CURRENT MISSION

Shoot the moon!

ABOUT ME

Hey! I'm Benk! I'm an artist who mostly works with illustration and digital collage at the moment but I also do video art and hand drawn animation. I traveled with my sister to USA, UK, Europe, Israel and Japan! We were away for 6 months (over 2010/2011) and LOVED couch surfing so much!

PHILOSOPHY

Life is what you build it to be yo. Keep the good ones close.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I used to surf on couches, now I host.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Finished 6 months of travel! Met countless amazing people and high five'd them all! (maybe not all of them got high fives, but it sounds good). I've hosted great people too! Yeah!

Interests

Seeing art, making art, seeing film and live music, lounge-room-dance-parties, five rhythms (dance), hanging out with rad people, riding bikes, Yeah!

• arts
• illustrations
• dancing
• partying
• traveling
• music
• live music
• surfing
• animation

Music, Movies, and Books

Woah, too much to list, here I go;

MUSIC: Andrew Bird, Arcade Fire, Architecture In Helsinki, Alt J, Baths, Beck, Ben Folds, Bon Iver, Bowerbirds, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Caribou, Casino Versus Japan, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Crystal Castles, Dan Deacon, The Dandy Warhols, Death Cab For Cutie, Death From Above 1979, Desaparecidos, Digitalism, Dntel, Does It Offend You Yeah?, edIT, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, El Guincho, The Faint, Fever Ray, Gorillaz, Holy Fuck, Howlin' Wolf, Islands, LCD Soundsystem, M.I.A., m83, Major Lazer, Metric, Metronomy, MGMT, Modest Mouse, Muddy Waters, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, Of Montreal, Pixies, The Polyphonic Spree, The Postal Service, Ratatat, Regurgitator, Santigold, Sigur Rós, Silverchair, Stars, They Might Be Giants, Thom Yorke, Vampire Weekend, Weird Al Yankovic, The xx.

MOVIES: Adaptation, Akira, Being John Malkovich, Brazil, Cool Word, Donnie Darko, The Darjeeling Limited, Edward Scissorhands, Falling Down, God Bless America, Her, Into the Wild, Jurassic Park, The Life Aquatic, Memento, Mind Game, My Neighbor Totoro, The Royal Tenenbaums, Princess Mononoke, Rushmore, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Song of the Sea, Stranger Than Fiction, Super Mario Bros., Tekkon Kinkreet, The Matrix, The Tracey Fragments, Twelve Monkeys, Waking Life, Where The Wild Things Are.

TV SHOWS: 12 Monkeys, Adventure Time, Adam Ruins Everything, Arrested Development, Avatar The Last Airbender, China IL, Cowboy Bebop, Daria, Dollhouse, Dr. Katz Professional Therapist, Flight of the Conchords, Food Party, Look Around You, Louie, Nathan For You, Over the Garden Wall, Parks and Recreation, Rick and Morty, Spaced, Superjail, The IT Crowd, The Life And Times Of Tim, The Micallef Program, The Mighty Boosh, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!, Tom Goes To The Mayor, Wonder Showzen, Xavier Renegade Angel.

Books: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and just about all Douglas Adams), 1984 by George Orwell, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Riding bikes with friends through a dust storm at Burning Man 2010, every direction I'd look was just white! it was beautiful, scary and SO much fun!

Teach, Learn, Share

oh yiikes, I know lots of things.. I can recommend good music if you tell me your musical taste or mood.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Israel, Japan, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia