CURRENT MISSION

Take photos, write, eat, dream, go anywhere, meet anyone, do anything. Fight boredom!

ABOUT ME

I'm Jen, a photo editor currently based in New York with my kitten named Gonzo. I break a lot of rules and push a lot of boundaries. It almost always ends in something magnificent.

I crave adventure. I like to learn things. I'm fascinated by people. I'll eat almost anything and I'll go almost anywhere.

PHILOSOPHY

It overwhelms me to think about the number of awesome people in the world whom I will never get to meet and share part of my life story with before I die.
I move from person to person, project to project, experience to experience, trying to live awesomely and intensely, learn, understand, love, capture, and savour it all through a lens and on paper, but mostly in my brain. Here and there, I cross my fingers and hope that certain places will feel right, and certain people will want to linger in my life story for a bit longer, and I in theirs. For now, I've found comfort in never being too comfortable.

If I have one lifelong project, it's about people, their stories, and how my own story intersects with theirs. And you're invited to partake.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, surfing, and sometimes, even hurfing. But don't worry, I'm not contagious.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far I've hurfed, officially and unofficially, in Aarhus (host and surfer), Berlin (surfer), Lisbon (surfer), Pamplona (surfer), Copenhagen (host and surfer), Bucharest (surfer), and New York (surfer). All of my experiences have been amazing and beautiful in so many different ways. I get the feeling that I'm far from done here.

Interests

Adventures, photography/videography, journalism, social justice, travel, dumpster diving, tea and coffee, cats and dogs, piano, ukulele, breakfast, puns and wordplay, technology, climbing things, sunshine, terrariums, massages, purple, eating/cooking good food, dreams, cheese, spontaneity, a little bit of everything else, and probably you.

• cats
• culture
• photography
• documentaries
• dining
• cooking
• breakfast
• cheese
• yoga
• technology
• trivia
• traveling
• dumpster diving
• piano
• surfing
• scuba diving
• rock climbing
• swimming
• history
• journalism
• languages
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Most recently...

MOVIES

Koyaanisqatsi + Baraka + Samsara
Oldboy
Pulp Fiction + Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2
The Darjeeling Limited + Moonrise Kingdom + The Grand Budapest Hotel
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
...heists, revenge movies, mindfucks, beautifully made but not boring.

MUSIC

Menahan Street Band
Ásgeir Trausti
Grizzly Bear
Tame Impala
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Neutral Milk Hotel
Chilly Gonzales
Bon Iver
James Blake
Radiohead
The Slew

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

*ran with the bulls in Pamplona
*shot a documentary about nudists in Aarhus, underwater and while naked
*did a photo project on people who live in sewers in Bucharest
*these are my legs: http://bit.ly/1orzMiC

Teach, Learn, Share

Stuff I can teach:

Photography, ultimate frisbee, some ukulele chords, some food trivia. I might also have a few stories to tell, mine or someone else's or a combination of the two, if you're bold enough to pry.

Stuff I'd like to learn more about or know how to do:

Multimedia/videography/documentary production, ukulele, urban farming/foraging, hitchhiking, film culture and history, religions, food and cooking, rock climbing, slacklining, yoga, swimming, languages.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bahamas, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Honduras, Italy, Jamaica, Myanmar, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Denmark, Netherlands, Thailand, United States

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