CURRENT MISSION

To Bear Witness

ABOUT ME

I travel. That is about what runs everything else.
I am moving to Japan from Washington DC for the next 2 years to work on a few projects. Right now I am working on finishing a project in China about poverty, check it out - http://claryestes.com/
Up next is a project on hospitals in China and hopefully something in Japan too :)
While in DC I covered stories related to education in poor communities in the southeast of the district of Columbia. I also did projects on graffiti artists in Baltimore MD, international artists that were showing work in DC and craftsmen in Kentucky.
I have worked on water quality issues in Appalachia, Specifically Southeastern Kentucky. I have had to deal with a diesel spill in the cities water supply.
BUT! I am a photographer and I hope that I can spend the rest of my life doing that. I attended the Corcoran College of Art and Design as part of their New Media Photojournalism program. I also hope to travel across the world for the rest of my life! I like to think that I am well on my way. :) I have also lived and worked in Beijing China, with travels and work in Ji'an China with the former IFChina Project. I used to be in nuclear physics and worked at Los Alamos NM. I have traveled a few other places to for various reasons.

PHILOSOPHY

Relax

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Getting the word out. I have converted TONS of friends to Couch Surfing! I surf and, when I can, I host. If I cannot host, I can help you find surfers in my area!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All great!

Interests

I love Yoga and Music and Art, Travel, and I participate in it all! I am big on going to concerts all the time. I like to read and find out how things work! I love my art, not that it's wonderful or anything, I just like to do it. I am currently putting most of my effort into photography. Yoga is a part of my life that drops in and out every few months. Travel is exciting so I try to do it as often as possible.

• arts
• books
• design
• photography
• acting
• concerts
• education
• yoga
• technology
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• communications
• teaching
• mathematics
• medicine
• philosophy
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Almost everything... Except Death Metal, I don't like to be yelled at. I especially like; Tool, A Perfect Circle, The Mars Volta, Venetian Snares, S.E.V.A., Copper, Sigur Ros, Aphex Twin, SquarePushers, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, John Mayer, Incubus, Frou Frou, Stevie Wonder, EastMountainSouth, NickleCreek, Blind Melon, God Speed You Black Emperor, Smashing Pumpkins, The Shins, Soulive, The Decemberists, Theivery Coorporation, The Postal Service, Kid606, Modest Mouse, Tomahawk, Faith No More, Fantomas, Four Tet, Interpol, Incubus, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Deftones, Isis, Can, John Frusciante, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, Sparta, Ugly Casanova, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Wolfmother, At the Drive In, Regina Spector, Bob Marley, The Flaming Lips, Smashing Pumpkins, Bob Weir and Ratdog, The Flaming Lips, Medeski Matin and Wood, Rage Against the Machine, Primus, Oysterhead, Les Claypool, The Beatles, The 13th Floor Elevators, Nat King Cole, Tom Waites, Bob Dylan, M.I.A., Duffy, Vampire Weekend, Sebastien Tellier, Black Star, Mos Def, David Bowie there may be too many.
Movies: Sin City, Garden State, Night Watch, Nightmare Before Christmas, Howls Moving Castle, The Order, Underworld, Pride and Prejudice, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factor (both), Rent, Waiting, Phone Booth, Cowboy Bebop, The Corpse Bride, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, The Matrix, The Anitmatrix, 10 Thing I Hate About You, O, Rules of Attraction, Igby Goes Down, House of 1000 Corpses, Devil's Rejects, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Scarface, Half Baked, Night Watch, The Libertine, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Big Lebowski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blow, Everything is Illuminated, History of Violence, Capote, Inside Man, Prozac Nation, Mulholand Drive, MirrorMask, Donnie Darko, Lost in Translation A Clockwork Orange, Becoming Jane, Stardust, Illusion, Hairspray, Across the Universe, Planet Terror, The Dark Knight, Dead Man, Lust Caution, In the Mood for Love, 2046, Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, I could go on.
Books: the elegant universe, the golden ratio, the quantum world, in search of Schrödinger's cat, The Secret History of Lucifer, Harry Potter, Howl's Moving Castle, In cold blood, 1984, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, An Anthropologist on Mars, Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, The Giver, The Teachings of Don Juan, The Tao of Pooh, Tin Drum, My name is Red, Trout Fishing in America, A personal Affair, Spring Snow, The real life of Sebastien knight, Anything by Kobo Abe, Anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I have read every book Haruki Murakami has written (literally)... There are many more.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I did this thing once... It was pretty cool, ask me about it!

Teach, Learn, Share

It would be analogous to a puppet for believing that it is acting voluntarily, when every movement it makes is controlled by wires wielded by the puppeteer.
-Philosophy Book

We are here to awake from the illusion of our separateness.
-Some Asian Priest

We can't stop here, this is bat country!
-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I am about to put some black lights on cause this shit is going to blow your mind!
-Dr. Fulkerson-Smith

You make everyday feel like kindergarten.
-Natural Born Killers

Too weird to live, Too rare to die!
-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I'm a street walkin' cheetah with a heart full of naypom
-Red Hot Chili Peppers

Thank you for smiling.
-Branden

Everyone yells to music, if they don't they either are not paying attention or are very old and cannot hear that well.
-Some Rocker

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
-Some Philosopher

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. ”
–Hunter S. Thompson

“Check it out. The other day I went in to this super huge Starbucks and over in the corner was a Starbucks kiosk. A Starbucks within a Starbucks. I shit you not.”
–Josh Freese

Never believe too strongly in your own lie.
-Me

WHO SPILT SHIT ON THE CRISPY MIX CD!!!
-Justin

When you get old you don't want to get the green banana, you want to get the yellow banana and eat it quick!
-Dr. Ng

We all go a little mad sometimes.
-Norman Bates

Anything that is hidden is mysterious, but anything that is hidden by wicker is sinster.
-John Loengard

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds...
-Einstein

It is my thesis that the rapid development of technology and the destruction of the biosphere are material by-products of a psycho-spiritual process taking place on a planetary scale. We have created this crisis to force our own accelerated transformation - on an unconscious level, we have willed it into being.
-Pinchbeck

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-Einstein

Some People do drugs... Others do Math.
-Student Contemplating the Source behind Calculus IV

What doesn't kill you makes you stranger.
-The Joker

Can I get a Nanoo Nanoo!!!
-Mork and Mindy

I'm not scared of being alone, I'm just happier being confused beside the fire, as long it's with you. Why should that fire die?
-Nickel Creek

In the land of the Blind the one eyed man is king.
-Tom Waits

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Japan, Moldova, United States

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