Author's Vlog

‘If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On’ explores how a simple cultural moment during the height of global unrest revealed something profound about energy, attention and collective momentum. Using the rise of the Verzuz rap battles during the BLM protests and the 2020 U.S. election season as a case study, this video examines how music, memory and shared joy acted as a stabilising force in a time of grief and division. Rather than framing social change purely through outrage or opposition, this piece traces how collective focus shapes probability itself. Referencing physics, cultural psychology and Shakespeare’s timeless insight that “If music be the food of love, play on,” the video argues that joy is not escapism but alignment. It offers a lens for understanding attention as life force, showing how creativity, solidarity and intentional uplift can become powerful tools for resisting fear and shaping the future we wish to see.

'Art, Inspiration and Higher Intelligence' explores how human beings across history have attempted to describe encounters with something greater than themselves. From William Blake and Shakespeare to Bob Dylan, Genesis, and the Book of Revelation, this video examines inspiration as a shared human experience – one expressed through metaphor, symbol and story when language itself falls short. Rather than treating art, writing and science as separate domains, this piece traces the recurring patterns that suggest a single underlying intelligence unfolding through time. This video offers a lens for reading ancient texts and artworks not as literal instruction, but as symbolic transmissions – early attempts to articulate truths we now have new language to understand.