CURRENT MISSION

I'll be in Europe August - part of November. Likely heading to the Netherlands, Estonia, (Croatia or Poland), France, (Spain), Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Albania and open to other possibilities along the way. I'll be in SE Asia starting in November.

ABOUT ME

I love the arts, food culture, adventure and travel, and my interests range from painting to fly fishing, cooking to filmmaking. I really enjoy getting to know people and spending time with friends. Lived on the U.S. Northeast for most of my life but have had the good fortune to travel a bit in Europe, Asia and Africa. And I love the West Coast in the U.S.. I have lived and worked as an architect and professional pastry assistant in NY/CA; gone on art residencies in Wyoming, Michigan and Finland; did film projects in Inner Mongolia and Rwanda. I now work remotely as a sustainability consultant (predominantly dealing with LEED and WELL certifications of buildings at the moment) but big changes are in the air - hoping to create work from my passions, which revolve around adding to a growing process, whether it be permaculture, fermentation, plants, animals, etc.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have had some amazing experiences surfing and hanging with great folks in Europe and with CS locals in SF/East Bay and Boston.

Centres d'intérêt

Some art fellowships in Wyoming and Upper Michigan (absolutely beautiful) and Alajärvi, Finland - working on oil and watercolor monotypes, painting, sculpture, and lithography. My last architecture project was a building in San Francisco. http://www.hines.com/property/detail.aspx?id=1942 I am looking to combine my art, architecture, culinary and permaculture endeavors. I love anything to do with being on or in the water (sailing, snorkeling, etc.) - would love to learn to scuba dive and to sail on open water. I keep reverting to a beginner in sailing and hope to change that soon!

• arts
• culture
• architecture
• film making
• dining
• cooking
• cheese
• flying
• gardening
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• fishing
• surfing
• scuba diving
• snorkeling
• sailing
• languages

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Books: Hemingway short stories, Flannery O'Connor short stories, anything by James Joyce, The Lord of the Rings, The Road, On Writing (Stephen King)

TV and Films: Used to love films by John Cassavettes, Jim Jarmusch, Luc Besson, Chris Marker, Wong Kar-wai, Polanski, Tarkofsky, etc. Probably still do. Ted Lasso, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, Downton Abbey, Dexter, Wings of Desire; Paris, Texas; Blade Runner, La Jettee, The Godfather (I, II only), Delicatessen, Hudsucker Proxy, Blow-Up, Love Actually, Three Days in the Condor, Tampopo, Cool Hand Luke, High Noon, Gattica, The Bourne Trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...

Music: Sigur Ros, Bon Hiver, Bjork, Radiohead, Prince, U2, Smashing Pumpkins, Brian Eno, The White Stripes, Broken Social Scene, Air, The Specials, Mazzy Star, Of Montreal, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, Sigur Ros, Led Zeppelin, Keith Jarrett (esp. Koln Concert), Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Kronos Quartet...

Food: Korean, Northern Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Mexican, Salvadorean, Italian, Nigerian (Hot Pepper Soup!) and much, much more...

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Short one -
Got to feed (sparrows) out of my hand on the steps of Sacre Coeur in Montmartre, one of the highest elevations in Paris. The beating of all the wings around my hand. What an amazing sensation.

A longer one -
Filmed at the handover of Hong Kong back to China - At midnight on July 1, 1997, we were in Central/Hong Kong, feeling out the mood as the island was about to be re-patriated to China. Expats were, ironically, partying it up at clubs. A friend drove me to a checkpoint to China and, at 3am, I stood in the rain, filming Chinese troops as they rolled into Hong Kong, reclaiming the territory. It was getting light out and the downpour continued. We waited and waited, squinting through the incessant wet grayness and into the distance, watching for anything out of the ordinary. I thought the changeover would be this BIG event, with tanks and force. Instead, Chinese soldiers stood at attention, drenched, on flatbed trucks as they finally emerged out of the fog. The soldiers kept arms raised in salute and rifles at rest all through the rain. The scene was unreal, anti-climactic, and totally unexpected.

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

I can teach: English or Mandarin Chinese (spoken), to cook, bake, garden, vermi (worm) compost/build soil, draw, draft, paint, monotype, sculpt, (weld), the ropes to film (video), architecture...

I want to learn: to get better at sailing, improve my French, learn other languages, to fly, to work with rehabilitating wolves and other animals into the wild, falconry, more about farming organically, permaculture, more about making cheese; to ferment more foods, brew meads, root beers, ales; to learn how to cook even more.

Pays que j'ai visités

Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Latvia, Macao, Macedonia, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Norway, Portugal, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, United Kingdom

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Finland, France, United States

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