CURRENT MISSION

Thank you Di­ky Merci Obrigado Gracias Danke Bedankt ...

ABOUT ME

I'm a 36 years old (young) being from Praha, born in there, grew up in there. I became a lettering designer, I am all about letters, typography and graphic design. I run my own little studio, Studio Plavečky, in the middle of Letná neighborhood in Prague. I can do some decent espressos and lattes too.
I am proud dad of my little pal Eduard.
Me, Eda and my wonderful wife Tereza live in Kobylisy neighborhood of Prague, that's less than 15 minutes bikeride downhill to the largest Prague's park Stromovka, for example. Going home is then uphill :) but you can use a tram as a cable-car with bicycle too. Our home is by the forest and I can take you to a nearby pub with the best selected czech and foreing beers on tap (if you're into beers like I am).
We bought an old house in a village in Southern Bohemia recently and we are continuously working on it's renovation. We with pleasure can take you there too, so you can experience true Bohemian village life.
I ride bike 360 days in a year. I have some eight bicycles so I can get you one or two too.
I'm interested in almost everything that is interesting, i'm addicted to music, bicycle, tea, traveling, music, music, music, all kind of arts, i like learning new languages, discovering undiscovered yet, meeting my friends in pubs and places around, meeting new friends all the time, i love everything and everyone!(except neo-fascist boneheads)...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I just find this project just perfect for people as i am and a lot of others are. For the years i am in couchsurfing system it from the begining changed my life radically, or more specific word would be "forwarded" my life from pretty good to wonderful and awesome and it still keeps rolling, not expecting that it will ever stop.
World will be best place on earth if everyone will be a couchsurfer!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surf - Host - Community participation - Love /// Since 2007

Interests

List: LETTERS, TYPOGRAPHY, ARTS, ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM, PHOTOGRAPHY, TRAVELLING, LANGUAGES, PLACES, PEOPLE, MUSIC, LITERATURE, CINEMATOGRAPHY, DOCUMENTARY, HISTORY, CULTURES, SUBCULTURES, BIKING, HIKING, CLIMBING ...& many more.

You can follow my work so far on Instagram @ http://instagram.com/daniel.plavecky

• arts
• literature
• architecture
• design
• graphic design
• photography
• documentaries
• movies
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• rock climbing
• communications
• history
• languages
• mountains
• typography
• urbanism
• handlettering
• lettering

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Darwin's Nightmare (Hubert Sauper,2004) | One flew over the cuckoo's nest (Milos Forman,1975) | Into the wild (Sean Penn,2007) | Cidade de Deus (Fernando Meirelles,2002) | Nanking (Bill Guttentag,Dan Sturman,2007) | Knjiga rekorda Sutke (Aleksandar Manic,2005) | Crna macka, beli macor (Emir Kusturica,1998) | Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis,1985;'89;'90) | Gummo (Harmony Korine,1997) | Fargo (Joel Coen,1996) | Les Triplettes de Belleville (Sylvain Chomet,2003) | Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze,1999) | Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch,1995) | Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Hayao Miyazaki,2001) | Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud,Marjane Satrapi,2007) | Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper,1969) | Taking Off (Milos Forman,1971) | Smoke (Wayne Wang,1995) | Blue in the Face (Paul Auster,Wayne Wang,1995) | Mistri (Marek Najbrt,2004) | Divoke vcely (Bohdan Slama,2001) | Ji­zda (Jan Sverak,1994) | Va, vis et deviens (Radu Mihaileanu,2005) | Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson,2004) | Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby,1971) | Milk (Gus Van Sant,2008) | Lost in translation (Sofia Coppola,2003) | Lalaland (Damien Chazelle,2016) ...

