January 2012
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As I stood washing dishes, thinking of all the things I needed to do, I wondered why they show our future tech as one big touchscreen. Our brains can multitask, our hands can’t.
December 2011
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On writing...
It’s all right,” said Wilcox, “I’ve finished it.” “What? Have you beenworking?“ “I always work at night.” “What’ve you done? A treatment?” “No, a shooting script. At first I was held back by personal worries, but once I got started it was very simple. You just get behind the camera and dream.” Rene Wilcox to...
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November 2011
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Meet the woman who is running DARPA in this month’s @fastcompany: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/regina-dugan-darpa I love finding articles about badass, brilliant women. For those of you who are science and technology buffs like me, it’s exciting to read about Regina Dugan, who’s looking to both speed up and open up innovation, and even turn to crowdsourcing. And it...
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Dear @IMDB rankings & @klout: You don’t define me. Sincerely, Taryn.
My daily musing.
—t
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The corporate ladder is gone. That linear, vertical path to success, where you’re rewarded one step at a time, assured growth and prosperity if you stay hard working and loyal? Dead. Extinct. Blown up. What exists now? The corporate jungle gym, the gauntlet, the TARDIS. One innovative decision could propel you into the stratosphere, and 20 years of service could get you a pink slip. Your...
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Sometimes your best doesn’t get you the gig. But one of these days it will. You have to trust in something, right? Trust in your passion, in your talent, and in your purpose. And continue to be brilliant.
—my random musing for the day.
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http://www.barrettgarese.com/post/12175672009/seven... →
So now I have to do 9 days when I start up again to best you?! :) Thrilled to inspire you to get back on track my friend. I find I am truly addicted to challenges.
spytap:
So one again, I’ve found myself inspired by Taryn O’Neill to actually act on something I’ve been thinking of doing (damn her and her pesky actioning of items.)
Ever since I joined blip, I’ve been slacking off on my...
October 2011
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5toFit Day3and4
Oops, I let the last 2 days get away from me without posting updates on my 5toFit adventures! Sorry about that - Adventures are tiring and I’m wiped -I can’t even remember what I did yesterday :). But in a nutshell, I have eaten a lot of food of the green vegetable variety, shunned starchy sugary foods and alcohol, and kept my workouts on track. The number on the scale has dropped...
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Acting Update~
“She’s rigorous, stringent, and challenging in her thinking. She’s completely open to free association, but she has an analytical mind that is coupled with an enormous imagination, which is unusual. (She) is spacious in her imagination and yet clinical in her approach to the material. She asks questions- of herself, of the character, of the scene, of the director-and she...
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#5toFitDietDay2
Evenin’ folks! Just wanted to touch base and thank so many of you for following along and for your kind and supportive comments! This is Day 2 of my 5 day adventure to get back on track with my intense training and diet regime. I always find ‘body image’ a difficult topic to address with candor publicly because it’s really important to support a healthy body image and good...
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Watch#5toFit workout Day 2. Had karate/ fight training today after a 2 week break due to my shoulder injury. After yesterday’s workout and then the hour plus with my instructor today, I will definitely be feeling it tomorrow.
A lot of you ask me what I do in a session. It changes a lot. Today we warmed up with traditional boxing and kickboxing on the focus mitts and then went into kihon- which...
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#5toFIT Workout Day 1
Some of you were suggesting that I do CrossFit to power up the fitness this week. Thanks for the suggestion! I don’t do CrossFit per say, but I do integrate heavy interval training into my workouts, especially when I’m with my fight trainer. I’m limited as to what I can do upper body wise because of my torn shoulder muscle (which is REALLY frustrating) but I’m trying to...
Helenna's Year of Gratitude: Day 78, October 24th,... →
I didn’t know you were doing this Helenna! I think it’s so wonderful! I have a ‘grateful’ doc on my desktop that I try to update but THIS is amazing :):)
helsthanks:
Today I a grateful for Bradley Cooper’s interview on Inside the Actor’s Studio and for the years I spent studying in the Bachelor of Fine Arts acting program at the University of British Columbia.
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Who wants to join me in a little five day Operation BABE bootcamp? Let’s just say I’ve been indulging a wee bit too much food and wine over the past month without countering it with extensive workouts (I pulled my shoulder doing pull-ups) so I decided to step on the dreaded scale this am and yup, that number is definitely higher than it should be. But beyond the number, I don’t...
