CURRENT MISSION

living life

ABOUT ME

I'm a 30 year-old photographer, on the look out for a job in the field of TV/cinema production right now. I'm originally from Fribourg, Switzerland, and I'm living in Lausanne where I completed my studies last summer.

I'm a pretty happy person, I'm quite talkative and I like to make people comfortable. It's probably not obvious but I'm also quite shy. I tend to laugh a lot, my humour is a mixture of silliness and causticity, maybe it's what is commonly called british humour! Yeah well...

PHILOSOPHY

That's a tough one. I guess I could ramble on and on...

Let me get back to this some other time :-) please ;-)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I first set up this profile when I went to Las Vegas and Phoenix in 2008 as part of a photography project. I got to meet Laura, Jason and Tim who were kind enough to let me stay at their place, and I really enjoyed meeting people (and locals, at that) while traveling on my own.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Las Vegas + Phoenix (see "how I participate")

I haven't had anyone contact me for a cup of coffee in Lausanne yet, but I'm definitely up for it. Would especially be happy to meet people with the same interests, obviously...

Interests

photography, lomography, architecture, urbanism, music, cinema, contemporary art, people, portraits, bright lights, big cities, road trips, traveling, books, newspapers, magazines, graphic design, television, writing, media, trains, reportage, learning, discovering, utopias, concepts, sociology,...

Will get back to this list when I think of more specific stuff...

• arts
• writing
• books
• architecture
• design
• graphic design
• contemporary art
• photography
• coffee
• boating
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• snorkeling
• sailing
• communications
• sociology
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

- Music: Cinematic Orchestra, Madvillain, Goldfrapp, Gonzales, Vincent Gallo, Jay Electronica, Jamie Lidell, Arcade Fire, Vivaldi, Beirut, Erik Satie, Band of Horses, Portishead, Prefuse 73,...

(you can check my profile here: http://www.last.fm/user/chaoticmishaps)

- Movies: Shortcuts, Amores Peros, Blue Velvet, Paris, Texas, La dolce vita, Breathless (À Bout de Souffle), Pi, American Beauty, Memento, Fight Club, Great Expectations, Clean, Amelie, Lost in translation, In the mood for love, Story Telling, La collectionneuse, Day for Night (La nuit américaine), 2001, a Space Odyssey, Amos Kollek films, Woody Allen films (Interiors!), Jim Jarmush films,...

- Books: Bright lights, big city, Glamorama, Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, On the road, A Brave New World, 1984, Homo Faber, 99 francs, L'Education sentimentale,...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sailing from Phnom Penh to the wherebouts of Siem Reap (Cambodia) on a speed boat while listening to Lou Reed tunes, has got to be one of the most amazing things that I have done!

And snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia (such a cliché, I know, but I've got to tell the truth...) was fantastic.

Sitting on a double-decker bus in London on a late sunny afternoon and pointing my camera at what I wanted to capture, although it probably doesn't sound amazing, was a beautiful moment too.

Teach, Learn, Share

Photography is something I can teach you a fair bit about. I'm no technical geek, but I know my basics well enough...

Wanna teach me your language?

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, Switzerland

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