I am an artist, sessional lecturer, and PhD student at McGill studying architecture history and theory. I am originally from Vancouver BC, but now call Montreal home. I used to live aboard sailboats in Vancouver and, when I was younger, I hitchhiked across Canada!

Probably the better idea of who I am can be found on my website, such as it is.
www.brandonpoole.net

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

From time to time when I travel (these days usually for a film project) I prefer to stay with folks in the community rather than at a hotel. I have had many wonderful experiences and hope to have many more!

Interests

I am an artist and researcher, so my interests are typically subsumed by work.

• poetry
• architecture
• contemporary art
• sailing
• art
• cinema
• sculpture
• furniture design
• video art
• industrial design
• ambient music
• archives
• indie games

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Experimental Ambient, Electro-Acoustic, Electronic, Jazz . . .
Movies: Tarkovsky's 'Stalker'; Mettler's 'Picture of Light'; Ben River's 'Two Years at Sea'; Jashi's 'Taming the Garden'; Herzog's 'The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner' & 'La Soufrière'; Denis' 'Beau Travail'; Wenders' 'Tokyo-ga'. . .
Books: Borges' 'Lanbyrinths'; Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossesed'; John Ashbery's 'Three Poems'; Lem's 'Solaris'. . .

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