16 projects

Ghost of the Future [Fiction] -Speculative futures and speculative historiographies — where the reader is the ghost of the future, embodying an ancestor in their time, knowing they are the ghost of their future, which is the present.

Graveyard Portraits [Hybrid] -Imagined lives of the dead created from a gravestone, juxtaposed with their actual life. The newer parts of cemeteries bustle with weekend visitors; older parts sit bare. If your future dead self is actually your own guardian angel, what is the nature of that relationship?

Closet Stories [Non-Fiction] - A series of short stories sparked by going through a person's closet with them.

Conversations with Zia [Non-Fiction]  - A series of small conversations between a mother and son — so pedestrian and yet so profound

Duce Story [Non-Fiction] -So radiant you burned out. The story of my brother, Duce.

Family Memoir [Non-Fiction] - Sinclair Family History — Mom's Story and Dad's Story.

Hurston Project [Non-Fiction]  -Collecting stories from a region with the commitment and intention of Zora Neale Hurston.

I Am Who I Think You Think I Am [Non-Fiction] - A book where a character is profiled from perspectives ranging from the Saint to the sinner to the tyrant. Facts are laid out; the audience decides. Concludes with reflections on the human condition and the nature of the ego and the soul.

Lotus Chronicles [Non-Fiction] - A prosopography of interconnected lives. A website where biographical vignettes exist in present-tense action format, and every time a person is mentioned, a petal appears — creating an expanding web where stories are told from each petal person's POV of the center.

Map Stories [Non-Fiction]  - An app that allows people to populate a map of their city with stories of things that happened in various places.

Memoir [Non-Fiction]  -An honest, exploring memoir of my life. Chapter titles include: Going Undercover in Bourgeois Black Atlanta, The Seduction of Privilege, Conditions of Atrocity.

Polly [Non-Fiction] - Story of a monogamous person and a polyamorous person falling in love but unable to reconcile their natures to be together.

Prism [Non-Fiction]  - 100 photos representing diverse aspects of a life. Light shines on a prism and projects an image on the wall with a verb-based story. Large-scale installation where people go to different floodlights, triggering audio through directional speakers only they can hear.

School Picture [Non-Fiction]  - An app that lets you take a school picture ID — not of your face, only of your essence as you describe it in images and words.

15 projects

15 Minutes [Fiction]  - An AI-powered world that facilitates everyone getting their creative or intellectual 15 minutes at least once.

Cypher [Fiction]  - A VR series with episodes on: The Cypher, The DJ, The Acoustic Guitar Player, The Hoofer.

Magnum Opus [Fiction]  - Transmedia and participatory album, tour, and documentary of a musician finding their Magnum Opus.

Modern Myth [Fiction]  - Build the mythology of an art career from before YouTube — through truthful descriptions from people who knew the artist and simulations of the unrealized ideal. Honoring greats who had no platform in the analog era.

Art of the DJ [Non-Fiction]  - Documentary on the beautiful mind of Tony Sinclair as a DJ and his ability to change people in the room.

Behind the Scenes [Non-Fiction]  - AI technology and documentary film process that created a dynamic Q&A relationship between audience and makers.

Finding Ceu [Non-Fiction]  - Finding an obscure artist for Americans that I found and fell in love with during a particularly beautiful and painful period. Talking 25 years later to connect the heart strings she sent into the universe. A love letter doc.

Hidden Figures of Hip Hop[N on-Fiction]  - Documentary or podcast about the counterculture of mainstream Hip Hop. Stories of Gen X'ers who were told to 'thug up' to get signed but refused.

Hip Hop Gen Redemption[Non-Fiction]  - Inspired by Nina Simone — a hollow reed for the spirit of the Creator. Black folks in America were historically good at tapping into the unseen world as a source of power and endurance. My generation lost that to materialism. It's time to bring it back.

Inner Circle [Non-Fiction]  - A screenplay or play: two celebrities at their peak, about to start waning, as their managers craft their personal lives — orchestrating marriages, child adoptions, and affairs — to keep them relevant.

Masterpiece in a Dusty Box [Non-Fiction]  - A short animated film: how dreams end up in a box in the closet, excavated as vintage novelty by later generations. Inspired by Roya Movafeh and Quddus Sinclair, who died with unfinished work. Switches to an imagined world where everyone has one masterpiece to make before they die.

