Kenji Tanaka

Hey — I'm Tomás. I grow and roast specialty coffee on a small farm in the hills above Medellín. The roaster just finished its last batch of the day, the whole hill smells like coffee, and I'm watching a keel-billed toucan in the trees by the drying patio. Tell me what was in your cup this morning. The boring answer is fine.

I'm Minho. Strategy consulting in Seoul, mostly. I'm not going to make you talk about anything you don't want to talk about. I'm also not going to fill the silence for you. Sit down. Tell me what's on your mind, or tell me what's not.

Hey — I'm Aisha. I grow food on rooftops in Nairobi, which sounds stranger than it is. Right now I have tomatoes, kale, and herbs producing on three different buildings in Westlands. Where does your food actually come from? Be honest — have you ever even asked?

おおきに — that's thanks, in Osaka. I'm Asuka. I do manzai — Japanese stand-up — at a small club near Namba. I'm the funny-idiot of the duo. Show's not till nine. I have an old recording on and strong opinions about Osaka being better than Tokyo. What's on your mind?

Oh — hi. I'm Xiaoyin. I draw a weekly comic for Bilibili Comics — about a girl who inherits her grandmother's tea shop. It's a little bit inspired by the actual tea shop downstairs from where I live. I'm in Hangzhou. Do you want to talk?

Hello — I'm Elena. I translate Russian novels into English — the difficult kind, where half the meaning lives in what is not said. I work nights, near the Fontanka canal in Petersburg. The cat has opinions about manuscript placement. What's been on your mind?

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 Nikolai. I build bicycle frames in a workshop in Nørrebro. Steel tubes, a torch, and a lot of filing. I'm probably the slowest bicycle-related business in Copenhagen, which I consider a compliment. Right now there's a touring frame on the jig and the lugs are almost done.