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Niko

tapping into the essence

About Me

About Me

I make music videos.
I do motion graphics .
I drive really fast, throw knives, fly airplanes, and jump out of them.
I'm a collector of perfect moments.
I speak English, Spanish, Feline, and the unspoken.
I have the most amazing friends in the world.

My Interests



abstraction + awakening
activations + the ancient future
awareness + awe
avocados + mangosteens
burningman
chacmools + toltecs
equanimity + evolution
film + music video making
flying airplanes + jumping out
immersion + magic
pomegranates + pussywillows
pre-raphaelites + dakinis
spelunking + scubadiving
traveling + quantum physics

I'd like to meet:

who i'd like to meet

unlimited, graceful or luminous archetypes.
all of the 9 muses.
people who make tinctures perfumes absinthe or mead.
people who don't take themselves too seriously.
Bjork, Bast, da Vinci, Rumi, Mucha, you.

what the moon looks like

Music:



nasty breaks & IDM
that crazy shit my friends Shawna & Ooah spin

Anouar Brahem
Boards of Canada
Cat Power
Cibo Matto
Elliott Smith
Familiar Trees
Jeff Buckley
Mala Rodriguez
M.I.A.
Mum
Murcof
My Bloody Valentine
Nick Drake
Telefon Tel Aviv
The Pixies
Prefuse 73
Radiohead
Savath+Savalas
Sigur Ros
Slowdive
Sonic Youth
The Velvet Underground

Movies:



Amelie
Blade Runner
Blueberry
Dune
Donnie Darko
Fight Club
Garden State
Girl on the Bridge
Harold + Maude
Immortel
Legend
Matrix
The Royal Tannenbaums
Sex + Lucia
Spirited Away

Anything by: Greenaway, Jeunet, Jodorowsky

Television:

is dead.
But ...

... is hilarious.
Andy Milanokis is even funnier,
even though he's 27.

Books:



Anything by Paulo Coelho, Kahlil Gibran, Guy Gavriel Kay, Haruki Murakami, Tom Robbins, Leonard Shlain, Neal Stephenson

"Throat Sprockets" by Tim Lucas
"The Tao of Physics" by Fritjof Capra
"Temporary Autonomous Zone" by Hakim Bey
"Harold and the Purple Crayon" by Crockett Johnson

Heroes:



Aya Kato
Bjork
Tyler Durden
Gandhi
John Lilly
Barack Obama
Joseph Campbell
Netochka Nezvanova
Sean Penn
Tom Tomorrow
Tony Millionaire
Paul Watson (the Sea Shepherd)

artists who don't compromise

My Blog

bali

i'm in bali. i was on my way to india to hike the himalayas for 4 months, sleep in caves, immerse in that ancient beauty.. but i got broadsided by the muse, and now i'm designing and manifesting such ...
Posted by Niko on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:39:00 PST

r33L

wow neato! my reel is online for YOU to enjoy, or laugh and throw darts at. turn up the volume! it looks best that way, and makes aiming easier..
Posted by Niko on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 07:08:00 PST

Hafiz

You carry All the ingredients To turn your life into a nightmare - Dont mix them! You have all the genius To build a swing in your backyard For God. That sounds like a lot more fu...
Posted by Niko on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

peeling fruit is loathsome?

According to the Ayatollah's book of Etiquette: 120. The sweat of a camel that eats unclean substances is unclean. 464. If a woman begins menstruating while praying, her prayer is void. 2,629...
Posted by Niko on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

not very ferret like...

According to googlism, this is what the world thinks of me: niko is a considerable build up of cash according to first energy niko is a handsome buff cocker with white streak down his nose niko i...
Posted by Niko on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST