Over the past few weeks, I have shared a lot of what I have been working towards for years with Halate (https://www.linkedin.com/company/halate/). It’s the part of my life I share most often, and something that genuinely makes me proud. But there are also other sides of me that I like to share every once in a while.
Building a personal brand and starting a new company are deeply personal. It can feel like you are creating something for yourself, but in ways it can also feel like you are simply trying to make enough money to pay the rent and cover your basic needs. Sometimes I feel like just another cog in the machine we call capitalism.
Over the last few years I have been working a lot on myself and trying to see who I really am and what I really want. But because of internal and external struggles I also feel like a ghost in a shell that is just here to fulfill the social standards that we have build. I struggle with depression, loneliness and a general feeling of uselessness. I question life often and a lot of times it feels meaningless.
Besides those internal struggles, I am constantly confronted by everything happening around us… trying to find a home, searching for more work, struggling to form meaningful connections, the state of the world, people blaming minorities for society’s problems, the rise of AI and whatever else comes next…
These thoughts occupy my mind almost every day. Even though I have managed to turn my passion into my work, I still struggle to tell my own stories and express my own creativity.
So from today, I want to do something with these thoughts and struggles. I want to make space for my own stories, not to chase likes or views and not because I expect to change anyone’s mind.
Simply to express myself, for myself.
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Today, we’re launching Halate. 🎬
After months of building, creating, refining and probably overthinking a few things along the way, it’s finally time to share what we’ve been working on.
Halate is the next chapter for @Omar Duyarlar and me, a creative production studio built around something we both care deeply about: telling stories through film.
We partner with brands to turn ideas, innovations and real experiences into films that people actually want to watch. From case studies and product films to event productions.
But instead of writing a long post about who we are and what we do, we made a film about it.
So… meet Halate.
This is just the beginning.
halate.io (http://halate.io)
Creative technologist · Music Artist · AI General Creative
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Creative technologist · Music Artist · AI General Creative
I must admit I am a gamer, and with that mindset, I learn game theory. I use this practice as well in my sessions with people on how to build everything for yourself and be the best version of yourself. And now also with AI.
I love to be creative in @FLORA , but I also love to play the Division 2. Now their new update is coming; I am so hyped, I fused those two.
This is my gamerfan video made with FLORA and used @ElevenLabs voice and Seedance 2.5.
Btw. This was made with Hermes Desktop and the MCP of Flora.
Edited in Ableton & Da Vinci Resolve.
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“Carpet Diem” started as a play on words—carpe diem, the well-known Latin phrase about seizing the moment. But from that lightness came the idea for this video: you wake up in a jungle, with no explanation or warning.
The point isn’t for everything to make immediate sense. It’s the unexpected that grabs your attention, makes you pause, and opens up curiosity. Carpet Diem is a playful reminder: sometimes seizing the moment doesn’t start with a plan. It starts with waking up somewhere you never saw coming.
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Rebranding a ski & snowboard repair brand with elite-level credibility: crafted for riders, backed by experience with the Dutch Paralympic team.
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Been testing Seedance 2.5 lately in @FLORA
So I used my character from The Division 2 (that looks a lot like me) with my favorite car the Aston Martin DBX 707
And this is the result.
Yes, Seedance is not that great for text.
(iterate like 7 times for that, expense joke)
Will share my prompt structure for Seedance next week.