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Keep your AWS bill at $0 while you experiment: 3 habits from my labs

When I built an EKS cluster and a Terraform + Ansible web server on AWS, the scariest part wasn't the setup. It was forgetting something running and getting a bill. Small businesses hit the same problem when...

Your footage. A clearer story.

For a short promo, start with one message, a few clear process/detail/result clips, and one next step. That gives the edit a purpose before any transitions are added.

At Aksum Studios, I work from supplied, approved assets and agree scope, timing and...

Kunstformen der Technik: the plate book Ernst Haeckel never got to make. I found Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1899-1904) on Wikimedia Commons, where the plates are public domain, and trained a Recraft V4 Style on four hand-coloured ones: Discoidea, Desmidiea, Polycyttaria...

CORNER TABLE. A fictional café visual study by Aksum Studios.

Painted texture, terracotta and deep blue. One artwork becomes a short social edit through close crops, paired details and a final full composition, set to original lo-fi music.

The color or the texture—which draws you in?