Hi, I’m Branden.
Today is
and I am still alive.
Shoutout to Bisan, I hope you are too.I’m a Black, Queer, transdisciplinary artist, designer, builder, researcher, archivist, inventor, mathematician, physicist, philosopher, atheist, scientific pantheist, post-humanist and lots of other things.
Many years ago, I started a blog on Tumblr called “Never Sleep”. It was my visual diary and occasional place to post my work. Eventually, that blog became The Young Never Sleep Studio, a fluid creative network, personal exploration space and collaborative conduit. The Young Never Sleep was born out of a desire to learn, and extend my own creative capacities by collaborating with friends and providing services to clients. At the core of it’s ethos, a commitment to never succumb to the slumber of apathy, conformity or conservatism, retaining our rebellious youth by always questioning and challenging the world around us through our work and lives. I started using the phrase Another World is Possible as a way to proclaim the driving philosophy of the studio, that we could intentionally shape a better world through creativity. While managing the studio and personal practice, I worked for a slew of notable companies across sectors like science & education, hospitality, entertainment, healtcare, and finally, tech. I’m currently continuing to grow the vision through collective worldbuilding & storytelling as a way to develop new frameworks, products and systems underpinned by my ongoing research in Integrated Information.
Key areas of research & development:
Quantum Theory, Quantum Computing, Quantum Information, Quantum Cryptography
AI/AGI
Consciousness
Psychophysics
Information Bias
Fundamental Theories of Reality
Emergent Spacetime
Mixed/Augmented/Extended Reality
Regenerative Economics
Nonhuman Culture
Posthumanism
Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Full Systems Health & Wellness
The studio and the people I’ve been able to connect and create with have shaped so much of who I am becoming. Just like you, I’m continuously evolving.
Information : The prima materia.
The foundation of our research and the fundamental substrate of our reality, worlds & practice.The Young Never Sleep : The infinite potential of exponential imagination.
Collaborating & creating in the spirit of youthful resistance and curiousity.A philosophy rooted in the necessity of a better world.Another World is Possible : Welcome to Earth 1.58.
Our research, products and systems applied to a living simulation environment where we prototype a new world.Our Stories : The stories of our new world.
We use storytelling to explore our world in depth, pressure testing the assumptions of our frameworks.Step in and become co-creators of these immersive, multimedia story-worlds.