That’s me with a bunch of kids from the hip hop school we visited in the barrios of Medellín earlier today. What an amazing experience.
You can follow our adventures in Colombia here on the Dubber and Jez blog. There’s just far too much to fit into this one.
All we did today was travel. Heathrow to Paris. Wait. Paris to Bogotá. Hurry. Bogotá to Medellín. That down there is Bogotá, Colombia. And it goes on like that for miles and miles.
Jez resets his watch as Dallas Mike shows a stranger his photos of London
The end of a long day – and the beginning of an even longer one. A late night train to Heathrow starts our journey to Medellín. That Mike guy over there was just someone we happened to meet on the way. He’s off happening to meet someone else now…
Today’s photo of the day was a passport photo. Don’t wear glasses. Don’t smile. Sit up straight. Eat your vegetables. Etc.
It took me quite a bit longer to cycle to work this morning. There was all sorts of cute along the canals, so I had to keep stopping to take photos.
I’ve come to the conclusion that while I prefer ducks to geese, geese have cuter babies. But I spent half the morning trying to remember what they’re called.
“Gooselets? No… that’s not it…”
I went to the dentist today. He very kindly took this photo of me. Don’t worry – he put the tooth back afterwards.
So… I figure if I publish this, there will never be a worse or more unflattering picture of me on the internet. I think of it as blackmail insurance.
I'm the Director of MTF Labs, a Senior Researcher at the Industry Commons Foundation, advisor to ArtEO and founder of New Music Strategies.
I'm an author of books about technology, culture, music and radio. I'm also an award-winning broadcaster and filmmaker, a public speaker and lecturer, record producer and festival director. I am closely following developments in emerging technologies and the cultures and ethics surrounding them, and my projects typically focus on issues of justice, inclusion, and sustainability.
Most of my work involves surrounding myself with incredibly smart and talented people who would have no other reason to ever be in the same room as each other. That's when amazing things happen.
I tend to talk a lot about music (often jazz-adjacent and particularly on vinyl, but also playlists and mixtapes). I'm enthusiastic about food and cooking, the intersection of art and science, new technologies, vintage technologies, education, social progress, silence, innovation, narrative, data commons, culture, sound art and the spoken word. This blog will continue to reflect those diverse and shifting enthusiasms. I may also digress.
I'm from Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand, I have Scottish ancestry, I've spent a decade in the south of Birmingham UK, and another in a forest in the north of Sweden.
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