Space & Time with Wilson Vaz

My sister and I took a grueling multi-city bus trip from Providence to Chicago just to see kanYE West live at Soldier Field. Strange station chaos, serendipitous strangers, one unforgettable concert night, Chicago camaraderie, plus five ways long travel wears on your body and five ways to fight back. A story about endurance, family, and chasing an experience hopefully worth the journey. Was it worth it in the end? Did we come back the same way? Listen & find out!

August 20, 2016. A national holiday to many. “He made an album better than ‘Channel Orange’” — when I first heard this, it seemed unfathomable, but I sit here 10 years later knowing every word was true. As much as I love the initial offering, the second is just in another stratosphere. We watched a livestream for 30 days of silence and occasional sightings of a man building furniture, and then nothing, and then…. sound bloomed from the speakers in the wee hours of the night. It was not for nought. Then an album comes out of nowhere the next day — the album we didn’t know was the main album, after a visual album we thought was the album. That’s a lot of albums. ‘Blond(e)’ is the reason we don’t have exclusives anymore, no one album tied to a distributor for a week or weeks before everyone else gets it. Guess we should say thank you.Thoughts remembered: leaving New York City after officially falling in love with it, making connections between Baldwin and Endless songs. Leaving — hearing Endless and Blond(e) during the golden hour — felt like the city was saying goodbye in the most cinematic way possible. Driving to the Northeast from Georgia and hearing ‘White Ferrari’ come on at the end of a journal entry.Hearing unfinished versions on loop of songs like ‘Ivy’ and ‘Siegfried’ before they went by their proper name and ended up in their final form is something I’ll never forget. To the geniuses of this world: keep creating, take your time, but don’t stop creating — even if it’s just a grocery list, we’d be indebted.“YOU CUT YOUR HAIR / BUT YOU USED TO LIVE A BLONDED LIFE”We’ll always live a blonded life. Thanks, Frank.–WV8/20/26new episode out now...#FrankOcean #Blonde #BlondeAlbum #SpaceAndTimePodcast #CulturePodcast #CreativeFreedom #MusicPodcast #Nostalgia #SelfControl #WhiteFerrari #Endless #Ivy #GiovannisRoom

When we lose a loved one, how do we shift from mourning a death to celebrating a life if we've never been shown? I wrote a piece called "49 Candles" on July 31, 2026 that is on my website to honor my uncle, Unildo Mendes, who would have turned 49 that day and I wanted to record a podcast to commemorate the moment. In this episode I share my favorite memories of him and what I told my grandmother the second time I was told by someone that I reminded them of him. Plus 10 ways you can honor someone's life in their afterlife. I really love this one, hope y'all do, too! Live your life in full color like he did, see and be seen!-Wilson Admir Barbosa Mendes Vaz

"Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up" -Picasso This episode is very special for so many reasons, I recorded it in Halifax, Nova Scotia with help from my sister, Sabrina, one of my favorite creative partners. Our family took our first official full-cast family vacation in celebration of our mother's birthday, Gemini season. I was able to convey many ideas I've lived with for some time. The whole episode centers around the idea of why we procrastinate so much with things that we wan to accomplish, that we say we do. Put things in the world and come what may, but get it out of your system, that's what I'm trying to focus on these days. -WV

From New York and back — this episode almost didn't happen. I went searching for something to say and came home with everything I needed. What started as a failed recording attempt in the city became one of the most clarifying experiences I've had with this podcast. New York has a way of doing that — showing you everything at once and making you sort through it alone.This episode is about happiness. What it looks like, what we perform, and what we actually feel when no one is watching. It's about wealth disparity, restraint, connection, and the quiet moments that reveal the most. It's about why I do this — because I say the things most people feel but can't find the words for.I went to New York frustrated. I came back with a poem, a purpose, and this episode.