Midnight Hustle

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Essentially a music video. It's a light-hearted take on my cab driving experiences in Baltimore, Maryland in 1990. 

Most of the 70's looking stuff was generated with Perchance Stable Diffusion. It provided the most accurate grittiness, especially the row house segments. They look very authentic. Unfortunately the AI model was updated with new training and these images are impossible to duplicate now.

The music was created with AIMusic. The lyrics were created by AI after supplying a good amount textual ideas of what I wanted to project. I did a little tweaking and generated the music.

This was a long process of casual collecting of video clips. Putting it all together was rather boring to me, but I felt I needed to justify all the accumulated clips with something.

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