CURRENT MISSION

Looking to explore the culture, nature, and people living outside of my own bubble.

ABOUT ME

-Grew up in California
-Worked in the film industry
-Worked climbing cell phone towers
-Taught English
-Photographer
-Volunteered around Europe & the U.S.
-Hiked through most of California's mountains, deserts, and coastlines
-Maker of this list.

Dylan Walker | Create Your Badge

PHILOSOPHY

I don't know that I have a personal philosophy, but here are a few quotes I like:

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

-Umberto Eco

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

- Ian MacLaren

"Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived."

-Dalai Lama

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So... Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society"

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Host / surf.

Interests

Photography, Chemically Altered States, Art, Culture, Film, Music, Kayaking, Running, Cycling, Hiking, Cinematography, Philosophy, Politics, Technology, Ideas, People, Psychology, Biology, Science, Poetry, Writing, Reading, Fitness, Nutrition, Humanitarianism, bla bla bla

• arts
• culture
• writing
• poetry
• photography
• fitness
• running
• politics
• technology
• reading
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• kayaking
• rock climbing
• biology
• psychology
• science
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Cormac McCarthy, Chuck Palahniuk, Jon Krakauer, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Bukowski, Michael Crichton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nicholas Pileggi.

Movies: Enter The Void, Baraka, Adaptation, Existenz, Elephant, The Road, Touching The Void, Little Children, A Scanner Darkly, Bronson, Let the Right One In, The Fall, Waking Life, Pulp Fiction, Run Lola Run, Chopper, Being John Malkovich, No Direction Home, The Fountain, There Will Be Blood, Encounters At The End of the World, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros, Man On Wire, The Pianist, Mystic River, Children Of Men, Clerks, Bully, About Schmidt, Revolutionary Road, The Wrestler, Dear Zachary, Crumb and Perfume are a few favorites.

Music: Listener, Wild Beasts, El Guincho, Jagwar Ma, I Break Horses, SOHN, Crystal Castles, The Tallest Man On Earth, Jake Bugg, Grimes, Portugal The Man, Purity Ring, Death Grips, The Naked And Famous, Cults, St. Vincent, Kaiser Chiefs, Rob Dougan, The Mars Volta, Tom Waits, Sigur Ros, The Flaming Lips, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Refused, Tool, M83, Joanna Newsom, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, The Doors, Aphex Twin, At The Drive-In, Faith No More, Bad Religion, Grizzly Bear, Beirut, Joy Division, Johnny Cash, Tomahawk, Mr. Bungle, Cat Power, Ratatat, Oh Land, Dropkick Murphys, Pixies, Autolux, Arcade Fire, The Knife, The Fratellis, Free, Blood, Fantomas, Tomahawk, Mazzy Star, Alt-J, Battles, Tallest Man On Earth, Woodkid, Manic Street Preachers, Menomena, James Blake, Phoenix, Joanna Newsom, O Children, Paz Lenchantin, Surfer Blood, and Saul Williams to name a few.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Too many to count.

Teach, Learn, Share

I take photos for fun. You can check them out here:

www.instagram.com/dylan_walker
www.instagram.com/dylan_walker_color
http://light-and-shapes.tumblr.com

I'm always looking for people to shoot with, send me a message.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Romania, Spain, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Spain, Turkey, United States

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