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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
to creatively intervene
ABOUT ME
Left coaster in London. My heart is still in Brooklyn. I like tech, learning, design, bike rides, desserts and doing good.
http://www.melissaandrada.com
http://www.twitter.com/themelissard
Interests
learning, biking, branding + design, brooklyn, critical theory, reading (everything from books to google reader to the city), fashion, mochi ice cream, graphic novels, public space, graf and street art, media and memory, sleeping in hammocks, siestas, photography, peanut butter and chocolate, getting lost, urban planning, letna, my family, diy, pop culture, noraebang/karyaoke, paradoxes and anomalies, creativity, biographies/narratives, and strategy games.
- arts
- culture
- books
- design
- fashion
- street art
- photography
- diy
- chocolate
- cheese
- desserts
- technology
- reading
- cycling
- communications
Music, Movies, and Books
movies: miyazaki, almodovar, kurosawa, park chan wook, allen, + gondry
books: the preacher, blindness, maus, what is the what, forget me not, the past within us, the book of laughter and forgetting, sontag, deleuze, satrapi, murakami, john urry, celia lury, james e. young, moore, gaiman, the new yorker
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
eaten grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup in san jose, costa rica after six months of beans and rice in panama.
talking to my favorite people in the whole world through skype
surviving a car crash on a freeway bridge
Countries I’ve Visited
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom
Countries I’ve Lived In
Czech Republic, Netherlands, Nigeria, Panama, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States