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Overview

  • 13 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Icelandic, Swedish; learning Danish, Faroese
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Cinematographer & Technical Director @ Icelandic Film...
  • The Icelandic Film Academy 2010
  • From Reykjavík, Iceland
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Making sure that the stitching on my T-Shirt are always outwards, due to irritation.

ABOUT ME

I am an easy to get to know kind of guy, nothing surprises me, i love people, i love music, i love photography, i love filming, i love nature, i love partying and most of all i love life. :D

Well. Since you are reading this i guess i don't have to tell you that i come from a small country in the North Atlantic Ocean just south of the Arctic Circle, known for it's spectacular landscape and untouched nature(almost). I live in the capital city where strange and lured things happend during the weekend, the party's here are really something to experience, nightclubs and bars are open to 7:30 in the morning so the city is alive to 9 in the morning, thats when the normal people wake up and fill the streets.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is a state that distinguishes organisms from non-living objects, such as non-life, and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism and reproduction. Some living things can communicate and many can adapt to their environment through changes originating internally. A physical characteristic of life is that it feeds on negative entropy.
In more detail, according to physicists such as John Bernal, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, and John Avery, life is a member of the class of phenomena which are open or continuous systems able to decrease their internal entropy at the expense of substances or free energy taken in from the environment and subsequently rejected in a degraded form.<--- Whatever says there.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I try to do as much as i can, from picking up hitch hikers to hosting surfers, showing them my country and all in between.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

What brought me here (CouchSurfing) is that 2 years ago i found 2 German guys (Tilly and Toby) outside my work who had planned to sleep outside the City Bus Terminal, i had a little chat with them and they had hitch hiked across the country and were really low on cash, so low in fact that they had no place to stay, so that's how it happened. I invited them to stay at my place. They stayed with me for 12 days and me and my housemate got the chance to spoil them a little. The gratitude they showed us was so amazing so i decided to open up an account here, hoping to meet more amazing people.

Interests

1. Filming
2. Photography
3. People
4. Music
5. Partying
6. Travel(duhh of course)
7. More music
8. And more people
9. Eating
10. Sleeping

  • photography
  • film making
  • environment
  • partying
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • history
  • tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Some Music:
Bon Iver, Patrick Watson, Cocorosie, Mogwai, Pavement, Veto, Philip Glass, The Flaming Lips, Built to spill, Dinosaur Jr, Sigur Rós, Animal Collective, Booka Shade, Borko, The Arcade Fire, Lisa Ekdahl, Explosions in the sky, Cold War Kids, Godspeed! you black emperor, ...And you will know us by the trail of dead, Holy Fuck, Modest Mouse, LCD soundsystem Daft Punk, Sonic Youth, The Knife, The Strokes, Tom Waits, Why?, Jóhann Kristinsson, Sudden Weather Change, Simon Viklund, Beirut, John Frusciante, The Tallest Man Alive, King Crimson, Syd Barrett, Hanz Simmer, Boards of Canada, Qwel, Pennywise, Radiohead, Cyne, Joy Division, Beck, Architecture in Helsinki, Tom Waits, Bill Callahan, Louis Logic, David Bowie and many many more.
Some Directors:
Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Frederico Fellini, Harmony Korine, Ingmar Bergman, John Samuel Waters, Klaus Kinski, Larry Clark, Lars Von Trier, Michael Haneke, Russ Meyer, Sion Sono, Michael Cuesta, Stanley Kubrick, Werner Herzog, Woody Allen, Guy Ritchie, Alfonso Cuarón, Gaspar Noé, Sergio Leone, Steven Spielberg, Darren Aronofsky and many many more.
Some Movies:
Altered States, A Clockwork Orange, The Man from Earth, The Host, Falling Down, Man Bites Dog, The Misfortunates, L.I.E., Downfall, Multiple Maniacs, The Vanishing,, Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, The Machinist, Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels, Snatch, Hitch hikers Guide To the Galaxy, Amores Perros, Badlands, Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, Ex Drummer, Irréversible, Kynodontas, Martyrs, Mysterious Skin, Science of Sleep, Tennen Kokekko, Y tu mamá también, Seul contre tous, Enter The Void, Irreversible, Requiem for a Dream, Das Boot, Groundhog Day, 8 1/2 and many many more.
Books:
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, God is not great, The missionary position, Reefer Men, The God Delusion and i must admit i did enjoy Dan Brown's books.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Making movies!!!

Teach, Learn, Share

I know a lot about movies, film making and Film history, and i know a lot about European and ofc Icelandic music, and i love exchanging music with foreign people, widening my variety of music, you never got enough music in your veins, and of course i have a few lessons up my sleeve <--- is that how you write sleeve? I also know somewhat about my country and am a spectacular tour guide.

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, Faroe Islands, Lithuania, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, Iceland, Sweden

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