I received a nice email this morning from Kevin Boyle, one of the guys behind Ideas Improv (watch the video above). He writes: Hey Andrew — I don’t know how I happened upon your 30 ideas in 30 days but it gave me …an idea. I wanted to see if there were more Andrew Dubbers [...]
Categories: Idea
Our last day at Un-Convention – and it’s spent in Petare, known as the most dangerous barrio in Venezuela. We went there to pay tribute to a murdered political activist from the neighbourhood, watch basketball, listen to a performance by Symbiz, visit the place of work and the home of a community worker (with an [...]
Tagged: unconvention, venezuela
In which Jez loses control of the lower half of his body, I use all my Spanish, Symbiz reveal their Machiavellian plans, a community newspaper quizzes us on political philosophy for over an hour, we get invited to a Caribbean island paradise, and then we dance.
Tagged: unconvention, venezuela
Time for Jez and I to take a turn on a panel – this time about Digital Archives. We also shared the session with Buddy & Christian, the brothers from Symbiz, whom we quickly got to know and like. Our panel was flooded in, so we had to keep talking for an extra hour; Symbiz [...]
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The start of Un-Convention itself. I get to do a bit of an introduction, Jez has something in his throat, there is music and dancing (of varying levels of skill and complexity), we get to see a model of what Tiuna el Fuerte will eventually look like… and I get to be on the telly.
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In which we share an unusual breakfast, Jez and Ruth present at a bi-lingual press conference, Alex explains Cameraboy Will’s patented two-step ‘Vengabus then text’ dating technique, and we witness the strict discipline of the Tiuna el Fuerte hip hop school.
Tagged: unconvention, venezuela
Adventures in Venezuela continued… in which we go up a mountain in an unsafe vehicle, hang out in unsafe places, have accidents, and present a danger to ourselves and others, all in the name of grassroots and independent music.
Tagged: unconvention, venezuela
I’ve started going through the hundreds of video clips that I took in Venezuela last week, and have started editing them down to a manageable size for general consumption. Here’s the first video from our first day in Caracas. I’m also going to (eventually) upload all of the unedited videos so you can get Jez’s [...]
Tagged: unconvention, venezuela
My friend Brian – you know, Brian out of UB40 (namedrop, namedrop) – just popped over to give me an original piece of his artwork that I’d admired at an exhibition of his but could not possibly have afforded. It’s based on Concierto de Aranjuez from Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain album. Unbelievably generous of [...]
¡Mi libro ‘La Música en la Era Digital’ está disponible en español! Paga lo que creas que vale. Descargá tu copia ahora. Este libro es una obra en proceso. Una especie de documento vivo. Comienza a leer ahora, y crecerá mes a mes. La mùsica es tanto cultura como negocio. Ambos están intrìnsecamente ligados con [...]
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Tagged: Spanish
