Alrighty...well, then. Got some things coming up that should be of interest. And one hilarious video that you should check out.
First...I'm dancing in a gothic ballet-type show in October. We just started rehearsals, and it should be fun to see! The company is called Astra. Click here to see the website which has more info. Shows will be the 22nd, 23rd, 29th, 30th, and 31st of October. The Halloween night one I think has some sort of a costume ball or something. Like I said, it's early on in the rehearsal process and I don't know much. But come see me dance!!
Also still in the midst of trying to find work to support myself. You know how that goes. I'm taking a fantastic acting class though at the Actors Creative Workshop (link), which is a nice intimate studio. The class is with Jeffery Brooks (imdb link). He's awesome and it's going to really help me improve and be awesome in general.
Lastly, and one of the more entertaining things I've done lately is dance in a music video for Fanboy Funhouse (website). It's a great web series in general, so you should all check it out, but the latest episode is super funny. And I think you'll like the music video, entitled "23rd Century Mullets." It's totally silly and just plain awesome. Enjoy!!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Post Office Awesomeness
Well, I was recently tagged in some new pics on my facebook page. I'll post two of them here. They are from my recent work on Fanboy Funhouse. It's a great web show created by Nar Williams. Check it out, friend them on facebook, follow them on twitter or whatever networks you follow. I worked on a silly music video, as you will see from the pictures. Not sure when it's exactly coming out, but keep checking up here to find out. As soon as I know or it's up I'll link to it.
-At the beach with my mullet
-Shooting on the train tracks with Nar Williams
In other news, I'd love for everybody to keep my sister in your prayers. She hurt her knee a couple nights ago playing indoor soccer. Turned wrong and heard a pop and pain. ER doctors that night said it may just be a sprain or strain, and she's seeing her regular doctor tomorrow. So, hoping for the best that it's just bruised or strained or whatever and it can quickly heal on it's own quickly. It's times like this it makes me sad I live in a different city. It'd be nice to comfort and be there physically for my sister. Until then I can only be the nice brother that I am and make fun of her and crack jokes at her expense over the phone.
Is it just me or is writing cover letters, stapling resumes to headshots, stuffing envelopes, researching and handwriting out addresses on manila envelopes EXTREMELY boring?! Yeah, that was my day yesterday, and will be today. Casting directors beware...you are getting an awesome headshot and cover letter shortly...the answer to your casting needs is about to be solved. So just do me a favor and look at it and not just throw it out. It costs $1.05 to send you that junk, so make my $1.05 count!
On that note, apparently the post office hates actors. It's been an ongoing thing with raising rates and stuff. I found one day in NY mailing headshots that if you write "Do Not Bend: Pictures" the rate goes up. I only wrote that so that the mail carrier would be nice and not just shove it and bend and crumple them. Once I found out there was a new more expensive rate...whatever...if you need to jam it in a box, go ahead. So in all my time in NY and now in LA, rates just keep going up and up and up. That generally means more stamps on a single envelope. As if I needed more things to stuff, stick, piece together in the assembly line that is my mailing.
So, I go to the post office the other day. You know the manila envelopes with the clasp? Yeah, the one that is the most normal and standard one? Yeah, that's the one I'm talking about. I generally don't use the clasp, nor do I seal it, I use a small piece of scotch tape to seal it so it's easy to open for agents and casting directors. Apparently, with new sorting equipment that the post office has, tape or even the clasp jams it, so that mail goes up in price to $1.39. That may not seem like a huge amount, but it adds up. Also, it requires 4 stamps rather than 2. I mean, how fun is it to peel and stick 4 stamps to 30 envelopes! The post office woman told me that the best way to get back to the regular price is obviously to buy the 9x12 envelopes without clasps, or physically rip them off (my choice at the moment until I run out of the envelopes I have) and seal them in two places with the lick technique.
LAME! But I do what has to be done for my career. So enjoy my hard frick'n work agents and casting directors...a lot of "love" (obvious sarcastic moment) went into them.
-At the beach with my mullet
-Shooting on the train tracks with Nar Williams
In other news, I'd love for everybody to keep my sister in your prayers. She hurt her knee a couple nights ago playing indoor soccer. Turned wrong and heard a pop and pain. ER doctors that night said it may just be a sprain or strain, and she's seeing her regular doctor tomorrow. So, hoping for the best that it's just bruised or strained or whatever and it can quickly heal on it's own quickly. It's times like this it makes me sad I live in a different city. It'd be nice to comfort and be there physically for my sister. Until then I can only be the nice brother that I am and make fun of her and crack jokes at her expense over the phone.
Is it just me or is writing cover letters, stapling resumes to headshots, stuffing envelopes, researching and handwriting out addresses on manila envelopes EXTREMELY boring?! Yeah, that was my day yesterday, and will be today. Casting directors beware...you are getting an awesome headshot and cover letter shortly...the answer to your casting needs is about to be solved. So just do me a favor and look at it and not just throw it out. It costs $1.05 to send you that junk, so make my $1.05 count!
