Writer, Dabbler In Things
I was intrigued by the process of how a professional voiceover guy manages to submit 40-60 voiceover auditions per day, so I watched his video. Turns out a lot of those leads are sent to him by pay-to-play websites, which isn’t something that’s financially feasible for me right now. So that part of it is … Read more
I don’t know if I’ll ever land any of these voiceover auditions for established characters that have lore and a certain quality, etc., but it’s certainly gratifying hearing my teen’s unexpected enthusiasm about my even trying out for some of them.“Wait, you’re going to be Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil? You could totally do that.”“Oh, … Read more
My wife is a teacher and my teen is of course a student, which means that come the end of every school year, they’re suddenly around home a lot more and we do a lot more together. And that’s sincerely great. But… It also makes for a couple of months of busyness above and beyond … Read more
For those not familiar with what a chaos symbol is, here’s a basic version of one: The idea of it is that, being chaos, it’s as likely to go in any direction as any other. I’m realizing that there are (I daresay increasingly frequent) times when it really feels like my brain is doing exactly … Read more
I’ve recently mentioned my looking at getting into voiceover work (he says, determined to go with one spelling for “voiceover” and stick with it, and it looks best to me as one word). That’s still happening. It’s just been in a bit of a holding pattern over my wanting to approach it the best way … Read more
Bruce Schneier is a long-time digital and technology privacy advocate who’s written some of the most important and influential books on those and related subjects. He posted this brief article yesterday, nicely summarizing the grey area issue surrounding what constitutes fair use of material readily available to the public vs. what people should have to … Read more
For the sake of expediency, I won’t get into the needless background details about why this came about. But let’s just say that in the last 12 hours, I got a huge confidence boost — thinking I wasn’t yet ready to do something that I sat down and was able to figure out and start … Read more
As I recently mentioned, I’m looking at getting into voice over work to help bring in some money. I did some research and got a good (used) mic and a good (used) interface and in the spirit of continuing to keep costs down, went with a digital audio workspace (aka DAW, aka the recording software) … Read more
My time at the liquor store has taught me a bunch of things, including how dirty and sweaty and thankless retail work can be. But it’s also a been stark reminder that you shouldn’t put all of your eggs in one basket. I was hoping that this would be a new career path for me, … Read more