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Chantal

Loose lips sink ships

About Me

My Interests

photography- film, digital, lomography.
kitties
reading good books.
stenciling
art
Conan O'Brien
traveling
thrift store shopping
concerts
swing dancing, ballroom dancing.
making scrapbooks
making felt pins, making handmade stuff for the people I love.
painting
star gazing
quotations and poetry.

I'd like to meet:

about me

I want to: travel the world, swim with dolphins, sting rays and manatees, ride in a hot air balloon (over someplace beautiful), zip through trees, help change the world for the better, fly an airplane, go surfing, go snowboarding, camp in the Redwood forest, find a hidden waterfall, rid the world of mosquitoes, cuddle a penguin, renovate an old theater or church into my house, find a hidden room, find a secret passage way, be a pirate and sail the seven seas, join the aquabats, cuddle an owl, have one of my photos hang in a museum, cuddle a brontosaurs, hang glide, catch the wind in a jar, write a great book, paint/collage a masterpiece, inspire people.

-Single
-Straight
-Christian
-Student at Wayne State University, Double Majoring= Photography and Graphic Design.

Interests

photography-film, digital, lomography. Kitties, owls, dinosaurs, penguins, unicorns. Reading good books. Collecting keys, antiques, antique and vintage children's books, pop-up books, vinyl records, cameras, old and forgotten photos. Stenciling. Art. Conan O'Brien. Traveling. Thrift store shopping. Concerts. Making collages. Making felt pins. Making handmade stuff for the people I love. Painting. Star gazing. Quotations and poetry.

Films

The Science of Sleep, Pan's labyrinth, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Amelie, Ever After, Anchorman, Return to Oz, Krull, X-Men, The Dark Crystal, Edward Scissorhands, Empire Records, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Interview with a Vampire, Finding Neverland, Night at the Museum, Everything is illuminated, Pirates of the Carribean, The Labyrinth, Lord of the Rings, The Notebook, SLC Punk, Trainspotting, The boondock Saints, Spirited Away, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Ladyhawke, History of the World Part I, Fight Club, Sleepy Hollow, Moulin Rouge, The Frighteners, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Saved, My Fair Lady, Sabrina, Surf ninjas, while you were sleeping, a walk in the clouds, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, A Little Princess, Lady and the tramp, Milo and Otis, Peter pan, Zoolander, The Secret Garden, Robin hood men in tights, Super mario brothers, Legend, Eragon, Lady in the water, The Illusionist.

Music

Ben Kweller, the format, Boys Night Out, Brandtson, Brazil, regina spektor, Circa Survive, Alexisonfire, Damien rice, Regine spektor, Cartel, Anberlin, Anti-Flag, Aquabats, Fear before the march of flames, Coheed & Cambria, Copeland, Deathcab for Cutie, Dead poetic, The Bled, Eisley, Emery, Ettison Clio, Fordirelifesake, Sigur ros, Gatsby’s American Dream, He Is Legend, The Hippos, Homegrown, Hot Hot Heat, Ima Robot, Jamison Parker, The Julianna Theory, The June Spirit, Less Than Jake, Mae, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, Motion City Soundtrack, Mustard Plug, Operation Ivy, The Planet Smashers, The Postal Service, Reel Big Fish, Reggie and the Full Effect, Rilo Kiley, The Rocket Summer, Saves the Day, Shai Hulud, The Specials, The Shins, The Starting Line, Stryder, Suburban Legends, The Suicide Machines, Thrice, Thursday, The Toasters, Underoath, Sufjan Stevens, Waking Ashland, A Wilhelm Scream, Across Five Aprils, Bear vs Shark, Ben Folds Five, Billy Joel, Elton John, Blindside, Brand New, Circle takes the square, Cold play, Comeback kid, Converge, Cursive, Dean martin, The dillinger escape plan, The hope conspiracy, Frank sinatra, Funeral for a friend, Hellogoodbye, Horse the band, Refused, It dies today, Le tigre, Minus the bear, Showbread, Tegan and sara, Between the buried and me, The locust, The snake the cross the crown, The unicorns, The yeah yeah yeahs, Dismemberment plan, Patrick wolf, Neutral milk hotel, Cat power, Metric, Queen, Say anything, Wilco, Landon Pigg, The beach boys, The beatles, and the list goes on........

Books

Anne Rice The Vampire Chronicles, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Lovely Bones, GOOSEBUMPS!, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Alice in wonderland and through the looking glass, any of Chuck Palahniuk books, anything by Shel Silverstein, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Inkspell, Inkheart, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Golden Compass, Eragon, Eldest. Bible, Idiot box ugly betty, heroes, rocko's modern life, clarissa explains it all, adventures in wonderland, hey dude, Adventures of Pete & Pete, Are you afraid of the dark?, Eerie Indiana, Antiques roadshow, The Muppet babies, Doug, Kablam!, Gumby, Legends Of The Hidden Temple, Salute Your Shorts, The Secret World of Alex Mack, Tiny toons, AAAHH!!!!! Real Monsters!, Smallville, The Joy of painting, The Soup, The Ghost Whisper, Supernatural, Psych, Scrubs, Wonderfalls, KIDS IN THE HALL, Cities of the underworld, any kind of ghost show, and anything on the travel channel.

Heroes

This bridge will only take you halfway there To those mysterious lands you long to see: Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fairs And moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share The twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there- The last few steps you'll have to take alone. -shel silverstein
“Here lies one whose name was writ in water." “Love is my religion - I could die for it." -John Keats
“Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe." -St. Augustine
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." -Oscar Wilde“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." - Jonathan SwiftMy mom, Audrey Hepburn, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jesus, An endless list of artist, People that are helping make this world a better place.

