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Chrysta

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About Me


GiffenPhotography website

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I love to read and I'm most inspired by music. I take pictures of people. I like things that are organic, old, made of metal, sharp or rusty, and wood. I like walking through the city at night and the woods at dawn.

I'm a geek

My Interests

Art, balance, beauty, existentialism, film, intelligence, motorcycles, music, openness, outsiders, philosophy, photography, piercing, scars, surrealism, symmetry, tattoos, truth

I'd like to meet:


Outsiders, existentialists, freethinkers and individuals are always welcomed into conversation. Anyone driven by passion and those who choose to evolve.

Music:

a perfect circle, a tribe called quest, aphex twin, david bowie, brazilian girls, jeff buckley, cars, johnny cash, clash, coco-rosie, cold war kids, elvis costello, cure, daft punk, darkness, de la soul, depeche mode, detroit cobras, eels, danny elfman, faint, faith no more, fugazi, gogol bordello, gorillaz, guns n' roses, jimi hendrix, buddy holly, hum, iggy pop, chris isaak, jem, joy division, zoe keating, kinks, led zeppelin, lovage, magnetic fields, massive attack, misfits, muse, joanna newsom, nirvana, oingo boingo, tom petty, pixies, portishead, prince, ramones, rancid, ratatat, lou reed, jonathan richman and the modern lovers, RJD2, rolling stones, sia, paul simon, siouxsie and the banshees, sixteen horsepower, skinny puppy, smashing pumpkins, smiths, soul coughing, spoon, t.rex, tool, tricky, tv on the radio, velvet underground, violent femmes, tom waits, white stripes, yeah yeah yeahs, and lots o' 80s synth pop

Movies:

anything directed by david lynch, michel gondry, vincent gallo, jim jarmusch, tim burton, and quentin tarantino... british comedy...

Television:

::off::

Books:

beckett, bukowski, burroughs, camus, philip k. dick, dostoevsky, neil gaiman, william gibson, kafka, ayn rand, sacher-masoch, de sade, sartre, shakespeare, h. s. thompson, tillich, vonnegut jr.... the holographic universe - michael talbot, stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers - mary roach, various book on lighting and the photographic process

Heroes:

Mom and Dad, Outsiders

My Blog

Drugs & Art

Dying young is overrated.I've seen so many young people take the "Gotta do the drugs & booze thing to make me a better artist" route over the years. A choice that wasn't smart, original, effective, he...
Posted by Chrysta on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:21:00 PST

I'm so cool

It's official.I'm an artist.HANY ARTS MAGAZINE
Posted by Chrysta on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:30:00 PST

Well, it's a start

Thanks Quae!giffenphotography...
Posted by Chrysta on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:43:00 PST

Housewarming Party!

Housewarming Party at my beautiful new apartment!Friday September 22nd8pm - Way past your bedtimeRed Wine & Vodka (or bring your fav)I like presents, bring me your artwork!RSVP to me for directionsxox...
Posted by Chrysta on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:23:00 PST

Arrr!

Which Pirates of the Caribbean character are you?
Posted by Chrysta on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:35:00 PST

aliens!

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/2c21c0f98d07b010vgnvcm1 000004eecbccdrcrd.html
Posted by Chrysta on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 10:40:00 PST