“Pick a Type…”
“Discover your Brand…”
“Find your USP (unique selling proposition)…”
“… Then, market the hell out of it!”
Whatever you call it, this is the marketing advice most experts give to actors.
And there’s a good reason for it: It Works.
Except when it doesn’t.
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So, what do you do with a bunch of tiny rubber chickens and way too much spare time?
Make a Rainbow Rubber Chicken Curtain of Awesomeness!!!
Ingredients:
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Oh! Tiny orange, how you mock me!
Once the peel is gone, all is empty.Bitter and pithy; the agony complete.
A broken promise of taste so sweet.They hide you in baked goods, cookies and pies.
Drench you in sugar and chocolate to cover the lies.But they cannot conceal the ultimate truth.
Oh! Kumquat you are most certainly the kruelest fruit.
I made these bedside pendant lamps for less than $55 each… with my own two hands!
(hard to believe, no?)
Read on to find out how they’re built, and to view links to the products so you can make them too…
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If you need a new character or dialect, an old book might be a treasure chest of inspiration…
While browsing through a used book store, I chanced upon an ancient copy of “The Code Of The Mountains” by Charles Neville Buck (pub. 1915).
Scanning through the pages, the first thing that caught my eye was that the character dialog was all written in dialect! For example, instead of “How far might it be to Winchester?” they say “How fur mout hit be ter Winchester?“.
This was an amazing way to learn a new dialect, or create a brand new character.
You can read the entire book here:
“The Code Of The Mountains” on Project Gutenberg
(warning: antiquated thinking may be potential offensive to sensitive individuals)
Below, you’ll find some select quotes from the first 20-or-so pages…
We open with Newt Spooner, a boy from Troublesome Creek in the Cumberland Ridges of Virginia. Or maybe Kentucky. Around 1897. He’s just gotten out of prison: Continue reading
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Cat Humiliation The internet is practically overflowing with pictures and videos of cats in various forms of humiliation. But if you thought this was a modern trend, then think again! Below are photos from a 1911 children’s reader showing that … Continue reading
King Richard II: monologue from act 3, scene 2.
Read by Joe J Thomas
Full Script: Richard II (click here)
Wikipedia: Richard II (play)
—— monologue copy ——
KING RICHARD II
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Stop! Ah, the humble stop sign. In countries around the globe, the shape, color and lettering are something we all are familiar with. They’re also easy targets for some very funny defacing! (as you’ll see below). For a bit of … Continue reading
“If I’m paid to voice a job and it’s never used, does it make a sound?”
Well I’m here to answer “YES!”, and show you some Voice Mime gigs from my own personal forest.
The following are all jobs that I auditioned for, got cast, recorded, and got paid for – that have never been heard until now!
Celebrity Voices
These projects involve celebrity voice matching. Sometimes it is to replace a celebrity voice in a movie or trailer, other times they’re used as scratch tracks until the celebrity has time to record the final version.
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Episode 5: “EVIL Noir!”
(The Maltese Cheese)
EVIL goes back in time to do an entire Noir episode!
Watch for dozens of famous quotes from the Film Noir genre.
Filmed in:
(showing you the movie sources during playback!)
Featuring quotes from the following Film Noir movies:
Beat The Devil (1953)
The Black Dahlia (2006)
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