Music:

Ben Kweller, the format, Boys Night Out, Brandtson, Brazil, regina spektor, Circa Survive, Alexisonfire, Damien rice, Regine spektor, Cartel, Anberlin, Anti-Flag, Aquabats, Fear before the march of flames, Coheed & Cambria, Copeland, Deathcab for Cutie, Dead poetic, The Bled, Eisley, Emery, Ettison Clio, Fordirelifesake, Sigur ros, Gatsby’s American Dream, He Is Legend, The Hippos, Homegrown, Hot Hot Heat, Ima Robot, Jamison Parker, The Julianna Theory, The June Spirit, Less Than Jake, Mae, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, Motion City Soundtrack, Mustard Plug, Operation Ivy, The Planet Smashers, The Postal Service, Reel Big Fish, Reggie and the Full Effect, Rilo Kiley, The Rocket Summer, Saves the Day, Shai Hulud, The Specials, The Shins, The Starting Line, Stryder, Suburban Legends, The Suicide Machines, Thrice, Thursday, The Toasters, Underoath, Sufjan Stevens, Waking Ashland, A Wilhelm Scream, Across Five Aprils, Bear vs Shark, Ben Folds Five, Billy Joel, Elton John, Blindside, Brand New, Circle takes the square, Cold play, Comeback kid, Converge, Cursive, Dean martin, The dillinger escape plan, The hope conspiracy, Frank sinatra, Funeral for a friend, Hellogoodbye, Horse the band, Refused, It dies today, Le tigre, Minus the bear, Showbread, Tegan and sara, Between the buried and me, The locust, The snake the cross the crown, The unicorns, The yeah yeah yeahs, Dismemberment plan, Patrick wolf, Neutral milk hotel, Cat power, Metric, Queen, Say anything, Wilco, Landon Pigg, The beach boys, The beatles, and the list goes on........

Movies:

The Science of Sleep, Pan's labyrinth, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Amelie, Ever After, Anchorman, Return to Oz, Krull, X-Men, The Dark Crystal, Edward Scissorhands, Empire Records, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Interview with a Vampire, Finding Neverland, Night at the Museum, Everything is illuminated, Pirates of the Carribean, The Labyrinth, Lord of the Rings, The Notebook, SLC Punk, Trainspotting, The boondock Saints, Spirited Away, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Ladyhawke, History of the World Part I, Fight Club, Sleepy Hollow, Moulin Rouge, The Frighteners, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Saved, My Fair Lady, Sabrina, Surf ninjas, while you were sleeping, a walk in the clouds, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, A Little Princess, Lady and the tramp, Milo and Otis, Peter pan, Zoolander, The Secret Garden, Robin hood men in tights, Super mario brothers, Legend, Eragon, Lady in the water, The Illusionist.

Television:

I know tv melts my brain! ugly betty, heroes, rocko's modern life, clarissa explains it all, adventures in wonderland, hey dude, Adventures of Pete & Pete, Are you afraid of the dark?, Eerie Indiana, Antiques roadshow, The Muppet babies, Doug, Kablam!, Gumby, Legends Of The Hidden Temple, Salute Your Shorts, The Secret World of Alex Mack, Tiny toons, AAAHH!!!!! Real Monsters!, Smallville, The Joy of painting, The Soup, The Ghost Whisper, Supernatural, Psych, Scrubs, Wonderfalls, KIDS IN THE HALL, Cities of the underworld, any kind of ghost show, and anything on the travel channel.

Books:

Anne Rice The Vampire Chronicles, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Lovely Bones, GOOSEBUMPS!, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Alice in wonderland and through the looking glass, any of Chuck Palahniuk books, anything by Shel Silverstein, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Inkspell, Inkheart, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Golden Compass, Eragon, Eldest. Bible, 33 The sword of truth series by Terry Goodkind.

Heroes:

This bridge will only take you halfway there To those mysterious lands you long to see: Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fairs And moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share The twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there- The last few steps you'll have to take alone. -shel silverstein
“Here lies one whose name was writ in water." “Love is my religion - I could die for it." -John Keats
“Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe." -St. Augustine
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." -Oscar Wilde
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." - Jonathan Swift
“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera." -Yousuf Karsh
My mom, Audrey Hepburn, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jesus, An endless list of artist, People that are helping make this world a better place.

My Blog

Lighting project photos.

So today I was feeling a bit better so Nicolle (my older sister) modeled for my pictures for my photo project.She is so pretty!Then we went to a sunflower field!Lens flare is bad in some of these.magn...
Posted by Chantal on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:19:00 PST

Photos from Ann Arbor and an adventure in Detroit.

So theses are from Ann Arbor a week ago. I had Josh and Leslie skateboard for this project for my photo class. I wanted to do more time photos (these ones show movement). We also went to see the movie...
Posted by Chantal on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:57:00 PST

WSU and Detroit Public Library photos.

So today after my photo class I went to lunch with Tanya. Then she had to go and I was already really late for my next class and my sociology class was canceled. So I had a few hours to spare.  S...
Posted by Chantal on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:33:00 PST

Some photos.

  I took these at Leslie's brothers house. They had a really pretty garden.And I made this for a freind....
Posted by Chantal on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 04:11:00 PST

I made a carry with me journal!

This is my thought/random/doodle journal. I'll take it everywhere with me so I can write in it if I get inspired. I bought it at the dollar store and then I decorated it! ...
Posted by Chantal on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:23:00 PST