Kudos to James Earl Jones! From Variety: James Earl Jones has been tapped to receive this year’s life achievement kudo from the Screen Actors Guild.Jones has long been a staple of the stage and screen, making his Broadway bow in 1957 in “The Egghead” as an understudy. In 1969, the thesp won his first Tony for his role as Jack Johnson in “The Great White Hope.” In 1970, he nabbed Oscar and Golden

YouTube will now allow you to edit metadata while uploading, and while they're at it, they're increasing the file size limit to 1 GB (previously 100 MB). It looks like video length will be held to 10 minutes (same as before), so I think we're seeing the Google making their first steps into high quality content streaming. read more | digg story This is pretty exciting as they also just increased

How'd you like to increase your office productivity by as much as 50%? Add a second monitor to your computer setup. Once you do, you'll never go back to using only one monitor again.Wow! This is some hard hitting DIY news! LOL! Kim Komando tackles the controversial issue of hooking TWO monitors to your computer. WHO CAN THINK AT THAT SPEED!?!?!? OK, enough snark. She does make some good points,

It's been a helluva week... Enjoy!

I meant to post this up sooner, but my pals Pizzuto and Sobolov were down in Austin for the Game Developer's Conference. They were manning the S.A.G. booth there, and talking to people about actor's increasing role in new media and video games. In an industry where games like GTA 4 can gross $500 million in one week, production relying more and more on seasoned performers bringing their

So this really isn't going to be a fair fight, not even a little. If you read my blog, you'll know already, that I don't run a booth out of my home anymore, and no longer keep a lot of gear here. From bouncing around town though, I've been getting the equipment bug (I have Gear Acquisition Syndrome, if you will), and decided to throw down on some mid range consumer kit. I've got a pretty well

Woot! I'm stoked to finally see this out. I remember working with Daphne Zuniga on this back when I was still at Abrams. She's really cool, and was a lot of fun in front of the mic. The Schwartz is finally with us! After multiple delays, 'Spaceballs: The Animated Series' is finally airing in the United States. read more | digg story

Nothing else to say. I've worked with Gary. This is kinda awesome!

I'm a little behind on this one, so bear with me. I just finished reading "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K Dick, for the very first time. I can't say I loved it. The style of writing seemed to me like a bad translation of Ibsen with some futuristic lingo thrown in. It just seemed to lack the clarity of vision of a good Bradbury or Clarke story (though my fave classic Sci-Fi

So, it should be pretty obvious by now, that I don't like Metallica. I'm sure they are very upset about this, LOL! Off a story (featured on Gizmodo of all places), it's come to the attention of Metallica and/or Guitar Hero fans, that the mix of their new single "Death Magnetic" (blarf! - stupid track name) sounds much better on Guitar Hero than it does on the album. The culprit? Brick wall

You can't be Porky Pig... You're Jewish...

I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately. I think we can all agree that the current media marketplace is broken. The music and movie industries refuse to deliver on a system consumers want, namely something transparent and easy to use. When we get close, with services like Netflix, iTunes, or Amazon, there are either too many odd restrictions on how we can use our purchase, or there's a

Yup, I'm a bitter consumer. Ad Age takes a look at the backwards thinking the Music Industry employs in its constant march into irrelevance. They seem focused on preventing customers from hearing new music, making it harder for customers to easily purchase music, and driving potential customers to file sharing. It's been a depressing summer for the delusional record industry. We're seeing a

My Mom's a big ole trivia geek too... She just sent this my way: Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated. Neat!

So, I'm keeping to at least thirty minutes of practicing a day, and so far so good. I've found a couple online resources that have helped. StudyBass.com and CyberFretBass.com both have incredible resources to help reinforce your studies. And for those of you on six strings, you should really check out Songsterr.com. Are there any other resources you guys have stumbled on?

A new golf gadget developed by a Yale physics professor takes a different approach to golf training. Rather than focusing on the mechanics, the device literally allows players to "fine tune" the sound of their swings. read more | digg story

Just got this from my pal Holter Graham. It's AFTRA's response to the letter Michael Bell sent regarding the upcoming interactive negotiation. I hope to ask him some more specific questions later. The discourse is getting interesting... September 1, 2008 To AFTRA Members, We are writing you on this Labor Day holiday as we celebrate the contributions American workers have made to the

This is kinda huge. Spielberg appears close to signing a lucrative package that would make India's Reliance Communications a 50% owner of his DreamWorks studio. Here's the part that got me from the article. What happens with DreamWorks Animation? A Tale of Two DreamWorksSpielberg still considers Universal his second home, say those close to him. The Twentieth-Century Fox studio (NWS) is

I got to sit in on a session with "The Don" once. He was really funny, joking around with the people in the room and on the patch, making fun of his own signature "IN A WORLD". He even gave me a slight wink on his way out. With sincerest respect and humility, best wishes for his family and friends. He was loved. Here's the email Paul Pape sent out regarding Don's passing. It is very hard to

Here we go folks. Deadline Hollywood has the scoop. Here's the letter sent from Michael Bell regarding the negotiation: ALERT TO THE VOICE-OVER COMMUNITY "PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO EVERY VOICE-OVER ACTOR YOU KNOW" It has come to the attention of the S.A.G. Interactive Committee, that AFTRA is about to negotiate the Interactive contract without the participation of S.A.G. As you probably know,

So recent snarky-butt posts aside, I am trying to share more of my positive experiences here, as opposed to complaining about things all the time. That in mind, I just had to share a really great experience I just had at, of all places, Guitar Center. Helping a client set up some home kit he had just ordered, we realized that he hadn't gotten all of the cables he needed. I almost always have

Yup, it was bound to happen eventually. I kind of figured this was coming up, when I went hunting for drivers, and saw that the FW410 had been removed from the M-Audio site (it's back up now, but probably wont be for long). So what's new? Looks like we get 24 bit/192kHz (a step up over 96kHz), and the ability to function as a standalone mic preamp. I'm excited to see that it looks like we'll

Before I jump in, I've just been turned on to a new blog for those of you interested in production work. Scott Church is the software strategist (cool title) for Digidesign, and has started the protools|blog, chock FULL of helpful hints, tips, and video tutorials for getting the most out of Pro Tools. If you do any production work, I would HIGHLY recommend checking it out. That said Scott wont

After discussing him so much with Mer of BrainDouche, I thought I'd throw down my fave Ira Glass (This American Life) interview. He has some incredible insights on how to tell stories and engage your audience. Good lessons for us Voiceover people in here. Check em out. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

I'm stoked! Keaton is one of my favorite actors (Johnny Dangerously!!!), and Toy Story is one of my favorite films. This is kinda chocolate and peanut butter for me, LOL! From IESB (Beetlejuice Cast in Toy Story 3!): IESB has new voice talent confirmation for the upcoming installment of the Toy Story franchise! Not much is known about Toy Story 3 with the exception of a short synopsis given to