Tinkering with solutions for the email challenge is an ongoing process in my VO business. It's always morphing as I try new add-ons and plug-ins. I've gone from Outlook to ComF5 to Zoho, and now settling in with Gmail, 'cause that's where the creative 3rd-party products are focusing. The email...
In my book, Ken Burns walks on water. Everyone should watch every single documentary he's ever made.I am not a big fan of baseball, but I watched all nine episodes (innings) of his history of baseball with awe. Same with the Civil War, Lewis & Clark, The National Parks, The Dust...
Disclaimer: I'm an officer and a founder of World-Voices Organization, and an unabashed advocate for its acceptance. Neither union, nor guild, nor agent; World-Voices (WoVO) is the subject of many blogs here. I believe in the need for an industry trade organization for voice-actors...even though...
John Bisset of Telos Alliance was at the table next to mine at Faffcon 7's "meet the sponsors" event. I didn't have a lot of time to talk to him other than to mention that I owned an XStream codec...then we were both off to talk to people visiting our displays. He seemed like an affable,...
Do you know what "jaded" means? It means: "worn out or weary"...as in: we're too close to VO, and so immersed in the culture that we're over-exposed to it. We view as -- tired -- the very things that identify us to our non-professional audience. Those identifiers become trite or cliché to us....
A few thoughts about Tucson's unconference, and then I'll move on. I know the tsunami of pictures, posted alongside laments that: "...it ended too soon!"...or: "...FaffCon changed my life!" grows old for people who did not or could not attend. Bear with me one more time. For the 100 souls in the...
By now, you're familiar with the thrum of swelling accolades following the most recent FaffCon. Perhaps you've contributed to the enthusiastic thread of pictures and superlatives yourself in recent years. (BTW, header photo taken during rooftop end-of-FaffCon party) Forgive us attendees. It's...
Where do I start? How much time do you have? The DEPTH of my dissatisfaction is unplumbed! OK, probably the best way to handle this is with a list, so here goes: FafffCon events are always held in terrible locations The attendees are insufferable bores There are no activities The whole thing is...
Voice. OVER. Guess what?...what you're voicing OVER is almost always video...some sort of visual presentation. Of course, you make it complete with your voice (wink, wink), but since we humans are mega-optically gifted and sensitized... the message you bring is the window dressing to what people...
Personally, I'm never too comfortable with the word "success". That means I've arrived, and that implies a certain stoppage of progress. If you've "arrived"...then where do you go from there? [Well, I'm not opposed to stopping briefly to enjoy some of the fruits of my labor, but in my mind it's...
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