Stills of Elias Bartu from Dennis Yu’s camera roll. Explore the individual frames, then follow the stories and videos behind the collection below.
Team hibachi, 2025
Glow Zone kickoff, 2023
Overlooking the Strip
The Sphere on the Strip
Rocky desert trail, 2026
Red Rock portrait
Neon boneyard at sunset
Hard Rock neon
First videos, 2023
El Cortez neon
Neon Museum with Dennis Yu
Neon Museum at duskLas Vegas, frame by frame
The stories behind these photos
I started with practice videos, then moved into whiteboard videos, WHY videos, testimonials, and shoots across Las Vegas. These photos trace that path from my first months as an AI Apprentice to the location work shown on my Work page. You can read the short version on my About page or see the formats I work on in The Work.
February 2023
Starting in the room
I joined the AI Apprentice program as a teenager. The Glow Zone kickoff marks that beginning: a small crew in bright shirts in February 2023. During that first month, I recorded practice videos against my bedroom wall. They were rough, and I kept making them.
Behind the camera
A Marketing Mechanic episode
This is one of the whiteboard episodes featured on my Work page. The series turns technical marketing ideas into a conversation people can follow.
The city is part of the frame
Learning to see Las Vegas as a location
The Strip, the Sphere, Fremont, and the old neon signs are locations listed on my Work page. These frames show how the light, scale, and background change from one place and hour to the next.
My Work page centers on-location filming: whiteboard series, WHY videos, testimonials, event coverage, and short-form content filmed where the story lives.
A longer whiteboard conversation
Real and fake signals in AEO
This episode uses the Marketing Mechanic whiteboard format described on my Work page to explain real and fake AEO signals.
Outside the usual set
Taking the camera onto the trail
My About page describes classrooms in diners, cars on the way to client meetings, and picnic tables above mountain valleys. It also records a Red Rock Canyon hike where I made a two-minute summit reflection about confidence and purpose.
That experience became a story about growing through the AI Apprentice program.
The path I started on
How AI apprenticeship works
This conversation explains the apprenticeship path I began as a teenager and the kind of real operating work that helps a young builder grow.
Neon Museum
A working classroom after sunset
The Neon Museum is one of the places where Dennis and I have filmed together in Las Vegas. The signs, open sky, and changing light are visible in the frames below.
My About and Work pages place these shoots alongside early practice videos, the Marketing Mechanic series, WHY videos, testimonials, and event coverage. The full range of formats is on The Work.