Jock Oosterveer
Creative Technologist
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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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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.
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You click pictures and buttons all day. You point, the screen responds, but you never address the machine directly. Then you open the terminal.
You type echo hello. The machine answers in text.
That blinking cursor in the void is not an empty promise.
It is the moment the machine stops being a sealed box and becomes a participant in your words. The intimidating install line is not magic; it is a translation: fetch these instructions, hand them to bash, let it run.
Every builder sat at this same threshold. It is not a trap, and it is not your fault.
Module 00 helps you get to real agentic AI by teaching you the attention shift behind the echo command and the foundation to install and run your own agent in Module 1.
Image made with @FLORA (making AI fashionable)
Module 00: https://jockkie.substack.com/p/module-0-before-we-begin-the-world?r=2s8x9c
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Most family events entertain children while parents wait on the side.
ToddlerRave flips that. It's a recurring event concept built on a simple but research-backed premise: parents and children bond deepest when they move together. Not a kids party. Not a family show. A third place, disguised as a rave.
I developed the full concept from the ground up: brand identity, positioning strategy, event playbook, partner pitch framework, and social architecture. The research foundation draws on collective effervescence theory, brain-to-brain synchronization studies, and the third place framework applied to modern family life.
The brand has three layers. What people see: lights, confetti, a DJ, kids dancing. What people feel: their old self coming back. What actually happens: endorphin release, restored parent-child attunement, community identity built through ritual.
Tagline: Not for your child. With your child.
Co-founded with my wife. First edition in development for Rotterdam.
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