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“CYBER FIGHTER” — So…I wrote a book…

If you’ve been following me over the past few years, then you probably know already about my dream project CYBER FIGHTER, a martial arts sci-fi comedy which I’ve been working on for many years now.  I’ve been intending to complete the short film and have already done half of it — the CG animated part which takes

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The Myth of the STARmeter…

Hey there, aspiring actors!  Here’s a nifty-difty guaranteed way to increase your perception in the industry!  For a low price of $199.95 (etc.), we can guarantee to boost your IMDB STARmeter!  Everyone knows that top casting offices look at your STARmeter as their primary source of who’s good enough to audition!  Why, you don’t even

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All About Crowdfunding

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

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Learned Helplessness

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

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It’s Days Like This…

…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

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Hopping on the Vine Wagon…

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

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Redesigning Pamela’s Website…

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

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All About Accents…

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

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