Maka Si Tomni (Surround The Universe)

I am an American artist, born in 1953 from Russian parents in Argentina.
Moved to California in 1975 where in 1983 I met my wife, Los Angeles artist Gaye Frisk. We are blessed with 2 children: Sonia (b.86) & Nikolas (b.89).

I am trained as an architect, have inventor patents, have traveled to nearly 100 countries and have a business designing and handcrafting copper, brass and silver bracelets - our designs can be found in nearly 1,000 stores and galleries in the US and Canada - www.SergioLub.com

I have always been passionate about interconnecting visionary people and I am using the Internet to do it since 1995. I helped design the community building freeware Friendly Favors - www.Favors.org/FF - and the Living Directory Network - www.LivingDirectory.net - which in early 2006 is being used collaboratively by over 100 organizations and is interconnecting nearly 50,000 people in over 150 countries.

Besides virtual social networking we also organize physical gatherings several times a month, mostly around the San Francisco Bay Area, the current schedule for the Friendly Favors sponsored events can be seen at: www.favors.org/FF > Events
The See Past Events link will display over 500 events that we hosted since 1997 - If you login first you will be able to also see who came to each event and to connect with any of the participants through their current self-updated profile.

Another passion of mine is on finding alternatives and designing improvements to one of our most powerful social inventions: Money. Since 1995 I am working closely on this subject with Bernard Lietaer and Thomas Greco among others. Friendly Favors has a community currency component called Thankyou's - you can learn more about Thankyou's at FAQs in www.Favors.org/FF and by visiting this newspaper article:
http://tinyurl.com/zcm8j