CURRENT MISSION

Photograph the world!

ABOUT ME

I am a beatnik born too late. I am exploding with ideas. I want to love everybody. I am open and honest and I demand honesty. I fear less and less. I am an old spirit. I am the worker-philosopher. I am the impossible artist.

I talk 'till late, cry at music, conduct invisible orchestras, randomly cite appropriate poetry, ask inappropriate questions, fear modern civilization, want to take your picture.

I am a photographer and I recently decided I want to become a writer. I also own a small company that designs and builds all sorts of stuff: furniture, interiors, shop-signs, machines, sex toys, as long as I get some creative freedom. If I am not working, I walk around, write, read, take my friends on adventure or try to work out one of my THOUSAND ideas.

I consider myself an anarchist and I'm really into Camus but am very open to discussion. I'm into antiques and books. I like arthouse films and classics. Woodcarving, sewing, cooking and so much more.

I used to live squatted but for the first time in 6 years I am renting a house. It is about ten minutes from the central station by bus and a 20 minute walk from the center. I have 1 flatmate and a black cat (m.i.a.). We have couches and spare matrasses, and a derelict garden. I'm more than willing to show you around.

PRO-FEMINIST
PRO-QUEER

See also my photography website:
WWW.RUBENBINNENDIJK.COM

PHILOSOPHY

I do know that life is much more fun with a camera at hand.
I don't have the usual oneliner. And if I do have one it will be in the spirit of Camus, "There is no meaning of life, but searching for it gives it meaning".

Another one I find refreshing is Werner Herzog after he got shot: "It was not a significant bullet" which reveals a certain nonchalance towards the difficulties of life and a focus on the road ahead.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Of course CS is developing the bond between cultures and people, that's an important thing. But more important for me is that I want to travel cheap and help you travel cheap. I do however always search for hosts that share interests and or views and or feelings.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

various. all well.

Interests

Like above but now listed:
Analogue photography, Filmmaking, Writing, Wood- and Metal works, Arthouse films, Bebop Jazz, Psychology & Self-Analysis, inclusive feminism, Philosophy, Stroll markets and find antiques for cheap, History, Collecting (and reading) books, squatting, discussion, practical jokes, flirting, music, coffee, port wine, etc.

• cats
• arts
• humanities
• writing
• books
• poetry
• design
• photography
• documentaries
• film making
• cooking
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• classical music
• jazz
• history
• philosophy
• psychology
• feminism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
-Classical (Bach, Beethoven, Villa-Lobos, Janacek, Gorecki, Puccini, Pärt, Shchedrin)
-Jazz (Parker, Coltrane, Duke Jordan, Nina Simone, Billy Holiday, Dave Brubeck, etc.)
-Postrock (A Silver Mt. Zion, Godspeed, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, Popol Vuh)
-Antifolk (Bonnie Prince Billy, Smog, Sufjan Stevens, Daniel Johnston, and many more)
-Folk (Leonard Cohen, Muyayos de Raïz, Caspian Hat Dance, Gypsy, Klezmer, Irish, Dylan)
-And more (Matt Elliott, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Slagmalsklubben, Nick Cave, Janis, Dark Dark Dark, Arcade Fire, Jaques Brel, Neil Young, Moondog, Meatloaf, etc.)
Books:
Albert Camus, Jack Kerouac, Arthur Miller, Simone de Beauvoir, Raymond Queneau, Woody Allen, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg and many more.
Movies:
Mirror + all films by Andrei Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog, Reds by Warren Beatty, El Sur by Victor Erice, Belovy by Viktor Kossakovsky, Sunset Blvd by Wilder, La Meglio Giuventù by Giordana, Barry Lyndon by Kubrick, La Double Vie de Veronique by Kieslovsky, Mephisto by Szabo, Hiroshima mon Amour by Resnais, Il Posto by Olmi, Betty Blue by Beineix, Kaos by Taviani Bros., Fanfare by Haanstra, Naked Lunch by Cronenberg, Doctor Zhivago by Lean, In the Mood for Love by Kar Wai, Lolita by Lyne, Arizona Dream by Kusturica, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kaufman, many works of Antonioni, Godard, Truffaut, Fellini, Visconti, Kusturica, Medem, and still many others

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once I travelled Europe for an entire month on a fake interrail ticket!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you many things on photography, film and construction. I do a pretty good psychotherapy if you want :). I really like to share and learn as well in these fields.
I take a pretty good portrait!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands