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Well, this post isn’t really ALL about crowdfunding. Instead, I’d just like to share a few thoughts regarding some of the things I’ve been learning. Crowdfunding has really gained traction over the past few years as a method filmmakers use to try and raise funds for their projects. It has met with limited success. Part
One of the things I like to do in my spare time is watch lots of educational videos on YouTube. I follow lots of awesome channels, including this one called Veritasium. Recently, Derek, who hosts the channel did an episode about what he calls “Learned Helplessness”. I think it bears watching again, if only to
…that remind me of why I got into show business in the first place. In case you’ve not been paying attention to social media, today was a big event at #StarWarsCelebration. The brand new trailer for Episode 7, #TheForceAwakens just dropped live at the convention down at Anaheim. For those of us who can’t
Line readings. We actors hate it when a director basically tells you how to say the line. It feels like the director is more of a puppeteer with his hand shoved way up your backside, trying to make your mouth parrot how he thinks it should sound, like Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy. The better
OK, so I’ll freely admit that I’m somewhat of a latecomer to this party, but I’ve recently discovered the awesomeness of the video phenomenon known as Vine. In fact, if not for having worked on a film project (Agent Steele) with the reigning king of Vine, Andrew Bachelor, aka KingBach, I probably wouldn’t have caught on
I’ve gotten better with WordPress. My next task was to redesign my wife Pamela’s actress website as her old design dated back to the mid 2000s, and it was time to give her a more responsive design. Fortunately, since our webhosts at 1and1.com have WordPress already available, it was just a matter of turning it
Well, just a general posting about accents. Nothing too specific. Today’s video blog is an intro to how I do accents, with a few clips from several of my roles in past productions where I perform different characters with different accents. I’ve been asked how I do it. Mainly through imitation, as opposed to listening
So I’ve been pondering this for quite some time now, but finally got around to doing it. As a professional actor here in Hollywood, I find that my day tends to get away from me. There’s never enough time to do everything that I need to accomplish in 24 hours — and that would be
I’ve been designing websites for over 10 years now. I started with good old HTML using the site builder program Dreamweaver, and it worked like a charm. I had to teach myself how to do this by reading books on the subject, but eventually taught myself that program, as well as Flash, which was great