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About Me

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The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life. There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. -Ansel Adams
With that said, let's browse..
I have been interested in photography ever since I can remember getting an old 35mm camera with the 110 film that comes in little cartridges. @__@.
After playing around with snapshots.. I picked back up in Highschool and developed black and whites in the darkroom. I think I may have won a photo contest for the shot I dubbed "cat playing the piano."
Years later, I now bought myself an SLR based off the same platform that I shot B&W in middle school. A trusty Canon EOS Rebel.
Currently I am shooting people/club & DJ events. Here are some promoters and venues that support my work.
Avalon Hollywood, Every Saturday
4th Friday's @ King King, Hollywood
3rd Friday's @ PLAY, Hollywood
My photography is in effect!!! Keep an eye out for updates. :) THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT.
-Chris
BLOG :: Photo Gallery :: PODCAST! www.csoltis.com
I DJ with Ableton live for fun, and put my experiments on the internets. ;)
I have loved music ever since I was a baby. My mom used to play the radio in the minivan back before I was allowed to change the channel myself. I was exposed to all sorts of music as a kid. Dad played the guitar with old friends around the campfire. Old folk songs from the 50's and 60's, Peter Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio, and John Denver. Classic rock was not really my thing until sometime after high school but my tastes had morphed from guitar based music to the piano to synth based electronic and experimental melodies.
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My Interests

conversations about our waking life, driving, exploring, taking pictures, partying until the sun comes up, the subconcious, trying new things, taking long trips inside your mind....
The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving. yet..my hobbies include.. The internets, making computers do stuff God never intended them to do, cars, photography, music, bedroom DJ'ing for sport, Good Beer(ghaaaaaaaaa mmmmm beeeeer *DROOL*), Spending time with all my GREAT friends!
oh, and NPR... is awesome.. sometimes I listen to 2 or 3 "This I Believe" stories JUST to renew my faith in humanity.

I'd like to meet:

Great friends and/or personal relationships. Someone to share my hobbies, interests with or just kick it oldschool.

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Music:

[first lines] Rob: What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?
I Music is a performative art. It stresses movement through time and engages our suggestive sense of its passing. Music has tendency, it normally invokes goals of various sorts, both near and far. Music has closure, a sensation not just of ending, but of expecting no more. Music also has accent. It is a dynamic process of stresses and nuance that often varies in dimension from one performance to the next.
Genres:
Electronic Dance Music: Progressive/Minimal/Tech/Deep: House/Techno Indie/Underground/Alternative/Experimental/College: Rock 80's/Classic/Modern: Pop Rock Some REAL/Oldschool: Hip Hop
Some of my favorites: INCUBUS, Radiohead, Muse, The Shins, Pink Floyd, The Beach Boys, Fountains of Wayne, BT, Ben Watt,(and Everything but the girl), UNDERWORLD, Frou Frou/Imogen Heap, Sasha, Kraftwerk, New Order, Joy Division, Chicane, Jason Mraz, Ben Folds, John Mayer, Daft Punk, Journey, Modest Mouse, Athlete, Mae, Bloc Party, Prodigy, Jurassic 5, Hernan Cattaneo, Coldplay, Althlete, Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles.

Movies:

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Garden State, Pulp Fiction, Officespace, The Big Lebowski (Dude), American Psycho, Fight Club, American Beauty, Leon The Professional, Run Lola Run, Lost in Translation, American History X, Waking Life, Almost Famous, Fear and Loathing. :)

Books:

The Areas of My Expertise; John Hodgman. Is the Internet NOT a giant electronic book?!?!

Heroes:

A person normally becomes a hero by performing an extraordinary and praiseworthy deed. Traditional deeds are slaying of monsters and saving people from certain death.Anybody who slays a monster for me automatically qualifies.