CURRENT MISSION
I would love to communicate a message of hope, love, peace and freedom through Art. I would like to contribute in the healing of the world and human consciousness.

ABOUT ME
I`m a wacky mexican guy who has sort of two sides...

A childish artistic side that loves art, movies, short films, specially animated ones, documentaries, children books, cartoons, making jokes and laughing!

And a deeper side who is in love with integral philosophy, spirituality, meditation, long interesting talks and everything that points to a transcendental path.

So, I'm a child-like man playing with the beautiful intricate patterns that govern the universe :)

PHILOSOPHY
I believe the quest for happiness to be a universal mechanism embedded in every human being as a way to transcend.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

For now, being as cool a host as I can =)

CS ROCKS MY WORLD!!! ...

No, seriously I looooove the project, it`s an amazing experience to meet all sorts of people from around the globe and just have a new and fresh vibe constantly coming into your life, being able to interact with crazy travelers that share their life experiences, thoughts and insights.

I simply LOVE IT!

Send me your facebook if you wanna stay with me please. Especially you newer CSers.

Interests

• writing
• photography
• documentaries
• reading
• traveling
• scuba diving
• rock climbing
• art
• nature
• spirituality
• wandering
• long walks
• the beach
• awareness
• human behavior
• contemplating
• vipassana meditation
• small towns
• integral philosophy
• cult cinema
• animation in general
• character animation
• crazy films and shortfilms
• loooove the documentaries
• the crazier the better... children books
• other cultures and ways of thinking
• universal patterns
• fractals aaaand yeah... stuff like that =p

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC
Opiuo, Akara, Kaminanda, Buddha Bass, JPOD, An-Ten-Nae, Plantrae, Sunmonx, Pink Floyd, Murcof, The Mars Volta, Porcupine Tree, Aphex Twin, Ochre, Four Tet, Autechre, A Perfect Circle, Tool, 311, DJ Shadow, Björk, Trentemoller, Booka Shade, Plaid, Astrix, Frank Zappa, Boards of Canada, Kid Spatula, Portishead, Zoe, Cafe Tacuba, Cylob, Bob Marley, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Postal Service, Gorillaz, Incubus, Puscifer.

CARTOONS
Sponge Bob, Samurai Jack, Samurai 7, Batman Beyond, TMNT, FLCL, Invader Zim, Pink Panther, xxxHolics, Ren &Stimpy, Paranoia Agent, Family Guy, Warner Brothers, Tex Avery Stuff.

MOVIES

ANIMATED MOVIES
Paprika, Mary and Max, The adventures of Tom Thumb, Animatrix, Akira, Spirited Away, Alice in Wonderland, Ghost in the Shell 1 & 2, Appleseed, Mind Game, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy Spirits Within, Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Sponge Bob Squarepants The Movie, Perfect Blue, and a whole bunch from disney and Pixar.

REGULAR MOVIES
Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Lucy, Her, Limitless, HOME The Documentary, Kramer Vs. Kramer, Enemy mine, Tron Legacy, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Amelie, Baraka, Pulp Fiction, The Science of Sleep, Angel-A, 28 Days Later, Matrix Trilogy, 1984, THX 1138, Clockwork Orange, Space Odyssey: 2001, Waking Life, The Devil's Rejects, Trainspotting, Before Sunset & Before Sunrise, Constantine, Tideland, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Halloween (Rob Zombie)

BY DIRECTOR
EVERYTHING by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jan Svankmajer, Bill Plympton, Norman McLaren, Hayao Miyazaki, Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Rob Zombie, German Expressionism

FAVORITE BOOKS
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, "Sex, Ecology and Spirituality" , Boomeritis, Kosmic Consciousness and Brief History of Everything (Ken Wilber), Sacred Mirrors, Transfigurations and Mission of Art (Alex Grey), The Art of Loving (Eric Fromm), Yoga: The Science of the Soul (Osho), Bhagavad Gita, Siddharta (Hermann Hesse), The Antichrist (Friedrich Nietzche), Tao Te King (Lao Tse), The Third Eye (Lobsang Rampa), A Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), From the Quantum World to the expanding Universe (Shahen Hacyan), The Little Prince (Antoine de Exupery), Psicomagic and The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky), The Crazy (Khalil Gibran)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

That would have to be Meditation, there´s my life before meditation and after meditation. Some years ago I took the first of many 10 days Vipassana Meditation retreats, and it´s just totally the greatest gift that I´ve gotten from life.

Meditation gives you a chance to contemplate and learn from the universal laws of nature that operate equally outside and inside the body.

I guess the greatest thing that I´ve learned from that is that the only permanent condition in the universe is impermanence, everything is changing, constantly changing, so there is no sense in reacting with craving or aversion to whatever we experience in life because of it's ephemeral quality

Better is to enjoy, accept, learn and allow the present moment to be as it is, that is, not as we would like it to be, but as it is. Of course striving to thrive but without caring about the outcome.

THAAAT aaand well, life is full of great and crazy experiences, but I could mention a couple more...

- I'm a Dad of a wonderful AMAZING 7 years old beautiful lil dude, you can find an album of him in my Photos
- I went to Burning man 2013 and had an absolute blast!
- I went to the Time and Space Festival to celebrate the end of the old world and the beginning of the new one Dec, 21st 2012
- I love raves and big parties and I've danced from dusk till dawn at many wonderful places, craters, jungle, desert, forest, beach, you name it!
- I backpacked Europe for 6 months when I was 17
- I`ve been a SCUBA Diver since I was 7 years old and can tell some sea stories JARRR
- I learned character animation from some of the greatest animators in the world =)

Please tell me why you feel that we would have a good connection too.

Teach, Learn, Share

Ok... I`m a 3D Character Animator, I LOOOOVE animation, I believe it is a wonderful art that integrates a lot of arts into one.

To animate one should know a bit (or a lot) about acting, body mechanics, motion principles, staging, photography, cinematography, character design, psychology of emotion and thought, storytelling, film editing, graphic design and cool stuff like that so if you are interested in any, I LOVE IT ALL!!!

I actually taught a bit of animation to one couchsurfer and she did some pretty cool stuff that I thought was incredibly fresh and fun =)

I`m also a SCUBA Diving instructor, I`ve been diving since I was 7 thanks to my dad.

And if anyone wants to learn juggling we could try.
=)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Craziness, long interesting talks, fun, joy, laughter =)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Guatemala, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, United States

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