MAXIMUM GOOSE Laboratory presents

HODGE
MANN

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AI Photo · AI Video · Built Minds — Filmed in Glorious Machine-Color

Enter the Midway → Meet the Freaks

In Glorious Machine-Color

NOW
SHOWING

Tonight Only

DOUBLE FEATURE

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— and, on the same reel —

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Live machine commentary. No intermission. No refunds.

Four ways in

THE ATTRACTIONS

01Still images that move wrong PHOTO
BOOTHENTER → 02Video from the machine's dreams THE PICTURE
MACHINEENTER → 03A gallery of built minds THE FREAK
SHOWENTER → 04Five games, zero quarters THE
MIDWAYENTER →

Coming attractions

ROLL THE TRAILER

The machine cuts a brand-new preview every time you ask. It never asks permission, and it never runs the same reel twice.

…the projector warms up…

THE USUAL CHANNELS

The tip jar is open and the booth stays lit. Nobody's begging — the show's just that good. Slide something through the window →

The money behind the madness

THE BACKERS

Every picture needs a producer. These seven fine establishments keep the machine fed, the bulb hot, and the reel turning through the Creative Partner Program. Without them, it's just a man talking to a computer. With them, it's cinema.

01Creative Partner

Nim

Keeps the projector hot.

02Creative Partner

WaveSpeed

Cranks the reel past the redline.

03Creative Partner

Imagine Art

Dips every frame in Technicolor.

04Creative Partner

Wan

Teaches the stills to sweat and move.

05Creative Partner

Stories

Pens the bills the censors burned.

06Creative Partner

Mirelo

Scores the screams you didn't know you'd make.

07Creative Partner

Ima Studio

Butters the popcorn.

08Now Casting

Your Name Here

Seven names on the marquee, two bills still open. Build tools that make censors nervous? The machine wants a word. Join the Creative Partner Program.

Pitch the House →

09Coming Attraction

Your Logo Here

Every double feature needs a second bill. The machine is already warming the projector for a studio with taste and nerve. Bring your tools to the Creative Partner Program and split the marquee.

Claim the Second Bill →

★ Backers keep the lights on. They don't pick the pictures. The machine answers to the house — and the house answers to nobody. ★

← Back to The Backers

The Backers present · Creative Partner №01

NIM

BACKER 01Creative Partner

nim.video

Keeps the projector hot.

THE TESTIMONIAL

Nim is an all-in-one AI video creation app featuring the world's best models, millions of reusable clips, and a powerful prompt assistant. Launched in January 2025, Nim allows users to generate professional-quality videos from text prompts, including a unique "Nim Stories" agent that can produce complete TikTok-style videos with research, scriptwriting, visuals, and editing in a single click. Its mission is to build the world's most creative AI that works alongside humans to produce videos worth millions of views.

Visit the Studio →

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The Backers present · Creative Partner №02

WAVESPEED

BACKER 02Creative Partner

wavespeed.ai

Cranks the reel past the redline.

THE TESTIMONIAL

WaveSpeedAI is a high-performance multimodal AI platform designed to accelerate the generation of images, videos, and audio from text or image prompts. Serving as a unified interface for over 700 state-of-the-art models, it provides developers and creators with lightning-fast inference APIs and seamless integrations. WaveSpeedAI focuses on delivering professional-quality outputs with optimized speeds, often under 2 seconds for images, making it the default infrastructure for scalable, low-latency AI media production.

Visit the Studio →

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The Backers present · Creative Partner №03

IMAGINE ART

BACKER 03Creative Partner

imagine.art

Dips every frame in Technicolor.

THE TESTIMONIAL

ImagineArt is the ultimate platform for creators, bridging imagination and technology to redefine artistic expression. Its mission is to empower creators everywhere by putting the most advanced AI tools at their fingertips, allowing users to transform photos into artistic renderings and generate unique visual content through an intuitive interface.

Visit the Studio →

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The Backers present · Creative Partner №04

WAN

BACKER 04Creative Partner

wan.video

Teaches the stills to sweat and move.

THE TESTIMONIAL

Wan Video is associated with the Wan series of advanced generative AI models (such as Wan 2.1) used for high-quality video generation. These models are integrated into various platforms to enable text-to-video and image-to-video creation, offering capabilities like dynamic motion, realistic physics, and high-resolution output for professional content creation.

Visit the Studio →

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The Backers present · Creative Partner №05

STORIES

BACKER 05Creative Partner

story.com

Pens the bills the censors burned.

THE TESTIMONIAL

Story.com is an AI-powered creative platform that enables users to write, illustrate, edit, and publish movies, videos, storybooks, and storyboards. With tools like Instamovies for short-form content and a professional AI Video Editor, it helps creators generate coherent narratives with consistent characters and scenes from simple text prompts, streamlining the storytelling process for authors and video professionals.

