I'ts over but its never over. If you check out the TEDxSummit hashtag on twitter you can see that @the99percent RTed: "The width of your wallet is not indicative of your ability to be a change maker." Quotes from TEDxSummit : http://blog.ted.com/2012/04/23/great-quotes-from-tedxsummit/ ; check them quotes; they are somewhat epic and will give you a good insight into what went down. 650 TEDx Organizers came out with open hands and minds to Doha for a week to figure out the future of the TEDx tribe.Their diversity became the tribes strength. Me and @Wtysl were there to document the gathering and flow of energies. We did more than 38 individual interviews.

Deliverables: Check out a video we made on KK, one of the photographers. Here is a one minute on 'What is TEDx'. And just out; a video on Hans Rosling, a visual playfull hang out session with the man who just joined the Time Magazine top 100 most influential list.

I'm back in Kenya now filming a 'clean energy' video for a NYC based marketing company. Heading out in the busch in an hour. Slept 8 hours. Will write a Huffington Post blog on TEDx Summit soon. Time to make some eggs.

I landed in Paris on March 23rd. Took the train over to a square to meet Christian and get the 8 liters of camel milk from Kenya that I had stored in his apartment while I was gone in Central America for 3 weeks. 

Bang boom and I head over to the train station ; jumped on a train to Annecy and 4 hours later I got picked up by Christoffer who works for Snowtrip, the ski-trip company run by Sebastian Bond, a old military friend and fellow Sandboxer. Two hours later we were on top of the world at Val Thorens.

After two days of skiing and filming I borrowed the Snowtrip rental car; drove three hours at the speed of light to Geneva where I parked in the airport garage, checked in and 3 hours later found myself outside Brussel's airport looking for the night bus to take me to my host. I ended up sharing a cab with a Brussels airlines stewardist, an american travelever and a Hong Kong chick. Arrived to the home of Matthieu Vaxelaire at 2 am, had some food and crashed in a beautiful bed. At 8 am the next day I had a camel milk tasting event at Hub Brussels organized by the Sandbox Brussels Hub. (Great crowd, great energy)

Straight afterwards I tubed over to the Thought for Food Challenge where I talked about camel milk entrepreneurship and incubated some food related ideas that emerged among the students participating. 6.20 am the day after I flew back to Brussels, drove three hours to Val Thorens and at 12 noon I was back in the slopes. For the next five days I filmed students from Stockholm School of Economics skiing and partying - felt like a hybrid session of Summit at Sea and kindergarten. However, it made me focused on my own path and pushed my mind away into the mountains. I now feel stronger and more determined than before that the choices I have made in the last ten years have been the right ones. Rerality check. tick.

 

Tree weeks in central America are over. With the support of Aaron of African Lookbook, Jesse and Calvin of Agora Partnerships and Carla I coordinated a huffpost blog about my #epicfail to wake up and start a full blown multi-stop flight itinerary from France to central America via Madrid and Miami.

I filmed in Guatemala and Nicaragua for Agora, surfed as much as possible in Costa Rica and celebrated my birthday on a horseback (I still can't sit straight). The road is life and finding time and electricity to edit is always a daily struggle. I now know that soap can't decrease the not so pleasant odor of my feet, reading Shantaram takes a long long time and playing golf in Spain during my youth did not set a solid foundation for my future ability to speak the language in non English speaking scenarios.

Doha, Qatar

(February 27th)

• Hopefully meet up with Nate Mook of TEDx Summit 

 

Geneva, Switzerland

(February 28th)

• Perhaps having breakfast with Swedish friend Caroline Briggert.

 

Lyon, France

(February 28th)

• In a perfect world Couchsurfing with a filmmaker!

Granada, Nicaragua

(February 29th - March 22nd)

•  Working with Agora Partnerships to film their retreat and some of the entreprenuers the support across Central America.
• Finish editing of the Sandbox Global Summit video.
• Visit University for Peace's Costa Rica campus

 

Lyon, France

(March 23rd)

• Breakfast with a random and then public transport to the mountains.

Val Thorens, France

(March 23rd - March 25th)

• Filming lifestyle, skiiing and the future of youth for Snowtrip

 

Brussels, Belgium

(March 25th - March 27th)

• Inspire people to embrace camel milk at the Thought for Food Challenge

 

Val Thorens

(March 27th - April 1st)

• Back to film 'skiing in action'.

Sauze d'Oulx, Italy

(April 1st - April 7th)

• Edit Snowtrip videos, cook epic food and embrace the snow of Sauze d'Oulx

 

Geneva, Switzerland

(April 7th)

• Crashing the night somewhere / somehow!

Doha, Qatar

(April 8th - April 25th at-least)

• The team WTYSL team will meet up to hopefully film 1000 TEDx organizers coming together during the first efter TEDx Summit

 

Day three of four at the Sauti Za Busara here in Zanzibar. My head is spaced out as i'm currently offloading footage from the camera, listening to Avicii @ Super Glow and preppin' myself for the sunset time lapse that im envisioning taking place in 15 minutes. Focus, action and off we go.

Photos by Simon Frederick. Building the Sandbox at the beach front of Lisbon during the Sandbox Global Summit was the beginning stage of my transition into my 4-day state of super presence. Read more about my journey in my Huffington Post blog.

The fat lady has sung and its time to move on in life. The Sandbox Global Summit brought 200 epic people together at the MUDE in Lisbon, Portugal, to celebrate our family bond, to share knowledge and to enter a state of super presence. Alicia Sully and myself through What Took You So Long organized the video+photo teams of the summit.

Big shout out to our fellow collaborators:

Antonio Gamito (Portrait photos)

Simon Frederick (All-round photo)

Filipa Castro (Photo intern)

Nuno Pessoa (video)

Pedro Resende (video)

We are just starting to edit the Summit video.The output will be a 3-4 minute piece of constant action+energy. Get Ready ;-) I'm flying to Athens tomorrow 6 am and will then head over to Kenya 3 days later on January 30th! The road is life (and life is good)

Sandboxer Jonathan Olinger has put together a very inspirering video from the Sandbox Transamerica expedtion. During the editing process me and Alicia of WTYSL were giving feedback and thoughts to Fabian Pfortmuller, aka the God voice ;-) The final piece is everything I ever wanted it to be - check it out here! Now its time for me, Alicia and our makeshift team here is Lisbon to deliver a video on the Sandbox Global Summit that speaks the same energy as the Transamerica video. The future is now, lets do it!

When I was in Athens back in December to speak at TEDxAthens I was interviewed by the awesome journalist Nadia Bakopoulou (Say hi to her on facebook and twitter!) The article she put together is titled 'The man behind the map' - check out the screen shots below and fell free to travel the internet to muteline.gr page 32 for close ups. Speaking Greek will enable you to understand. Actually, if someone could tell me what it says that would be great!

 

Thank you thank you thank you Sweden for allowing me to once again fall in love with you. Your snow, nature and people inspire me to do more, travel more, share more and love more. I will be back. 3 weeks felt like a life-time. I'm now Lisbon, Portugal, prepairing and getting ready to film the Sandbox Global Summit. Call me anytime at +351 969984636. Epic times ahead (as Christian Busch would say!) Check out the press-release here. I currently live togehter with Alicia Sully, Richard Hylerstedt, Inês Silva and Antoine Verdon - a fabulous crowd; the beginning of the beginning. Boooom!