Disclaimer: Melissa edited this video herself, when the professional editors of the movie get ahold of the tape, you’ll think this interview sprang from the head of Zeus.
Tiffany Tate, I didn’t know her name for months, I knew her as "The Fem Geek"- a woman about town that knew a whole lot about town…. at least, that’s what I gathered from her blog The Unscene Chicago, TV show, and her twitter, I didn’t actually talk to Tiffany until our interview. It’s not that I didn’t try, it’s that Tiffany had pneumonia forever, and then lost her voice, she had to work alot at her job, and then, school started and she was super busy again… so it goes in the life of a Chicago superhero.
You might be wondering what this interview has to do with the heart of my film. You may be wondering what Tiffany’s goings on about Chicago have to do with finding ones heart and intuition and following that map instead of the the map to the home of the stars in Hollywood. I’ll tell you a little something about this dinamo maybe she didn’t. This woman is serious business, she’s always out there, she’s checking out every venue, she’s meeting every artist, she’s contacting Oprah saying that the Big O could be doing more, she’s got her hands IN IT, and she loves it. She is living breathing proof of someone who wants what she wants. And you heard her, she’s not leaving.
Even better, she isn’t trying to change anything. She’s just trying to bring attention to what is, and what is possible.
Even better, she recognizes something that many of us forget. She recognizes that to find the raw, authentic, real stuff, you got to go to the beginning. You gotta’ look where people are beginning to figure it out, maybe even before they even know that there is a plan available.
So yes, Tiffany Tate has a thing for Chicago, and she sees something here that fosters creativity more so than other cities - That is to say - Chicago doesn’t have a formula yet for creatives, Chicago doesn’t have a grandly planned hierarchy of creativity, it’s got a bubbling up, an unplanned cultural instinct that just does what intuitively comes next - and that’ s what makes it so amazing. And I think, that bubbling up, that’s exactly what I’m talking about in my film.
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