Colour me read is a new project I, Simon Heptinstall (SirHeppe), am taking on to try and learn more about people from all walks of life and to understand our odd little species a little better. This project will involve a podcast, and complementing blog post, with a new guest on each episode, where I'll ask them a variety of different questions so I can get to know them and their views a little better. It's as simple as that.
I'm doing this because I have always been interested in people and how their point of view may differ to mine. It's never been enough for me to have one point of view on something, I've always wanted to know why other people think and feel differently to me. Because of this natural curiosity, I like to think I've changed and grown over the years by trying to understand people a little better. I really hope these interviews can be a place where people open up without fear of judgement.
Colour me read will see me talking to people from all walks of life, from students to teachers, sex workers to priests, scientists to poets. I want to try and get as wide a take on a whole range of topics as I possibly can. Once the interviews have been conducted, I'll upload them to Soundcloud and then embed it on here, along with a transcribed version. So think of it as an interview podcast that will try to include as many different topics in each podcast as possible. From science and technology, to sex and religion. There will be no wrong answers, but hopefully there will be a chance for people to talk openly.
The point of colour me read is to get people talking about a variety of subjects. Yes I'll be asking people questions that relate to their specific field of work, but I'll also be trying to find out how they feel about other subjects too. From God to Star Trek, sexuality to pumpkin spice lattes, I hope nothing will be off the table.
Now I must acknowledge that I won't be able to interview everyone that I want and I won't be able to interview a truly wide spread of people across the world, mainly because I only speak English and that limits me to interviews in my own language. And while I hope to include people of all races and ethnicities, there is a chance that I will end up talking to unequal amount of white people. But I will try my best to seek out diversity in all forms. I also don't claim this as a new idea or a particularly inventive project. Instead I see this as a chance to document some conversations with people who I normally wouldn't get a chance to speak to.
I'm also aware that because I'm conducting these interviews online, I'm limited to those with are active online and who have the time to speak to me. It's my hope that in the future I'll be able to spread my reach wider to those offline. Be they homeless,elderly or simply not interested in holding a conversation online with me.
Hopefully over the coming weeks and months I will be able to piece together an interesting tapestry of interviews with a cross-section of society. As I said above, I don't do this to be original, inventive or champion anything more worthwhile that my own curiosity. But I hope by doing this I am able to learn from people with different backgrounds, opinions and view points to my own and to let people say in their own words how they feel about a whole range of issues. These conversations won't aim to be ground breaking, but I hope they prove to be interesting.
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