The Weekly Championing 13
It's been several weeks since my last championing, but only because I didn't really have much to champion. (I considered doing one on Thelma and Louise, but I've already championed a few movies in a row so I decided against it.)
My championing today is a little unusual because I'm going to champion a real life person, which I've never done before. And yes, you guessed from the icon, that that person must be, in some way connected to Xena. And it's not Lucy Lawless (though she seems super awesome)!
No, you see, this week, I'm championing Renee O'Connor.
Random? Maybe. Maybe not.
I was perusing YouTube, as I've been known to do, and I came across this interview that Renee gave to this show called Film Nut on tvstream, a streaming network on the internet. She's actually done two interviews with them. I'd seen the earlier one quite a while ago, though, since it's such a long interview, I had only really listened to it in the background of doing something else. But I was watching the second interview the other night and I was focusing solely on it and it struck me pretty cool.
Here's why I champion Renee O'Connor (aside from the fact that she's awesome as Gabrielle): She is incredibly passionate about the process of making movies, short, feature length, indie, or otherwise. And she's a huge self starter. She's not afraid to generate her own ideas and to go about seeing them through. She acts, of course, but she's also written scripts, she's directed (her own and other material), and she's producing from the ground up. She chooses projects that speak to her and she just goes for it.
I think that's pretty damn cool. I think she's pretty damn inspiring, actually. Going outside the system and doing self generation of projects that test your skills and has specific meaning to you is, I'd guess, not easy to do.
I'm not a filmmaker (though there were several years there were I was convinced I was going to go to school at USC to study film to become a director) and I'm not really interested in becoming a filmmaker, but I think, for me, her passion for going after her dreams and goals, gets me kind of excited to find something I could actually find to have some kind of self generation. Let's say I don't get a job for the coming year (and the closer we get to the depths of summer, the more I doubt a job is on the horizon): I do feel a passion for education, so I can really start thinking of different ways I can do that that may be more outside of the box. Yes, I want a traditional teaching job, but if it doesn't happen, it will kind of free me up to do a little out-of-the-box thinking on how to do it outside of the traditional sense.
I think it's also inspiring in other areas, too. I have some underdeveloped passions that I could really start to get going on. Self teaching, you know? Why not?
So, good on ya, Renee. You're pretty cool. I'm thinking of buying her short Words Unspoken, which you can buy for $12.00 on her site. I'd love to see Diamonds and Guns, which she produced and acts in, but I'm not sure it's still available for purchase. Rats, if it's not. I'd really like to see it. (I think it has potential to be on par with my love of Lollilove, Jenna Fischer's self made dark comedy mockumentary.)
I think I'm officially going to put Renee on my list of "Celebrities I'd Like To Be Friends With". It's actually a pretty short list. As Pam Beesly would say, "It's very exclusive."
My championing today is a little unusual because I'm going to champion a real life person, which I've never done before. And yes, you guessed from the icon, that that person must be, in some way connected to Xena. And it's not Lucy Lawless (though she seems super awesome)!
No, you see, this week, I'm championing Renee O'Connor.
Random? Maybe. Maybe not.
I was perusing YouTube, as I've been known to do, and I came across this interview that Renee gave to this show called Film Nut on tvstream, a streaming network on the internet. She's actually done two interviews with them. I'd seen the earlier one quite a while ago, though, since it's such a long interview, I had only really listened to it in the background of doing something else. But I was watching the second interview the other night and I was focusing solely on it and it struck me pretty cool.
Here's why I champion Renee O'Connor (aside from the fact that she's awesome as Gabrielle): She is incredibly passionate about the process of making movies, short, feature length, indie, or otherwise. And she's a huge self starter. She's not afraid to generate her own ideas and to go about seeing them through. She acts, of course, but she's also written scripts, she's directed (her own and other material), and she's producing from the ground up. She chooses projects that speak to her and she just goes for it.
I think that's pretty damn cool. I think she's pretty damn inspiring, actually. Going outside the system and doing self generation of projects that test your skills and has specific meaning to you is, I'd guess, not easy to do.
I'm not a filmmaker (though there were several years there were I was convinced I was going to go to school at USC to study film to become a director) and I'm not really interested in becoming a filmmaker, but I think, for me, her passion for going after her dreams and goals, gets me kind of excited to find something I could actually find to have some kind of self generation. Let's say I don't get a job for the coming year (and the closer we get to the depths of summer, the more I doubt a job is on the horizon): I do feel a passion for education, so I can really start thinking of different ways I can do that that may be more outside of the box. Yes, I want a traditional teaching job, but if it doesn't happen, it will kind of free me up to do a little out-of-the-box thinking on how to do it outside of the traditional sense.
I think it's also inspiring in other areas, too. I have some underdeveloped passions that I could really start to get going on. Self teaching, you know? Why not?
So, good on ya, Renee. You're pretty cool. I'm thinking of buying her short Words Unspoken, which you can buy for $12.00 on her site. I'd love to see Diamonds and Guns, which she produced and acts in, but I'm not sure it's still available for purchase. Rats, if it's not. I'd really like to see it. (I think it has potential to be on par with my love of Lollilove, Jenna Fischer's self made dark comedy mockumentary.)
I think I'm officially going to put Renee on my list of "Celebrities I'd Like To Be Friends With". It's actually a pretty short list. As Pam Beesly would say, "It's very exclusive."