CURRENT MISSION

Art + technology + business

ABOUT ME

I am a 5000 year soul who, at the same time, has yet to be born.

I have made this life more complicated than it need be,
by thinking rather than feeling,
creating intricate explanations for why,
as opposed to listening to the emotional what and how.
Often I have met the challenges in my life with extreme shifts, either within my character or in my surrounds.
Conscious of this,
I hope to become aware of the nuances permeating these moments and move beyond my current self
to become less a internalized individual and more
a conscious collaborator.
To appreciate process as well as product.

To play instead of struggle.

PHILOSOPHY

inhale...LET
exhale...GO

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Make great art.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have been given great kindness by hosts from various points on the map. My gratitude for the hospitality, support, wisdom, and friendship is more than I can express, although I hope I've been able to contribute something in my visits. I have also deeply enjoyed my time of service, of giving back, and providing for others what has been blessed onto me.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Gracefully hosted across the Old World.
Eagerly hosting on the frontier of the New World.

Interests

writing, filming,
walking and talking,
acting, autopsychoanalysis,
social experimentation,
technophilic work-addiction.
paint, faint, feint, taint, be quaint.
MAKE art, TAKE art, FAKE art, BREAK art
staying awake when I should be sleeping
and sleeping when i should be awake
dreams,
of freedom, and other nice things.

Outside of my obsessive micro-universe, I like to ride my bike, juggle, fall in love, drink coffee, draw maps, write poems, chuckle slyly, and find creative ways of making sure the government pays me more than I pay them.

I love people's hair (especially big hair and dreadlocks), tattoos (into trees and compasses these days) and piercings.

oh yes, I used write:
((you! read...))
http://www.digitaljournal.com/user/666537/news

and make televisual material, this music video for instance:
https://vimeo.com/111244594

and other stuff...
new website coming. soon. it's always coming soon,.

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• acting
• coloring
• tattoos
• piercings
• coffee
• walking
• drinking
• news
• juggling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• cycling
• cartography

Music, Movies, and Books

The Wire, Deadwood, Battlesar Galactica.

The Summer of Flying Fish, Reservoir Dogs, Melancholia, Incendies, American Beauty, Changeling, Hunger, Malcolm X, And I though Gatsby ranged from pedestrian to brilliant which I will gladly count as a success. Whiplash, Fury Road, Mommy, Felix et Meira, Wild Tales, Manos Sucias. So many movies.

Bruce Springsteen, Loreena McKinnit; Ayub Ogada, Immortal Technique, Tupac Shakur, the Killers, Godspeed you Black Emperor, and even occasionally bob marley..
Also I like a lot of electronic music, especially the stuff that typically finds its way to Berlin, Booka Shade, Pantha du Prince.

Ishmael (Daniel Quinn); Crime and Punishment (Dost); My Traitor's Heart (Rian Malan), Violence (by Slavoj Zizek); Aninmal Farm & 1984 (Orwell), Diamond Age (Neal Stehpenson); The World According to Garp (John Irving); The Great Gatsby (F ScottFitz), On the Road (Kerouac), Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), No Exit (Sartre), Invisible |Cities (Calvino), Master and Margarita (Bulgagov)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

sitting, bedraggled, on a catamaran's deck, swirling amidst the Mediterranean as we sailed into the sunset. Water on all sides, and nothing else besides, and oh the color of it. Onyx waves behind as night gained on us, lapping silks on our sides that can only be described as a silver-blue-metallic sheen. And before us! Oh, as we desperately reached to catch the falling sun, our eyes were mesmerized by the faint shimmer of nearly translucent gold, a treasure, thin as skin, floating on the surface.

Teach, Learn, Share

crow pose flowing into headstand,
doublethink theory and geopolitical reality,
crepe creation and consumption,
nine different ways to make coffee,
all the countries in Africa and where to find 'em on a map,
how to say "I'm fucked" in Farsi,
some of the intermediate points of the balance between yin and yang.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Monaco, Nepal, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Nepal

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