Behind the Scenes: Working on Mesmerizing Storytelling

(Imagen 4)

This was never supposed to go on the Bredemarket blog, but here it is. Because when a product marketing consultant wants to improve his storytelling skills, he practices with…toilet paper.

A Facebook challenge

I’ve been working on improving my AI art generation skills, and even created a special Facebook group, Bredemarket Picture Clubhouse, as my practice area. One of my inspirations has been Danie Wylie, whom I first encountered during the HiveLLM thingie.

Wylie likes to share art challenges, and she recently shared this one. The text below, including the emojis, is straight from the challenge.

📣 New Weekly Wednesday Challenge 📣

🌟 Glitch N’ Sass  and AI Anonymous  Present:

🎭✨ MESMERIZE THE MUNDANE ✨🎭

Where glitter drips from code and imagination struts in stilettos. @everyone  💥

Take the forgotten, the overlooked, the tragically basic —

and unleash the glam-core magic of AI.

Allow creativity to glitch the system, let sass polish the mundane, all while reshaping reality.

⸻

Flip the script on the everyday:

🥄 A spoon stirs time’s secrets

👟 A shoelace coils into cosmic scales

📎 A paperclip snaps open hidden realms

✨ Rewire purpose.

✨ Reframe presence.

✨ Reveal what the world forgets to see.

📌 Tag it: #AIAnonymous #GlitchNSass #MesmerizeTheMundane

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💬 This isn’t an art drop — it’s an everyday clutch, transformed into a chasm of creativity .

A call to those who see depth in the digital, beauty in glitches, and freedom behind the mask.

We are not escaping the world — we are a reminder, to view it. For all the purposes they told us it never possessed. 🔥

✨ So go on… Mesmerize us, With glitter in one hand and encrypted vision in the other. ✨

Preparing my response

Now on the surface such an exercise has nothing to do with “know your business” or “biometric product marketing expert” or “content – proposal – analysis”…

…but it does.

In essence, written business communications are opportunities for storytelling. As I noted, case studies are inspiring stories about how a challenged company realized amazing success, all thanks to the wonderful Green Widget Gizmo.

Now that’s a riveting story.

And of course I’ve performed AI image storytelling before: for example, with my three “Biometric product marketing expert” reels. Here’s the second:

But back to the “Mesmerize the Mundane” challenge. So to participate in the challenge I had to find something mundane. Now some of you think a single finger sensor is mundane…but I don’t. (There’s actually a connection between fingerprint sensors and art, but I’m under NDA.)

My response

So I picked a mundane topic: toilet paper.

What’s even better is that toilet paper is filled with emotion. Particularly relative to the ongoing debate about whether…

I’m not going to say it. I hope this reel—my entry into the “Mesmerize the Mundane” challenge—speaks for itself.

When I shared this reel on Facebook and elsewhere, I did so with the following text.

A storytelling exercise…and a challenge.

You can’t get more mundane than toilet paper, or spawn fiercer battles over orientation. But love conquers battles.

#AIAnonymous #GlitchNSass #MesmerizeTheMundane #BredemarketPictureClubhouse 

But before I close this post I will get a little technical.

Time to show how the sausage is made

One of the challenges in multi-image storytelling is the need for consistency between the images. You can’t have the hero wildebeest wearing a blue cap in the first picture and a red one in the second.

So to enforce consistency, I’ve been bundling all my picture prompts into a single request to Google Gemini, and including instructions to enforce similarity between the pictures in the series.

So here is the specific request used to create the four pictures in the reel above.

Draw realistic pictures based upon the following four prompts:

Prompt 1: Draw a realistic picture of a toilet paper holder on a blue tiled bathroom wall, next to the toilet. The toilet paper is white. The toilet paper end is hanging in front of the roll.

Prompt 2: Draw a realistic picture similar to the image in the previous prompt, a toilet paper holder on a blue tiled bathroom wall, next to the toilet. The toilet paper is still white. This time, however, the toilet paper end is hanging behind the roll.

Prompt 3: Draw a realistic picture similar to the image in the previous prompts, a toilet paper holder on a blue tiled bathroom wall, next to the toilet. Now the toilet paper is glowing in a neon red. Due to mesmerizing magic, there is a toilet paper end hanging in front of the roll, and there is also a duplicate toilet paper end hanging behind the roll. The presence of both toilet paper ends removes the conflict of whether to hang toilet paper in front of our behind the roll; now, both are simultaneously true.

Prompt 4: Draw a realistic picture similar to the image in the previous prompts, a toilet paper holder next to the toilet. But now the tiles on the bathroom wall are colored gold, vibrating, and throbbing. The toilet itself is glowing with a bright light. Now the toilet paper is glowing in red, green, and blue, and sparkles are shooting away from the toilet paper roll like fireworks. Again, due to mesmerizing magic, there is a toilet paper end hanging in front of the roll, and there is also a duplicate toilet paper end hanging behind the roll. The bathroom floor is covered in hundred dollar bills and shiny gold coins.

And here are the full square pictures, which do not completely display in the reel.

Now I just have to tell the riveting story of a single finger sensor.