Music Memoir [Non-Fiction]  - A memoir designed as a playlist or album that is the soundtrack of your life. A major work for a few people, then an app that lets others create their own memoirs with memories paired with stories.

12 projects

H2O [Fiction]  - The story of a snowball's jealousy of flowing water. A children's story about nature, freedom, and form.

Comfort [Non-Fiction] - A survey of comfort media (Frasier, Tetris) and the science behind why we seek it.

Diagnosed [Non-Fiction]  - A life told in real time, then reckoned with in one's 40s after a massive diagnosis — autism, bipolar — that they always had but never understood. Going back to past moments and suddenly understanding them completely differently.

In the End [Non-Fiction]  - Recollections of last moments with people before they passed — Duet, Kenny, Roya, Songha, Charles Nelson, Duce, Dawn, Granddad, Grandpa, Grandma, Nana.

Letter to Erica Huggins [Non-Fiction]  - A personal letter exploring the internal refuge Black women must find — a deep well where labor, body, and heart can be one's own. You lived there and lit a candle in the depth that the wind of greed and selfishness couldn't blow out.

Losing My Religion [Non-Fiction]  - Stories of those courageous enough to leave the security of their religious community when their investigation of the truth led them somewhere else.

Lover's of a Bipolar Woman[Non-Fiction]  - An artful film: a montage of the lives of men that loved the same bipolar woman. Interstitial moments with men she had intimacy with but never made love to. Never about sex — about the lives of the men. Exploring compulsivity vs. love.

Missed [Non-Fiction]  - A story between two POVs that maps misunderstanding and communication errors.

Quest for the Perfect Orgasm [Non-Fiction]  - The story of all the lovers a woman had in her search for the perfect orgasm after shedding the limitations of strict religious views and overcoming the trauma of an unsexual marriage, molestation, and rape.

Resign into Serenity [Non-Fiction]  - A woman done with the world leaves for country life. She slowly finds healing in a country carpenter's devoted love that she pushes away for years before resigning to it and finding serenity. Companion app for people who gave up hypomanic success for serenity.

Shaman Series [Non-Fiction]  - Conversations with people who code-switch in corporate environments while veiling their role as shaman or spiritual practitioner. Anchor story: a shaman operating out of a local Starbucks, slowly revealed to a skeptical suburban single mom who eventually receives a life-changing gift of insight.

19 projects

Blue [Fiction]  - A perpetually pregnant woman who believes sex is a curse. She is not released until she stops believing it. Mysticism on phantom pregnancy — the curse of bearing a child whose presence never fully leaves the body.

The Saint [Fiction]  - Children's book: a saintly woman who followed all the rules, always saying 'I'll take my points in the next world.' At heaven's threshold she's turned away for the local sinner. In a Scrooge-like review, she sees what she actually did — and how the sinner was the courageous one who loved unconditionally.

Unborn [Fiction]  - A single mom zccidentally revealing a previous engagement — the children launch a barrage of questions. Googling the old fiance (an actor/musician), headshots and album covers fill the screen. The daughter says to her, “I feel bad for the kids that were never born. The ones that could have been you and his kids.” The mom said, :But that would mean you weren’t born.” She responds, “I know, but I still feel bad for them.”

Big Bang [Hybrid]  - Poetic reflection on the fact that all my children were born out of explosive chaos — but like the earth from the big bang, they settled into verdant, thriving planets. How this analogy reconciled loving them so much when they weren't born out of a loving partnership.

Filter [Hybrid]  - AR glasses with an augmented lens showing the real world through three simultaneous attitudes — rose-colored, pessimistic, and a third that holds both truths at once. Based on 'Three Layer Cake': same person, same circumstance, three different framings of reality.

Having it All [Hybrid]  - story of a woman dating and procreating in a tech-fed world — computer matches, egg freezing, gene engineering.

Quantum Chamber [Hybrid] - A visual VR poem about the quantum metaphysics of a mother's heart.

Centered [Non-Fiction]  - An exhibition of speculative images, texts, videos, and world-builds responding to: what would the world look like if a specific group currently living on the margins were centered?

Complicated [Non-Fiction]  - A series of reflections on struggling through impossibly complicated relationships.

Eavesdropping on Teenage Girls [Non-Fiction] - Listening to the thoughts of the teenage girls around you and commenting from the POV of a middle-aged woman.

Ghetto Rose [Non-Fiction]  - Stories of growing up in the ghetto of the city of roses.

I am a Busy Man [Non-Fiction]  - An essay on those five words and their implications for today's busy culture.

Lady [Non-Fiction]  - What does the word 'lady' mean? An art project interviewing people and juxtaposing their answers with the word's history — from Royal Court rank to contested feminist territory. Extended to other words whose meanings have shifted dramatically over time. An experiential art piece.

Lessons from the Otherside [Non-Fiction]  - What differed and what stayed the same for trans people after they transitioned genders?

One Version of Events [Non-Fiction]  - Letters to my children about my take on the events in my life, their life, their history, and the major milestones of history.

Single Mom [Non-Fiction] - Stop-motion cameras embedded in her home, her kids' school, her car, her job, the grocery store. A short film plays a week of her life in fast motion, with cogent moments in slow motion or at normal speed.

The Great Baby Scoop [Non-Fiction]  - The history of unwed mothers being forced to give up their kids, with featured characters from my family and Karida's mom.

The Women on Hank Willis Thomas [Non-Fiction]  - A book of vignettes about every woman who has ever dated Hank. He is never mentioned anywhere except the title. Each vignette passes the Bechdel test — stories of these women's lives that don't relate to a man except that they're all compiled around the same one.

Worn [Non-Fiction] - A poem about how our bodies, hair, skin, and insides wear out under the burden of poverty. He plays guitar and I see the unrequited art within him. I dance at 1am to Stevie Wonder's 'Overjoyed' and he sees me through the 50 pounds of fat and age.

28 projects

Black by Committee [Fiction]  - A short film comedy illustrating the change in dynamics in the workplace as more Black people start working in places of power. Instead of one Black person being the voice of all Black people, you now have to be the voice of Black people by committee.

C'Ya! [Fiction]  - A story playing with the idea of all white people leaving the earth and settling on Mars.

Hoodie to Hoodie [Fiction]  - A satire of 90s to 2010s culture through the iconic hoodie. A white guy wears it and becomes a billionaire. A Black guy wears one and becomes 'the greatest threat to America.'

Skyla Chronicles [Fiction]  - A Lord of the Rings or GOT-level epic set in a completely alternative world — but every seemingly fantasy story comes directly from Howard Zinn's real US history in disguise. Released as pure fiction, then revealed years later as historic text to help people recognize erased history.

Time Traveling While Black [Fiction]  - Spoof all the time travel movies but as a Black person.

US Constitution Remix [Fiction]  - What if the founding fathers kept the tenets of the Iroquois governing framework AND made art a fundamental right of citizens? What would 2025 look like?

Triple Blind [Hybrid]  - Record three people living a day in their life; transcribe into fiction absent of race and gender. Give the script to the dominant demographic making most films and have them make shorts. Compare the documentary version with the scripted version.

American Portrait [Non-Fiction]  - Gather ID tags and image-search them on fresh IP addresses. Use the top results in a collage that makes up the media representation of those identity tags.

Amnesia [Non-Fiction]  - A piece on collective amnesia — how each generation of Black folks must relearn their nobility taken by systematic racism, and white folks must relearn they are in the matrix. Art stops amnesia. An Octavia Butler-type flip where a person speaks of George Washington and no one knows who they mean.

Becoming the Master's Tool [Non-Fiction]  - Film based on trying to change master/slave system dynamics — discovering that after years of toil, you haven't dismantled the master's house; you've become one of the master's tools. 'Get Out' genre.

Black Excellence [Non-Fiction]  - Exploration of what Black excellence might be if unconstrained by the white gaze.

Bob Cut [Non-Fiction] - Finding the blonde, blue-eyed girl with the bob cut — the little white girl posed in front of a lynched Black man's body in a 1940s or 50s photo. The story of her and her father in that time and now. Looking at multigenerational trauma of white Americans.

Colonial Debates [Non-Fiction]  - A movie about the colonial debates, where colonists argued fiercely both for and against slavery. Explores patriotism: Is it patriotic to go with the will of the majority, or to stand up against injustice? Is blind patriotism really patriotism?

Debunked (or Educating the Miseducated)[Non-Fiction]  - Going through horrible trolling things people say about race and gender online and writing a history book that addresses the main themes — tackling painfully ignorant but widely shared stereotypes rooted in racist indoctrination.

Deprogramming Machine [Non-Fiction]  - Audiences divided into 'universes' based on ideological leanings enter a faux installation where their worldview is wiped and hard facts uploaded. They exit to sit across from someone from a different 'universe' and collaboratively rebuild their understanding of reality — Katniss and Peeta style.

Endangered Species [Non-Fiction]  - A video game where you have to navigate from toddler to age 21 as a Black man.

Good Police Officer Handbook [Non-Fiction]  - A catch-up book for good police officers on the history and systems their work is organized within.

I Love White People [Non-Fiction]  —Unpacking white privilege and white guilt. The core message: justice, inclusion, and equity is not about taking from you, but loving you.

Mr Baum[Non-Fiction]  - Experimental documentary juxtaposing Frank Baum's imagination of the Wizard of Oz with the genocidal reality of the West he wrote about as a journalist and advocated for.

On Loving Black People [Non-Fiction]  - A podcast series unpacking what it's like to be the lover of a Black man, woman, trans, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming person.

Opposing Accounts [Non-Fiction] - Two audience members each get different historical accounts of the same incident. They discuss, then switch to see the other POV.

PhD in Whiteness [Non-Fiction]  - Two survey instruments: one assessing cultural IQ about Black American experiences, one about white American experiences. Tests the hypothesis that marginalized communities are far more educated about the white experience than vice versa.

Reconciling Our DNA [Non-Fiction]  -Stories where Robert and Kamal examine their family tree's juxtaposed positions on race and complicity in racist America — a micro process mirroring America reconciling its complicated history. How do we hold both slave and slaveholder ancestors?

Sanitizer [Non-Fiction]  - An art piece on how we sanitize history.

Sapian Women of Color [Non-Fiction]  - A response by women of color from around the world to the book Sapiens.

Ignorant [Non-Fiction]  - A travelogue series. Doc 1: journey to the places my DNA says I'm from in Africa. Doc 2: journey to my European DNA origins — framing the story of knowing how ignorant I am to my people culture, lands, and histories.

Tyranny Aged [Non-Fiction]  - Old man on a bike in the rear view mirror, American flag. The assumption of a powerful racist threat — then he comes up alongside: old, toothless, no power, a joke, not a threat. The reality of tyranny aged.

Yelling Through Soundproof Glass [Non-Fiction]  - An essay on the Cassandra dynamics of being dismissed because you are Black, female, an artist, bipolar, and poor.

12 projects

Dull Drums[Fiction]  - A poem: a ship in the doldrums, waiting for wind to take it to land. A poem about the dull drums of oppression — hope and faith that the winds of justice will come, but generations pass barely surviving, faith breaks, and purgatory is accepted.

Immersion Chronicles[Fiction]  - A book club for travelers — a full experience designed for a group reading a classic book, going to locations within or like those in the book, and experiencing related happenings.

Reverse Fairy Tales[Fiction]  - Reverse fairy tales to illustrate how the fairy tales of one culture would play out differently, based on the conditions and realities of another culture. Illustrating the ways we can center our experience and learn how it feels to have curiosity in decentering it in tales.

Rocks in the Stream[Fiction]  - An epic poem of romantic nostalgia about people who had significant impact on your life — with indulgent stanzas about their amazing qualities — until each section ends abruptly: '...but it didn't work out.' All kinds of relationships, no explanations given. The reader left wondering how it could possibly not have worked out.

Cafe at the End of the Universe[Hybrid]  - A project at the intersection of philosophy, story, and speculative imagination. (Full concept TBD.)

Conversations with Zora[Non-Fiction]  - Speculative fiction: what kind of conversation would I be able to have with Zora Neale Hurston if she could communicate in the context of today?

In conversation...[insert artist][Non-Fiction]  - A book of essays and stories responding to works of art in specific museums. A podcast series: 'What does this art conjure in you?' Is art so pervasive there is no value, or so scarce it's priceless?

Just Curious[Non-Fiction] - Interview series with random people that my brother, Robert Sinclair and I interview, just because we are curious about them.

Layered [Non-Fiction]  - Looking at the layers of history on structures — the idea of place and bones being in the mountain.

Power of Story [Non-Fiction]  -Documentary on the power of storytelling — the good and the bad. How storytelling is used in social justice, virtues-building, identity formation, creating mob mentality and tyranny, and in innovation.

13 projects

Golden Record [Fiction]  - Imagined scenario where intelligent life got the golden record, but we will never know. How did it impact their evolution?

Mars Musical [Fiction]  - An arts high school with a mission to Mars on an elite new spacecraft.

Most Great Ocean [Fiction]  - A genius who knows too much — through science he understands how fragile life is at every level, making him an extreme agoraphobic. His faith journey to find resilience and discover the infinite nature of his own soul.

Mutt [Fiction]  - What if a baby was turned into a hybrid human-robot in a hospital without parents' consent and was watched and studied by an elaborate research group for the first 15 years of life before the mother discovered it?

The Speculative Mundane - A series of short films offering slice-of-life moments of future everyday life, where speculative tech, climate, and culture are normalized.

Moral Regulator [Hybrid]  - A tech project exploring the possibility of AI as a moral regulator for a person, family, community, or nation. Who determines the moral standards? Who provides oversight for AI's blindspots?

Letters to Silicon Valley [Non-Fiction]  - A direct address to Silicon Valley — a letter exploring the stakes, blind spots, and responsibilities of tech's dominant culture.

Mother's Work [Non-Fiction]  - Stories of women at the cutting edge of art, culture, and technology who are also mothers.

Replicate My Soul [Non-Fiction]  - A book or essay on the ethics of replicating image and likeness. Revisiting the idea that a picture takes your soul — once dismissed as superstition, now urgent as media representation harms many. What does AI replication mean?

What if? [Non-Fiction]  - A series asking people 'What if [cutting-edge tech or science breakthrough]?' Then revealing it already exists and asking how they feel now.

23 projects

Lion's Share [Fiction] - A children's book: the story of a lion who suffers with guilt for his carnivorous nature. A metaphor for people who do well by doing bad.

The Secret [Fiction] - A world where men appear to be in charge, but women are actually faking being men's subordinates — they have real control, and all women are in on it except the feminists.

Geopolitical Puzzle Game [Hybrid] - A game whose gameplay illustrates the backlash consequences of political actions done historically.

Aghh! Philanthropy [Non-Fiction] - A research project and modeling of how funding ecosystems might deconstruct the inept nonprofit industrial complex.

Billionaires Are People Too [Non-Fiction] - A book that tells a fictional story based on my experiences of hanging out with billionaires . A close-up look at the humanity, contradictions, and personal lives of billionaires.

Capitalism Reimagined [Non-Fiction] - A book about the challenges to capitalism in the age of surplus and interdependent technology. How 500 years of one axiological system in dominance threw us off balance — and the bill is climate change.

Debating Debate [Non-Fiction] - A research project exploring the history and practices of debate vs. consultation — where one exceeds the other depending on circumstances. In the current debate system is seems we respect strong opinions, but not necessarily strong questions.

In Service [Non-Fiction] - Research project on how we treat service industry workers who look like us vs. those who don't.

In the Way [Non-Fiction] - A book following the timeline of a person who achieved excellence. The focus: the people who 'got in the way' — as obstacles or attractors to other paths. Imagining alternate presents for each moment.

Ingredients of Atrocity [Non-Fiction] - A chronicle of the most successful strategies for domination and oppression throughout history, written as a survival guide for those vulnerable to oppression. The mix of fear, greed, dehumanization, and disinformation.

Magna Carta [Non-Fiction] - Analysis of the Magna Carta in retrospect. Asking hard questions about its positive and negative impacts. What blind spots did it create in the design of our societies?

