CURRENT MISSION

To continuously redecorate the piano nobile of my mind.

ABOUT ME

My name is Janpieter, born in 1985. I'm a designer and work as such for museums and art book publishers. I like to re-watch Seinfeld episodes, drink coffee, listen to Mighty Sparrow and Warren Zevon records. I take notebooks full of illegible notes and try not to lose the camera I'm carrying. I'm interested in couch surfing, am fond of the ideas behind it and don't mind having total strangers tell me about why they are, too.

PHILOSOPHY

Today: Chaos is not only the natural habitat of inventiveness, it also chases the non-vertebrate from our minds.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have ended up on many couches, some unexpectedly, but none so far were provided through this institution. As many times I offered my couch, a couple of times through CS, but mostly via old-school talking on phones, and in reality as a matter of fact.

Interests

Trivialities, Limericks, Factoids, Djingles, Idioms, Maps, Folk Games, Analogue Cameras, Comic Books, Typewriters, Super-8, Beards, Sailor Tattoos, Local Beers, Free Falling Hair, Vinyl Singles, Hugs, Humming, Temporal Infatuation, Mezzanines and Stories.

• arts
• books
• design
• tattoos
• beer
• coffee
• drinking
• piano
• surfing
• cartography

Music, Movies, and Books

- Music I will play
- Apocalypse Now
- Easy Rider
- Down by Law
- Elephant
- Magnolia
- Ghost World
- Gattaca
- American Beauty
- No Country for Old Men
- Les Invasions Barbares

- Trawl, B.S. Johnson
- Catch-22, Jospeh Heller
- Giacomo Joyce, James Joyce
- The Return of Philip Latinowicz, Miroslav Krleza
- On the Edge of Reason, Miroslav Krleza
- Rayuela, Cortazar
- 1984, George Orwell
- Pulp, Charles Bukowski
- Ask the Dust, John Fante
- Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq
- The Poetry of W.H. Auden
- The Poetry of people whose name I forget
- Peanuts, Charles Schulz
- Krazy Kat, George Herriman
- Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
- The cartoons of Robert Crumb

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

It was amazing to find myself alone. The place is the medium, the person is the experience.

Teach, Learn, Share

The Internet will surely and suddenly cease to exist. I don't know when exactly, but I will make sure to do most of my learning in the offline realm. As you observe, I have many a thing to learn.

Countries I’ve Visited

Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Nepal, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium