AI Creativity Chronicles​ Weekly AI Tips to Spark Your Marketing Mojo

🌀 Prompt More. Discover More.

There’s this old MTV slogan I’ve always loved:
​“Too much is never enough.”

When it comes to prompting AI, that’s exactly how I feel.

Most people underuse AI tools.
They don’t prompt enough.
They don’t play enough.
They assume one-and-done is good enough.

But it’s not.

Here’s what I’ve learned from prompting more freely:

🌀 Dream journaling ignites a wellspring of deep insights

✍️ Copywriting feels lighter, faster, more efficient — even fun

🎨 Image generation unlocks fresh visual concepts and new, seemingly unimaginable design ideas

🧭 Strategic planning becomes empowered, more intuitive, and well-aligned

This is not about being a “prompt engineer.” It’s about embracing creative discovery.

Lee Doyle, one of my Prompted to Create course beta testers, told me the course’s experiential exercises were something she didn’t even know she needed. But she took the leap — and came away with new clarity and inspiration.

And that’s the magic:
​When you prompt more, you discover more.​
Not just outputs — insights.

So let me ask you:

If you’re curious to go deeper…
🧭 Prompted to Create: A Breakthrough Experiential Approach to AI for Marketers​
launches soon — and you’ll hear about it first here.

With curiosity and renewed spirit of exploration! 🙌🏼

Jon Leland
AI Creativity Coach

AI Creativity Chronicles​ Making Marketing Fun Again, One Week at a Time

🎬⚡ AI Just Flipped the Script on Video Production—Are You Watching? 👀

Every now and then, creative video people make me grin like a kid who just found a new kind of candy. Last week, this happened twice!

💰🚫 No Budget Commercial

This spec commercial for Liquid Death was created entirely with Google’s Veo 3 video AI. No budget. No brand involvement. Just a few bold creatives with great taste and a twisted sense of humor.

This is a prime example of a new rule of creative work:

This wasn’t “push a button, get magic.” It was a vision, shaped and styled by humans, brought to life with AI.

As Gary Vaynerchuk says, today’s creative work is not about being a mason laying bricks—it’s about being the architect. We humans are the only ones with the taste necessary to create good art.

🎬 On a More Apocalyptic Note…

Post Scarcity Blues, by Matt Zien, is part sci-fi short, part indie music video. It’s satirical. It’s strange. It’s incisively sharp. And yes, it’s an AI-powered music video production. (It also might make you even more nervous about the future.)

Similarly, the most impressive thing about this video is not that it was made with AI. The most impressive thing is that Matt Zien had the vision, the guts, and the taste to pull it off. (And, yes, it would not have been possible without AI or a friggin’ huge budget. 💸 )

🚌 It’s Time to Get On the AI Bus

Both of these videos prove the same point:
​AI isn’t replacing creatives—it’s replacing excuses.

The tools are here. The possibilities are wide open. What matters now is whether you’re willing to play. To learn. To experiment. To create.

Don’t just scroll and admire.
​Make something. Try something. Get messy. Have fun.

If you’re ready to explore, I’m here to help.

I’m offering 1:1 sessions and my “Prompted to Create” online course for marketers.

With both offers, we roll up our sleeves and actually create with these tools.

The course is now in beta testing and coming very soon!

With joy and creative chutzpah! 🚀

Jon Leland
AI Creativity Coach, Creator of the “Prompted to Create” Course

AI Creativity Chronicles​ Making Marketing Fun Again, One Week at a Time

Video. Production. Transformed.

Only the truth is funny, so the reality of how AI is transforming video & film production is best underscored by funny video storytelling that’s also a mind-bending demo.

The hilarious parody of video/film production below shows & tells a ton about the revolution that’s happening in the world of AI video (and it’s a lot less scary than last week’s clip 😆.)

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It bears repeating that this isn’t stock footage or some kind of soulless deepfake because Google’s Veo 3 generates dazzling cinematic scene composition, dynamic character performance, and authentically emotional voice delivery—all from text prompts. And, as always, the human-in-the-loop creativity makes this clip sing (anyone who has worked in film or video will recognize the production process in this clip).

As you might expect, Veo 3 is only one option for this kind of virtual production. If you’re interested in exploring, another example that’s on my radar, check out Captions’ Mirage Studio which focuses on UGC (user-generated content) videos (not an affiliate link).

No matter how you look at it, the entire world of media production and content creation is morphing faster than anything ever. 🫨 Yes, really. Stay tuned.

That’s only one of the reasons why I’m creating a new course on AI for marketers named “Prompted to Create.” I want to help you ride this wave and not be left in its wake.

👉 Join the waitlist here to get early access + behind-the-scenes updates.

Stay creative. Stay curious. Stay human.

Jon Leland
AI Creativity Coach, Creator of the upcoming “Prompted to Create” Course

AI Creativity Chronicles​ Making Marketing Fun Again, One Week at a Time

Hey there,

You probably didn’t expect finger painting to show up in a conversation about AI.

But tapping into that same spirit of childlike curiosity—hands in the color, no rules, just play—is exactly what helped me experience one of the most breathtaking AI creative breakthroughs I’ve seen: Google’s new Veo video AI.

To help my friend Vince Casalaina and his documentary in development, I experimented with Veo to express the soul of vintage wooden sailboats—not just how they look, but the feeling of something timeless and hand-crafted… and connected to the San Francisco Bay.

Even the sound of the waves against the boat’s hull came from Veo. 🤯

This video clip is one in a series of playful, experimental tests that I created using the same kind of iterative process I’ve been recommending to people who are getting their AI fingers wet with AI image generation.

If you want more details on the Veo video experiment above, here’s my whole “conversation” with Veo video AI and the array of text-to-video clips I created, all in about 30 minutes. The last clip came from a prompt generated by ChatGPT.

Most importantly, this process isn’t just about how to work with AI. For me and many others, it’s about a return of creative curiosity and wonder. And for social and digital pros, it’s a whole new palette with immense storytelling potential.

That’s why I’m building Prompted to Create, a course to help curious creatives like you turn prompting into an expressive, joyful, useful part of your toolkit.

👉 Hop on the waitlist to get updates and early access (no pressure—just first dibs).

Play isn’t optional anymore. It’s how we create what’s next.

Stay creative. Stay curious. Stay human.

Jon Leland
AI Creativity Coach, Creator of the upcoming “Prompted to Create” Course

AI Creativity Chronicles​ Making Marketing Fun Again, One Week at a Time

AI Avatars: More Than a Trend,
A Tool for Marketing Insights

Last week, you met Abigail — my fully AI-generated avatar spokeswoman.

This week, I produced a short video that pulls back the curtain on the AI-enhanced creative process that brought her to life — and what it reveals for marketers and creators.

🎯 Learn how AI avatars can:

• Help clarify your message and tone
• Bring your ideal audience persona to life
• Accelerate creative experimentation

If you’re wondering how to keep up with AI, this 5-minute video is a real-world case study that you might find eye-opening.

👉 Watch now:

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📥 And if this sparks ideas?
​Get on the waitlist for my upcoming course:
​play.combridges.com/prompted​

Stay creative. Stay curious. Stay human.

Jon Leland
AI Creativity Coach