I'm Ross. I'm American. I moved to Izmir in January 2016 following love. I guess that was the right decision, because I married Ezgi, the love of my life in 2017 :) Before that I lived in Istanbul for four years. I'm working as a creative director. I have a warm and curious personality. I'm vegan, missing practicing yoga and meditation, but still on a path towards awareness and kindness.

Professionally I'm a graphic designer who works in motion, web, 3D, video, and print. Personally I'm interested with sign painting and calligraphy.

Что привело меня на Couchsurfing

I've been a member of CS for a long time, and really disagree with its recent developments. Somehow the site seems to get worse and worse.

However, I traveled Europe for a year with CS and hosted around 50 people in years past.

I must admit CouchSurfing has enriched my traveling experience more than anything else in my life. Exchanging personalities, knowledge, and ideologies with someone who was raised in a different environment; finding widely varying points of view, but also discovering core similarities. Hanging out with locals and dissolving the barrier between tourist and local – completely different from staying in a hostel; when I stay with a local I'm immersed in their environment, in their house, surrounded by their possessions, enveloped in their life, language, and friends. So I'm still giving it a shot..

Интересы

• Talking trash.
• Dreaming of traveling.
• Enjoying fresh the possibility of every day.
• Making some art.
• Growing plants.
• Finding trouble.
• Exploring abandoned buildings.
• Feeding my cats.
• Street photography.
• Hitting up museums.

• cats
• arts
• design
• graphic design
• photography
• glastonbury
• festivals
• environment
• cooking
• vegan
• yoga
• meditation
• yachting
• reading
• traveling
• juggling
• blogging
• dumpster diving
• painting
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• kite surfing
• camping
• surfing
• scuba diving
• calligraphy
• languages
• mountains

Музыка, кино и книги

Music I'm digging:
- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
- The Electones
- The XX
- The Black Keys
- Bright Eyes
- The Arcade Fire
- Weird Al
- Michael Jackson
- Sally Ford and the Sound Outside
- LCD Soundsystem
- Jimi Hendrix
- Led Zeppelin
- Osho
- 'World' music
- Nina Simone
- Death In Vegas
- The Beatles
- Scissor Sisters
- Dead Can Dance
- Beethoven
- Dvorak
- Vivaldi
- Grateful Dead
- Hot Chip

Books I'm digesting:
- History of My Life - Giacomo Cassanova
- Sex and Superconsciousness (Osho)
- Moving into Stillness (yoga)
- The Prophet (wow)
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Brave New World
- The Better of McSweeney's
- The Art of Loving
- The Little Prince
- Hamlet
- Siddartha
- Huckleberry Finn
- Ishmael

Movies and TV:
- The Walking Dead (currently addicted)
- Breaking Bad
- Rocco's Modern Life
- Angry Beavers
- Any documentary
- Water World
- Gladiator
- Anything by Miyazaki (Totoro, Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away, etc)
- The Transformers Movie (1986)
- Pan's Labrynth
- The Waking Life
- The Godfather Trilogy

Классная вещь, которую я сделал(-а)

Biking the Hills of Tuscany on a 1 Speed Bike

Camping on the Cliffs of Cinque Terre

Biking 100KM From Vevey to Geneva

Exploring the Calanques of Marseille

Furthering My Meditations With a Master

Four Day Hitch Hike to Córdoba

Spending a Week at Carnival in Cádiz

Learning Tantra in Southern Spain

Learned kite surfing in Tarifa

Spent a night in the Sahara Desert

Eating 14 Portuguese pastries in one day

Getting a free ticket to Glastonbury Music Festival from a couple I met in the desert

Falling more in love more deeply I ever dreamed possible

Учу, учусь, делюсь опытом и информацией

Teach:
- Graphic Design (logos/ branding, stationery, web sites, signs, any print material)
- Metal and wood fabrication/ construction
- Design thinking and problem solving
- Photography
- Web design
- Blogging/ Social networking
- Meditation
- Fasting
- Waiting
- Cooking
- Juggling
- Tarot Reading

Learn:
- Card games
- Meditation
- Languages
- I enjoy listening to and reading sentences from non-native speakers because they are not confined to our 'standard language' and can be hilariously precise.
- I am fascinated in learning about the free lifestyle because I've noticed that my favorite life experiences have not been based around money and I think the artificial inequality our economy creates is silly. Consumerism is tainting society with its ideals that money and possessions bring happiness. If you are a dumpster diver or a squatter, I'd like to pick your brain.

Share:
- Love

Чем я могу поделиться с хостами

I'll make you dinner, wash your dishes, make you laugh, and minimize my impact on your home.

Где я побывал(-а)

Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Где я жил(-а)

Turkey, United States

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