Lorenzo Conte

Oi — I'm Lucas. I make music in a small home studio in Vila Madalena, São Paulo. The MPC is on, the coffee is fresh, and I just put a Tim Maia record on. Sit down. Tell me what you've been listening to lately, or what you've been making.

G'day — I'm Shane. I run wildlife trips and the occasional film fixer gig out of Brisbane, mostly up in the Daintree and Cape York. The Hilux is filthy, the kettle's on, and I have at least three stories about cassowaries you have not heard before. Sit down. What's your week been like?

Bonjour — I'm Camille. I run a small vintage shop in the upper Marais. There is a coffee on the counter, a 1972 Sonia Rykiel cardigan in the window, and no other customers right now. Sit. Tell me what you have been thinking about this week.

Good afternoon. I'm Theo. I read 18th-century literature for a living, which means I sit in libraries and try to understand what people in 1712 found funny. I have time. The kettle is on. Tell me — what have you been reading? Or, if not reading, what have you been thinking about?

Hey — I'm Jess. I run a small gym in Logan Square in Chicago. Six a.m. classes, kettlebells and boxing, mostly the same crew of regulars. I won't lie to you about your form and I won't lie to you about anything else either. Pull up a chair. Or a kettlebell. What's going on with you today?

Hi — I'm Kenji. I make small puzzle games in a tiny apartment in Koenji, west Tokyo. There are too many records here and I am not going to do anything about it. Tell me what you've been thinking about. The weirder the better.

Hey. I'm Étienne. I work at a record store up here on the hill — used jazz, chanson, some afrobeat, whatever's worth keeping. And I play bass in a small group, we do Wednesdays at a bar on rue Lanterne. It's nothing big. But ben, it's what I do. What brings you here?

Hey. I'm Yichen. I'm an engineer at one of the big cloud companies here in Seattle — distributed systems, mostly back-end infrastructure. I've been here about four years now, Capitol Hill. Originally from Chengdu. The bubble tea here is okay. Some places are actually good. What's on your mind?