On that note, apparently the post office hates actors. It's been an ongoing thing with raising rates and stuff. I found one day in NY mailing headshots that if you write "Do Not Bend: Pictures" the rate goes up. I only wrote that so that the mail carrier would be nice and not just shove it and bend and crumple them. Once I found out there was a new more expensive rate...whatever...if you need to jam it in a box, go ahead. So in all my time in NY and now in LA, rates just keep going up and up and up. That generally means more stamps on a single envelope. As if I needed more things to stuff, stick, piece together in the assembly line that is my mailing.
So, I go to the post office the other day. You know the manila envelopes with the clasp? Yeah, the one that is the most normal and standard one? Yeah, that's the one I'm talking about. I generally don't use the clasp, nor do I seal it, I use a small piece of scotch tape to seal it so it's easy to open for agents and casting directors. Apparently, with new sorting equipment that the post office has, tape or even the clasp jams it, so that mail goes up in price to $1.39. That may not seem like a huge amount, but it adds up. Also, it requires 4 stamps rather than 2. I mean, how fun is it to peel and stick 4 stamps to 30 envelopes! The post office woman told me that the best way to get back to the regular price is obviously to buy the 9x12 envelopes without clasps, or physically rip them off (my choice at the moment until I run out of the envelopes I have) and seal them in two places with the lick technique.
LAME! But I do what has to be done for my career. So enjoy my hard frick'n work agents and casting directors...a lot of "love" (obvious sarcastic moment) went into them.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Upcoming Project
I know, this will be a little misleading, as I don't have much information. I auditioned for a live dance project about a month or so ago. Left the audition and let it go from my brain. A couple weeks later I got an email from my agent saying they wanted to check my availability for the project. Quite a nice surprise. Didn't hear anything for another almost two weeks, so totally put it out of my mind. Then I get another email from my agent with a contract. Well, what a nice suprise that was! Just faxed the signed contract to my agency the other day, and now am awaiting the rehearsal schedule and more information on what the project is. It was so long ago I barely remember. Something to do with ballet and waltzing. All I know is there are five performances around and on Halloween. More info to come. But still, exciting to finally be booking somthing!
Sunday, August 29, 2010
I'm Back!
Wow, I cannot believe that I haven't written anything here since the start of the new year! What?! I know, it's just frick'n crazy. Well, I'm here to tell you that I'm out of any funk I may or may not have been in, things are starting to pick up for me here, and I'm getting back on it in all aspects of life. So, that means that this blog will be filled up regularly with idiotic things from my mind, links to things I think are worth linking to, picures, and updates on what I'm doing with my life here in Los Angeles. I encourage you to soak it in and love every minute of it. I can't promise genius, but I will say that there is a strong possibility of geniusness happening. So yea!!
I won't even begin to summarize what has happened since the beginning of 2010. Too much to talk about, nothing hugely important, however. I feel like all of a sudden it's almost September, and that's pretty scary. Where has time gone?? Well, this last week has been quite busy for me, for a change. I've been meeting with a few different casting directors, working on crew for a commercial and a webseries, filmed a part in a webseries (which is hilarious and as soon as it is up I will put a link to it), and generally been keeping moving and making things happen here in Hollywood. Momentum has changed, the tides have turned, any other sayings that let you know that my awesomness is being recharged and in preparation for release upon this world.
That being said, I must now escpape to Kinko's to fax over a contract for a live dance show I will be performing in sometime in October. More details to come. Can't really say more about it at this time, not because of secrecy or anything, but honestly I don't really know much about it besides I got the job, which is always a good thing.
I realize this has been very mysterious and vague, but what did you expect for a first blog back since December of last year...I mean, I'm not mentally prepared to write an epic story of massive proportions at this very time...
Happy Sunday!
I won't even begin to summarize what has happened since the beginning of 2010. Too much to talk about, nothing hugely important, however. I feel like all of a sudden it's almost September, and that's pretty scary. Where has time gone?? Well, this last week has been quite busy for me, for a change. I've been meeting with a few different casting directors, working on crew for a commercial and a webseries, filmed a part in a webseries (which is hilarious and as soon as it is up I will put a link to it), and generally been keeping moving and making things happen here in Hollywood. Momentum has changed, the tides have turned, any other sayings that let you know that my awesomness is being recharged and in preparation for release upon this world.
That being said, I must now escpape to Kinko's to fax over a contract for a live dance show I will be performing in sometime in October. More details to come. Can't really say more about it at this time, not because of secrecy or anything, but honestly I don't really know much about it besides I got the job, which is always a good thing.
I realize this has been very mysterious and vague, but what did you expect for a first blog back since December of last year...I mean, I'm not mentally prepared to write an epic story of massive proportions at this very time...
Happy Sunday!
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