Fast 15 with Elias Opgenorth
1. What is your role at The Print Room?
I think the ad I replied to was for a “heat applied products technician.”
2. Share a portrait of yourself
3. Share a favourite place of yours
The Salmon River, Idaho USA
4. What are your hobbies?
Snowboarding, surfing, kayaking, rafting, mountain biking, etc
5. Got any book recommendations?
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
The Emerald Mile - Kevin Fedarko
6. What’s your go-to coffee?
Coconut flat white, but oat will do in a pinch
7. What are your all-time favourite albums?
Live on Red Barn Radio - Tyler Childers
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
Tommy - The Who
8. Your lifelong dream?
Move to New Zealand - check!
9. What are you doing to help the environment?
I can’t remember the last thing I bought new. I try my best to reduce my consumption, reuse when I have to and recycle what I can.
10. What were you doing before TPR and what brought you here?
Last winter I was home in the States working as an expedition raft guide on the Salmon River. I had just finished a working holiday in New Zealand, but a girl brought me back to Dunedin. She had nothing but good things to say about The Print Room and she wasn’t lying.
11. Take a snap of something that makes you happy:
12. If you had unlimited Airpoints and could go to one country tomorrow, where would it be and why?
Innsbruck, Austria, has always been a place I've wanted to revisit. It’s the most beautiful city I've ever been to.
13. We heard you’re into wild adventures! Tell us about the wildest story from your river rafting days…
Last season on the Salmon River a wildfire broke out and burned down our camp. We escaped with only twenty minutes to spare. Had to raft through the flames another 15 miles to get to safety. And that was only on day two of a six-day trip!
14. You’re having a dinner party at your house. What do you make?
Coconut curry. Easy, quick and can accommodate a lot of dietary requirements.
15. You’re allowed three famous guests at this dinner party. Who are they and why?
I would want to have a good time, so I would go with some of my favourite comedians. Probably Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K. and John Stewart.
