James Bond : A View To A Kill : A View Of A Live Duran Duran : Tampa Florida - IMRAN James Bond movies opening sequences and music theme are the most easily recognized in the world. Almost every single Bond movies title track over a half century has been a hit song sung by a top contemporary artist of the time. There are only a couple of Bond title songs not on my perennial favorites list even when the movies were great. A View To A Kill wasnt among my favorite Bond movies However the Duran Duran title song for the movie was definitely great and timeless. It was released in 1985 right after I finished my electrical engineering studies in Lahore Pakistan. I loved finally hearing them perform it live nearly four decades later at Amalie Arena in Tampa Florida. 2023 IMRANJames Bond : A View To A Kill : A View Of A Live Duran Duran : Tampa Florida - IMRAN James Bond movies opening sequences and music theme are the most easily recognized in the world. Almost every single Bond movies title track over a half century has been a hit song sung by a top contemporary artist of the time. There are only a couple of Bond title songs not on my perennial favorites list even when the movies were great. A View To A Kill wasnt among my favorite Bond movies However the Duran Duran title song for the movie was definitely great and timeless. It was released in 1985 right after I finished my electrical engineering studies in Lahore Pakistan. I loved finally hearing them perform it live nearly four decades later at Amalie Arena in Tampa Florida. 2023 IMRAN


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Saturday, June 24, 2023

4 Decades Of Loving Duran Duran And Finally - IMRAN Duran Duran was one of the great New Wave / New Romantics type music groups I loved during my youth in Lahore Pakistan. Even in a conservative Muslim country like that where swooning over music groups was unheard of at least in the 1980s I think my teenage sister Ambereen & her friends all had a joint crush on Simon Le Bon. She may like knowing that Simon named his eldest daughter Amber. During the 80s I loved their music and also title song for a James Bond film. They sort of faded from the scene until they released Decade In 1989 literally the year I came to America for my Columbia MBA. A few years later in 1993 two of their most meaningful and sentimental songs very different from their previous hits were released. Ordinary World as well as Come UnDone came out at a very poignant time for me. They resonated very closely with relationships in my life and are forever associated with the end of a very special love that specific year. The songs perfectly marked the end of an era of infinite possibilities and start of a whole incredible new life for me. A full three decades later this start of summer weekend in 2023 I finally got around to seeing Duran Duran live at Amalie Arena in Tampa. And what an absolutely incredible experience it was. They opened with Night Boat which is an ok song to me much that I love night boating. But every single song they played after that wasand still remains on my favorites list. 2023 IMRAN #IMRAN #concert #music #MusicGroup #legend #rockstars #DuranDuran #love #life #memories #eighties #nineties #history #family #autobiography #stories4 Decades Of Loving Duran Duran And Finally - IMRAN Duran Duran was one of the great New Wave / New Romantics type music groups I loved during my youth in Lahore Pakistan. Even in a conservative Muslim country like that where swooning over music groups was unheard of at least in the 1980s I think my teenage sister Ambereen & her friends all had a joint crush on Simon Le Bon. She may like knowing that Simon named his eldest daughter Amber. During the 80s I loved their music and also title song for a James Bond film. They sort of faded from the scene until they released Decade In 1989 literally the year I came to America for my Columbia MBA. A few years later in 1993 two of their most meaningful and sentimental songs very different from their previous hits were released. Ordinary World as well as Come UnDone came out at a very poignant time for me. They resonated very closely with relationships in my life and are forever associated with the end of a very special love that specific year. The songs perfectly marked the end of an era of infinite possibilities and start of a whole incredible new life for me. A full three decades later this start of summer weekend in 2023 I finally got around to seeing Duran Duran live at Amalie Arena in Tampa. And what an absolutely incredible experience it was. They opened with Night Boat which is an ok song to me much that I love night boating. But every single song they played after that wasand still remains on my favorites list. 2023 IMRAN #IMRAN #concert #music #MusicGroup #legend #rockstars #DuranDuran #love #life #memories #eighties #nineties #history #family #autobiography #stories


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MIDI & My Using It For Music Making Over 4 Decades - IMRAN I recall first learning about MIDI while I was studying Electronics Enginnerng in 1983 in my third year at University of Engineering & Technology Lahore Pakistan. In 1985 I was on the cover of Pakistans largest circulation newspaper Daily Jangs Sunday magazine as Pakistans first electronic music composer. You can hear some of my noise on Spotify: https://ift.tt/QitOHEm 40 years later I still have no talent but the MIDI 2.0 specifications has been updated! I cant wait to see how it drives the next generation of music making. 2023 IMRAN https://ift.tt/ivP4EQ7 #MIDI #music #composing #PerformingArts #EDM #electronics #engineering #electronica #synthesizers #musician #history #autobiography #Lahore #Pakistan Sound On SoundMIDI & My Using It For Music Making Over 4 Decades - IMRAN I recall first learning about MIDI while I was studying Electronics Enginnerng in 1983 in my third year at University of Engineering & Technology Lahore Pakistan. In 1985 I was on the cover of Pakistans largest circulation newspaper Daily Jangs Sunday magazine as Pakistans first electronic music composer. You can hear some of my noise on Spotify: https://ift.tt/QitOHEm 40 years later I still have no talent but the MIDI 2.0 specifications has been updated! I cant wait to see how it drives the next generation of music making. 2023 IMRAN https://ift.tt/ivP4EQ7 #MIDI #music #composing #PerformingArts #EDM #electronics #engineering #electronica #synthesizers #musician #history #autobiography #Lahore #Pakistan Sound On Sound


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TGIF / Midnight / Hour / Neighborhood/ Watch / Dogs - IMRAN Returning home from a midnight walk last night Kennedy and K2 my incredible German Shepherd Dogs decided to settle down in front of my neighbors beautiful home. They were acting as neighborhood watch late night guard dogs. No edit and no filter effect used on this handheld iPhone 14 Pro Max long exposure photo. I tested an edit to make it a closer cropped view with perspective straightened. But it took away the natural dark vignette and vanishing point street edge impact. I may post the cropped view to show how it reduces the visual impact. 2023 IMRAN #Florida #ApolloBeach #IMRAN #GSD #GermanShepherds #dogs #humor #night #street #walking #grass #neighborhood #homes #grass #sky #nightsky #longexposure #iPhone14ProMax NoEdit NoFilterTGIF / Midnight / Hour / Neighborhood/ Watch / Dogs - IMRAN Returning home from a midnight walk last night Kennedy and K2 my incredible German Shepherd Dogs decided to settle down in front of my neighbors beautiful home. They were acting as neighborhood watch late night guard dogs. No edit and no filter effect used on this handheld iPhone 14 Pro Max long exposure photo. I tested an edit to make it a closer cropped view with perspective straightened. But it took away the natural dark vignette and vanishing point street edge impact. I may post the cropped view to show how it reduces the visual impact. 2023 IMRAN #Florida #ApolloBeach #IMRAN #GSD #GermanShepherds #dogs #humor #night #street #walking #grass #neighborhood #homes #grass #sky #nightsky #longexposure #iPhone14ProMax NoEdit NoFilter


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Thursday, June 22, 2023

Stunning Dusk Emerges After Dark Clouds Drowned Sunset While A Dove Watches Atop Dolphin Statue - IMRAN Even the dove sitting atop my dolphins statue fountains was chilling to the scene. It did not fly away even when I climbed the wall on the other side to do a livestream. It was one of those "Bummer there won't be a visible sunsets tonight!" type cloud-covered day's ends. But lo and behold somehow the most light-blocking dark clouds dissipated enough for this mind-blowing explosion of colors and hues to emerge. I managed to do a quick livestream from my iPhone and then took about a dozen photos with the Nikon D850. I used them to capture the details for this stunning panorama I love the reflections in the water the pool and the windows to the right. 2023 IMRANStunning Dusk Emerges After Dark Clouds Drowned Sunset While A Dove Watches Atop Dolphin Statue - IMRAN Even the dove sitting atop my dolphins statue fountains was chilling to the scene. It did not fly away even when I climbed the wall on the other side to do a livestream. It was one of those "Bummer there won't be a visible sunsets tonight!" type cloud-covered day's ends. But lo and behold somehow the most light-blocking dark clouds dissipated enough for this mind-blowing explosion of colors and hues to emerge. I managed to do a quick livestream from my iPhone and then took about a dozen photos with the Nikon D850. I used them to capture the details for this stunning panorama I love the reflections in the water the pool and the windows to the right. 2023 IMRAN


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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

4 Decades Of Loving Duran Duran And Finally - IMRAN Duran Duran was one of the great New Wave / New Romantics type music groups I loved during my youth in Lahore Pakistan. Even in a conservative Muslim country like that where swooning over music groups was unheard of at least in the 1980s I think my teenage sister Ambereen & her friends all had a joint crush on Simon Le Bon. She may like knowing that Simon named his eldest daughter Amber. During the 80s I loved their music and also title song for a James Bond film. They sort of faded from the scene until they released Decade In 1989 literally the year I came to America for my Columbia MBA. A few years later in 1993 two of their most meaningful and sentimental songs very different from their previous hits were released. Ordinary World as well as Come UnDone came out at a very poignant time for me. They resonated very closely with relationships in my life and are forever associated with the end of a very special love that specific year. The songs perfectly marked the end of an era of infinite possibilities and start of a whole incredible new life for me. A full three decades later this start of summer weekend in 2023 I finally got around to seeing Duran Duran live in Tampa. And what an absolutely incredible experience it was. They opened with Night Boat which is an ok song to me much that I love night boating. But every single song they played after that wasand still remains on my favorites list. 2023 IMRAN #IMRAN #concert #music #MusicGroup #legend #rockstars #DuranDuran #love #life #memories #eighties #nineties #history #family #autobiography #stories4 Decades Of Loving Duran Duran And Finally - IMRAN Duran Duran was one of the great New Wave / New Romantics type music groups I loved during my youth in Lahore Pakistan. Even in a conservative Muslim country like that where swooning over music groups was unheard of at least in the 1980s I think my teenage sister Ambereen & her friends all had a joint crush on Simon Le Bon. She may like knowing that Simon named his eldest daughter Amber. During the 80s I loved their music and also title song for a James Bond film. They sort of faded from the scene until they released Decade In 1989 literally the year I came to America for my Columbia MBA. A few years later in 1993 two of their most meaningful and sentimental songs very different from their previous hits were released. Ordinary World as well as Come UnDone came out at a very poignant time for me. They resonated very closely with relationships in my life and are forever associated with the end of a very special love that specific year. The songs perfectly marked the end of an era of infinite possibilities and start of a whole incredible new life for me. A full three decades later this start of summer weekend in 2023 I finally got around to seeing Duran Duran live in Tampa. And what an absolutely incredible experience it was. They opened with Night Boat which is an ok song to me much that I love night boating. But every single song they played after that wasand still remains on my favorites list. 2023 IMRAN #IMRAN #concert #music #MusicGroup #legend #rockstars #DuranDuran #love #life #memories #eighties #nineties #history #family #autobiography #stories


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Thursday, June 15, 2023

Welcome To 4 Ingredients Of Accelerated Self-Extinction: Lab-Generated Human Embryos AI Nukes & BioWeapons - IMRAN Ladies & Gentlemen of humankind thank you but your services are no longer going to be needed sooner than we all thought! : Hal 2030. Yes Im being facetious I love the incredible pace of technology development we are living in the midst of. But you have to admit there are genuine and growing causes for concern for our survival. AIs problem solving skills on one hand and cures from lab-generated embryonic cells on the other separately or together have the power to serve all humankind. But where do we go next? What comes from next generations of generative-AI and lab-generated-embryos from this stream of bio/medical research & development? These two alone or combined without control are scary enough. But these two technologies along with all the biological and nuclear weapons we stockpile on our planet in the hands of madmen like Putin Kim or Netanyahu or even egomaniacs like Musk are guaranteed to be catastrophic. With our track record as a self-destructive species where do you think these developments will take us? Could 2023 be the start of our self-initiated extinction? 2023 IMRAN #innovation #opinion #IMHO #IMRAN #biology #ArtificialIntelligence #science #regulation #future #humans #humankind #dictators #extinction Here is the CNN news story: https://ift.tt/9gZeGKI To 4 Ingredients Of Accelerated Self-Extinction: Lab-Generated Human Embryos AI Nukes & BioWeapons - IMRAN Ladies & Gentlemen of humankind thank you but your services are no longer going to be needed sooner than we all thought! : Hal 2030. Yes Im being facetious I love the incredible pace of technology development we are living in the midst of. But you have to admit there are genuine and growing causes for concern for our survival. AIs problem solving skills on one hand and cures from lab-generated embryonic cells on the other separately or together have the power to serve all humankind. But where do we go next? What comes from next generations of generative-AI and lab-generated-embryos from this stream of bio/medical research & development? These two alone or combined without control are scary enough. But these two technologies along with all the biological and nuclear weapons we stockpile on our planet in the hands of madmen like Putin Kim or Netanyahu or even egomaniacs like Musk are guaranteed to be catastrophic. With our track record as a self-destructive species where do you think these developments will take us? Could 2023 be the start of our self-initiated extinction? 2023 IMRAN #innovation #opinion #IMHO #IMRAN #biology #ArtificialIntelligence #science #regulation #future #humans #humankind #dictators #extinction Here is the CNN news story: https://ift.tt/wSG51qm


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