CURRENT MISSION

Living, loving, photographing, writing, dancing and co-creating in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Just before... hitchhiking across asia, studying philosophy and literature, playing with words and trying to write a book, social documentary photography, experience and learn more about the world and me, void, re-creation and all that jazz.

ABOUT ME

In few words, this is me...

Work-in-progress human being and social entrepreneur. Backpacker/traveler by heart. Human-centered design & appropriate technologies geek. Believer of existentialism & secular humanism, voluntary simplicity & permaculture philosophy, simple & do-it-yourself lifestyle, post-structural feminism & radical equality for all, gotong-royong & collaborative happiness, personal growth & human potential, catharsis & the transcendence of the quotidian. Meditation & mindfulness explorer. Former startup pirate and fluffy robots creator. Compulsive learner & ideator. Lover of art & philosophy, words & metaphors, noodles & coffee.

My main influences are...
Tintin, Camus, Lynch, 4'33'', Lisboa, India and the wisdom of crazy genious like Nietzsche, Thoreau, Buddha, Laozi, Spinoza and Heraclitus!

And what i'm engaged in the moment is...
www.migueljeronimophotography.com

I'm a portuguese from lisboa, now based in phnom penh, and will love to get to know you!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Making incredible friends, sharing amazing experiences.

Interests

Empowerment and grassroot projects, social entrepreneurship, backpacking travel and learning new cultures, intermedia art and technology, design thinking and creativity, wabi-sabi & mono no aware, music and cinema, photography and lomography, making coffee and eating noodles, collect metaphors and being silly all the time.

• arts
• books
• literature
• design
• photography
• documentaries
• diy
• festivals
• womens rights
• coffee
• meditation
• technology
• movies
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• backpacking
• snorkeling
• entrepreneurship
• hitchhiking
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Too many to put here! But I'll try to name some of the artists that I admire (in random order)
David Lynch, Jack Kerouac, Lcd Soundsystem, Jean Luc Godard, Joy Division, Ingmar Bergman, Pink Floyd, Lars Von Trier, Toumani Diabate, Kenji Mizoguchi, Albert Camus, Miles Davis, Murcof, Robert Pirsig, Wim Wenders, John Cage, The Doors, Patti Smith, Emir Kusturica, B Fachada, Valter Hugo Mãe, Trent Reznor, José Saramago, Nietszche, Agostinho da Silva, Luis Bunuel, Ali Farka Toure, Gilles Deleuze, Devotchka, Paul Thomas Anderson, Nine Inch Nails, Stockhausen, Darren Aronovsky, Animal Collective, James Blake, Alva Noto, John Ford, Tarantino, Radiohead, Fennesz, Buddha, Stanley Kramer, Aldous Huxley, Broken Social Scene, Fritz Lang, Fela Kuti, Baruch Spinoza, The Mars Volta, Gustav Mahler, Stanley Kubrick, Amon Tobin, Henry David Thoreau, John Hopkins, Flower Corsano Duo, Bernardo Bertolucci, Tom Jobin, The Beatles, Kim Ki Duk, André Malraux, Tarkovsky, Michael Foucault, Four Tet, Venetian Snares, Heraclitus, The Velvet Underground, Fernando Pessoa (and the other hundreds of writers the guy had in his head!), Charles Peirce, Dhafer Youssef, Laozi, Hitchcock, The Knife, João Canijo, Jean-Paul Sartre, Federico Fellini, Rage Against the Machine, William James, Sigur Rós, Charlie Kauffman, Joseph Conrad, Billy Wilder, Hunter S. Thompson, Gold Panda, Epicurus, David Bowie, Yasujiro Ozu, Caribou, Hipnotica, The National, Dan Deacon, The Field, Herberto Helder, Esbjorn Svensson Trio , Richard Linklater, Recoil, Viktor Frankl, Gaspar Noe, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Apparat, Francis Ford Coppola, Astroboy, Bjork, Hot Chip, Liquid Liquid, Martin Heidegger, David Cronenberg, Micro Audio Waves, Thom Yorke, Yann Tiersen, David Foster Wallace, The Field, Nicolas Jaar, and many others that my memory don't allow me to write down right now :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Crossed southeast asia and iberian peninsula while hitchhiking, jumped from an airplane, created an entrepreneurial pirates event, organized a tedx with awesome people, touched by the generosity and love of the tribal communities along India, hanged out with hedonistic homeless people in Bangkok, lost myself at the maze street markets in Morocco, and again lost myself at the movie-like streets of New York, and again lost myself doing lomography in the amazing streets of my loving Lisbon, snorkeling at some paradise islands in Thailand, enjoyed a crazy turbo-folk festival in the middle of some Serbian mountains, did a surf trip along Alentejo coast sleeping on the different beaches everynight, quit everything and came living in India and, finally, been and continue being myself! (well, or at least trying to understand wtf myself is :P)

Teach, Learn, Share

Stuff.
Like the things in the description above or other random stuff that could emerge in the moment :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Tours around the city, eating in cheap street food places, going out for some drinks, lots of conversation about a little bit of everything, living room with lots of art materials to be used, tips on photography, etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Laos, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Monaco, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Cambodia, India, Portugal, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor)

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