CURRENT MISSION

eat well in far away places with rad people.

ABOUT ME

i'm a hollywood film concept designer (do a lot of futuristic and sci fi films - avatar, man of steel jurassic world etc)
super easy going. love food and music and traveling!

i went to a lot of international schools growing up so i guess thats where i got my travel bug.
i've lived in 8 countries (us, canada, england, china, taiwan, korea, hong kong, and thailand) and traveled to over 60.

i dont surf to save money. i can afford hotels. i am always considerate of my hosts and will usually offer to take you out to a meal or drinks in appreciation and comradery. i actually want to get to know local culture and people.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/modernist/
recently (last two years) i've been to costa rica, mexico, thailand, hong kong, chile, bolivia and peru, and before that i spent 1.5 years travelling in asia...

PHILOSOPHY

produce lots of culture and consume lots of food.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

travel at every opportunity.
meet locals.
host when i can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

met some couchsurfers on the road in central asia so i figured it would be a good way to hook up with some cool folks...

i finally did some surfing in israel, spain and morocco, and hosted some travelers in baton rouge, new orleans, and hawaii when i was living there working on a movie.

Interests

my obsessions are mostly around food and music, coming up next in line would be art, architecture, literature, film etc. you know... the usual..

• arts
• culture
• literature
• architecture
• design
• dining
• partying
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• surfing
• scuba diving
• zip-line
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

music: excited for the new beach house album. the smiths,the cure, tom waits, osanna, slint, pelican, el perro del mar, destroyer, gainsbourg, blonde redhead, japanese appropriations, mahavishnu orchestra, bach, the radio dept. band of horses, vampire weekend, kahimi karie, caribou, and gangster rap.

books: borges, relax mag, 1up, salman rushdie, lu xun, calvino, studio voice, kenzaburo oe, bulgakov, abe kobo, alain robbe-grillet, paul virilio, dostoevsky, confucious annalects, kawabata yasunari charles mingus "cat-alog"

movie: 70s car racing films, polanski, tron, cool as ice, monte hellman, seijun suzuki, cremaster(s), ones i worked on.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

diving the blue hole in belize
staying with shepherd family in their yurt in kyrgyzstan,
cliff diving in guatemala
hitchhiking all over europe
eating cuy in cusco,
angkor watt all by myself at sunrise
alone on the great wall of china
pissing on desert sand
zip lining in costa rica
partying with indie hipster kids in jerusalem
being above the clouds near lago de atitlan in guatemala
burning man
trekking to hang out with a giant wild silverback gorilla in uganda
great white shark dive in south africa
masa mara great wildebeast migration

Teach, Learn, Share

those with something to say.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, England, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United States

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