CURRENT MISSION

Since 2013, I left Barcelona behind, and now the sails are set towards new harbours and shores. After a year of living, studying theatre and working in Mexico, my boyfriend and I came to Germany to see whether we may finally anchor here. Meet us to digest stories and adventures from our travel storage ;)

ABOUT ME

Skyscraper is a curious, folksy and multi-facetted explorer of world and human society. In particular, he blossoms out in creative environments, in company of motivated, inspiring and open-minded people, and in his own projects. While sometimes a bit clumsy or diving in day dream short movies, he’ll nevertheless try his best to make you feel comfortable in his presence.

PHILOSOPHY

Equality: The paradoxon of life is to acknowledge that all human beings are different, but nevertheless they are to be treated equally: For in the end of the day, how should anybody decide who was supposed be the most exemplary person of all? Equality arises, when one is treating the others as s/he would like to be treated by them.

Fraternalism: Personally I try to act upon the ideal that all living beings form a sort of big family; and that even invivid objects should be treated with value and respect. Consequently, we should only take from them as much as we need to live.

Liberty: Any personal philosophy, religion and ideals should be respected as long as they don't touch those of other people or put themselves above others.

Absurdity: Once I held this wonderful itching piece of clay in my hands, that dozens of decades ago had manipulated a whole colony of apes. One plastiline morning, when a TV screen sun rose above the hamburger fields, I woke up with the breeze of air conditioning in my face. I stared and I stunned, as a polyphone butterfly pixeled its path through the ether, creating a data mess whereever it alighted. Nauseated by a few epilepsy causing flickering manga monsters that danced and hopped around me in rage, I threw up a great rainbow, ripped out the cables of accommodation and ran like a berserk for my life, back into the misty humid jungle where I used to belong.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Mr Twain wasn't surfing couches, as far as I was told, but the following phrase is so much resuming my reason of being on couchsurfing that I had to copy-paste it:

»Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.«
—Mark Twain—

Interests

PHOTOGRAPHY. I'd consider myself a life-long student in this subject, rather than a professional. If you're curious and think about joining in a photo walk with me, you can check out my former flickr-website: www.flickr.com/photos/ariotintherye (I don't update the page anymore for some copycat issues, but I still do a lot of pictures whenever I travel somewhere.)

THEATRE. I've been running, falling, jumping or flying across stages since 2008 while I was a student. Later on I took some classes of Theatre of the Oppressed (Barcelona, Catalonia) and enroled at Street Theatre and Scenic Presentation (Cuernavaca, Mexico). Nowadays, I'm spending my energy on improvisation theatre, but am also involved in a theatre group at the local university.

• books
• photography
• dancing
• movies
• drawing
• music
• calligraphy
• cartography
• teaching
• storytelling
• theatre
• improvisation
• foxes
• roleplaying games
• creative writing
• dogs and cats

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS. I once was book-addicted, which meant that I certainly left bookstore with two items or more. Now I'm on the way of healing, I started to run some short novel projects and sometimes use to write some trashy poetry.

MUSIC. Plenty of things. Principally, I like everything that is well made... and I especially appreciate fusions of different styles that create new directions. More about that when we meet. Or, if you're really curious, check out this list of songs: (Last update: August 2017)
* Oren Lavie — Her Morning Elegance. https://youtu.be/2_HXUhShhmY
* Las Rubias del Norte — Cruzando el mar. https://youtu.be/L0879gFtHoQ
* Charlotte Dada — Don't Let Me Down. https://youtu.be/T7-JrLuAaFY
* Dan Sartain — Pass This On. https://youtu.be/xhxEBqHBkYQ
* Asaf Avidan — Different Pulses. https://youtu.be/osXM1S-sGks

MOVIES. It would be an unorganised, abundant list to point out all the movies I like, so here's rather a brief brain-stormed list of things:
* "Moonrise Kingdom" (Wes Anderson)
* "Babel" (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
* "Les Amours Imaginaires" (Xavier Dolan)
* "Still Life/三峡好人" (Jia Zhangke)
* "Gravity" (Alfonso Cuarón)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I couldn’t decide for one in particular, but after inquiring my anecdotarium for a while, I thought I might mention some of the following:

Confusing salt with sugar.
Being roped into a Colombo-Armenian rain fight.
Reconstructing the pierogi family recipe my grandmother was unwilling to pass on to us.
Getting surprised by a sand storm on my way to school.
Distracting a dove-swinging vagabond with meaningless riddles until the animal managed to escape.
Confusing sugar with salt.
Throwing ancient camel droppings at some friends who started the fight in Gobi desert.
Swimming in Kashubian lakes.
Getting stuck with an absurdly red family couch in a narrow, crumbling staircase.
Surviving habanero and garlic under a contact lense in my left eye. (Ouch.)
Dancing on a table with 17 persons and 0.01% of Liechtenstein's population.
Stamping a very long phrase along a ten-metre wall.
Riding bicycle in Chinese rush hour with a birthday cake and 30 eggs in a plastic bag.
Eating an unpeeled Kiwi without peeling it.
Dreaming in Russian with Berlin-slang subtitles.
Coming to admire brown sugar for its colour.
Sewing a pair of really torn trousers.
Hugging some sad trees on the side of the road.
Writing a short story about a guy in a public toilet cabin.
Imitating old maps.
Camping in Iceland in the end of September at –2ºC
Committing social ice-cream intervention.
Crossing a Tamsui River bridge on the back of a motorbike with 100 km/h and closed eyes. Twice.
Walking back home (which should take 20 minutes) ending up 12 hours later for heavy social distractions on the way.
Losing a part of the travel company in a Mexican forest for two hours. At least we had acoustic contact during that time.

Teach, Learn, Share

Welcome to The Invisible University (IU)

ENROLMENT AND REQUIREMENTS FOR ACCESS
The IU is a project based upon two main ideas:

— It is a nomadic institution which does not depend upon any fixed place but can be opened and closed in all kinds of public and private places (e.g. train departments, parks, supermarket queues, post office waiting halls, cafés). The following list of lectures and classes is containing a few ideas I imagined to offer, but there’s a lot more to come ;)

— Classes are given in exchange for other classes, every participant will act as teacher and a student. Just choose whatever you think you’re expert in! There’s no money flowing at all.

LECTURES AND CLASSES (Winter trimestre 2017/18)
— Introduction to Map Making. Learn how to make up, draw and produce real or ficticious maps.
— "Tengwar, Tehtar, Tincoparma: Introduction into Elvish. Language and Writing System." First touch with phantasy cultures.
— "Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy: Regular, Cursive and Small Script Styles". Preferably organise your own material, if not at hand, you can borrow them. Literature at hand.

What I Can Share with Hosts

One of the main reasons of why I like couchsurfing is that I like to meet and get to know people whenever I'm on a journey. That's why I usually don't like to stay at hotels — for the low possibilities of sociability and human contact.

Usually before staying at someone's place, I'm trying to see how much time we can spend together. If you're free, I'm eager to spend some time with you. This could be having some profound talks, cook something for dinner, accompany you to your favourite places and get to know a piece of your everyday life, circle of friends and worldviews. However, I'm also independent enough to organise my own time in case you're busy. Since my main profession is teaching languages, I could offer you to give you a brief crash-course in any of the fluent languages or classes mentioned above.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Taiwan

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Germany, Mexico, Spain

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