Twitter updates from Karen for the week preceeding Wed Jul 7, 2010
@toddschnick Doing great! @DrewCommins starts his new job at @GeorgiaAquarium on Mon.! Hope you’re well & soon gratified from decluttering. @toddschnick Yay for you! In decluttering, you’re really engaging the Vacuum Law of Prosperity. See this blog: http://tinyurl.com/2axaqq2 @toddschnick I’m watching a show about hoarders. Should I call them about you? Follow me on Twitter
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Happy July 4th! Classic Steinbrenner on "Seinfeld"
Happy Birthday to the USA! 1) In basketball, Dallas is happy that Dirk Nowitzki is returning. I hope LeBron does that for Cleveland! Dirk Nowitzki has got to be happy (along with his advisor, Holger Geschwindner) that Germany is in the final four of soccer’s World Cup. That’s who I am cheering for since my Mom was born there! Germany takes on Spain this Wednesday in one semi while Uruguay and the Netherlands meet Tuesday. 2) Tag along on an
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Home Studio: On The Road Again – Motorcycling With My New Portable VoiceOver Studio, by David Brower
“One of the incredible things about being a full time voice actor is the ability to work from the road,” says voice actor David Brower. And he lives that life: in June, he and wife Karen logged more than 4,000 miles on their Harley Road King Classic, with an updated voiceover portable home studio in tow. “I can work every night and/or early morning and never miss a gig,” he says. “How cool is that?” Here’s what’s in David’s portable studio
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“get yur red hot photos!”
Voice Actors and the Internet Panel at VOICE 2010 (Back row i.e. the tall people) David Kaplan, Voice Over Xtra’s! John Florian, Doug Turkel (front row i.e. the little people) Peter K. O’Connell, VOICE Co-founder James Alburger, Trish Basyani and VOICE Co-founder Penny Abshire I’m not sure if they total a million but there certainly are a s—load of pictures from VOICE 2010 now available to look at. After awhile -because there are SO many
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social media day in buffalo
So Wednesday was Social Media Day around the globe. As part of it, there were over 600 meet-ups and I went to the one in Buffalo (#smdayBUF) at Merge on Delaware Avenue. I’ve been to countless networking events and unconferences and the like so I figured it would be fun but wasn’t really sure what to expect. The venue was very nice and they even had a DJ spinning vinyl (old school – nice touch). There was a registration table so you could get a name badge with your
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Happy Independence Day
If you are in the United States, Happy 4th of July! It’s the 4th of July everywhere else in the world, too; just not Independence Day. Have a great day where ever you are.
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Career: Breaking Into Voice-Over – What REALLY Matters … Learn From My First Gig, by David Radtke
What’s it REALLY take to get your first voice-over gig? You might be surprised. Twenty-year pro David Radtke digs back in memory to how he got his first VO job, and what was true then is true today. Hint: It’s not your golden voice …
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Find your joy
There are some parts of the voiceover business that can feel like a long slog, but as my friend Pam Tierney points out today, it never has to be just a slog. Good thoughts, Pam. We can all find our joy and run with it every day.
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Insights from the Mentor Program: Harold Graham
“In my lifetime of 68 years, I’ve had hundreds of people say to me, ‘Gee, you’ve got a great voice. You ought to be on the radio.’ and I agreed!” — Harold Graham, Mentor Program Student with Brian Thon Harold had never had any voice-over training, but in grade school he did play the part of a radio announcer, Ted Graham. He loved doing it, but never considered going into radio — and at the time, voice-over classes were unheard of. Flash forward
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50 posts & 50-yard line = Canada Day football!
This is my 50th blog post of the year so let’s celebrate! Easy enough – as today is Canada Day! At this pace I would hit 100 posts for the year… Which sport features a 50 and posts? That, of course, would be football. The center of all the action would be the 50-yard linewhile each end has goalposts. That is for American football. But in Canada we have a larger field: 110 yards to be precise. The middle is the 55-yard line. The American field is 53? yards
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