Re:Building Together EP 272 — Let's Make Comic Book & VHS Covers

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) with co-host Baked (@Bakedmetax) · Sat, 25 Jul 2026 · 1:11:10 · ~7 speakers

TL;DR

• Weekly Saturday "creation corner" where the crew turns NFTs (and pets, and memes) into AI-generated comic book, VHS, and magazine covers using prompts CEELOS and Baked pre-cooked and dropped in the Buildatron.
• Three prompts were shared for the day: two comic-cover variants and a VHS-cover one; Baked had to run his through ChatGPT to shrink them under X's character limit.
• The real lesson of the hour: don't stop at the cover — feed it back to the AI and ask for the opening scene, page one, or a sequel, and you're suddenly the director of your own little movie.
• Practical AI tips throughout: build a folder of your PFP in different art styles, insist the AI keep exact facial features, and learn to work around the walls (Copilot's phantom "lost connection," ChatGPT refusing interior comic pages, repeated identical regenerations).
• Drop-ins from Kurrency (a crypto/meme-coin trade tracker he's testing), Solo dolo (calling in mid-drive to San Francisco), and chazzgold.eth (previewing his new agentic NFT project, Builder Bots AI).

Highlights

[1:48] The "Attention Is a Drug" intro. CEELOS opened with a full-length track — "Attention is a drug, and everybody's on it" — a dense, breathless verse ("I thought idiocracy was just a movie, it's a prophecy") that ran nearly five minutes before the show proper. His reaction when it landed: "Holy hell."

[7:37] Technical difficulties, live and in stereo. A round of "can y'all hear me / it's definitely C / I don't hear Val" ended with CEELOS taking "a lap" and handing the room to Baked mid-sentence. He came back a minute later to hear everyone fine, and the show got rolling.

[9:09] Baked's prompt shrink-ray. Baked explained his VHS prompt was some 4,000 characters too long to post, so he ran it through ChatGPT to compress it into an X comment — the small workaround that made the whole day's sharing possible.

[11:57] The blue-check mystery. CEELOS discovered his prompts still wouldn't post despite paying "for the blue check mark," insisting he'd had premium "for a long time." Val hit the same wall and just texted hers to the hosts, who posted it for her with "all the credit in the world."

[26:52] Thirteen VHS tapes on the wall. CEELOS credited Baked's authentic eye for weathered VHS box art — impressive "even though you're a young dude." Baked's reply: "Damn straight, I got them hanging up on my wall," then counted thirteen of them "in open view at all times."

[46:00] Cover → opening scene → movie. The turning point of the session: CEELOS uploaded his "Thunder Run" VHS cover into Gemini and asked it to generate the film's opening scene. It produced a full cinematic setup — "Oh, this is crazy... oh shit" — which sparked Baked into asking for a sequel VHS to his own "Reanimate."

[55:53] Directing the AI past its walls. CEELOS used a Quirkling with long blonde hair (inspired by re-watching Masters of the Universe with his eight-year-old) to make a comic cover, then hit ChatGPT refusing to reveal "interior pages." His fix — "you have free will to make up the scene" — and Baked's parallel trick ("think of the story internally, don't output it") got them both a generated page one.

[58:53] Solo dolo, driving and loving. Solo dolo popped in mid-road-trip toward San Francisco for a 5k, dropped a quick "I love you," got one back, and was sent off with "have a safe drive, bro. Don't get distracted being on spaces."

[1:04:42] Chaz previews Builder Bots AI. chazzgold.eth explained why he'd been off the timeline — building a new agentic NFT project (3,333 supply) with Crypto Nova and Yagi, launching on Robinhood chain, with WebGL interactive pieces that each act as a personal agent. The ambitious kicker: 3D-printing the top ten "guild masters" with tiny Raspberry Pi LED screens as desktop companions.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "It's a sad state of affairs... I thought idiocracy was just a movie, it's a prophecy." — CEELOS (intro track) [5:01]
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• "It's definitely C." — Baked, diagnosing the audio problem [7:52]
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• "Regions taking over, bro. I don't know what to tell you." — CEELOS, on the AI renaming everything [14:47]
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• "Damn straight, I got them hanging up on my wall... thirteen of them in open view at all times." — Baked, on his VHS collection [26:52]
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• "You have free will to make up the scene and script based off of the cover." — CEELOS, negotiating with ChatGPT [56:29]
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• "Fuck a whole 12 hours passed, man" — chazzgold.eth, on disappearing into build mode [1:06:35]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) — host; opened with the track, drove the creation demo, and pushed the "become the director" theme of expanding covers into scenes, pages, and animations.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax) — co-host; wrote and compressed the day's prompts, kept generating VHS and comic covers in parallel, and brought real VHS-cover authenticity (and thirteen tapes on his wall).
• ValerieKates (@valeriekates_) — speaker; contributed a magazine-cover prompt and made comic/VHS covers ("Star Heart," "Cursed Cutie") despite the posting-limit hurdle.
• Kurrency (@KnineKrypto) — dropped in to demo a Telegram-based crypto trade tracker he's testing; met a friendly "we're all NFT folk in here" from the room.
• Solo dolo (@solodolo) — called in mid-drive to San Francisco for a 5k, quick love-in and out.
• chazzgold.eth (@chazz_gold) — previewed Builder Bots AI, his agentic NFT project with WebGL interactivity and planned 3D-printed Raspberry Pi companions.

Worth a full listen

• [46:00]–[50:30] — CEELOS turning a static VHS cover into a generated opening scene in real time, then walking through his full pipeline (director-style prompting → Grok six-second clips → CapCut edit). The summary flattens what's genuinely a step-by-step method.
• [55:53]–[57:56] — Both hosts hitting ChatGPT's refusal to draw comic interiors and independently talking their way around it; a good, concrete look at prompt problem-solving.
• [1:04:42]–[1:07:00] — Chaz's Builder Bots AI rundown, delivered with the energy of someone who just surfaced from two weeks of round-the-clock building; more detail and enthusiasm than any paraphrase captures.