Rick McCawley
Midjourney Video Shook Me to My Core | 65 Years of Art, Reborn by AI
This is not just a video. It’s a life’s work—made visible.
For 65 years, I’ve been chasing beauty with a camera, a trumpet, a pen, and a vision. As a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist for The Miami Herald, I spent five decades crafting images the old way—darkrooms, deadlines, danger. For the last three years, I’ve gone all in with AI, testing over 30 tools monthly, generating millions of images, composing music with Suno, authoring books, building educational and disability-support apps like Rescue Connect, and designing AI for human empowerment.
But last night, Midjourney’s new video capability broke something open in me I didn’t expect.
In minutes, I created a living, breathing visual poem from 2.5 years of my artwork using their new video engine. I layered my voice, added a track I composed in Suno.AI, and edited the clips into one soul-shaking experience.
And I was shaken to my core—not because it was easy, but because it was real.
Some say this isn’t “art” because it’s made with AI. To them, I say:
Art is not a tool. It’s a verb.
It’s vulnerability. It’s vision. It’s choosing to show up, every day, for decades—bleeding for beauty.
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels… the ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things.” — Steve Jobs
I am one of those.
Not just using AI—I am the AI-human hybrid they warned you about.
But not for profit. For purpose.
This is my purpose:
To make the invisible visible.
To share the sacred hidden in parking lots and puddles.
To help you feel what I feel—through sound, light, memory, myth.
You don’t have to like it.
But you can’t deny the human in it.
👁🗨 Watch it with your whole self.
🎧 Hear the years behind the voice.
🔥 Then ask yourself—what will you create with your one wild and precious life… now that the tools are in your hands?
Subscribe if you believe AI can be a multiplier for human vision, not a replacement.
And if you’re one of the crazy ones too—welcome home.
—Rick McCawley
Photographer. Educator. Musician. AI Humanist.
https://www.rickmccawley.com | Imagine A World (ᵃⁱ)
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