Note: I get a lot of requests now in summer. I realize now that I cannot reply to all. Note that Oslo is surrounded by forests, and you can legally camp in the woods if you treat them with respect. NO polluting or leaving garbage - the forests are our common luxury! Also, the law is that you must move camp after 2 nights. This is to avoid that vegetation dies under your tent, and to make sure that people don't actually live in the forest permanently, I guess.

If you have problems getting hosted, I would recommend that you HOST A LOT OF PEOPLE. It's awesome fun, and people need less attention than you'd imagine. It also gives you more good references, and then people will be more open to host you in the future. Couchsurfing is going to be less cool if we all try to use eachother, so try to follow the "pay it forward" rule. Also, add facebook links and photos of yourself doing whatever you do, to show hosts who you are.

OKAY! About me:

I actually make a living from doing stuff that I'd probably do for free. So luckyyyyyy. Also, i like climbing, martial arts, contemporary art, music.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting when I can, travelling when I can. I mostly live in a tiny apartment - 18 m2 - in Oslo, which is FAR TOO SMALL for me but that's how it is at this time. I also have a house in beautiful Arvika, Sweden, but that's rented out to some musicians.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've had CouchSurfing´s oldest member as a guest! Great guy. And some other couchsurfers. They all left a good impression! They slept on the sofa or on a yoga mat on the floor or on air mattresses they'd taken with them.

Interests

I like making stuff. I sometimes work a lot and can be busy. Other times I'm really available. At the moment I have a bunch of deadlines and projects going on, so I will have to feel really social if I'm going to be hosting.

• arts
• writing
• books
• contemporary art
• yoga
• comics
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• camping
• martial arts
• rock climbing
• teaching
• history
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Craig Venter: A life decoded, Dostoyevskij: Crime and punishment, Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima: Lone wolf and cub, parasyte, Bill Bryson, Jorge Luis Borges, Kundera, Philip K. Dick, Philip Roth, obviously Kafka, Houellebecq, The Saga of Ramnkjell Froysgodi, Philippe Fix, Gon, Hellboy by Mike Mignola, films by David Fincher, Lars von Trier, swedish comics by Joakim Pirinen, Simon Gardenfors & Henrik Bromander, Jim Woodring, Hitosi Iwaaki, japanese comics about food, biographies of strange people, comics by my lovely friends in Dongery, stuff

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Love!

Teach, Learn, Share

I have been a teacher in creative writing and making comics to students aged from 10 to 59.

Have been teaching drawing and creative freedom to children. Has held comics workshops and "write, direct and cut your own short film"-workshops all over Norway (well, not ALL OVER NORWAY, but a lot of different places, from Lofoten in the north, to Sunnhordland in the west, to Oslo)

I know a bit about old norse mythology and history.

I've made 5 "graphic novels", which is the nice word for comics that are too long and weird to fit in the funny pages in a newspaper. My sixth book, Elephant Tommy, came this autumn, a childrens book. My seventh, a collection of comics about the norwegian superhero Bjartmann, also came in 2012. I also illustrated childrens books for my friend Ruben Eliassen. Then I made a nice book together with Ida Eva Neverdahl, the brilliant jellyvampire from deviantart.org - and then I've been touring Norway to do talks this spring. Now I'm working on a new project. The tour was great, but nice to finally have focus on writing.

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