Published on Monday November 28, 2005 .
Here’s my next chance at another national commercial. This time for Avis.
The setup is perfect for me: three guys in business suits are sitting in a car bobbing their heads to hardcore rap music and mouthing the words. Then all of a sudden a cell phone rings. The driver turns off the music and they all shift into “business” mode - “Yes sir. we’re running about 20min late because of the traffic. Ok. Sorry sir. We’ll be there.” The passenger hangs up the phone and the driver turns the music back on blast and they continue their head bobbing to the rap music.
This is like a scene off of Office Space. And it’s also my reality almost every day driving into work.
Now let’s see if I can at least get a callback…
Published on Monday September 13, 2004 .
People in LA love their SUV’s and it’s always ridiculous to see huge shiny SUV’s with spinner 22″ rims driving around trying to park in the all to common “compact” parking spaces. Well, ridiculousness is going one step further with this CONSUMER model 7-ton truck. I won’t be surprised to see some celebrity rock star driving this monster on the freeways in LA. I also won’t be surprised when Navistar comes out with the SUV version complete with 24″ chrome spinner wheels marketed for the hip-hop superstars. This vehicle costs $93k which isn’t all that expensive considering all the Bentleys, Mercedes SLK, Ferraris and other exotic luxury cars that exist on LA’s freeways.
Published on Monday February 9, 2004 .
Yesterday was the conclusion of Joanne Baron’s Master Class. Overall I really enjoyed the experience. I learned a lot from watching Joanne critique the scenes and lecture on the process of acting, character interpretation and script analysis. I also enjoyed being coached by Joanne and learning what aspects of the process I really need to work on. For me it came down to the fact that my emotions tend to be “locked up” and repressed and I need to really work on finding my emotions and learn how to express them vocally and physically.
What happened in our scene this time around is that we didn’t make it past the first page of material before Joanne stopped us and started critiquing us. My partner and I were never really clear on what exactly was happening in the beginning of the scene and thus, it showed in our acting because our actions were very general as well. Joanne spent the next hour coaching us through the first couple of lines breaking down each moment and emotion. Although it was nerve-wrecking at first, as we followed her coaching we could sense a complete difference from when we started. The audience could see it too as we received laughs in places we didn’t before. Joanne was very gracious in her coaching paying us both compliments but giving constructive criticism as well. Even though we were not able to complete the scene for the class, it was a great learning experience for both of us.
Now that Master Class has concluded I have started to look more at the business side of my acting “career”. What I recently realized is this: my current headshots don’t work. I just don’t feel my current pictures represent “me”. My agents agree as well. They never thought the pictures were that great, they just tolerated them. So now I’m on the search for a new photographer. This is always hard. I have never been completely satisfied with any of my headshots except for the ones with me in a leather jacket. Those were taken back in 1998 by David LaPorte. That was a magical session because I’ve had five other photo-shoots with him and have not been able to re-produce the feel of those headshots. So today I called both my agencies for recommendations and this is the list so far:
Jeff Nicholson
Ute Ville
Lesley Bohm
Vanie Poyey
Travis Tanner
The phone calls start tomorrow…
A couple months ago I did a small role in this comedic film which spoofed “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy“. Today I received an email that there will be a screening on friday. I’m debating on whether I want to go. It would be interesting to see how crazy I looked…
Published on Wednesday August 6, 2003 .
Looks like our man of iron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, will be running for Governor of California.
Personally, I’d rather see Arnold in movies than trying to run the state of California.
The article on CNN quotes Dick Rosengarten, editor and publisher of California Political Week as saying:
“You know what they say about politics,” … “It’s show business for ugly people.”
Now that is hilarious! I wish I thought of that one myself.