Hi, I’m Joel!

I don’t know what small miracle brought you here, but welcome to my blog!

I created this blog to share my major interests: photography and bicycle touring in places a little off the beaten path. Two hobbies that mix very well.

Right now!

As I write this, I’m leaving for a four month solo expedition to Asia. When I return, I will let you in on my previous travels that have taken me to places in Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia.

From a recent trip to Iceland. Photograph by Joel Schumann

As of now, the blog is regrettably low on content but I’m working on it right now. So if you stay on for a while I hope you will find some of it inspirational and helpful. If you feel entertained while reading I’m even happier. Give me a chance, will ya! I will do my best to keep things interesting.

So who is behind all this:

As said my name is Joel and I live in Denmark with my family. In case you do not know, Denmark is the country with the worlds happiest people – in stiff competition with Disney World. If you wonder why Danes are so happy, I encourage you to come and take a look! Or maybe just have a look at this site: www.denmark.dk Even though I took part in creating that very site, as a spin off from working in the communications department of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I’m not terribly patriotic.

My background is academic and I have done media and communications studies at the University of Copenhagen, trying to understand how media works. To cut the long story short, let’s just say I believe the perspective of cognitive science provides the most satisfactory answers! Some years ago I launched a blog titled “Why video games suck!” and while I never did much more than this about that project I’m currently wondering if I should bring it back into existence.

If you put a guitar in my hands, I am able to make it cry. Lately, the guitar have been collecting dust and I have instead been working on developing some basic piano chops.

That’s it for now … sorry for wasting your time!