From Failed Filmmaker to the First AI Feature Film | Sway's Creator Journey + Founder of Absrrd | The Mikey G Podcast Experience

When Sway was 4 years old, a clown handed him a microphone at the retirement home where his mom worked, and he heard his own voice for the very first time. Today, he's an AI artist, the founder of Absrrd, and one of the people behind the first AI feature film , a Terminator 2 reinterpretation covered by Variety and IndieWire. This is his human story.Chapter 1, he's born in LA to immigrants from Honduras, raised in Miami in a born-again Christian family, doing drumline, marching band, and Goju-Ryu. Chapter 2, he fails Accounting 1, calls himself a failed entrepreneur out loud, runs a boutique creative agency in survival mode, and pivots through acting into AI filmmaking when he discovers Midjourney through his friend Nam Perez. Chapter 3, he scraps a brand called VidCult, builds Absrrd, and tells me his thesis: in a world that's forcing you to be normal, choose to be absrrd.What stayed with me from this conversation: we opened on him hearing his own voice for the first time through a clown's microphone, and we closed on him telling me he's going to clown school. Full circle is too small a phrase.Subscribe for the human story behind every builder. Mikey G and Sway are out.TIMESTAMPS:0:00 — The Clown and the Microphone0:30 — Welcome + Glasses Talk2:00 — The World-Famous Mikey G Podcast Experience Question3:00 — Chapter 1: Growing Up Honduran in 1990s Miami9:00 — Immigrant Parents, Born-Again Faith, and the Worship Band17:00 — Multicultural Miami in the '90s21:00 — Self-Diagnosed ADHD, Dyslexia, and Failing Accounting 126:00 — Booking a Disney Tarzan Promo at 1729:00 — Chapter 2: Miami-Dade Film School at 2435:00 — Why the Film Industry Wasn't a Fit40:00 — The Improv Rule for Building a Brand: Don't Be Funny46:00 — On the Art of Asking the Right Questions51:00 — A Magnet for Being Underestimated54:00 — Why I Call Myself a Failed Entrepreneur58:00 — COVID, the Strikes, and the AI Pivot59:00 — How Midjourney Hooked Me Through Nam Perez1:01:00 — Making the First AI Feature Film: Terminator 2 Reinterpreted with 50+ Filmmakers1:08:00 — Going to Web3 and NFT Art Instead of Hollywood1:14:00 — Chapter 3: Launching Absrrd — In a World Forcing You to Be Normal, Choose to Be Absrrd1:17:00 — Why I Killed the Brand VidCult Before I Launched It1:22:00 — Breaking Out of Digital Into Physical Galleries Next1:24:00 — Treat AI Like a Disposable Camera: Advice for Creators1:29:00 — The Recap1:30:00 — Clown School and the Full Circle1:31:00 — Sign-offLINKS:Sway on X: https://x.com/swaymolinaAbsrrd: https://absrrd.com/Mikey G on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjgcreative/Mikey G on X: https://x.com/mikeygnftTOPICS: AI art, AI filmmaking, generative AI, Midjourney, first AI feature film, AI feature film Terminator 2, building in the age of AI, AI for builders, founder failure stories, failed entrepreneur, corporate refugee, the leap moment, founder origin story, human story podcast, immigrant founder story, Honduran American filmmaker, Miami creative, ADHD entrepreneur, creative agency founder, NFT art, Web3 art, on-chain art, Absrrd brand, builder podcast, Mikey G Podcast Experience.