Author Archives: russell Leak

RIP Barefoot Doctor

I was sad to learn of the passing of Stephen Russell aka Barefoot Doctor. Stephen and I worked together on an album called Positive Message Music. A vision to change the world with music and happy and inspiring lyrics. In one of our many discussions I had talked to him about Shamanism and how in the old days they would tell stories and sing songs round the tribal camp fire…

Will AI really change the world?

WILL AI REALLY CHANGE THE WORLD? Who remembers when IBM Watson cut its first movie trailer using artificial intelligence? It was back in 2016 for the horror movie Morgan. They called it the first-ever “cognitive movie trailer”. It’s worth watching as it’s a good trailer, and makes it look like a really scary film. The AI was taught by watching 100 other trailers and segmenting each scene for audio and…

Ignorance is Bliss

Ignorance is Bliss

  Remember the guy in the Matrix? Eating his steak and quaffing his red wine. We don’t want to be like that do we ? The truth shall set us free right? Is the world worse today than it was in the good old days? Is the future bleak? Please watch this:   Hans Rosling. He’s  funny and enlightening. I’m a little late to the game, some people have been…

New Video Apps!

My company VideoGo recently launched two apps on the iOS app store. The idea with VideoGo is to take the 40 plus years experience myself and my colleague have in the video and broadcasting industry and bring it to a suite of Video Apps. With video being used so much (Cisco say 80% of all internet traffic will be video by 2019) we thought it would be a good idea…

Podcast Heaven

I’ve been on a couple of podcasts recently and had a great time. The first was The Creative Path – a great Podcast that describes itself as “Candid one on one conversations about the ins and outs of trying to live a creative life” I love the podcast it features a wide range of artists and song writers and people living creative lives, but also features the trials of various…

Summer is coming…

The days are longer, light up the day with sunlight…I wrote this song last year sometime and forgot about it until summer started to come, so here is a live version of it. I hope to record it properly when time permits, when the days are longer. https://youtu.be/7DfH50Ovxzs