CURRENT MISSION

Fix the balance...

ABOUT ME

Since I was young all the people call me "Otto" (that literally means "eight"); I started my life as a "good idea" of my lovely parents, then I became a beautiful quiet and soft child, then a lazy student but a good tennis player, then a involved university student (international law) and a baseball player, then a consultant and finally a CEO as a project manager... and a runner as weel!
I love (like everyone here) traveling all around the world, especially if I can do it with my motorcycle... the best would be traveling with my motorcycle on a photographic assignment... maybe in the next life! anyway, I love photograph too ("make" a picture not "take" a picture... it's always a pleasure discuss about that difference!) and recently I'm very lucky 'cause in the last few years the photography and my work started to do the same "way"!
I love people and I like discover the world through all the persons I meet (and I can photograph...).

[if you are thinking to send me a request, PLEASE read carefully the LAST BUT NOT LEAST of my couch description]

PHILOSOPHY

Mai prendersi troppo sul serio... in english is something like "you should never take yourself too seriously"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I like hosting people from all around the world, sharing my couch and listening their "vision of life" as well

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosting > travel all around the world without moving, see the place where I live with a different "point of view" and share a little piece of my life... :-)
Be hosted > be curious of everything, not asking my host (!) but trying to understand the place I visit "feeling" the situation

Interests

Everything about culture... as I work as a cultural project manager, producing photo/video projects, I like read everything, go to the cinema/theater/museums/..., stay at home looking at a complete season of HouseOfCards/Shameless/BreakingBad/Viny/..., visit some festival all around the world, try to understand the identity and the heritage - the culture - of every place I travel... anyway, I love to be interested by everything, 'cause I think that everything could be interesting if you have the right approach.

• culture
• theater
• photography
• festivals
• movies
• traveling
• baseball
• tennis
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Top 5 of "The books you can see in the bookcase in front of the couch":
1. In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin, ed. Adelphi
2. Il vecchio che leggeva romanzi d'amore, Luis Sepulveda, ed. Guanda
3. Un altro giro di giostra, Tiziano Terzani, ed. Longanesi
4. Storia della fotografia, Beaumont Newhall, ed Einaudi
5. Portraits, Bruce Davidson, Aperture

Top 5 of "The DVD you can see in the catcase (!) in front of the couch":
1. Marrakesh Express, Gabriele Salvatores
2. L'uomo dei sogni (Field of dreams), Phil Alden Robinson
3. Smoke, Wayne Wang
4. Pulp fiction, Quentin Tarantino
5. The Blues Brothers, John Landis

Top 5 of "The albums you can listen on my Spotify":
1. Fabrizio De André, Volume 1
2. Vinicio Capossela, All'una e trentacinque circa
3. Pink Floyd, The dark side of the moon
4. Dire Straits, Alchemy
5. Gerry Mulligan quartet with Chet Baker

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Shake the hand of Luis Sepulveda
Walk the pitlane of the 2010th Catalunya's Moto GP, taking some photos of Valentino Rossi & friends
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What I Can Share with Hosts

I live in a very beautiful place and I will happy to show/share it with my CS's

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, India, Thailand, Tunisia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy