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Overview

  • 20 references 17 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Vietnamese
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Creative Director, Photographer, Small Business Owner
  • UCLA, Design Academy Eindhoven Netherlands, Monger Univer...
  • From Houston, TX, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION:
just recently moved back to orange county and trying to settle back into california life.

ABOUT ME
Grew up in Houston --> 10 years LA --> 3 years Netherlands --> 4 years San Francisco / Oakland --> 7 months Seoul, now back to california.

PHILOSOPHY
just breathe

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I use to surf and host but its been 10 years!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I couch surfed and hosted during my 3 years in the netherlands.
some of my best memories were with other couchsurfers.

Interests

anything honest, or hopefully deeper than surface level.

i use to make music, then I did design (furniture / product), now i am exploring picture taking, and filming things. i also run a small furniture business.

  • arts
  • design
  • graphic design
  • photography
  • music festivals
  • live music
  • electronic music
  • film
  • furniture design

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: i love independent and foreign films so i know films from all around the world. goddard / vertov / pennbaker / lars von trier / can go on and on.

cinema verite, french cinema, brazilian cinema, jean rouche, goddard, world music, radiohead, depeche mode, folk music, cultural music, vincent moon, haneke, agnes varga, joker, burial, multi-genre stuff, sub genre stuff, synthesized sounds,

music:
Various World Music exposed by Vincent Moon / Burial / DFA stuff / Bjork/ Flying Lotus / Radiohead / Depeche Mode / New Order / Joy Division / John Coltrane / Dave Brubeck / Chopin / Beethoven / etc...

Books:
JG Ballard, Kafka, Jack Kerouac, Many more...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

partying and dancing in the ocean in Jamaica after breaking my back from cliff diving. 0_0

Teach, Learn, Share

I've been told I'm great at explaining computer things

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bermuda, China, France, Italy, Jamaica, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, South Korea, United States

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