Office Drawer [Non-Fiction] - She opened her desk drawer and took stock of the last remnants of the paper paradigm of office supplies — a sad little conglomerate of antiquated materials the Gen X in her just had to hold on to. A paper clip box, a white-out bottle, and an eraser.

Power [Non-Fiction] - A documentary exploring the deficits that come with extreme power and privilege. From my personal story of the seduction of privilege in Atlanta as a lens to look at historic seductions such as the documentation by a cleric on the power insanity he observed in the first Spanish explorers over the Taino in the Caribbean. A look at the fickle nature of power..

Reality of Upward Mobility [Non-Fiction] - A research project interrogating the reality of upward mobility. Is upward mobility about bootstrapping, or about dominating hierarchical systems on the backs of others' work? A pyramid scheme that gives false hope?

Receipt Stories [Non-Fiction] - A series of short stories sparked by going through a person's receipts with them.

Reluctant Leader [Non-Fiction] - Revolutionary's tales to revolutionaries — about the pitfalls of those who fight for change and make room for the tyrant to rule. The follies of the isolationist or the utopian who forgets that the best and the worst attributes of humanity will always be inside any community.

Sex, Death & The Coliseum [Non-Fiction] - Begins with the story of visiting the Coliseum in Rome — the power of the elite to get masses to build, fight, and die for death sport. Surrounded by the living ancestors of kings, slaves, and gladiators, thinking of centuries of sex. The nature of us. The power to move centuries forward in one single place.

True Monopoly [Non-Fiction] - A digital game placing you in the real socioeconomic situations of people at different levels of wealth, class, education, and demographics. No matter what choices you make, you end up with the exact consequences of a person who made that decision in real life.

Truthfulness is the Foundation [Non-Fiction] - Exploration of the power of truthfulness and trustworthiness in a functioning society.

Virtue‍ - Research and investigation of the nature of virtues outlined in the spiritual texts of major religions — from a science and social science POV — with authentic human stories showing the spectrum of how these virtues manifest in our lives.

Watch Out for the Gotcha [Non-Fiction] - A comprehensive list of strategies used by systemic oppression, with historical documentation and consequences.

Work Well [Non-Fiction] - A documentary film following a quality-of-life experiment: ask a billionaire to back an experiment in creating businesses that support workers in a high quality of life. Track the profit. Be transparent with customers and the public.

Dead 27 [Fiction]  - Robert Sinclair's remarkable screenplay exploring the mythology of artists lost at 27 years old.

Wild in Hollywood [Fiction] - Robert Sinclair's amazing screenplay of a time and dynamic of the place called Hollywood.

TRIP [Non-Fiction]  - Documentary series working to democratize the imagination of the future in relation to tech and science advancements.

Long Road to Freedom [Non-Fiction] - A re-release of Harry Belafonte’s black music anthology through emerging technology for storytelling, music, performance, learning, and movement towards freedom and the celebration of the constant presence of freedom in our own souls.

Question Bridge: Ancestors[Non-Fiction] - People asking and answering questions with deceased people from their ancestors, based on the documentation we have from their own writing, media, memoir, etc.

4 projects

Whose in the Room - An app for gatherings that helps the people present understand who they are as a collective of people (even if only for an hour) based on how they each define themselves. Each person anonymously inputs 3 to 10 words they feel authentically define them into the app when they arrive. The app then shows them a dynamic aggregated visual graph of who is actually in the room beyond the assumptions and in terms of the collective identity. It Also can be helpful to know, who is missing from the room, in order reveal limited perceptions.

Catching Up[Non-Fiction] - An app that helps you create a timeline of the dreams you had as a child, teenager, and young adult — then prompts reporting on where your actual timeline caught up with your dream timeline. A visualization of your life catching up with your dreams.

datingbroke.com [Non-Fiction]  - An app /site that offers great creative and meaningful date ideas that you can do with no, to little, money. Customized based on income, zip code, interests, and dislikes.

loveandwarts.com [Non-Fiction]  - A dating app pre-matching people's tolerance for various issues — being mental health conditions, physical features, economic situations, previous addictions, previous life “failings,” religious backgrounds, weird family quirks, etc. Confidentially, people tell it all the awkward things they fear will put other people off and matches you to those who don't care about what you think are your warts.