CURRENT MISSION

exploring and sharing the physical world, knowledge, human experiences

ABOUT ME

My name is Mattia, I'm 25.
I'm studing psychology at university in Padua where I work as photographer, I collaborate as director of photography in a film production collective in Bologna.
I'm a sociable guy and I like to meet new friends!

PHILOSOPHY

"L'inferno dei viventi non è qualcosa che sarà; se ce n'è uno, è quello che è già qui, l'inferno che abitiamo tutti i giorni, che formiamo stando insieme. Due modi ci sono per non soffrirne. Il primo riesce facile a molti: accettare l'inferno e diventarne parte fino al punto di non vederlo più. Il secondo è rischioso ed esige attenzione e apprendimento continui: cercare e saper riconoscere chi e cosa, in mezzo all'inferno, non è inferno, e farlo durare, e dargli spazio."

"The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."

(Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I provide a bed (little, for one person) and a comfortable sofa in the house which I share with three other pleasant university students

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

still none for me, but I hosted many couchsufers in an another university house in where I lived.

Interests

I love to travel, to discover the secrets and the cultures of the places I visit.
My favorite interests are arts, philosophy, cinema, literature and any kind of music.

I spend my free time traveling (when I can economically), painting, taking pictures or having a good time and binge.

• arts
• literature
• photography
• concerts
• clubbing
• movies
• traveling
• painting
• music
• jazz
• blues
• art history
• history
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

I love all kinds of music: jazz, blues, songwriters, rock, folk, electronic, dub, industrial and traditional music from all countries. music is one of primary components of my life.

also cinema is one of my great interests. I love above all movies by great directors like ingmar bergman, fritz lang, werner herzog, orson welles, spike jonze, wes andreson, terry gilliam, bernardo bertolucci, jean-luc godard, francois truffaut, federico fellini, wim wenders, andrej tarkovsky, darren aronofsky, lars von trier, alexandr sokurov and a lot of noir and expressionist era movies.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In 2009 I studied art history for a month in New York city. In that time I discovered a new fantastic life, I meet great people, I enjoyed any type of concert and I spent many evenings in the magnificent jazz and blues club with my friends.

Teach, Learn, Share

my job is teach photography, then I can share above all this mine competence, but I enjoy to share everything I know...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Italy, United States

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