Recently watched: This Is England (Shane Meadows,2006) | La graine et le mulet (Abdellatif Kechiche,2005) | La Cabina (Antonio Mercero,1972) | La Science des reves (Michel Gondry,2006) | Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel,2000) | Hotel Rwanda (Terry George,2004) | In Bruges (Martin McDonagh,2008) | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry,2004) | L'homme qui plantait des arbres (Frederic Back,1987) | Karamazovi(Petr Zelenka,2008) | Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino,1997) | Basquiat (Julian Schnabel,1996) | Darfur Now (Ted Brown,2007) | Sanger fran andra vaningen (Roy Andersson,2000) | Mah nakorn (Wisit Sasanatieng,2004) | Control (Anton Corbijn,2007) | My Blueberry Nights (Kar Wai Wong,2007) | Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (Julian Schnabel,2007) | The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen,Ethan Coen,2001) | Diarios de motocicleta (Walter Salles,2004) | Dagen zonder lief (Felix Van Groeningen,2007) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen,Ethan Coen,2000) | Corpse Bride (Tim Burton,2005) | Eagle vs Shark (Taika Cohen,2007) | Efter brylluppet (Susanne Bier,2006) | Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July,2005) | New York Stories (Martin Scorsese,Francis Ford Coppola,Woody Allen,1989) | Ucho (Karel Kachyna,1970) | Paris, je t'aime (Olivier Assayas,Emmanuel Benbihy,Gurinder Chadha,Sylvain Chomet,Ethan Coen&Joel Coen,Isabel Coixet,Wes Craven,Alfonso Cuaron,Gerard Depardieu,Christopher Doyle,Richard LaGravenese,Vincenzo Natali,Alexander Payne,Bruno Podalydes,Walter Salles,Oliver Schmitz,Nobuhiro Suwa,Daniela Thomas,Tom Tykwer,Gus Van Sant,2006) | Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen,2008) | Juno(Jason Reitman,2007) | Smart People (Noam Murro,2008) | Vengo (Tony Gatlif,2000) | Exils (Tony Gatlif,2004) | Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton,Valerie Faris,2006) | Grandhotel (David Ondricek,2006) | Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei (Hans Weingartner,2004) | Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh,2008) | Das Leben der Anderen (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck,2006) | Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (Uli Edel,2008) | Burn After Reading (Ethan Coen,Joel Coen,2008) | The Boat That Rocked (Richard Curtis,2009) | Dogville (Lars Von Trier,2003) | Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles,David Maysles,Charlotte Zwerin,1970) | Katka(Helena Trestikova,2009) | The Godfather(Francis Ford Coppola,1972) | Fish Tank(Andrea Arnold,2009) | The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (Werner Herzog,2009) | Enter the Void(Gaspar Noe,2009) | Man som hatar kvinnor (Niels Arden Oplev,2010) | THX1138(George Lucas,1971) | A Single Man (Tom Ford,2009) | Cigan (Martin Šulík,2011) | Submarine (Richard Ayoade,2010) | Melancholia (Lars von Trier,2011) | Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy,2010) | The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius,2011) | The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino,1978) | Lawless (John Hillcoat,2012) | Ve stinu (David Ondricek,2012) | Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin,2012) | Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (Simon Vincer,1991) | Holy Motors (Leos Carax,2012) | Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino,2012) | ABCD: Any Body Can Dance (Remo,2013) | The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman,2002) | The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass,2004) | Todo es silencio (Jose Luis Cuerda,2012) | Fresh (Boaz Yakin,1994) | Paradies:Liebe (Ulrich Seidl,2012) | The Human Scale (Andreas Dalsgaard,2012) | Vsichni dobri rodaci (Vojtech Jasny,1968) | Jesteś Bogiem (Leszek Dawid,2011) | Her (Spike Jonze,2014) | La grande belleza (Paolo Sorrentino,2013) | Frank (Lenny Abrahamson,2014)|Mad Max: Fury Road(George Miller,2015)|Arrival(Denis Villeneuve,2016)|Lalaland(Damien Chazelle,2016)

Music: The Cinematic Orchestra | Thievery Corporation | Ludovico Einaudi | Youngblood Brassband | Boards of Canada | Björk | Massive Attack (Blue Lines,1995) | KRS-One | The Roots (The Roots come alive,1999) | Fugees (The Score,1996) | De La Soul (Stakes is high,1996) | Mc Solaar (Prose Combat,1994) | The Doors | Monika Načeva | Erykah Badu | Portishead (Roseland NYC Live,1998) | DJ Premier | DJ Krush | The Herbaliser | Joy Division | Sublime | The Whitest Boy Alive | Rockers Hi-Fi | Skalpel | Gonjasufi | The Tipper | Cerebrosus | Marc Ribot | Mercan Dede | Pantha Du Prince | Vex'd | Nicolas Jaar | Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto | Dictaphone | Flying Lotus | Studio Pankow | Casino vs. Japan... &Nina Simone para siempre!

Currently listening: Mobb Deep (The Infamous,1995) | Lalaland OST | Damien Rice: O (2002) | MF Doom | Rosalía: Los Ángeles (2017)
See my soundcloud likes or profile. https://soundcloud.com/daniel-plavecky/likes

Books: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe | Rode Orm by Frans Gunar Bengtsson | The Star Rover by Jack London | Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres | Dead Souls by N.V.Gogol | Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving | A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini | Blankets by Craig Thompson | Maus by Art Spiegelman | Just My Type by Simon Garfield | Jerusalem by Guy Delisle (& manymanymore..)

Currently reading: Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Marry a girl I love - getting married in the cinema where we met - raising our son together now - love.

Last few years of my life in photographs i am taking
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1751709305476.195063.1021178049&type=1&l=9ca7c80e43

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach Learn Share - exactly!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Netherlands, Portugal

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