Molly Ringwald, and Eric Bogosian-- is that what it is? Bogosian, yes. There we go. And directed and produced the filmed version of Bogosian's Off-Broadway show for IFC, "Wake Up and Smell the Coffee." So welcome, Michael.
the device, um it did make everything kind of self-same, right? Ian Bogost, welcome back. I'm glad to be here. Thank you so much for having me.
problems of lawlessness and crime and corruption was he stationed an army of mimes on the busiest intersections of downtown Bogota mimes people with face paint and tights they weren't armed with guns they didn't have semi-automatic weapons all they were armed with were red cards which they would wave
There are a lot of them. We have Bogolan. We have so many fabrics in Africa, it's ridiculous.
She revolutionized cinema in very deep levels. And we did Bogota.
hello everyone and welcome to toxic Google Cambridge today we've got Dr Ian bogost here to talk about his book play anything Dr Ian bogost is an author and an award-winning game designer he is an Ivan Allen college distinguished chair in media studies and professor of interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute Institute of Technology where he also holds an appointment in the
anyone either yeah you know I had this great idea I want to tell you about it I came up with a hackathon you know I have I live in Bogota I mean like drop out of college I'm gonna move to Medellin and I'm gonna start this business and like I am ready to do this so I was like okay like but lay it on me like what is you know what are you gonna be doing that is
uncomplicated. I have the partner, the professor, here I have the son, Nicki, deadly lyrics, improvising here and in Bogotá, I don't quit. You already know how this rhythm is so you do n't dance from head to toe. You already know how I keep singing.
So when I was 16, I moved to Bogota. And in Bogota, I remembered that I was just staring upon all those sky croppers. Scrapers. Again. Again I did it again.
In this capacity the empowerment of the child became so obvious, that now we base the change in their shoulders. This is in Bogota, with Shakira, the singer. All of her schools are with our laptops.
clashed with the world of piety? But some daily, on the contrary, I think that if I was diverse, obviously upon encountering is how could the Bogotá Theater Festival boost the demand for theater at times other than the festival? What
Colombia which is in the book imagine you're in Bogota Colombia circa nineteen ninety-three Bogota was still recovering just beginning to recover from the drug wars of the 1980s the city was a lawless place it was the MER capital of the world thousands and
traditional political parties hadn't done anything to deal with this problem people didn't know what to do and what they did in the election of 1993 for mayor of Bogota is they elected a man who called himself an anti politician he didn't have any political experience he was actually a professor a professor of philosophy and math in the local university his name was Professor
She revolutionized cinema in very deep levels. Specifically the last concert in Bogota, it was raining.
her brothers and sisters and their kids, and her aunts and uncles, and her parents, they all live within a two-block radius of where they grew up, and they still all live there in Bogota, and so my wife associates very strongly with Colombian food and that's her culture. And so at home now with our kids-- We have a five-year-old and now a 7-month-old, but we cook a lot of Colombian food, especially food
Now, we were able to use this remote mapping to find these people and to leave them alone, but to find them and enact protection. And this is a ceremony in Bogota.
And Gakire's curious book is an example of that. Gakire was actually invited to Bogota, Colombia to attend the international book fair there. And I had been working with him on getting grants.
So he was my classmate in HBS. And when I was down in Bogota about a year ago, we had dinner at this place called La Charcuteria, which is a restaurant that he became an advisor to and an investor in, because he loved to cook.
rents are excessively expensive in Bogotá. We're talking about rents like in New York or Tokyo, anything
pride and the new sense that following the rules was the right thing to do without that none of his other reforms would have been successful in Bogota but we may still have doubts what exactly is causing this change this is a very important issue policymakers around the world are trying to deal with corruption and crime and lawlessness the World Bank
as well as "Royal Pains," "Beautiful People," and "Life Is Wild." Rauch wrote and directed the independent feature film "In the Weeds," starring Ellen Pompeo, Bridget Moynahan, Molly Ringwald, and Eric Bogosian-- is that what it is? Bogosian, yes. There we go.
Bogosian, yes. There we go. And directed and produced the filmed version of Bogosian's Off-Broadway show for IFC, "Wake Up and Smell the Coffee." So welcome, Michael. Thank you. Thank you so much for being here with us.
I'm going to quit my job, or I'm going to quit university. I'm going to move to Medellin from Bogota, and I'm going to launch this crazy, amazing business. So I said, OK, lay it on me.
So for example, the story I have here is a guy named Dan Gertsacov. And Dan was the first Google employee in Bogota, Colombia. So he was my classmate in HBS.
In 1948 there was a very major discovery or invention called the transistor radio. Well a priest in the forgotten lands of the Altiplano of Bogota, saw this little invention and immediately saw the connection between that little gadget and technology.
Cartagena is spectacular, Bogotá is spectacular, the Coffee Region, I don't know, there are places to attract tourism so that there are
of arts And she's a very real woman because she was the director of a school for a women's salsa orchestra here in Bogotá. I was also an anthropologist. I went to work with them, but I worked more as an anthropologist than as
clashed with the world of piety? But some daily, on the contrary, I think that if I was diverse, obviously upon encountering you think there's an oversupply of theater in Bogotá? I don't think there's an overabundance of theater. I think a
sales until I realized I was out in southern Bogotá with a briefcase, selling things, and I was saying, "This isn't what they
just beginning to recover from the drug wars of the 1980s the city was a lawless place it was the MER capital of the world thousands and thousands of murders were being committed each year in Bogota just an order magnitude more murders than what you'd see in San Francisco or LA or New York there were kidnappings and in general a culture of breaking the rules
unorthodox things there were massive public art installations built in the shanty bogotá to try to build up civic pride even it was very poor neighborhoods well what happened in Bogota well it was nothing short of a miracle the murder rate by the time he stepped down as mayor in 2004 had fallen seventy percent
nothing short of a miracle the murder rate by the time he stepped down as mayor in 2004 had fallen seventy percent other crimes had also fallen similarly people felt pride in Bogota and the city's experienced a renaissance it's actually pointed to today as a model large city in Latin America crime rates
She revolutionized cinema in very deep levels. And then, the third one was in Bogota.
hello everyone and welcome to toxic Google Cambridge today we've got Dr Ian bogost here to talk about his book play anything Dr Ian bogost is an author and an award-winning game designer he is an Ivan Allen college distinguished chair
I give talks in Colombia, in Bogota, and in Mexico.
For the most that I love these ladies, I wanted to do something different. So when I was 16, I moved to Bogota. And in Bogota, I remembered that I was just staring upon all those sky croppers.
please, and send it to Bogotá. And he sent it. I tried it, and it was really delicious.
Here in Colombia, you see that Bogotá has its food fair, Medellín has its own fair, the
we tell stories from Vietnam Indonesia Chad in central Africa and stories in Latin America and I'm actually going to start off with a story from Bogota Colombia which is in the book imagine
red lights hundreds of these mines from from a local theater school were deployed downtown for a couple of months that year according to all observers people started thinking twice about jaywalking in downtown Bogota they started thinking twice about running red lights nobody wants to be humiliated or embarrassed what the minds did was they
mass firings of corrupt traffic cops who were known for taking bribes all the time downtown and he did some other unorthodox things there were massive public art installations built in the shanty bogotá to try to build up civic pride even it was very poor neighborhoods well what happened in Bogota well it was
machine there, you know, very supportive of BOGO in 2006, his association with radicals, criminals, and you know he was right in all of that. So I wonder how does one make sense
So from this point of view, I think it's Ian Bogost is correct when he says with reference to the philosophical treaties of Harry Frankfurt,
It goes on. I've been involved in discussions about SEO Bogota.
go anywhere without finding a loose log I eat there like I have a life either one time a week for aficionado so my buddy Dan Gert sykov who used to be he was the first employee at Google Colombia in Bogota classmate of mine from business school Dan's one of those guys you know those people who like Instagram all their food all the time that's Dan so he's the guy who like
from business school Dan's one of those guys you know those people who like Instagram all their food all the time that's Dan so he's the guy who like cooks things on Instagram them like look at the garnish and like it's plated and I was in Bogota and he's like I want you to come this restaurant for dinner okay so I meet him turns out he is an investor and advisor of the restaurant
suddenly even more. And that's still low in Bogotá; in New York, it's much higher.
antennas locust locust came to power promising to do things differently and change things he took over the sprawling capital promising to bring new ideas now the first thing he did when he took power in Bogota to try to deal with the problems of lawlessness and crime and corruption was he stationed an army of mimes on the busiest intersections of
double to a very high level in fact the risk of being murdered as a witch for an elderly woman in these villages in a drought year is higher than the murder rate in Bogota Colombia and its worst here in the 1980s there's a very high risk of attack what's going on in these households in these desperate years
And I had been working with him on getting grants. And thanks to a number of sponsors, he was able to fly for the first time out of Rwanda to Bogota. And I remember being on Facebook Messenger, and I said, how did it go?