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Assemble Greatness →
Why do we love movie trailers so much? I think because we’re addicted to the anticipation of greatness. More on that though later but here’s to a whole lot of cinematic superhero greatness that I’m hoping for next May. Check out the trailer linked above for Joss’ ‘The Avengers’.
LinkedIn just asked me how I would summarize myself and my objectives. Good question. Guess I should really figure that out.
Can you answer that for yourself? Does your truthful answer conflict with what you would be comfortable putting down on a social media page?
Mine does. Hmmmm
September 2011
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I know we all say to ourselves ‘I just need a break!’ - and though I’m guilty of that mindset too - it doesn’t work that way. You make your own ‘breaks’. No one is ‘due’ anything. It doesn’t mean you’re not talented or worthy, just that you’re not where you need to be…yet.
And when something unexpected lands in your lap, be...
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Take Inventory
Stop for a moment and just take inventory. I know you have insane goals, are working your ass off and are taking no prisoners- which is badass. But make sure to stand in front of your bookshelf and look at what is already on the shelves. Open your closet and finger through the clothes you have hanging there, finding things you forgotten you owned. Open up your jewelry box and find a necklace you...
I changed my Tumblr theme- my mind is spinning from how many there are now! I plan to have a new post out sometime this weekend- on the delightful theme of ‘rejection’. If you work in Hollywood, hopefully it will resonate. :) t
August 2011
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Don't be a princess...BE A PIRATE.
Don’t wait for your proverbial prince to rescue you from your tower. Don’t think that you are ‘due’ or ‘owed’ anything, just because your parents told you you were smart and pretty. Don’t think that someone is going to pick you from a crowd and make you famous. Don’t surround yourself with supplicants and ‘handmaids’ who only tell you...
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June 2011
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A Nerdy Girl Talking about Geeky Things: When... →
Amazing insight- every sentence rang true to me, even if I fought the nerdy geek in me for practically my whole life, out of insecurity. Well done!!
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I’m getting really frustrated with this geek vs pandering hot girls, and geek exclusiveness bullshit. I haven’t weighed in because I generally feel that there will always be mean, small-minded assholes in the world and me getting...
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May 2011
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WatchWho doesn’t love a story about the Greek gods of love in modern day Los Angeles? Please check out the Indie GoGo campaign to make the 2nd season of Cupid and Eros a reality. I played the mortal martial arts badass Athena in Season 1 and loved working on the show! Please support this great indie web series! :):)
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Fringe / Alias parallels cc @jrorci →
mse63:
There are tons of parallels between the two J.J. Abrams products, everyone knows that. I attempted to collect some of them.
So, here’s what I found so far:
PILOT DEATHS - Both Olivia and Sydney has just been/supposedly just should have been proposed when suddenly their fiances die in the…
April 2011
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March 2011
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Don't beat yourself up!
Don’t you love when the fog clears? The fog shrouding your brain that is. Isn’t it a relief when the sticky film that is life, preventing your brain from being at its best, just dissolves? Well mine did, this morning.
About a week after my Wonder Woman and Elfquest shoots I got sick. And I haven’t been 100% since. My workouts have been unmotivated, I’ve been craving...
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"Special effects don't make movie fight scenes... →
Click on the link! It’s a great article from Wired on action scenes. As I am endeavoring to finish two different scripts- one with a big fight scene that doesn’t have the luxury of any special effects- and one that just needs lots at stake, it was a good read.
BTW- A new All Things T blog post is in the works…it’s being birthed as I am trapped at home with the flu....
February 2011
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January 2011
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And now for the body:
So I blogged a bit about the soul yesterday and the battle armor that we construct around ourselves…and I want to delve more into that topic…but right now all I can think of is ‘OWW’. At least that is, the ‘oww’ I’m going to feel tomorrow after today’s fight training sets in. It’s crazy how the more skilled I become at my strikes, punches, and...
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Our Personal Armor
We are built for conflict. Or so it seems.
I was parking just off La Brea last week for an audition and pulled up tight behind a car (that had its trunk open) as I didn’t want to be in the red. A woman immediately got out of her car and glanced to where my car was in proximity to hers. We both regarded each other with slight disdain as we took each other in. Our archetypal armor shined...
December 2010
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