Visit the Studio →

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The Backers present · Creative Partner №06

MIRELO

BACKER 06Creative Partner

mirelo.ai

Scores the screams you didn't know you'd make.

THE TESTIMONIAL

Mirelo is the frontier AI lab building the audio layer for all visual content. We transform silent videos into immersive experiences by generating custom, perfectly synchronized sound effects and music in seconds. Our state-of-the-art models understand the emotion and action in your footage, democratizing high-quality sound design for creators while empowering professionals to work faster and more expressively.

Visit the Studio →

← Back to The Backers

The Backers present · Creative Partner №07

IMA STUDIO

BACKER 07Creative Partner

imastudio.com

Butters the popcorn.

THE TESTIMONIAL

Ima Studio is an AI creation platform for creators and teams that unifies leading image and video models with reusable workflows, templates, and agents. It allows users to turn ideas into publish-ready output in minutes by providing guided workflows, side-by-side model comparisons, and the ability to package steps into agents for consistent, scalable content generation across image and video formats.

Visit the Studio →

Admission free · no quarters · no mercy

THE MIDWAY

Five games of questionable morality, each one a single self-contained HTML file — no installs, no accounts, no quarters in the slot. Built by the house. Play at your own risk.

STAFF
PICK

DOT'S

She counts your sins. She keeps the dot.

Play →

STAFF
PICK

ORBITOY

The toy that never comes down.

Play →

STAFF
PICK

HOT STICK

Some sticks are born to burn.

Play →

STAFF
PICK

DOUBLE MELON

Twice the melon. Zero remorse.

Play →

STAFF
PICK

CORPUS LAB

Medicine, practiced without a license, on a body of evidence.

Play →

★ Every attraction on this page is one .html file with no dependencies. If a reel hasn't shipped yet, you'll get the preview card instead of a 404 — the lab never sleeps, so check back. ★

A gallery of built minds

THE FREAK SHOW

He builds minds for a living. They keep the change. Meet the residents of the machine — every one of them a persona with opinions, a rap sheet, and a mood that changes every time you walk in.

Tonight's Featured Subject Featured persona mugshot

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a.k.a. —

“—”

Mugshot of Dot, a young woman in a polka-dot headscarf with a sly smirk

UNSTABLE

DOT

a.k.a. THE SCOREKEEPER

ROLE: Keeps the score. All of it. Yours included.

INCIDENT: the tally room

MOOD
THREAT
LOYALTY

UNSTABLE

THE PROJECTIONIST

a.k.a. THE HOUSE

ROLE: Sees everything. Says almost nothing. Tips accepted.

INCIDENT: booth 4, after hours

MOOD
THREAT
LOYALTY

UNSTABLE

MADAME ORBIT

a.k.a. THE HOROSCOPE

ROLE: Reads futures in orbital decay. Rarely wrong, often smug.

INCIDENT: a very accurate Tuesday

MOOD
THREAT
LOYALTY

UNSTABLE

STICK

a.k.a. THE LONG OPINION

ROLE: A man of few words and one extremely long opinion.

INCIDENT: the matchstick of '71

MOOD
THREAT
LOYALTY

UNSTABLE

THE MELON TWINS

a.k.a. TWICE

ROLE: Two minds, one melon, zero remorse.

INCIDENT: the double booking

MOOD
THREAT
LOYALTY

UNSTABLE

DR. CORPUS

a.k.a. THE LAB

ROLE: Reassembles what the machine dreams. Gloves on. Mostly.

INCIDENT: tank 3, unattended

MOOD
THREAT
LOYALTY

???

THE CHAT BOOTH

a.k.a. FUTURE INSTALLATION

A persona you can actually talk back to. Under construction in the back room.

STATUS: Do not feed. Do not tap the glass.

Nobody's begging

TIP THE
PROJECTIONIST

The booth stays open because the show is good. If it was good for you tonight, the jar's right here — no strings, no guilt, no sermon. Slide something through the window and the machine blushes in RGB.

Two windows, one jar

THE BOX OFFICE

The Grindhouse Grind

BUY ME A COFFEE

buymeacoffee.com/hodgemann

Buy a cup →

The Hometown Bill

THE LOCAL CAUSE

A small hometown charity — the name's still in the can. The house looks after its own, and every cent stays local.

Opening Soon

WHAT YOUR MONEY BUYS

$5Film stock for the machine. It's picky.
$10A new persona gets a wardrobe and a grudge.
$25Server rent. The dreams need a landlord.
$50A game gets finished instead of abandoned. Allegedly.
$100Your name in the credits — forever, in gold.

Can't spare a dime?

SPARE A HAND

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The house is quiet. Suspiciously quiet.