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Renee

The Journey Continues for this Culture Vulture...

About Me

"The best education in film is to make one" -Stanley Kubrick, 1969

www.NewYorkRenee.com

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My Interests

My Bio
My family. My Friends. Travel of any kind. Laughing. Writing. All food my Dad makes. Painting with Oils. Strawberries. Service Learning. Frida Kahlo. Flannel pajama pants. Paris with an extra i. Having fun at work.

I'd like to meet:


Tina Fey

Music:

The Beatles and Elliott Smith.Songs I rock out to in particular:"Happiness is a Warm Gun" The Beatles, "Deceptacon" Le Tigre, "Sir Psycho Sexy" Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Blister in the Sun" The Violent Femmes, "Nicotine and Gravy" Beck, "99 Problems" Jay Z, "Bottle up and Explode" Elliott Smith, "I Wanna Live" Ramones, "Brand New Colony" The Postal Service, "Rebel Rebel" David Bowie, "Video Killed the Radio Star" The Buggles, "Shelter From the Storm" Bob Dylan, "It's in his Kiss" Betty Everett.

Movies:

Any that: make me laugh, make me crave wearing a 50's style dress, make me want to learn a foreign language, transport me.

Television:

"5 Takes: Pacific Rim" on the Travel Channel.www.5takes.com

Books:



What I'm reading now: Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz

Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. Mountains Beyond Mountains By Tracey Kidder. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. I Love you Like a Tomato by Marie Giordano. Confessions of an Art Attic by Peggy Guggenheim. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Autiobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The Plague by Albert Camus. The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg.

Heroes:

My Mom, My Dad, My Brother

My Blog

Get with the times, Venice!

  I recently read an article about a gondolier in Venice&a female gondolier.  This NY Times article explains how Alexandra Hai has been trying to be a gondolier for 10 yea...
Posted by Renee on Tue, 15 May 2007 11:15:00 PST

little things

Today I was noticing little things that make me happy:Men walking with flowers- They are bringing them to someone and this is always a nice sight, and one I see quite often which means a lot of people...
Posted by Renee on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:38:00 PST

Resolutions for the New Year

New Years Resolutions...every year I think about them as the countdown to midnight occures..10...9...8...7..patience...5...working out more..3...eating better...2,1. This year, in my apartment on the...
Posted by Renee on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:34:00 PST

A Poet and the Christopher Street Pier

Today, I spent the afternoon filming Sarah, a poet and student who currently resides in Greenwich Village, originally from Canarsie, Brooklyn. Sarah hosted a segment I directed and filmed on the Chri...
Posted by Renee on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:26:00 PST

Photoshoot with Patricia Chica for New York Renee

When I first met Patricia, there was a bunch of people around, but Patricia stood out. She talked about her love of art, her need to create, her hunger for inspiration, and that was in the first 5 mi...
Posted by Renee on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:26:00 PST

Travel Journalists Unite!

The TJs HAVE ARRIVED TO NEW YORK!!! Last night, at a swanky club called "Milk" in Chelsea I met most of the new Tjs! I was happy for Lena, because I know she wanted the "Sex in the City Experience" ...
Posted by Renee on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:50:00 PST

Three Generations

People say I have my Grandma Carol's almond shaped eyes and my Grandma Nancy's button nose. In addition to these physical traits, I am a lot like the two them. Carol O'Connor, my Paternal Grandmothe...
Posted by Renee on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:38:00 PST

Getting There

driving down this foreign roadI blink, and I am therebut, i do enjoy the rideso i will stop, and stare...
Posted by Renee on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:25:00 PST

Olive Oil

When I was in Italy in 2003, I was mesmerized by olive oil. There was a day that I helped pick olives. I can recall sitting atop the nets and admiring the silhouettes of the elegant olive branches ...
Posted by Renee on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:58:00 PST

Make that 10 days

I'm sitting here now, and I can't believe I have not consumed food in 10 days. That's wild. It's my last day. Aj and I decided to do 10 days instead of 12. I didn't know, but 10 is the standard. ...
Posted by Renee on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:22:00 PST