Call me an impulse shopper, but… I simply could not live without this T-shirt. Dude, it practically has my name on it.
Archive for March 2009
No shirt, Sherlock
March 28, 200913 again
March 28, 2009In the third week of a six-week Friday afternoon VO workshop, I hit the wall. Whenever I have a weekly class, there’s always one week where my frustration with my progress — or, more accurately, my self-perceived lack of progress — escalates to the point that I drive home quivering on the precipice of surrender. [...]
Game on!
March 23, 2009Last weekend, I participated in a two-day workshop on voicing video games. Now, you have to understand — when I was actively playing video games, they rarely included voices. I’m from the era of Asteroids, Space Invaders, and Donkey Kong here. The most sophisticated item in the arcade back then was Dragon’s Lair. (You young [...]
Pat-urday in San Francisco
March 9, 2009Now that I’ve had a moment to rest and recover, here’s the lowdown on last Saturday’s workshop. Pat Fraley titled the event Audition Technique Masters, which probably described everyone in the room other than me. Pat invited agent John Erlendson, principal of San Francisco’s JE Talent, to direct one of the two sessions. Sydney Rainin, [...]
Thinking ahead
March 6, 2009Tomorrow, I’m participating in Pat Fraley‘s Audition Technique Masters workshop in San Francisco. Given that I’ve never worked with Pat, or either of the other directors, I suppose this is something of an audition in itself. As I recall, I was always a dreadful first date. This workshop begins an intensive four months of VO [...]
Another Brick in the wall
March 2, 2009For me, a highlight of this past weekend’s WonderCon in San Francisco was meeting one of my VO idols: Scott Brick, perhaps the world’s most honored and respected audiobook narrator. Scott had a booth at the con — how did I miss seeing that in the program? — promoting his self-published series of audiobooks. For [...]
