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Overview

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  • Fluent in English, Italian; learning Italian, Portuguese
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • artist/photographer
  • BFA Massachusetts College of Art; MFA University of Michigan
  • From USA
  • Profile 55% complete

About Me

Interests

  • visual arts
  • reading books
  • vegetarian cooking
  • bicycles
  • sharing sketchbooks with others
  • crazygoodpodcasts
  • finding hot springs
  • jumping into water
  • trying to play the ukulele
  • salt in my hair
  • meteorolgy

Music, Movies, and Books

artists I'm currently excited about:
Julie Mehretu, Cecily Brown, Morris Louis, Giuseppe Penone, Kevin Beasley, Matthew Brandt, Felix Schramm

music: (in no particular order and all I can think of right now)
the boats, the books, elephant micah, akron family, fruit bats, sharon van etten, peter and the wolf, sigur ros, tape loop orchestra, the national, the roots, oddisee, the black keys, tv on the radio, the beatles, ducktails, moby, weird lovely ambient/atmospheric/dusty soundscapes,

books: (in no particular order)
Nine Stories by JD Salinger, Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, Austerlitz by WG Sebald, Cannery Row by Steinbeck, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling,

Teach, Learn, Share

I wanna learn how to do that cool super loud whistle some people can do with two fingers in either side of their mouths.

I love learning new languages.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I love to cook and would be delighted to help prepare a meal for everyone!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Costa Rica, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Portugal, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United States

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