Adam Gurski Creative — Director & Creative Entrepreneur · Petersburg, IL

Vision —
to the final frame.

Currently directing

Films, videos, stills, and sites. One person, every seat. Photographer's eye. Modern AI stack. Cinematic finish. Adam Gurski · Director & Creative Entrepreneur

§ 01 01 Story

Builder's mind. Maître d's instinct. Photographer's eye.

My medium is the moment.

A conversation held exactly long enough. A song cued under a meal. The right record for the right room. A frame that makes someone lean in. The discipline is the same every time — listen, choose, deliver.

Restaurants taught me the tempo. Listening is the real power, and a room always moves faster than one person, so you learn to hold every guest's need and your own next move in the same breath. That's flow state, trained nightly for fifteen years.

Trade work taught me the patience. Most of it is repetition, and I grew to love it — headphones in, podcasts on, knowledge installing itself while the hands stay busy. The problem-solving is what I chase. My hands won't put a puzzle down until I can solve it fluently.

The camera came later. The models came after. Midjourney, Kling, Flux, Nano Banana, Seedance, ComfyUI, custom LoRAs — instruments, not identities. Clients arrive with a glimpse of a vision; I find the moment inside it and build everything else around it until it holds.

The discipline

Listen. Choose. Deliver.
Same posture across a dinner rush, a rebuild, a final cut.

The work

Films, stills, sites, moments.
Music videos. Brand films. Campaign stills. Live visuals. Album art. Websites.

The finish

Shoot. Grade. Generate.
Every frame is built, not captured.

§ 02 02 Work reel

Nine pieces. Receipts, range, frontier.

Dixon's HVAC service truck in a four-season landscape composite.
Brand film · Dixon's HVACDixon's truck · through the seasonsFour-season treatment, graded end-to-end. Three-year client.
Lucky's on the Square bar interior with Abraham Lincoln figure walking in.
Commercial · Lucky's on the SquareLucky's · Lincoln walks inLocal legend, local bar.
Fatboy Slim Right Here Right Now visual frame — Barrowlands 2026.
Visual · Barrowlands 2026Fatboy Slim · Right Here Right NowPosted to Instagram, picked up for the live show.
Animated DBZ-style bedtime battle between dad and kids.
Personal · animated shortDad vs kids · DBZ bedtime battleMy kids, my house, my power level.
Hand of Fate Brewing Juicy Pale Ale commercial frame over Chicago skyline.
Commercial · Hand of Fate BrewingHand of Fate · Jucy Pale AleScale-play over the Chicago skyline.
Photoreal big-cat transformation — cheetah, tiger, and lion at golden hour, shown from multiple angles.
Generative short · AI cinematographyBig predators · golden-hour savannaCheetah, tiger, lion — multi-angle photoreal.
Desert highway with performance car morphing into the next model.
Personal · AI VFXDesert highway · morph driveOne car becomes the next, and the next — a full lineup of performance machines in a single run.
Macro floral bloom looping animation, ComfyUI output.
Generative loop · ComfyUI + custom LoRAFloral bloom loopMacro bloom, endlessly.
Infinite rainbow flower zoom animation, stained-glass style.
Generative motion · stained-glass styleInfinite rainbow flower zoomZoom that never ends.
§ 03 03 The stack

The stack.

A / 01
Generative film & motion Frontier tools, production output.
midjourney · kling · flux
nano banana · seedance
comfyui · higgsfield · custom loras
B / 02
Brand film & commercial Concept to final cut.
phone to model
graded end to end
C / 03
Photography Where the eye lives.
1,409 published
8M+ google views
level 7 local guide
D / 04
Web & digital Shipped, not theorized.
html · css · js
netlify · hostinger
three-year client retention
§ 04 04 Who I build for

Who I build for.

01 Small business Local trades, storefronts & service fleets Photography, promo video, Google presence.
02 Unions & labor Member stories & organization-wide visuals Portraits, culture work, hype reels.
03 Bars, breweries & hospitality Rooms, menus, brand & commercial spots On-site shoots, label art, commercials.
04 Musicians & live events Bands, shows, tours & nightlife runs Music videos, tour visuals, event reels.
05 Public & civic Libraries, chambers & community programs Speaking, workshops, photo documentation.
06 Artists & collaborators Creators, studios & experimental projects AI-assisted production, generative motion.
§ 05 05 Receipts

Receipts.

8,000,000+ Google photo views
1,409 published photographs
100+ businesses photographed · Google Local Guide · Level 7
3+ years typical client relationship
15 years reading rooms, delivering moments
1 visual picked up by Fatboy Slim for Barrowlands 2026
§ 06 06 Process

How the work gets made.

01 Listen What's the moment? A call, a room, a brief. Finding the frame you haven't said yet.
02 Build Storyboard, shoot, generate, draft. Phone to model, Midjourney to Kling, HTML to Netlify. Whatever the moment needs.
03 Grade Shoot. Grade. Generate. Where the work holds — color, rhythm, type, pace.
04 Ship Files, cuts, pages, live. Netlify, Instagram, projectors, print.
— Booking select projects · 2026 —

Let's build the moment.

adam88gur@gmail.com Petersburg, IL — working everywhere.