ABOUT ME

I'm Moncef, 31 from Tunisia. I work for a US company, Vistaprint as a technical team Manager. I've studied software ingineering and am definitely into art: cinema, music, theater, modern dancing... I like traveling around the world and meeting people to share activities and experience new lifestyles.

PHILOSOPHY

My sacred trinity: ART, SCIENCE & LOVE!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Several experiences as a guest/host which were amazingly inspirational. I love taking people to the places I love in Tunisia.

Interests

Music, Theater, Dancing, Traveling, Cinema, Reading, Museums, Poetry, Walking, Sightseeing, Photography, Video editing and VFX, 3D modeling and animation...

• arts
• books
• poetry
• theater
• photography
• dancing
• wine
• modeling
• walking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• alternative music
• animation
• communications
• philosophy
• science
• software
• sightseeing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music
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Electronica, Trip hop & Alterna Music: Emilie Simon, Massive Attack, Bjork, Emilie Autumn, Emiliana Torrini, Kate Bush, Ez3kiel, Klaus Nomi, Camille, Kyteman Orchestra, Portishead, Gotan Project, Morcheeba, Bauhaus, Princess Chelsea, Emilie Loizeau, Goldfrapp, Pendulum, David Lynch, The do, Son Lux

Psychedelic folk/Indie: Cocorosie, Joanna Newsom, Antony and the Johnsons, The Irrepressibles, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Daphnee, Keren Ann, My Brightest Diamond, London Grammar

Epic/Symphonic/Gothic Rock,Metal: Nightwish, Within Temptation, Apocalyptica, Haggard, Autumn, Therion, Lacrimosa, Estatic Fear, Sarah Brightman.

Alternative Rock/Metal: Evanescence, Muse, Radiohead, Bauhaus, Amanda Palmer

Industrial: Marylin Manson, Rammstein, NIN, Igorrr

Dark Cabaret/Boogie: Voltaire, The Dresden Dolls, Stolen Babies, Diablo swing Orchestra, Olivia Ruiz, Amelie Les Crayons.

Avant-garde/Overtone/Jazz: Diamanda Galas, Dead Can Dance, Fatima Miranda, Aziza Mustapha Zadeh, Yma Sumac, Ricinn, Dhafer Youssef, Sainkho Namtchilak

Instrumental/World: Anouar Brahem, Fairuz, Mejda Roumi, Yann Tiersen, Mugar, Souad Massi, Allan Stivell, Trio Jobran, Omnia, A-WA, Loreena Mcknitt, Yemen blues, Corvus Corax, Chinese Opera.

Classical: Bach, Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, Delallande, Stravinsky, Wagner, Vivaldi, Satie.
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Movies
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Favorites Directors:

Wong Kar wai, Pedro Almodovar, Lars Von Trier, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Myasaki, Kurusawa, Bergman, David Lynch, Emir Kusturica, Zhang Yimou, Alain Resanais, Tim Burton, Luis Buňuel, Abbas Kiarostami, Eliah Souleiman, Abdellatif Kechiche, Fadhel Jaïbi, Gaspar Noé, Kim Ki Duk, Stanley Kubric, Naceur Khemir.
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Writers:
Oscar Wilde, Thoreau, George Orwell, Lucrecius, Bernard Werber, Amin Maalouf, Marylin French, Isaac Asimov, Tolkien, Amelie Nothomb, Michel Onfray, Nietzsche, OmarAlkhayam...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Visiting lapland in Sweden (Santa Klaus Home).
Co-founding an alternative music band (Bibouddha), releasing an album and touring...
Secretly tracking and photographing anonymous people all day long then destroying the pics...

Teach, Learn, Share

The ideosphere, much like the noosphere, is the realm of memetic evolution, just like the biosphere is the realm of biological evolution. It is the "place" where thoughts, theories and ideas is thought to be created, evaluated and evolved. The health of an ideosphere can be measured by its memetic diversity.
The ideosphere is not considered to be a physical place by most people. It is instead "inside the minds" of all the humans in the world. It is also, sometimes, believed that the internet, books and other media could be considered to be part of the ideosphere. Alas, as such media are not aware, it cannot process the thoughts it contains.
Aaron Lynch claims to have co-invented this word with Douglas Hofstadter in the mid-80s.
According to philosopher Yasuhiko Kimura, the ideosphere is presently in the form of a "concentric ideosphere" where ideas are generated by a few people with others merely perceiving and accepting these ideas from these "external authorities." He advocates an "omnicentric ideosphere" were all individuals create new ideas and interact as self-authorities.

--> In other words: let's merge our ideospheres!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Intriguing discussions, Tunisian scents and wine, my artwork...

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Egypt, France, Germany, Jamaica, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Tunisia, United States