Hi, I’m Branden.

Today is

and I am still alive.

Shoutout to Bisan, I hope you are too.

I’m a Black, queer, inter?multi?post?disciplinary artist, designer, researcher, archivist, inventor 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. 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 of The Young Never Sleep Studio through collective worldbuilding & storytelling as a way to develop new frameworks, products and systems underpinned by my ongoing research in Integrated Information.

The studio and the people I’ve been able to connect with and create through it have shaped so much of who I am becoming. Just like you, I’m continuously evolving.

My Story

Living Archive

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.

Information : The prima materia.

The foundation of our research and the fundamental substrate of our reality, worlds & practice.

Technoculture : Information becomes knowledge through the living technology of culture.

The culture research we do expands our understanding of information as we generate new ideas, products, insights, experiments and ways of being.

O MediaLab : Regenerative Economics & Living Technology

A #greenpilled, slow-growth Research, Development, Deployment and Diffusion (RDD&D) network specifically focused on developing regenerative, living technologies as the only viable future for technological development.

Communion : Frameworks for worldbuilding.

These are the living “blueprints” that give our world strucuture. How would laws work in your world? How does the economy function? How is food produced? What about healthcare and safety? This is where we begin to develop viable answers to these questions and outline how they would function in a regenerative, post-truth information society.

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.

YOO : Share your story, imagine your world, create your personal AI model.

I’m working with a few friends, old and new, to develop a web-based, spatial creative tool for worldbuildingand bespoke, contextual AGI.

YOO.Gen : Exploring the future of YOO.

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