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Head over to my Operation BABE site for a cool little video that suggests a potential way to use new ARG technology to combat obesity...

Oh yeah, and then there's my accompanying rant on related stuff :)

Hope you're all thinking with your innovator caps on today!

Be back with a new post this week - lots of great stuff percolating.

t



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I am a huge dumbass.  I barely took a picture this past week in New York!?! This midtown shot on the 2nd day way one of six pics I took- I really do stand in shame, especially with NYC treating us to unseasonably warm and sunny weather for mid January.  Usually I am 'the crazy woman with the camera' trying to capture every picturesque moment in this city that screams its authenticity and begs to be frozen in time.  But no, not this time, I must have been too busy and in the moment...which I guess is a good thing! (I'll post work related pics in another post) 

Even in the craziness of running around the city in high heels, I rediscovered my love of the West Village (did it ever really go away) and did want to post some pics (not mine) of the fabulous bistro that Steph (my work partner if you don't know her already) and I ate at the first night of our trip. It's called Cafe Cluny and was the perfect spot for two aspiring Parisians to enjoy the magic of the West Village while soaking up some quaint french ambiance and an hour of calm before three hectic days of meetings and events!

 
       
We sat at the table in the corner.  The duck salad is a must!! We even stumbled upon a cafe later that night for dessert and were treated to a thought provoking but odd performance by a singer and her bass and piano player.  Ahh New York!
After two days of dashing around the city, Steph and I even squeezed in a night at the theatre after a long day of meetings on Thursday.  We saw Tony Award winning play 'God of Carnage'.  

Though I wasn't sold on the specific cast and performance of it, I enjoyed the overall theme and am interested to see what Roman Polanski does with the screen play adaptation.  I think heavy dramadies like this and 'August: Osage County' will benefit from the intimacy of the camera.  To do the story and characters of these 'peak experience' type plays justice, the actors must go to physical and emotional extremes...I don't know how that is physically possible eight times a week- you'd be a psychological mess after a two month run- some are able to do it but what I often see are the actors 'acting' a lot...you know what I mean, pushing and pretending, not experiencing in the moment.  Most of the audience eats it up, especially if voices are raised and things are thrown, but not me.  If it doesn't move me, if I don't feel that authentic moment happening on stage, it loses me.  But I'm a tough critic.  Film is about capturing that private, authentic moment and then elevating it even more with editing, cinematography and the score.  I'm hoping that some of the moments that fell flat to me during this play will be resuscitated by the upcomng film.
Off on a theatre tangent I just went!  Anyway, we ended the night taking very touristy pics in Time Square on our walk back to our hotel at 49th and Lex...where we witnessed a bevy of drunken business men.  Really drunk.  One asked me if he looked like the end of the world.  I told him I'd already seen it and no, he looked nothing like it.  And on that note, I'll save the After Judgment team's adventures on The Temp Life and on the red carpet for my next post.  Thanks NYC! My feet may be sore but can't wait to see you again!  T


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A fitting thought
Posted by Taryn O Neill on Jan 4, 2010
I subscribe to a mishmash of blogs, mostly tech and media ones, but my guilty pleasure blogs are The Fug Girls, This Is Glamorous, and Habitually Chic (I don't seem to have time for my fashion ones anymore, sorry Fashionista).  Wanted to post a quote that was on the New Years Day feed from Habitually Chic as it's a great sentiment to get you inspired for 2010. 
 "We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day!"
Edith Lovejoy Pierce 
You can also open a blank Word or Final Draft document and have the same thought!
T


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As We Await the New...
Posted by Taryn O Neill on Dec 31, 2009
Call me sentimental but I couldn't forego the opportunity to reflect on this past year, on this last, full moon lit night, of 2009.  

It really doesn't benefit any of you if I list all the exciting things that happened this year or delve into the trying times but I assure you, the good out weighed the bad, by a landslide.
I have learned more about myself in one year than I think I have in a lifetime, primarily because of all you; I have met so many talented and fascinating and kind people this year because of my involvement in new media, webseries, the digital space, now media...whatever we end up calling it (and that's the cool thing- we as a community have the power to decide the name!) who have challenged and inspired me, and who have also allowed me to embrace all the different sides of myself and my creative passions.  I can only hope that the depth and breadth of my myriad experiences in 2009 can be reflected in my life and my work in 2010.

To my friends, colleagues, and especially my family, I raise of glass to you and yours and smile excitedly as we cross into 2010 together.

All my best,

Taryn


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Shanley on Streep
Posted by Taryn O Neill on Dec 27, 2009
As an actress and as a creative in general, I find great inspiration in John Patrick Shanley's description of working with Meryl Streep (published in this month's Vanity Fair) on his film adaptation of 'Doubt'.  I want to bring this type of approach to all my work from now on:


"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.  Meryl 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 doesn't assume she knows the answer.  She's looking around for something, and it's not about her; it's not about power or the clash of egos.  It's about the clash of ideas..."


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Thanksgiving memories...
Posted by Taryn O Neill on Nov 26, 2009
I can't believe it was a year ago that we were in NYC for Thanksgiving.  My family and I have a history of going to New York for Thankgiving because my brother lived there and could never get enough time off to come home.  So we would all just go to him- an excellent excuse for some big city Xmas shopping too! But last year by brother and his soon to be fiancee unexpectedly left NYC to move back to Vancouver...but our Thanksgiving trip had already been booked- so my parents and my husband and I decided to still go, and we truly had a magical long weekend: From trekking up to the Parade and having a friendly security guard let us into a residential viewing area, to the power walk around Central Park that ended at a phenomenal little french bistro on Madison, to seeing the plays 'August Osage County', 'Billy Elliott' and Christine Ebersole perform at a famous jazz club, to Christmas shopping and reconnecting with an old college friend in the West Village...it was all fantastic.  I felt truly thankful to be able to share all these wonderful moments and experiences with my parents.  
This year brings my brother and his new wife happily settled in Vancouver and a staycation for my husband and I in LA- lots of movies to watch, turkey with his grandma today and a little day trip up to wine country tomorrow.  I'll bring the ol' camera out tomorrow and capture some more memories. Until then, here are some of my favorite scenery pics from last year...NYC we miss you! Happy Thanksgiving and hope you are all grateful for all that you have and for those in your life! I certainly am :)




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Things of Beauty
Posted by Taryn O Neill on Oct 28, 2009
One of the reasons I'm so excited about my new website is that I can have forum discussions on all sorts of topics. I may still be in the midst of writing a new All Things T blog post that revolves around new media (wait what are we calling it now 'cause it ain't new anymore) but in the meantime, I can post about a whole variety of things that peak my interest.  I may be an occasional badass and like to tango with a heavy bag but I'm still a girl and occasionally love girlie things- like fashion, travel, and art (and Twilight- don't judge).  Photography is a big passion of mine.  I think it runs in my blood as my father and I both love to capture images that move us and ultimately compete to see who got the better photograph.  I will honestly be driving along and see something in nature- the way the sun is setting or a storm is coming in or how the light is hitting the marine layer - and pull my car over to the side of the road so that I can take pictures with my iPhone (while cursing that I don't have my canon with me at all times.) Today I stumbled on a beautiful set of black and white photographs from Parisian photographer Elisabeth Toll on a very girlie blog called This is Glamorous.  My breath caught in my throat as I gazed upon a set of captivating images that quickly awakened lush memories of my trip to Paris two years ago and my subsequent desire to live there for a spell. It also reminded me what a photograph can do and how it will forever bring you soaring back to that moment you captured it.  Moments in time.  That's what it is all about anyway right?
So what does this mean? Well just that I'll be blogging and posting about an extended array of topics (above and beyond the corner of Hollywood I inhabit) that I enjoy - some of which you might as well- and lo and behold there is a whole area on my site that we can chat about it.  
Make sure to check out those photographs by Elisabeth Toll- I honestly want to dive through my computer screen and end up on the other side in them (a scifi Mary Poppins with the sidewalk chalk drawings if you will). The picture of Paris at the top of this post, though, is by me. And this one of the elephants was by my dad.  
Pretty awesome. Moments in time. Be back soon.

T


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Good to be home...
Posted by Taryn O Neill on Oct 25, 2009
The past few weeks have been such a blur! With my brother's wedding (which was amazing), the shoot for our new show (Awesomeness with a capital A) and another wedding this past weekend, I am definitely wiped but ready to get back on track as this week is going to be busy! Some news about our new show will be coming out tomorrow, I have a new blog post to publish (which will hopefully spur some conversation) and I'm back on Operation BABE.  

Until then, wanted to share some pics from Vancouver- it was truly fall up there and I witnessed it go from beautiful and sunny to inclement and cold- but the leaves were still stunning regardless.  Enjoy!




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