CURRENT MISSION

I believe is time finite and every moment should be spent doing something fun or learning something useful. or sleeping.

ABOUT ME

I am in school and learning how people relate to technology and how tech can improve peoples lives and the world. This involves the pretties (color, font, grid, material), peoples needs (to get to work on time, or buy green products), psychology (reading right to left, reinforcing good behaviors), and code (stuff i haven't learned yet). Any release from excessive studying is good. Travel to new lands. Dancing. Experimental cooking. Pineapple + Peanut Butter + BBQ = perfection! Books. Crap fiction(vampires) and edifying non-fiction (the post american world). New music (Animal collective) mixed with old music (ella fitzgerald).

PHILOSOPHY

I value totally new and interesting experiences. I feel like a cultural explorer, and I want to try everything. Strangers are people waiting to explain a life experience different than my own.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet, but I am hoping it will be good!

Interests

Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Art, Psychology, History, Cultural Relations, Cooking, Politics

• animals
• arts
• books
• design
• graphic design
• coloring
• dancing
• cooking
• bbq
• politics
• technology
• reading
• traveling
• coding
• music
• history
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

So many. MOVIES: anything with Clint Eastwood. Dark City. Triplets of Bellville. Documentaries of any sort. Amelie. This film has not yet been rated. The US vs John Lennon. BOOKS: Ishmeal. Flatland. You are Being Lied To. Invisible Cities. Why Design Now, the Cooper Hewitt Design Bi-ennial. CARTOONS/ANIME: Avatar: The last airbender. Sakura. Mushishi. MUSIC: so bad its good 90s pop. current trendiness (Animal Collective, Vampire Weekend, Postal Service), old jazz signers (Ella, Billie, Louis), random techno (underworld, hotchip).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Door to door knocking to register voters in small depressed mill towns in Western PA.

Teach, Learn, Share

Color theory and graphic design. I can teach you to make the pretties. :) Lesson 1. Choose a piece of communication design that you believe is good. Choose another that you believe is bad. Stare at each for ten minutes. Analyze why they are good and bad.

Countries I’ve Visited

Guatemala, Italy, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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