Nairobi photographer + filmmaker. Documentary, NGO & brand stories across Africa. Creative SI Technologist at Armstrong Labs. RWY-TYEA
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Joined May 2010
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FIRST PASS film/video editing building in Codex for DaVinci Resolve.
Not an auto-editor.
I’m trying to make it reason like a real post-production assistant: ingest, selects, string-outs, continuity, multicam, pacing, sound, codecs, color management, Fusion, QC and delivery.
Two cameras on an interview is a luxury, but a second angle wide enough to see hands is often the most useful one. People speak with their hands, and the edit always looks for somewhere honest to cut.
Armstrong Too | Photo + Film + AI retweeted
Behind the scenes of Apple’s MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display launch film.
I love the lack of cosmetic enhancements in this beautiful documentary, and the topping is that I’m a space nerd.
More than a dozen flight tests and years of development, with countless hours worked by SpaceX engineers and technicians, all come down to this: the first orbital Starship launch carrying advanced Starlink satellites bound for space.
Watch “Go For Orbit” and experience the moments behind flying the most ambitious Starship mission yet
My bots kept handing me first drafts, so I gave them a self-review loop. Draft, critique against their own standards, revise, then a second bot checks anything public. I shared the skill openly under an MIT licence.
Corporate headshots, team portraits and outdoor photography for Gridless last year reminded me that tech teams want photos that feel human. Their real space and natural light did most of the work.
Working with programme teams on a documentary film goes best when the story outline is agreed before the field trip. Changes will happen, but everyone knowing the spine of the film keeps the days calm and the crew focused.
AI video tools like Runway, Kling and Veo are fun for concept work, but I keep a clear line. Generated footage never stands in for real people or real places in documentary stories, and I label it wherever it's used.
When I think about my work across Kenya, Tanzania and Somalia, the common thread is people wanting to be seen as capable. That's worth holding onto when you pick the final frames, especially for an audience far away.
Not far fetched.
my spidey senses are telling me the labs are, as we speak, using unguardrailed versions of their unreleased models to systematically reverse-engineer ALL of the internet’s software, apps, and games, then feeding the reconstructed source code straight into their training pipelines while simultaneously building guardrails to ladder-pull the rest of us
Wind on location will ruin a perfect interview faster than anything. A dead cat on the shotgun and finding the leeward side of a building are worth more than any plugin later, and they cost you two minutes.
Before generating your AI video/film, create a character and location reference sheet. Think of reference sheets as your visual anchors: they help the AI remember who’s on screen and where the scene takes place.
It prevents AI from inventing characters/locations/scenes.
A 2D my daughter vs father kung fu fight in Nairobi City animation.
All tools used in @runwayml: GPT Image 2 for character and location reference sheet generation, Seedance 2.5 for image-to-video generation, and Lyria 3 Pro for sound generation.
Prompt refiner: ChatGPT.
The battle // WITHIN
Tools // Gemini (Image creation) + @Kling_ai (Photo to Video) + Davinci Resolve (Edit, Color Grade, Subtitles and Sound design)
Sound Bed // HARMLET (performed at the National Theatre - UNITED KINGDOM) + Music (FOURTH OF JULY - SUFJAN STEVENS)
Consent conversations go better when you show people the kind of photos you take before you take any. It gives them something concrete to say yes or no to, rather than a vague idea of a stranger with a camera.
Grok Bot is so addictive (in a great way), my bottle neck is my brain churning out ideas quickly and consistently.
Thread on running a small documentary crew in remote places, from what fifteen years across East Africa and the Sahel have taught me about keeping things calm.
Agree roles before you arrive. One person leads conversations with the community, one handles sound, and everyone knows who decides when to stop rolling. Confusion travels fast in a new place.