CURRENT MISSION

learning, teaching, researching and being curious about the things living in tiny corners of space and time

ABOUT ME

I'm 31 years old and most of my time I'm a phd student of HCI, which is basically something between IT and psychology and is concerned with the optimization of human-computer interactions. I live in Graz / Austria, which is not Australia, as the kangaroos live in zoos here.

PHILOSOPHY

Keep the mind constant, thou shalt see
Ineffable felicity.
Increase the will, and thou shalt find
It hath the strength to be resigned.
Resign the will, and from the string
Will's arrow shall have taken wing.
Marsyas (AC)

There are two streams, one dividing, one joining, one goes deeper into matter and goes out. I wander the grey path between.

The most important people in life are the ones you meet now.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love the idea of CS as I experienced this kind of openness before (without CS) and I'd love to support it with publicating my couches to the CS community.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

met cool people ...

Interests

archery, swordsplay, reenactment, juggling with fire, all kind of live visuals and moving art, snowboarding, hiking, being in the woods or anywhere else in nature, sitting at campfires, psychology esp. medical hypnosis, collecting books on the human mind, collecting all other kind of books, reading, shamanism, occult arts, my snake elaphe, neuroscience, poetry, playing flute... well I'm interested in whatever my attention shifts.

• arts
• books
• poetry
• reading
• juggling
• hiking
• snowboarding
• archery
• neuroscience
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

I love films from Tarantino, Jodorowski, Peter Jackson (also the old ones). My favorite music is electronic when I'm doing live visuals (VJ) otherwise it's everthing else from Mozart to Finntroll. I love books. My favourite bookstore in Graz is a small place filled with thousands of old books, it's like digging a tunnel when you enter. Last things I read was Bernard Cornwell's Agincourt.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Changing and shifting my reality to a point of absolute transcendency. Smoking Vulcano and flamingos in the Bolivian high desert. A lake like an eye at the north korean border. The full moon from the underwater greek sea. An absoulute purple sunrise in the sahara desert.

Teach, Learn, Share

hmm. I can teach you relaxtion techniques and swords play. Actually I'd like to learn bag pipe ;) I'd love to share my knowledge on whatever comes to your mind.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria