Center of Budapest, close to Astoria Hotel.

My present:
In Budapest, building a workshop place / immersion room / flowlab :) where one or a few people can get lost in research, writing, designing, brainstorming, prototyping, studying, story-boarding... Where we can organize little workshops around language learning, bare-bones audio recording, music appreciation, fundamental (diy) tools and skills (including digital tools, like basic helping apps and workflows/attitudes), my-dinner-w-andre-style improvisations :), tsol-kind conversations... Current name: Flowhely (from the Hungarian Műhely). What do you think?

In general, like many of you, I am striving to take part/partake and contribute within the knowledge gathering/sharing and creating/creative building endeavors. The above mentioned workshop space is the current culmination of my experiences in/and around music, art, education, science and architecture.

Within music I enjoy putting poems to/above guitar. Especially Hungarian ones. The accented letters ( á é í ó ú ô û ) are awesome to stay on and twist and shout... Extra-melodic a language.

[Music came much earlier than language, did it not? So it should be natural, that every word and every sentence have an inherent, an ancient, a dormant musical quality within. Like photons "inside" electrons... maybe I'm pushing it. Too much Cox and minutephysics :D.]

Anywho, so digging in, between the lines of a poem, reading and rereading until the/a melody appears out of the words and lines... I just can't get enough of it. So far I melodified seven from Ady, one from Jozsef and a Babits.

Tutoring English learners, where we often experiment with different methods of language acquisition. The newest one is English through World History short videos (like Crash Course). Plan on making a conversation club/debate hour out of it in Flowhely. Another one is a focused "favorite-tv-show-rewatch", where we pay attention to phrases in conversations and the colors of emotions.

Quite the nerd, yes. Forever curious. Appreciator of the scientific method and attitudes. See the world to be essentially logical rather then mysterious. (And believe, that through these logical lenses we can arrive to things/understandings that are magical in their own right - a kind of mysterious...) [to discuss further in person :]

Currently I also go out for shorter build/repair jobs. The plan, here, is to become an expert in creating highly functional, mostly small spaces. Continue developing funky ergonomic furniture (as well as furniture additions and hacks). To know a lot about and around the intersection of architecture and energy/light usage. And of course, the tools. And their boxes! Be an expert with the basic tools; know all the ways + one to use them, with both hands. LOL ={') ( Almost forgot: to develop a bicycle friendly tool-carry system. )

[to discuss in person: communication/productivity/entertainment - works (of art)/tools/hedonism?]

The past:
Studied media, technology and sociology at New York's Hunter College. Here, with prof. Stuart Ewen, we examined "the notion of style within its economic and social context, arguing that larger businesses developed our current conception of style in the early twentieth century in order to sell goods beyond mere necessity." We discovered that capitalism feeds/abuses our reliance on images. I am more aware of how images/forms push/pull me, since then... A little more, for sure :)

With prof. Kelly Anderson, we delved into films and their productions. Realized the power of 1 second while playing in the editing rooms. Contemplated what elements "turn" a scene. Imagined architecture as frozen music...

Dabbled in programming, researched artificial intelligence, a bit of sociology, a good number of literature classes (a whole semester of Nabokov :D - Invitation to a Beheading, Speak, Memory!, awesome books. Nabokov elaborates somewhere about the importance of not-comparing things (reading, or anything, i suppose) to anything, before we ingested and digested whatever is in our periphery at the moment... only then, we shall be searching our mind/nets for references. The creator's own gestures and technique shall be examined first.

While in school, started a summer internship at an old-school portrait photographer and stayed to work there for a few years. Was lucky to get an analogue training before it disappeared in the beginning of this century. Nikon F2, Hasselblad 503, Oly OM-1. Still have a little halfframe Pen :D. Miss the darkroom magic! My future kitchen will have a developing booth. Hha!

During this time I also worked on and around some films and made a living documenting events, printing photobooks, shooting portraits.

Lived in a house full of bright eyed, young artists. Joey, Zed, Matt, Edwin, Dien, Tudor, Keith, Dan... Hugs, dudes!

Hung out with with cool peeps at Gramercy Records. (Greetings, James, buddy! Stork!) Remember discussing music in terms of technical, referential or gestural qualia, or what... Help me out here! ;p. (And not just music, ey?! Noted the elements of music, such as Timbre/Texture/Tempo/Duration/Dynamics/Pitch and Structure. Hey! Still fuzzy with the b-s and sharps... Getting there.

Sunned and swimmed at/in Island Pond (of the Bear Mountain National Park) regulary. What a jewel of a spot that is! Returning there, again and again, and seeing it unchanged for the most part, made me appreciate and see my inner changes, or some Hallmark shit like that. ;-{')

Crossed the USA from San Francisco back to New York - I wish I could say on foot - but no, by car ;(. Had to deal with a kind of impatience that grabbed me in the vast openneses of Yellowstone and Crater of the Moon parks. Did not have enough time to get the city out of myself, I guess. Still, good fun on the road, in motels, parking lots, town markets... A 30 year old Mazda 626, with a 10 band equalizer under the radio, was our trusty vehicle.

In New York, was also an English tutor for two adopted Ukrainian girls. Learned some examples of the effects troubled upbringing can have. Since then, very interested in educational methods and attitudes.

One summer, with a visiting friend (Hey, Denes!), spent two weeks disassembling, cleaning and reassembling the carburetor of a 1974 KZ400 motorbike - that started up, no problemo, afterwards. Solid little ride that is!
An it's/her? maintenance taught me a kind of humility required in keeping up a system of co-working/co-moving parts. Hmm.

With friends from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, always enjoyed discussing the topics of/around the STAGE/Performance...

Split to London in 2007, where I worked as a builder/woodworker. Always loved building things and using handtools. Such a defining feature of humans (and a few other animals) - developing/using tools, right?! From the chipped stone (that was trending for hundreds of thousands of years, as I know :), through bows, nets, spears and hammers to all the variations and specialization we have now... what a journey! Also grew interested in the ergonomics of tool-usage and functional/ergonomic furniture.

I spent the spring and summer of 2009 back in Hungary, mainly because I love the language and I never had a chance to get to know Budapest (my whole family moved to the US after I finished high school).

Between 2010 and 2015 worked at Brody House and Brody Studios (now Brody Club Life). Changed positions every year or so, within the company. It was perfect. (Positions, like: IT support, in-house graphic design, audio and video tech, construction.)

Safe travels.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The best thing is how a newcommer makes you see your city with new eyes...

Interests

to observe patiently,
to discover,
to define, observe some more,
to design, observe with even greater patience ;),
to develop (if prep is good, development is child's play, ey?)
and ... use? share, put back, let it go

• poetry
• architecture
• design
• sketching
• diy
• dancing
• technology
• guitar
• communications
• teaching
• science
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

TV:
Louie
The Knick
Veep
John Oliver

Tube:
Vi Hart
The School of Life
Crash Course

Music:
Conor Oberst (check out my Best of Oberst playlist on Spoty :)
early Macklemore
Patricia Barber
some Regina Spector
Kalaka (esp. the Villon and Jozsef albums)
Cellos and violins
Tom Waits
Cseh Tamas

Writers:
Hitch
DFW
Kael
Weores Sandor
Hamvas Bela
Gergely Agnes
Susan Sontag
Emil Cioran
Szerb Antal
Henri Troyat
Glen Duncan
Lewisohn
Feldmar

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hugged all my friends after returning to Hungary. Will do the same, when I get back to the US. Miss you Pappi!

Teach, Learn, Share

The almost perfect (diy) toolbox.

A handful of clumsy guitar chords in the form of Oberst songs, mostly and a few Hungarian poems put to music. (Three types of guitar: electric, electroacoustic Related: lately I'm into simple overdubbing (song-sketching) with a portable recorder (namely the Yamaha PR7 nowdays).

Some photography tech: (eg.: spotmeter; the iso-f stop-shutter speed triangle).

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Ukraine, United States