Friendly (sometimes even at my own expense) and outgoing. Like to meet new people, share my interests with them and discover what makes them tick.

Socializing with locals and flânerie are my preferred modes of traveling through new cities and places. No museums or guided tours can give you the kind of impressions you get from following your intuition while strolling through the streets and drenching yourself in local atmosphere, architecture and people. That said I don't like the usual places of contrived socialization like bars because the best meets happen spontaneously.

I prefer intelligent conversations and walking to most of the other entertainments when travelling although occasionally I would visit places like nightclubs because I also appreciate interesting fashion styles and underground vibes.

I have a wide variety of interests ranging from mathematics and programming to philosophy, experimental literature and eastern religious thought so I am always able to find interesting topics to discuss with the people I meet during my travels.

Airbnb profile: https://www.airbnb.com/users/show/131901179
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexey-shutov-744b6985/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To enlarge my cultural connections and discover myself through meeting new people.

Interests

• fashion
• meditation
• philosophy
• creativity
• buddhism
• techno
• fixed gear
• gamedev
• computer graphics

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Dostoevsky, Houellebecq, Sorokin, Leonid Andreyev, Bataille, Kafka, Pynchon, Ballard, Platonov, Dick, Hesse, Gibson, Sotos

Cinema: Tarkovsky, Lungin, Aronofsky, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Cronenberg, Brandon Cronenberg, Trier, Miike, Zulawsky, Jodorowsky, Grandrieux, Noe

Music: Ryoji Ikeda, Alva Noto, Emptyset, FACE, Stravinsky, Merzbow, Tool, The Prodigy, Atom TM, Dadub, Krovostok, Slava KPSS, Eleh

Games: Pathologic, The Witness, Planescape: Torment, Mafia 1, Shenzhen I \ O, Doom (2016), Life is Strange, Subserial Network

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Dunno lol

Teach, Learn, Share

Learn: Maths, Programming, CG, Modelling
Teach: languages, philosophy, appreciation of video games as a form of art

What I Can Share with Hosts

passion for many things in life, my knowledge in philosophy and creative mind

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation