...of prizes being donated by VOAT sponsors for the event during September 2012. YOU could win one of these gifts merely by answering the weekly question being posed on VOAToday.com beginning Labor Day, September 3rd. VOICES.COM 1 year Premium membership VOICE123.com 2 standard year...
....TIME, I mean. 'Cause we profess to not have a clue about the clock. "Oh, I just don't know where this week has gone to!" ..you'll hear someone say. Now, here it is a week from Labor Day -- the unofficial end of Summer -- and all of the sudden Christmas ornaments are showing up in Wal-Mart....
How long has "The Simpsons" been on the air? At least twenty years, right? Well, Justin Bieber isn't. Twenty, that is... but now he's a VO star too! Bieber is one of the newest voices to be on the venerated animated series. He plays himself!...and set the Twitterverse into a tizzie when he...
WARNING: Geeky-type post! Although it's had a tepid response in the marketplace, I could certainly see the vision behind the Google ChromeBook. No hard drive, instant boot-up, constant cloud connection. Wherever you are, there's your (digital) stuff. No more thumb-drives or sending yourself...
What was I saying just last week about the proliferation of online "community sites" for voice-actors? (See: Can VO be TOO Social?) Among the plethora of current choices is a relatively new online site called Voice and Studio - The fastest growing media professional's network in the world. Voice...
Tablets are a game changer. Sure, your iPad is handy for swiping through copy as you read...easy to catch up on email while waiting at the doctor's office...but tablet computers are about to explode on the scene in ways you didn't expect, and the jury's still out on how that effects the business...
If you look closely, you'll see the offhand comments here 'n' there...not malicious...instead, almost confused: "Another FaceBook Voice Over Group???!!" -- or (cynically) -- "What we need is another social media site for Voice-Overs!" Voice actors quickly embraced the enabling power of the...
Since October of last year, I've been to five (count 'em...5!) VoiceOver meetups. There was That's Voiceover! in LA, October of 2011; Erik Sheppard's NYC Mixer, Dec '11; FaffCon4 in March '12 in Ventura, CA; APAC/Audies in NYC in June; and now VOICE2012 at Disneyland. I'd have a hard time making...
The month of May is gone, and I'm still trying to figure out where February went. June brings with it the VOICE2012 Conference. There's still time to sign-up, BTW, although travel costs are starting to get expensive at this late juncture. During the event, I'll be presenting on the finer points...
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