CURRENT MISSION

Autonomy through permaculture. I'm buying a land with some friends in Brazil to build our houses, grow food, have our own water source and renewable energy. A lot of work in 2015!

ABOUT ME

3 years ago I abandoned my lifestyle (a regular one: a place to call home, a regular 9-to-5 job as a graphic designer, some parties and sporadic trips) to find a new way of living. I started a "long" trip through South America, stayed more or less by 1 year in Peru and Bolivia, where I met a lot of people persecuting the same purpose. I've been to some permaculture comunities and finally decided to come back to Brazil to start my own place with some lovely friends. Well, I'm a communicative person, I really enjoy to be with my friends and talk a lot about everything (and laugh about everything!), drink something and cook. I have a lot of ideas to discuss but I enjoy the silence too, with good music to relax or some book to read.

PHILOSOPHY

Well, I think the Economics are dominating all forms of thinking today and this is a very bad idea. So let's change this with a lot of exchanging happiness and knowledge! In my personal philosophy there's no final answer to nothing and thats a perfect way to travel around the world and improve your notion of reality, cultures, perceptions and your capacity to smile at everything.

Interests

I want to improve my skills on permaculture to help on the construction of a place where I intend to live with some friends (out of the city, of course!), mainly food growing. And there are some other things that really take my attention: nature trips, mountain climbing, tracking, waterfalls and rivers, books, women singing blues and soul, samba (the true samba, not the carnival samba), ancient civilizations, history of psychedelic substances, economics, politics, history, UFOs conspiracy theory (ha!), astronomy, science fiction.

• books
• singing
• design
• graphic design
• dining
• cooking
• partying
• drinking
• politics
• traveling
• music
• blues
• rock climbing
• astronomy
• economics
• history
• science
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Brand New World (Huxely), 1984 (Orwell), Animal Farm (Orwell) Stalker (Arkadi and Boris Strugatski), Cosmos (Sagan), The Island (Huxely), Death with Interruptions (Saramago), Blindness (Saramago), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez), The Turning Point (Capra), The Teachings of Don Juan (Castaneda), LSD - My Problem Child (Hoffmann), The Psychedelic Experience (Leary).

Movies: A lot!!!!!! It's really heavy to put the titles here, but looking around the books I've read you can have an idea about the movies I enjoy.

Music: blues, rock n' roll, soul, gospel, samba, some brazilian music, some kinds of electronic, downtempo, chill, soft female voices etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Certainly the day I climbed the El Misti volcano in Arequipa, Peru - a volcano with 5.800 meters of altitud, from where I saw things down in a very magical way, I was astonished. The other was in San Pedro de Atacama, in Chile, on the top of a mountain, from where I saw the entire desert. And in a certain way, all my trip I did during 35 days in South America in 2011 (my first time), it has left marks in my soul.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Peru, Slovakia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Italy