[about me]
Hi there. My name is Gabe. My job title says industrial designer…but again…that’s just a title. Alan Watts said it best, “When asked what/who you are it is like unpeeling an onion.” We aren’t the layers of onion itself, but the space in between the layers. With that, I am a transhumanist with a monkey lust for technology. I collect technology as artifact, metafact, and idea. I like what technology could do for us as a species, but as device not mantra.
I never had a religious chapter of my life because frankly I find religions either too expensive or too contradictory for my taste. So I just enjoy life. Accepting what is, with my own filter of ideals that I use as mantra but not device. I can’t say I don’t believe in anything bigger than me, because I’ve seen elephants; those things are huge!
At the end of the day, I am glad to have a roof over my head, a refrigerator full of food, and a city outside my window that finally feels like home. Portland, Oregon is a great place. I bike. I blog. I lust. I play guitar…poorly but proudly. I capture video. I jowl. I laugh…hard.
Enjoy the site and feel free to drop me a line at gabriel [at] gabrielmathews dot com
-Gabe