Bio: | The coin of his realm is ideas and their human origins. He’s an idea omnivore. A bottle of wine, a light meal, a good view, a long night ahead and a companion's open mind = heaven to him. He’s done this all over the world and never tires of it.
He’s had a few episodes of what he believes to be (non-medicated) adventitious synæsthesia in his life. These involved architecture and music. He’s been trying to figure out why ever since. He’s attempting to write a novel and screenplay about it. In the meantime, his interests in architecture & phenomenology, cultural exchange, art and science often keep him awake at night. He could be staring at the flashing cursor on his monitor and wondering: “If the hardiness of our symbiotic gut flora is so damned impressive in breaking down fuel and warding off predators maybe we should train it to live on the outside of our bodies so we can survive…” Zzzzz (dreaming of Kathryn playing piano in her bare feet)
Next:
Book, film, archinect, building, learning a dying language, visiting the Maldives before they disappear.
Present life:
Writer, photographer, budding filmmaker, family man, investigating M. arch options.
Past life:
Animist, altar boy, ski freak/bike freak, corporate finance, .edu instigator, marketing vp, co-founder Web design studio.
Seminal events:
Montreal Olympics ’76; F1 racing - behind the scenes with dad; first walk-through Maison Alcan & Mercantile Building (Ray Affleck architect) & Safdie’s Habitat '67; Via Design Conference, Montréal, 1984; Heritage Montreal; Hong Kong 1989; Mahler’s Ninth, Royal Albert Hall; Provence with dad; Web 1.0; Quebec referendum 1995; Kathryn, 2000.
Interests:
Nature, architecture, photography, art, design, aesthetics, contemporary danse, music, literature, politics, philosophy, film, cognitive science, astronomy, cosmology.
Obsessions:
Time, speed, ideas, space, pattern recognition, consciousness.
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