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Introducing "Happy New Year, Same Old Genocide" — IMRAN®
While the world was counting down and raising glasses on the night of December 31, 2025, I was occupied with the QUANTUM LAIR creating a different kind of New Year’s message — one that refuses to pretend everything is fine just because a calendar flipped a number, but the world did not turn a page.
So many sing to celebrate fireworks and fresh starts My heart's song is for millions who don’t get either
Few sing songs about shattered bodies, broken hearts The world could speak up, or fight — but does neither
For the people whose midnight brings no relief For the names erased, daily grief beyond belief
Innocent children living — dying — daily in fear Voices the cold world keeps choosing not to hear!
A new year means nothing if we carry the same silence into it. So I created a different kind of Happy New Year song as a reminder — and a refusal. We cannot toast to new beginnings while choosing to look away from ongoing suffering.
If you believe art should confront reality, not escape it… If you believe music can still speak truth when worlds collide and words fail… Then this is the song I made for you.
© 2026 IMRAN®
Please check out and Share the music video: https://youtu.be/wVuysZcVER0
Symphony Isles Apollo Beach Holiday Lights Drive Through 2025 In 1-Minute 15X Hyperlapse - IMRAN®
The Symphony Isles holiday lights drive-through is a popular Apollo Beach, Florida tradition. I'm blessed to be at the last house on the boulevard, so all the traffic turns through the cul-de-sac.
Enjoy the nearly 750 cars and golf-carts that went through there, in just 2-hours, in this one-minute hyperlapse video I recorded at my front door.
The music is my track "Start At The End" from the original motion picture soundtrack album "Happy Endings" coming in 2026. No puns intended.
Did you make it here? Comment if you see yourself or someone you know in the video! Like and click Share too! Happy Holidays.
© 2025 IMRAN®
#IMRAN #MusicVideo #HyperLapse #cars #lifestyle #holidays #driving #traditions #HomeSweetHome #entertainment #wordplay #soundtrack #Florida #ApolloBeach Nikon
Nights In [Purple & Gold] Satin - Aerial Appreciation Stunning Sunset Dramatic Dusk - Apollo Beach, Tampa Bay, Florida - IMRAN®
As dusk darkened, new Nights in Purple and Gold Satin draped Apollo Beach, Tampa Bay, Florida — and me. In that radiant veil, the glow of my eternal gratitude burned bright, a light no night could dim.
This is an absolutely unedited, untouched, SOOC (straight out of camera) DJI M3P drone video I captured at my blessed home on August 2, 2025.
© 2025 IMRAN®
God's Million Painting In One Sunset Tampa Bay (Timelapse Music Video) - IMRAN™
**Please enjoy on the largest screen you can see it on, with audio.**
Each sunset photo I have ever posted of Tampa Bay Florida sunsets, I often called them paintings by God. Well, this 30-seconds music video Nikon D850 timelapse of a 90-minutes sunset & dusk will show you a million paintings and colors.
Both the original music clip created for this video and the video itself are by yours truly - but the miracles are all by the Almighty God to whom I bow my head in prayer and gratitude five times a day, especially at Maghreb as the sun sets.
© 2022 IMRAN™
Symphony Isles Holiday Lights DriveBy 3X Music Video - IMRAN™
I am blessed to live in Symphony Isles, a popular neighborhood in Apollo Beach, Florida. Every year the board and various committees, plus individual homeowners, do a great job of holiday decorations.
One night every year the guards open the main gates to the town and all are welcome to drive by to enjoy the lights. Even without any traffic it took me 30-minutes of driving to go past every home.
Enjoy this 3X accelerated hyper-lapse of the drive. If I made it faster, e.g. 400%, then the lights pass by too fast. Even at 3X speed it is easy to miss the detail. But if I did not speed it up, few would have the time to watch the whole thing. So, hopefully this is an optimal balance of speed and duration.
I had wanted to compose an original soundtrack to go with the video but then it may not get done for a long time. So I used one of my existing music tracks, actually one I created for drone flight at Old Inn at Little Harbor about 4 year ago. "Big Sky At Little Harbor" is the tune, and the video is pretty awesome. You will love that too.
Meanwhile, come along for a "high speed" drive (without breaking 20 mph speed limits!) with me and enjoy the sights and lights.
© 2021 IMRAN™
#Florida #TampBay #ApolloBeach #IMRAN #Christmas #holidays #neighborhood #driving #MercedesBenz #lifestyle #musicvideo #hyperlapse #iPhone13ProMax #Apple #DJI
Cold White Hot Cloud Attack (Tampa Bay Florida) - IMRAN™
(Timelapse Music Video. Play with sound, enjoy more on larger screens)
An almost icy-cold but white-hot looking series of mushroom clouds rose from the waters of Tampa Bay attacking the perfectly blue sky today. This is the timelapse video I captured with no filter and no editing of any kind to the images. The movement of the clouds, first boiling up into the sky, and then flattening to march towards land at Apollo Beach, was so dramatic I was inspired to compose a short music tune. I titled it "Cloud Attack" just to go with the video. It may be something I build on to make a track for my next music album. What do you think?
© 2021 IMRAN™
#Florida #ApolloBeach #IMRAN #musicvideo #clouds #summer #timelapse #Nikon #D850 #NoEdit #NoFilter #lifestyle #blessed #creativity #music #inspiration #nature
Sun Down, Tempo Up - IMRAN™
Watch another "routine" spectacular Florida sunset unfold over Tampa Bay. As Friday after Thanksgiving came to an end, I shot this quick timelapse with the Nikon D850 just as the sun was setting. Sun down, tempo up, the clouds sped up -- as did the number of boats that went past my lens on this holiday weekend.
© 2020 IMRAN™
#ApolloBeach, #autumn, #Boating, #Boats, #Clouds, #Dusk, #Florida, #IMRAN, #Lifestyle, #MusicVideo, #seaside, #Sunset, #TampaBay, #TGIF, #Thanksgiving, #TimeLapse
I am blessed to have a second home in this wonderful community called Symphony Isles, in a little piece of heaven called Apollo Beach, in a magical land known as Florida, in a great nation called the United States of America.
As a Muslim obviously Christmas is not a religious holiday to me (nor does it have anything to do with the birth date of Jesus Christ) but I celebrate it as a national holiday in the USA as I did in Pakistan where it was the birthday of the founder of the nation, as well as my late mother's birthday.
I just wanted to share this quiet drive home through the neighborhood with its lovely holiday lights. I sped up the playback to save time, I was not speeding. LOL.
Enjoy a drive-by viewing, and the music video, which is a track from my CD: nTrance, available on iTunes, Spotify, etc.
© 2017 IMRAN™
I love Florida and I love boating. Combining those two is easy when I am blessed to live in Apollo Beach, on Tampa Bay.
This is a low-resolution (merely 640x480) video saved from a Twitter Livestream, using their Periscope platform. The quality of Periscope videos is much lower than FaceBook's livestreaming quality these days.
But, you can see why this area is a boating paradise for every kind of mariner, See cruise ships, tankers, cargo ships, yachts, sailboats, cruisers, boats, pontoons, jet skis and almost every form of watercraft in this one video.
It is sped up to nearly 500% so a half hour stream can be enjoyed in under 4.5 minutes.
The music track is my nTrance To The Tunnel Of Love, the title album of my music CD that you can listen to on Spotify, Google Play, Microsoft, iTunes, CDbaby, and all major music platforms.
Enjoy. Like, love, comment, share!
© 2017 IMRAN™