tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63824520701557310592024-03-04T21:12:52.668-08:00Official Website of actress Claudia ChristianClaudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-57748401428285997502010-10-10T09:28:00.000-07:002010-10-10T09:37:56.590-07:00Off to Melbourne and AucklandWell today is the big day of travel! I love Melbourne, a very young vibrant city with cool coffee shops, art galleries and an impressive amount of non-chain stores still up and running. I look forward to walking along the streets and perhaps glimpsing the Yarra river..It will be nice to finally meet a bunch of people I have been working with but never met and of course to see the Aussie and NZ Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-14387160082101331852010-06-07T17:40:00.000-07:002010-06-07T17:55:48.324-07:00Charlotte and fried picklesWell another weekend another convention...this time we flew directly to Charlotte North Carolina and discovered immediately the meaning of "Southern Hospitality". Everyone is nice, from the waitresses to the desk clerks at the Hilton. The con was mostly a gaming convention, in fact the only media guest they had ever had was the storm trooper who said "These are the wrong Droids" in Star Wars so IClaudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-18627242620991518892010-05-18T11:16:00.001-07:002010-05-18T11:28:59.311-07:00LouisvilleWell once again I am struck by how kind, thoughtful and loyal sci fi fans are...the convention (which I replaced Peter Jurasic in the last minute) was very well run with a great selection of talented model maker's wares on display. I was truly impressed with the talent and dedication these men and women have for the craft of model making...I have posted one of the photos I took of a couple of Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-79227741219466096282010-05-03T08:09:00.000-07:002010-05-03T08:14:44.359-07:00Home...The trip was a success and now being home feels great. I didn't miss much being gone nearly 3 weeks which leads me to believe that I can do more of this traveling! Traveling is important on so many levels, it takes you out of your safety zone and exposes you to new people and ways of life.I am always struck with the wonderful attitude of different cultures when it comes to living and work and theClaudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-31037454552160706732010-04-26T22:29:00.000-07:002010-04-26T22:33:13.357-07:00Italy Fiumicino is a hellish airport, teeming with foreigners and luggage, complaining children and the general din of humanity. I waited a solid anxious hour for my one suitcase and was enormously relieved when it arrived. The drug sniffing dogs took no interest in me, unlike back in 1989 when I arrived wearing a pot loving friend’s coat and was felt up for a couple of hours by over zealous custom’s Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-85533647421233407432010-04-09T22:33:00.000-07:002010-04-09T22:42:02.714-07:00Travelin'I'm very much looking forward to my trip to Italy on Sunday and I think it has more to do with feeling stagnant than anything else. I am slightly in limbo this time of year, the disappointment of not having any auditions all pilot season and the realization that I cannot force things to happen makes me want to get the hell out of Hollywood and see the "real" world. So, Sunday I embark on a 3 weekClaudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-89330599647543903532010-03-22T14:29:00.000-07:002010-03-22T14:36:22.623-07:00Jesus gets first accolade!Congratulations are in order to John Kamal Iskander, it seems "Jesus comes to town" won it's first award! The Houston Internaitonal film festival (Worldfest Houston)has awarded the short film a REMI. We're hoping to get the film into Dragon Con this year (so that I can selfishly shmooze all of the great writers I met at the Superstar Writing Seminar I just completed and hang out with fans!) I Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-70031452796692728962010-03-21T18:35:00.000-07:002010-03-21T18:57:04.723-07:00Writing and posting writing!Well the 3 day seminar is finished and it was really great. A lot of information and most important for me; inspiration!In lieu of this new challenge to write everyday I have decided to post some new writing I have recently completed so.... here is the link to a recent short story I wrote called Dream Boy: http://caroline10.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/dream-boy-short-story/Comments are always Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-53070398389893379682010-03-19T20:01:00.000-07:002010-03-19T20:23:18.694-07:00Super Stars!I experienced my first day of the Super Star's Writing seminar in Pasadena today and boy was it fun! The writers (The dynamic couple Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta (in the photo with me) , Wunderboy Brandon Sanderson, well respected mentor David Farland and the prolific Eric Flint) all joined forces to teach a lot of common sense and some dirty secrets as well. I found that the 7 hours of Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-20803238155403087282010-03-15T13:32:00.000-07:002010-03-15T13:58:47.624-07:00Claudia's first day of elementary school I started reading to my classes this morning. I have a first grade class and a fourth grade as well. I had anticipated the 1st graders being rowdy and energetic but they were shy and a little lethargic (maybe the daylight savings got to them!). I read two picture books to them; A Bad case of Stripes and Roar of a snore, the latter one elicited a nice response when I asked them who in their Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-25140950863252885142010-03-10T09:34:00.000-08:002010-03-10T09:57:11.829-08:00the view from hereMy friend Caroline told me to write about my new view so here goes: I can see from downtown LA to the Pacific ocean and it's a wonderful thing. In the morning the mist rises from the city to unveil a lovely ever changing vista. Sometimes the smog creates beautiful sunsets with shades of magenta and persimmon (beauty from the beast).It's a bit like having a living painting really, the changes areClaudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-63263346389060345392010-02-20T22:10:00.000-08:002010-02-21T13:12:31.667-08:00aunty social...I went out tonight. Yes, I actually left the house and went to David's studio where he was having a party for photographers who were attending the big photo show this weekend in Orange County (Photo marketing association).It is rare for me to go out. I was once told by a therapist that I was anti social despite the fact that I love people and am generally known as very outgoing, friendly and Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-23495218077094028942010-02-18T16:56:00.000-08:002010-02-18T17:14:20.042-08:00time