The top of my wishlist is to re-design this blog which I’ve neglected over the years. But in the meantime I’ve started another blog just for fun called “One Man’s Wishlist” which just lists stuff I’m interested in - from shoes to gadgets and everything in-between.
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I uploaded a bunch of old videos from different gigs I’ve done over the years. Everything from stand-up, independent films, to soap operas. You can see my range of being fat to skinny, long hair to short hair, funny to dramatic, bad to good/mediocre.
Come check out all my videos, make comments, rate them, send them to friends and help make me the most watched person on YouTube! Yeah baby, YEAH!
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=xanzhao
0 CommentsWhat do you get when you combine an Axe commercial with the iPhone? You get my Bom Chicka iPhone commercial.
0 CommentsIT Gangsta shows you how to get the latest, hottest, dopest, freshest, ringtones from artists such as T-Pain, Paul Wall, JD, Bow Wow, Mims, Akon, for FREE (if you already bought the damn song).
$4.4 Billion dollars worth of ringtones were sold last year (no lie, google it yourself). Were you one of the stupid ones? Check out this video to find out how to stop being stupid.
0 CommentsI’ve posted episode 2 of my self produced web series IT Gangsta. Check it out. Pass it along. Let me know what you think!
0 CommentsMy time has recently been consumed with my new project: IT Gangsta.
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0 CommentsI’ve started to upload some of my old videos to a service called Brightcove and integrate it into a separate blog - DavidChiu.com. Brightcove is similar to YouTube in that anyone can upload videos to the service for free and Brightcove will host the videos and stream the videos using a custom player, but also provides an easy way for other people to syndicate your videos on their own website. But the best part of Brightcove is that they don’t compress your videos as much as YouTube so the quality is 10x better (which is relative depending on the quality of the original video your uploading). Right now I only have a couple videos uploaded which were converted from VHS tapes so the quality isn’t that great, but I will be posting more videos soon.
0 CommentsI started writing this poem about two years ago as part of my Smooth Butter Love project. Recently a friend of mine wanted to play around with some new recording gear he had so we threw down this track during lunch one day. It’s still rough, but I wanted to give people a little taste of the Smooth Butter Love…
As of today I no longer have commercial representation. My agent of 8 years sent me a standard form letter expressing their regret but that it’s time for both of us to move on.
I’m not completely surprised since my commercial auditions have been getting sparse. I’m actually surprised that the agency kept me around for 8 years.
I did show a lot of potential the first 2 years I was repped at the agency. I booked a couple regional and foreign commercials and landed a hosting gig with a new show called “IZ”. As I got older - especially the last couple of years, I did notice that I started to go out less on auditions. My agent then told me that I was no longer 23 and I needed to start marketing myself as a young professional/young dad/scientist type. I never really liked that.
So now I have to hustle for a new commercial agent in a town of a million actors seeking representation. It sucks.
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