CURRENT MISSION

See a lunar landing up-close!

ABOUT ME

Hi there!

My name is Mick van Olst and normally I live in an apartment in Amsterdam along with two friends. I'm 25 years old and graduated last year from Utrecht School of the Arts. Right now I'm living in Berlin and study at a place called Hyper Island. I'm a bigtime Lomography fan and very much into all sorts of photography. Besides school I spend a lot of time visiting venues in Amsterdam to check out the bands that me and my friends like. I also play a bit of saxophone myself. Besides that I do sports like field hockey and snowboarding (and since three years surfing).

Thanks to couchsurfing I did the biggest trip of my life so far. The Trans-Mongolian Express, along with my two friends Rutger and Nick. We've traveled across Russia, Mongolia and China, 10.000 kilometers by train!

I hope thats enough info for now.

Stuff I love https://gimmebar.com/loves/mickman112

PHILOSOPHY

Good one, but that never gonna fit on this page ;-P

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Usually we host about once every six weeks or so, depending on how busy me (or my roommates) are with school. Though we always enjoy couchsurfers! Hosting is a lot of fun, usually we take time to show people around or take them along going out in the city or stuff like that. I've been living in Amsterdam for 2 years now, so I can show you quite some cool places :-) Also I've been surfing myself in Russia and China, hopefully again this summer!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Just really, really good ones :-)

Interests

Surfing, Snowboarding, (alternative) music, cinema, art, longboarding, lots-o-stuff

• arts
• photography
• drinking
• gardening
• movies
• painting
• music
• surfing
• snowboarding
• sports
• hockey
• field hockey

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES

The Royal Tenenbaums, Donnie Darko, The Darjeeling Limited, Pulp Fiction, Planet Terror, Ex Drummer, Lars and the real girl, Persepolis, Snatch, Rock'n Rolla, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Juno, Walk the Line, The Big Lebowsky, Mar Adento, Sin City, Death Proof, True Romance, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Control, High Fidelity, Simon, Ik ook van jou, Life Aquatic, Finding Nemo, Paris, je t'aime, House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Man on Fire, Hot Fuzz, Dawn of the Dead, Austin Powers, Good Bye Lenin, Clerks, De Dominee, Christiane F, Adam's Apples, Napoleon Dynamite, Coffee and Cigarettes, Let the Right One In, Les Triplettes de Belleville, Man Som Hatar Kvinnor, Michael Clayton, Mirrormask, No Country For Old Men, North By Northwest, Nosferatu, Objectified, Off Screen, Office Space, Point Blank, Psycho, Rear Window, Rebecca, Requim for A Dream, Run Lola Run, Rushmore, Stoned, Sunshine, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, The Fall, The Graduate, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Silence of the Lambs, Trainspotting, Vertigo, What the Bleep Do We Know, Whatever Works, Where The Wild Things Are, Wolfsbergen, Zusje, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Across The Universe, Antichrist, Being There, Big Fish, Bottle Rocket, Brazil, Citizen Kane, Cowboy Bebop - The Movie, Dogville, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Goodfellas, Hotel Chevalier, Ink, Kramer vs Kramer

MUSIC

The Clash, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Kings Of Leon, The Death Letters, The Arctic Monkeys, Noah And The Whale, Franz Ferdinand, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Kills, The Killers, The Shins, The Beatles, Angus And Julia Stone, The Magic Numbers, Tom Waits, Roosbeef, Lykke Li, The Last Shadow Puppets, Claw Boys Claw, I Am Kloot, The White Stripes, The Rolling Stones, Alamo Race Track, Justice, The Veils, The Gun Club, Spinvis, Klein Orkest, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Gorillaz, TV on the Radio, Pixies, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Kasabian, The Stooges, Band of Horses, The Raconteurs, Babyshambles, Conor Oberst, Bright Eyes, Radiohead, Room Eleven, Fleet Foxes, Air, Morcheeba, Dinosaur Jr., Cake, Eagles of Death Metal, The Strokes, Lou Reed, Masters of Reality, José González, The Subways, The Kinks, Tiger Lou, The Dodos, The Moldy Peaches, The Dears, The Warlocks, Vampire Weekend, Jimi Hendrix, Bettie Serveert, White Denim, Sigur Rós, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Bauhaus, Digitalism, Two Gallants, Nirvana, King Crimson, Jack Johnson, Sufjan Stevens, The Fall, Herman Brood, Peter Bjorn and John, And many more...

TELEVISION

The Big Bang Theorie, Californication, My Name is Earl, LA Ink, Band of Brothers, Cowboy Bebop, Dexter, Family Guy, Little Britain, Scrubs, Dexter

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seeing Bob Ross paint the skies of Mongolia. He's up on a cloud there.. I swear!

Having drinks in a former KGB garden that is to be remained anonymous

Building a giant upside down pyramid complete with mind boggling responsive visuals. (no joke)