Books

IPTV - An Open 4th Platform (90% done)
My first book. If you Google my name, you’ll see I write a lot of articles and essays about IPTV that get re-published all over the world. Over time they’ve become very influential and have done a lot to build my credibility and reputation, so the natural next step is to pop them all together in a book for an easy read. We have 10 or so steps to go through yet, but it should be in my hand for my birthday in December and be available on Amazon and in Waterstones for around £29.99. I am going to be glowing with even if it does just sell only 3 copies.

Christianity 2.0 (60% done)
A second book that I’m waiting to get the publishing template right for before releasing, but a personal one for me that I’ve been writing for 20 years without knowing it. I just got sick and tired of all the religious idiots I see every day and decided to set them straight. There is a point for every page. Page 1 is titled “Adam and Eve didn’t exist”. Not sure how I’m going to get this one out to market yet, but its going to piss a lot of people off.

The Battle Against Myself (40% done)
Another book, and one that will probably only be released after the BEL Prophecy system is out there and working, as a lot of it is about making that happen and striving to achieve great things. It’s a load of articles I’ve already written (and already published on MySpace, like the Jedi essay) plus a set of chapters I’ve yet to reveal. It’s a semi-autobiographical work about the true struggle of making big things happen, like battling clinical depression, having faith when the world is against you and dealing with the baggage you’ve built up on the way.

Screenplays

A Son Of Perdition (15% done)
This is my current fascination, and was inspired by some of the things I am going through now and the experience of seeing An Inspector Calls at the theatre at school. It’s a Shakespearean play about a man who becomes the most powerful and deadly war leader the world has ever seen, but loses his own soul. There is only one person who can save him from himself when he’s no longer the messiah people saw him as. Perdition is violent chaos, and is the name of the antichrist in the book of Revelation. I’ve got some crucial scenes down but its going to take a while.

Secret Kingdoms (10%)
My first screenplay, and one that I originally conceived whilst reading a book about secret societies and listening to Angel by Massive Attack. Screenplays have a very specific format, so it’s proving tricky to get the hang of. Its very much like a modern day Romeo & Juliet fairytale with 2 warring families who are powerful secret organisations in aristocratic London competing for business and influence across the world. The male lead is ordered to kill the girl he is in love with who happens to belong to the rival family, so they kill the central matriarch leader and take over both.

Urban Bliss Collective (not started yet)
All the movies I like ask the What If? question, and I remember talking with friends in London about the random nightmare lottery of flat sharing, how all girls have a psychotic side and how fake the series Friends is. So I took it one step further in true Paradise Lost style. The urban bliss story is essentially about a group of trendy London socialites who appear to have the ideal life, almost being obsessed with each other and thoroughly insular. Friends the programme, gone very, very wrong, when jealousy and betrayal creeps in.

Software

Collegespace (80%)
Our own private version of MySpace for old friends from my sixth-form college, that is a lot better than this crappy site. Its very simple, very easy to use, and a lot of fun. We’ve built in messaging, photos and news updates, but the most important part is that it is deliberately written in plain English, rather than geek-speak. Should be live by the end of the month when I get round to putting Marce’s design on it.

Workspace Office (20%)
A lot of space-name projects at the moment, although in fairness, this one was named way before I registered on MySpace. Workspace is a very powerful set of web-based software that fills all the gaps MS Office misses out. Doing business is a lot more than creating documents, and Workspace has a set of very clever components that give you a virtual office workflow environment for syncing devices, networking and planning that works alongside your normal office software. I know the perfect CEO for it too, but as I don’t have the time to code it, its going to cost me a chunk of cash to get some East European guys to write it from scratch.

Entertainment Formats

Bastard (20%)
Oh now this is serious fun. Amanda and I dreamed it up in the Caribbean over dinner. Why be nice when you can be nasty? Bastard is a dating TV format with a difference – you get points for being absolutely horrible to the person you take out to dinner. If you get their phone number you lose. They then get the chance to have their revenge in return, with the audience participating in deciding how bad it can be. I have half a TV production bible built for it already.

What can you get away with? (40%)
It’s amazing what you can get away with in life if you have the balls. This program has a definitely wide scope and can include hundreds of different challenges, both legal and illegal. How rude can you be? What can you blatantly walk out of a shop with without anyone noticing? How long can you turn up and work in an office for without anyone realising you don’t work there? The series is designed around 24 30 min episodes and a cast of 8 character devising and executing the pranks.

Rockstar Karaoke (70%)
Why sing to a backing track when you can be the lead singer in a whole band for a night? Rockstar Karaoke is a format for music promoters that has been tested and trialled in north London for a few months. The backing band have a repertoire of 50 songs that anyone can get up and sing to, in exactly the same way as they’d do to a TV screen on a stand, with the added edge of the excitement of real live music. It doesn’t get more fun.

Cartel (40%)
If you’re familiar with the highly addictive game Dope Wars, you’ll love this one. We originally pitched the idea to MTV, who were too chicken to take it. Our plan was to turn it into a massively multiplayer drug-dealing community that you could get involved with through pressing your red button on Sky. Dope Wars is a simple game where you have to make as money dealing drugs as you can without getting busted. Our version builds massively on that, with different daily market prices, real-life UK geography and competition with friends.

My 2 restaurants (5%)
I could spend years planning restaurants, hotels and themed bars, simply as they are great money-makers and very easy to set up and maintain. I have 5 books on starting restaurants and another one on hospitality. I want to bring The Carnivore to Nairobi and have my very pudding take away (called Puddin), Starbucks-style. Both those 2 have logos and business plans ready, but I’m not going near it for a while until the other stuff is done. Lately I’ve been toying with the idea of a private bar/cinema/mini 4-poster-bed hotel club after spending so much time at the Fox Club, but haven’t taken it any further.