Futureman: Stepping Out of the Smartphone Portal
What happens when the digital world collides with the prehistoric past? In this hyper-realistic artwork and 56-second how-to video, a man steps through a glowing smartphone portal — half pixels, half human — to meet a caveman face-to-face.

🎥 Watch the 56-Second “How To Be Futureman” Short
Direct video link: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7rE-cnc-aC0
🎶 Music & Links
- Listen to the album on Bandcamp — Relaxing Jazz Ambience Vol. 1
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🧠 Why this piece?
“Futureman” is a snapshot of our time: we’re all stepping out of screens and into reality, bringing tech, creativity, and curiosity with us. It’s equal parts humor and wonder — a reminder that the tools we carry are only as meaningful as the stories we tell with them.
📝 Bonus for Viewers: The Exact AI Prompt
Click to reveal the full prompt I used
A hyper realistic digital artwork of a man stepping out of a giant glowing smartphone portal. Inside the phone is visible the man’s hobby room, a 21st-century workspace with shelves, desk, and modern gear. His body is transforming from digital app icons, pixels, and streams of data into a full human figure as he emerges. He wears glasses, a blue and white sporty jacket, white pants, white sneakers, and carries a black backpack. He holds out modern wireless headphones with one hand, directly toward a caveman. The caveman stands upright in front of him, facing the portal, with both hands forward, ready to take the headphones. The caveman has messy hair, primitive fur clothing, and bare feet. His expression is amazed and curious. The environment is a prehistoric world with tall ferns, volcanic cliffs, and dinosaurs in the background. On the glowing floor panel directly under the portal, write in large, bold, glowing neon letters, perfectly clear and front-facing: Aebe.nl At the very bottom of the image, centered, add a second line of glowing neon text, smaller but sharp and readable: youtube.com%2F%40aebe aebenl.bandcamp.com Text must be exact, horizontal, bold sans-serif, no distortion, no extra symbols, no italics, no curve. Cinematic, photorealistic, detailed, 8K resolution. Use the uploaded photo of the man as the face reference.
(P.S. This is not a ERROR : youtube.com%2F%40aebe In AI = %2F%40 Will make /@ as otherwise AI is seeing this / as a command !)
🔎 Credits & Tools
Concept, prompt, image direction, and video by Aebe Strijker. Music: AebeNL — Relaxing Jazz Ambience Vol. 1.