I am what I imagine myself to be.
I have a producers session this afternoon at Nickelodeon where I’m auditioning for “Prisoner #2″ for the show “All That”. It would be nice to book this gig even though it’s a small part.
How does that saying go? “There is no such thing as a small part just small actors”?
0 CommentsOn the ongoing subject and fight of P2P filesharing, the EFF has entered the fray and have started a campaign to defend the technology and its use to trade music files.
0 CommentsHave you ever wanted to own your own rockstar? Well now you can. The company DigiCirc has created a sort-of stock market for aspiring rock stars. You can invest in bands and artists and eventually share in their profits!
0 CommentsThere is a good article on CNET about Hollywood and technology. Along the same lines, the Hollywood Reporter has an article about digital film distribution which was one of the topics covered this weekend at the Showbiz Expo.
0 CommentsKatherine Hepburn has passed. Take a moment to find out more about her life and her career here:
• CNN
• MSNBC
0 Comments“Live in the bang!”. That was the final quote from our glorious acting coach and teacher Elaine Williams. Today was the last day of class which completes the first year of the two year acting program at the The Joanne Baron/D.W. Brown Acting Studio. Elaine has been such an inspirational teacher. One of the best I’ve encountered in my whole life. She is always positive and consistently inspiring. It has been amazing to see the artistic and emotional growth of my fellow classmates over the past eight intense months. We have definitely been equipped with the tools to really bring an emotional preparation to a scene and to live fully in each moment. It was an emotional day for everyone since we feel we have been given a great gift by our teacher and are ready to continue our journey in acting.
0 CommentsIt’s been awhile since I’ve gone out on a commercial audition. It wasn’t a national commercial or anything. Just a regional commercial for the Orange County Register. I was the first one to show up. We worked in pairs as creative office type and office worker in the next cubicle. It’s suppose to be a subtle 15-second comedic piece. The casting director liked our performance. Hopefully I’ll at least get a callback.
My commcercial agent just told me the other day that my headshots are too old and out of style. Luckily I have a photoshoot next Tues w/ Guy Viau to get new headshots. Since I’ve lost 20lbs on a ketogenic diet, I’m excited to see how I look in photos now.
1 CommentThe recording industry has become a big fat lazy bully. Instead of addressing the desires of the consumer by embracing and enhancing the new distribution technology of P2P (Peer 2 Peer) file sharing, they have decided to attack the consumer. They now run the risk of alienating and losing customers instead of gaining and retaining customers.
The labels need to be a little creative and engage in new marketing techniques instead of attacking the consumer. They need to rethink their marketing plan, business models and pricing models. They need to address the needs and wants of the consumer and become the consumers advocate and champion instead of their adversary.
Here are some suggestions for the record labels to help resolve the whole P2P issue:
Purchasing Incentives
Why not give incentives to those people who ARE purchasing CDs? Include coupons, sweepstakes, or prizes. What about being a little creative and increase the value proposition of purchasing a CD.
Loyal Customer Incentives
What about generating customer loyalty to a label, or artist? Purchase 5 CD’s from a specific label, provide proof of purchase and receive merchandise or concert tickets, or discounts. How about a subscription based model. Subscribe to a label and receive incentives. Purchase more CD’s and receive incentives. Incentives could be concert tickets, backstage passes, music gear, etc, etc.
Cross sell
With a membership/subscription model, labels could cross sell other artists and give incentives to loyal customers to hear fresh talent first.
Alliances and cross marketing with media companies
What about giving consumers the ability to buy a new MP3 player loaded with new and emerging artists? What about selling Flash memory cards loaded with songs from a specific album?
The recording industry should also take a hard look at why people turn to p2p filesharing:
•It’s easy and convenient
•It’s free
•It satisfies the desire to hear new music from artists
•It gives almost instant access to a vast variety of artists and genres
•CD’s are too expensive
•Consumers want choice of tracks because they don’t want to buy a CD which only has 2 songs they like
•CD’s are a dying medium?
They should also examine what are the negative aspects of P2P:
•The sound quality is not always the best
•Download time can sometimes be long
•There is no standard for MP3 titles, data, and sound quality
Of course, this is all just my opinion.
1 CommentOn July 2nd, “The machines will rise” on the big screen in Terminator 3 presenting us with another look of a future where we are ruled and oppressed by technology we have created. In the real world, life imitates art as the digital oppression begins. The recording industry wants to sue consumers for pirating their music. Microsoft wants to lock down and track every piece of data and information you pass through a computer. Advertisers and companies want to gather and track as much personal information they can on each person to sell them products. The government wants to gather and track every detail of our lives to “ensure our safety”. We are all slipping into the Matrix feeding the digital world with our ideas, our lives, our actions, our cashflow - giving the digital world life and creating the virtual shackles in which we willingly enslave ourselves to. The light of technological enlightenment is bright, but shines in a closed box.
{some spoken word poetry to follow…}
0 CommentsToday we came home early this evening, parked our car in the back and went out to the front yard. As we were tending to the yard we realized that there was a padlock on our front gate.
We didn’t put it there.
Some asshole or some kid, probably thought it would be funny to lock our gate thinking that we wouldn’t be able to get in our yard when we returned home. Guess they didn’t realize we have a back gate.
To solve the problem, I went to the local hardware store and bought some big bolt-cutters and cut the damn padlock off the gate.
Fun times living in the ‘hood.
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