot
  • 23 dives
  • Every dive on a bar line

What it cost. About $1 of paintings, plus one song.

How it was made

  1. The song came first.ElevenLabs Music composed it from a section-by-section plan and the lyrics. It came back at exactly 80 beats per minute, with a timestamp for every sung word.
  2. Every painting hides a green screen.Each scene was painted with one flat green rectangle in it: a monitor, a billboard, a train window, a picture frame.
  3. The next painting goes inside it.Code cuts out the green, finds its four corners, and maps the next painting into that shape in perspective. Repeat 23 times and you have one image nested 23 levels deep.
  4. The paintings have depth.A depth model estimates how far away every pixel is, so the chair in front slides past the city behind it when the camera drifts.
  5. The camera follows the beat.Each dive lands on a bar line. Lamps and screens glow on the kick, the frame nudges on the snare, and each lyric appears on the frame it is sung.
  6. Then it rewinds.In the last chorus the camera pulls back out through all 23 worlds, one per beat, to the desk where it started. The night turns to morning.
Lyrics

Verse 1Monday morning, same desk, same screenInbox answers itself, know what I meanNo pink slips, no alarms, no sceneJust an empty chair where a job had beenThey don’t fire you, they just don’t replaceQuiet cuts, slow fade, no traceFirst rung of the ladder went missing somehowKids at the bottom asking, where do we start nowIt takes the tasks first, piece by pieceThree used to do it, now it’s one with a teamOf machines that never sleep or eatFive years coming, feel it under your feet

ChorusLearn, unlearn, learn againThe world won’t wait but it’s not the endBend like the river, don’t break, just bendLearn, unlearn, learn againNew tools, new rules, same heart, same handsStay curious, that’s the planNobody’s got it all figured out, my friendSo learn, unlearn, learn again

Verse 2Plumber’s still booked and the nurse on callHands in the real world don’t fade at allTrust is a thing that a model can’t signSomebody’s name’s gotta go on the lineSo be the one who can brief the machineCheck what comes back and know what it meansTaste is the edge and judgment’s the keyAsk better questions, that’s the new degreeDon’t mourn the task, go find the needTeach what you learn, plant it like a seedOne person now with a crew in the cloudSmall can be mighty, say it out loud

BridgeNobody knows how fast this goesHold each other closeWe’ve done this before, every time it turnedWe adapt, we learn