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Embarrassment is a huge motivator. It’s behind the fear of public speaking, the shame of failing, and the guilt of broken promises. For that reason, many have urged the open sharing of goals with friends, acquaintances, and public forums. The psychology behind this posits that the embarrassment...
Tonite, I'll climb into my studio, and once again face the spectre of dry mouth. Dry mouth equals mouth clicks, and mouth clicks equals a noisy recording. Long-format narrating can really do it to ya. Yes, I drink gallons of distilled water every day (I get kidneystones if I don't). I've also...
If you collect enough data, you start to see patterns. Being a pack-rat, I tend to keep things a long time. You never know when you might need it, right? My wife wants to throw away perfectly good 6-week old food, and it just hurts me to see it go in the wastebasket when there's no mold on it. ...
When the 5th annual NYC VO mixer happens this weekend, I know I'm gonna wish I had spent the money to go...but honestly, it's the time, not the money that I can't afford. I told my VO friend Terry Daniel to take lots of pictures, and speak kindly of me if and when my name arises. I'll be there...
There's a fine line between passing along great opportunities and endlessly shilling for eager enterprises. I hope you know, I really try to keep my blog largely free of shameless promotions...opting instead for useful information. In today's case, I hit both marks...and do so gladly. Why? ...
It just seemed appropriate that I would FINALLY crunch some numbers on the Voice Over Awareness Today (VOAT) contributions from September, on this, our national election day. Many of you participated, and if you haven't perused all the meaty answers from the four weeks of shared knowledge, maybe...
...there are just two months left to 2012! ...and if you are into the whole Mayan Calendar prediction...there's not even that much time. (but the positive side to THAT school of thought: you won't have to worry about buying Christmas presents!). I point all this out...not to overstate the...
When the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was in Las Vegas in January, I made a B-Line for the Blue Microphones booth so I could drool. I wrote about that visit in this January blog: CES for VO's...then again in March: CourVO on Blue Blog. I also met with the Blue mic reps at their VOICE2012...
This week, parts of the Las Vegas valley reached temperatures above 115°F. We're kinda used to it. Many parts of the country, though, are breaking heat records right and left, making this probably the hottest Summer on recent record in the USA. I pity the folks living through energy blackouts in...
Think about it. If you're old enough...how much did you write every day BEFORE social media came along? Not everyone has made the transition to the New Media world with grace. Yet...in a day's time, you (1) text (2) email (3) post on FaceBook (4) post on some other social network and (5) create...
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