CURRENT MISSION

Learning to play guitar, flute and harmonica!!!

ABOUT ME

We're doing just about anything to feel good and have a great time. We draw a lot, paint, photograph, spend time in the kitchen chatting etc. Octavian started to learn playing flute and acoustic guitar

Octavian is a 26 years old art director and amateur photographer in a advertisement agency, my girlfriend Oana is 25 years old and currently works in a recruitment agency while her sister, Cristina is a 19 years old student trying to grow up like most normal people do! Meanwhile my brother, Vlad joined us, this makes us four in our home, but still we would love to host some of you guys.

You can find some of Octavian's photographs here:
http://behance.net/octa

Oana and hand made wonders she makes
http://tubituba.wordpress.com/

PHILOSOPHY

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Interests

Arts, Architecture, Photography, Analogue Photography, Old metal bulky cameras, Books, Graphic Design, Typograhy, History, Music, Geography, Travelling, Movies, Documentaries, Wildlife, Mountains, Plains, Crafts, Textures, Paintings, Book Cover Design.

Remote places, Eastern Europe, things that are not landmarks, Univers, science (for idiots or beginners), newspapers, magazines.

Everything that makes you wonder. Everything that makes you feel that you're so small in a big world.

Nordic culture and languages, saga's, old norse literature. Tolkienism :) Clever adventure and fantasy books. Slavic countries, be them eastern,western, southern.

• wildlife
• arts
• culture
• books
• literature
• architecture
• design
• graphic design
• photography
• documentaries
• diy
• crafts
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• classical music
• guitar
• geography
• history
• languages
• science
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Amadeus, Valentin, Forest Gump, Dirty Dancing, Katyn, Ciudad de Deus, Das Leben der Anderen, Ostrov, The Others, Four Nights With Anna, Stalker

Music:
Satie, Schubert, Scarlatti, Johann Sebastian Bach, CPE Bach, Sibelius, Grieg, Lepo Sumera, Jordi Savall, Khachaturian, Korsakov, Shostakovich, Corelli, Haydn, Telemann, Dvorak.

Dave Brubeck, Esbjorn Svensson, The Cinematic Orchestra, Skalpel, Phronesis, Portico Quartet, Nils Peter Molvaer, Contemporary Noise Sextet, Marcin Wasiliewski, Tord Gustavsen, Polar Bear

Art of Noise, Bonobo, Arovane, Helios, Thievery Corporation, Hammock, Balmorhea, Dustin O'Halloran, Niels Frahm, Frames.

Sigur Ros, Mono, God is an astrounaut, Explosions in the Sky, 65daysofstatic, This Will Destroy You, The Slowest Runner In All The World, Yndi Halda, Gregor Samsa, Eluvium, Saxon Shore, Red Sparrowes, iLikeTrains, The Polar Dream, Mouse On The Keys, Caspian, The Evpatoria Report, Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Books:
E.A.Poe's Novelettes, Szienkiewicz, Tolkien, Follett, Marguerite Yourcenar, Steinbeck, Orwell, Zamiatin, Gunter Grass, Jason Goodwin, Kerouac, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Simplest ones like a 6am walk in the park, a good scrambled egg at 9am, listening to post-rock or classical music before going to sleep.

Watching my girlfriend while painting or drawings, reading a good book from one breath no matter where or when, listening music in traffic, wondering about the things others can do.

Being amazed by the wonderful 6am light that sunrise can give. Listening to the complete silence and trying to understand it. Eating a green juicy apple at the right time, in the right place, at the right moment!

Teach, Learn, Share

I know a thing or two about photography (digital or analogue). I can teach you how to develop film, how to take photographs with analog cameras (i have about 8 of them, all kinds). I know a few things about history, about my country, arts, graphic design. I also can share my knowledge in playing guitar awfully. Oana can teach you paint, draw, diy stuff, a lot of "get your hands dirty" things with clay :D

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Romania

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