CURRENT MISSION

Live, Love, Survive, Stay Free

ABOUT ME

I am a professional photographer who prefers to shoot landscapes, travel, architecture, culture, commercial and advertising, and art.

I am a musician who loves to sing, compose, play guitar, trumpet, and program electronic music.

I am an outdoorsman, an eagle scout, and very chill.

PHILOSOPHY

In life I drive with the windows down and the music loud... live life to the fullest. Hindsight in 20/40 - live in the moment. Keep your perceptions and energy positive...listen to your intuitions and laugh at yourself. love.

"A human being...experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."
- Albert Einstein

not all who wander are lost...

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say..."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am new to the CS2 project but I am very excited about meeting people - I sleep very well on couches!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've lived on couches for months before and am very courteous and stay out of the way.

Interests

creating beautiful images
playing music

Road Trips, wandering, traveling, exploring, hiking, meditation, writing, climbing trees, camping, swimming, biking, skydiving, Astronomy, coffee, live music, photoshop, fruity loops

creating beautiful images
playing music

Road Trips, wandering, traveling, exploring, hiking, meditation, writing, climbing trees, camping, swimming, biking, skydiving, Astronomy, coffee, live music, photoshop, fruity loops

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music: guitar, trumpet, piano, singing, steel drums, electronic music programming

• arts
• culture
• writing
• singing
• architecture
• photography
• beauty
• education
• coffee
• meditation
• traveling
• socializing
• survival
• music
• live music
• electronic music
• guitar
• piano
• trumpet
• drums
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• skydiving
• rock climbing
• swimming
• astronomy
• teaching
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Music (a small sample) =
Boards of Canada, Bola, Tom Waits, James, The Smiths, Phish, Radiohead, Medeski Martin and Wood, Joanna Newsom, Massive Attack, Indigo Girls, My Morning Jacket, Mazzy Star, The Biscuit Burners, Sigur Ros, The Decemberists, Talking Heads, REM, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, U2, Air, Tori Amos, Janice Joplin, Simon and Garfunkel, Grateful Dead, Gorillaz, John Digweed, Squarepusher, Amon Tobin, The Stone Roses, Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers, Jefferson Airplane, Bjork, Stakka and Skynet, Nightmares on Wax, Kemal, Underworld, Concord Dawn, Photek, Thievery Corporation, Peace Orchestra, §, Future Sound Of London, Soma Sonic, Cake, Dave Matthews Band, Counting Crows, Béla Fleck, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Loreena McKeenit, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Daft Punk, Beethoven, Dvorák, Mahler, Prokofiev, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Chopin, Smetana, Hradistan, Sarah McLachlan, Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, George Clinton, Al Di Meola, Allman Brothers Band, Outkast, Jurassic 5, Dubconscious, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Metallica, Beck, Ours, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, The Mountain Goats, Zero 7

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

California Redwoods...
http://www.savetheredwoods.org/education/coastredwood.shtml

Teach, Learn, Share

Photography - photoshop, zone system black and white film, digital capture, aesthetics, composition.

Music - guitar, Trumpet

Outdoor survival

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Germany, Iceland

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States