Career: Got ANTs? Spray Those ‘Automatic Negative Thoughts’ With Blasts of PPT, by James Alburger and Penny Abshire
Are ANTs bugging you? Does it feel like they’re taking over your life? Top coaches James Alburger and Penny Abshire tell how to rid yourself of those pesty ‘Automatic Negative Thoughts’ with blasts of PPT. Ready … Set … Spray! …
8/29/09 – Are You A Match For The Voice Match/ADR Niche? Learn At ‘Voice Match Masters Event’ Sept. 26
Learn the skills of voice matching / ADR / Looping at Pat Fraley’s Voice Match Master’s Event, Sept. 26 in Los Angeles. Casting director Barbara Harris and a well-known agent will join Fraley to teach techniques and how to obtain this specialized work …
Congratulations Mom And Dad (and Grandpa and Grandma)!!
Today was a great day in the Gray household. We celebrated the 40th anniversary of Arnold and Paula Gray – My Mom and Dad. Together with members from both sides of my family, we came together in the Lake of the Ozarks for Mom and Dad to renew their vows. Not only did Mom and Dad renew their commitment to one another, My grandparents (on my Mom’s Side) renewed their vows as well…63 years there! What a terrific way to spend the week, and the weekend, with family –
buffalo, new york and the elmwood avenue festival of the arts
Founders of the Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts Joe DiPasquale and his wife, Tanya Zabinski. Photo Credit: Sharon Cantillon/Buffalo News Today, daughter and I took our second trip in as many years to the Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts or as we call it, the Elmwood Arts Festival. It’s in its 10th year and I remember its early years…it has grown significantly and impressively since 1999. Joe DiPasquale and his wife, Tanya Zabinski began the festival with a team of equally
The Commercial Read: Winning the hearts and minds of your audience
The Commercial Read: Winning the hearts and minds of your audience by Bobbin Beam Emotionally connecting with the target audience should be the primary objective of the successful commercial. So any commercial audition should be prepared with this fact in mind. So how does one accomplish such a feat, when, aside from the writing and production of an ad, voice actors have no control over content, editing and
American Football
That’s the name used around the world for what we here in the USA calls “football.” (The rest of the world, of course, uses that term to refer to what we in the States call “soccer.”) My friend Ralph Hass emails to say that he searched my blog and discovered that I’ve used the term football only twice before. Today is the third time because you might just enjoy Ralph’s blog post Football FEVER!
Voice-overload Comic #5 – Pay 2 Play
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Audiobook Checklist: Save Time, Money & Stress By Knowing This, by Deb Munro
International voice talent and coach Deb Munro is a seasoned pro at long-format narration – but a recent audiobook gig strained her time, budget and even her back. Review her lessons learned before you dive into your first audiobook project …
a trick and a conundrum
Some folks may already know this but I didn’t. If you like, when you open your internet browser, you can have it open to more than one home page at one time at start-up. Depending on your browser (and I think this trick only works with the VERY latest versions of most popular web browsers), you can usually set your opening home page under “Preferences” or “Options”. Then in the bar where you type in the address of what you would like to have as your home page, you add the
Both Sides of the Glass
We’ve all heard the phrase ‘working from both sides of the glass’. For anyone not familiar with that phrase it describes (in relation to voice over) a person who works as a talent and an audio producer (the ‘glass’ being the wall that separates the talent and producer during a typical session). I was so fortunate to have been trained many years ago as not just a voice actor, but also an audio producer. I spent several years producing radio shows- my job