oh timePeople always say around this time of a new year "My Gosh this year is flying.." and indeed it seems like some are still writing 2009 on their checks and it's nearly March. And of course you have the over 35'ers always saying "time really passes quickly after 30..."So I have been thinking of reasons why this could be. One reason I think is that technology takes up so much of our time now. I can Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-70169486199756545992010-02-02T15:31:00.000-08:002010-02-02T15:48:27.596-08:00creative forces at workI'm back in school and loving it. I have a short story class every Thursday night and just signed up for the super duper writer's 3 day crash course with Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, Eric Flint, David Farland and Brandon Sanderson which should be a very good time. I wanted to learn how to sculpt but then I had to remind myself that the last time I tried an "artsy" thing I invested a ton of Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-23478231267186856002010-01-12T08:22:00.001-08:002010-01-31T07:30:45.947-08:00been a long time..home sweet home?..and I have no excuse other than day to day life has kept me from writing. I have been house hunting so that has taken up a lot of time and energy but I did find a place to live recently. I have also been in the hell which is Face Book, trying to migrate everyone to a fan page so that I can engage directly with people.What is it about moving that creates such drama in a human being? Did early Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-68850347640733188562009-12-25T10:26:00.000-08:002009-12-25T10:30:19.608-08:00Merry Christmas! Greetings from ColoradoI hope everyone has a beautiful Christmas today. It's a time to look at your life and see if it's headed where you want it to go. I know I spent some serious time in front of the Christmas tree-altar last night, thinking about the New Year and making specific requests!Be happy and be healthy!Love, ClaudiaClaudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-27996574768428253202009-12-19T08:34:00.000-08:002009-12-19T09:20:33.606-08:00Santa Claus is coming......however I have not seen much of him lately. Mostly just a bunch of "House Hunters International" , the only TV show I watch (even though I can't stand the way the lady who does the voice over say's "dollars", I have no idea why it makes me crazy) while I lie on the couch and feel sorry for myself with a box of Kleenex and a pot of ginger tea.The flu is reaching it's bitter end which is good Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-85939849569187028432009-12-17T11:03:00.000-08:002009-12-17T11:09:40.223-08:00more star hyke...and the oink oink fluTo all of you sci fi fans in the UK; Star Hyke is available at all HMV stores and the show's creator (Andrew Dymond) would be really chuffed if you would snap a photo of yourself outside of the HMV where you purchased the DVD set...he will then post all the pics on the Star Hyke site to see what towns people were in etc.In other news I am on Tamiflu for this marvelous kick ass bug which has been Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-31548067817911263922009-12-10T11:49:00.000-08:002009-12-10T11:52:46.902-08:00more Star HykeThis just in from my producer Jonathan Brown:If you post to your blog in the next few days, tell everyone to get over to the Starhyke website www.starhyke.com where they can win a framed prop from Starhyke or a copy of the DVD. I’m happy to ship the prize internationally, so anyone can enter. Also, they can follow us on twitter (http://twitter.com/starhyke)so once again....thank you for being Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-48185515003600705512009-12-08T06:15:00.000-08:002009-12-08T18:31:48.821-08:00photography... and who makes it look easy!I think that David does a really good job of showing us wanna bees-photographers a bit about how to light something simply and elegantly.Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-28775991474072601562009-12-02T20:47:00.000-08:002009-12-02T21:02:32.692-08:00Acting! I found a great quote today from Ruth Gordon (1896-1985)"I wanted to be an actress in 1912; I want to be an actress today. That walk from the darkness backstage through the door or opening in the scenery where I make an entrance into the bright lights with that dim mass out beyond, which bursts into applause, then the first terrifying sound that comes out of my throat, which they describe as a Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-60823047922606853132009-12-02T20:35:00.000-08:002009-12-02T20:46:55.206-08:00star hykehere's the link to the new Star Hyke promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJHCy4xg8k4I know what you're thinking; why does she keep making us watch new promos and links and scenes from a series I've never even heard of??Well, it's because of this: I cannot think of two more deserving men then Jonathan Brown and Andrew Diamond to finally catch a break. So if I have to get out there in a chicken Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-28026946549649006992009-12-02T06:03:00.000-08:002009-12-02T06:19:22.579-08:00Precious and Mothers and DaughtersI saw the film "Precious" last night and it was as dark as I expected it to be but without the "hopeful" ending I had read about in reviews....I saw nothing hopeful about that kid's situation in the end. A lot of people went on about how great Maria Carey was in the film because she is sporting a mustache and ugly clothes, I thought she was a bit over the top with the accent, etc. but then again Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-67998099553621383172009-11-30T01:19:00.001-08:002009-11-30T19:26:50.426-08:00Star Hyke I did this fun series which was rife with challenges and so forth but low and behold it is now on DVD in the UK and here's a photo of the cast (minus me) signing at Forbidden Planet in London...Gosh I wish I could have been there. I have great memories of doing the series. I would drive (on the wrong side of the road mind you) to the set (in Bristol) and the snow would pour down and there were Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382452070155731059.post-19793810468210102182009-11-29T16:45:00.000-08:002009-11-29T17:10:36.840-08:00Fall items and what notsWell I do hope that you all had a lovely Holiday (those of you Yanks in any event) I myself am happy to report a surplus of turkey, sweets and carbs for the next year at least!I shared some lovely moments with family and cooked up a storm with David. (photos attached)I have to do a quickie plug for the event I am attending this weekend because Lightspeed folks are good ones. http://Claudia Christianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00908756673940255025noreply@blogger.com