Ellie Bates Chappell
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Advertising |
| Occupation | Copywriter/Graphic Designer/Marketing/Branding/Television Producer |
| Location | Charlotte, NC, United States |
| Introduction | I often get lost in translation given the many hats I wear both professionally and personally. Having lived in a lot of different places and traveled, there are more pieces of me than I can manage at times. At my core, I am a highly sensitive person with a penchant for language and aesthetics. I try to get an open heart and love deeply and fiercely. |
| Interests | Art, Music, Gardening, Decorating, Making jewelry, drawing, painting, creating digital art, graphic design, my children, documentaries, cemeteries, photography, oak trees, vintage clothing, photography and film equipment, birds, friends, conversation, coffee, politics, social justice, sewing, paper products, good pens... |
| Favorite movies | Schindler's List; To Kill a Mockingbird; My Fair Lady; Sense and Sensibility; Into the Wild; Paris, Je t'aime; the Pirates of the Caribbean; Sleepy Hollow; Amadeus; Brother From Another Planet; the Hunger; Cat People; An Inconvenient Truth; Feeling Minnesota; Swingblade; Monster's Ball; Harry Potter series (yes, I am a dork); Star Wars movies (again, geek); Big Eden; Into the Wild: Evita: Breakfast at Tiffany's; Casablanca: What About Bob: Josie and the Pussycats: The Anniversary Party; Garden State; Sordid Lives: The Virgin Suicides |
| Favorite music | Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Elliott Smith, Iron and Wine, Band of Horses, Johnny Cash, Coldplay, Radiohead, The Breeders, The Pixies, The Cure, Sting, Coltraine, Harry Connick Jr., Winton Marsallis, Too many to even mention I am forgetting so many |
| Favorite books | To Kill a Mockingbird, anything by Fanny Flagg or Eudora Welty, WilLiam Faulkner, Hemingway, Capote, Williams, Slumdog Billionaire, Journey of Souls, for sheer guilty pleasure, Anne Rice (old stuff), Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, Trixie Beldon series, anything by Arundhati Roy,Howard Zinn, the poetry of Lord Byron,Charles Baudelaire,Naruda,Rilke and too many I am forgetting, |
When you've got water stuck in your ear, how do you get it out?
Why get it out? It's kind of fun hearing it slosh around inside of your head. Can really help pass the time if you've got nothing else to do.