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Wednesday, April 1st
It has been a slow week, most likely due to the Easter break. There was big action at the agency today. A fire truck pulled up outside my office to break up a fight between two middle school kids. Back in my day, kid's beat the crap out of each other, no fire truck needed. Times have changed.
Thursday, April 2nd
I received this email today. There was no name or contact info. "What do you guys do? Like what is your company about?" I hit the delete button. No time for that! Does anyone teach manners anymore?
Four of my actors were in Atlanta today for a callback for a feature film. All four were sent to the studio for the "powers to be" to view. I am so proud of the actors for doing a great job! Time will tell if anyone books…but, this is great news and confirms the actors are on the right track.
I am looking forward to the Easter weekend and going to visit friends in Englewood on the west coast of Florida. I am picking up Molly & Mike's portraits. I vow to not become a crazy cat woman, but with a face like Mike's, that might not be possible!
Mike's Portrait
(Artist: Marsha Banas firstname.lastname@example.com)
Friday, April 3rd
It is Good Friday! Office is closed…HURRAY!
Monday, April 6th
Last week, I judged a showcase for "Beth Marshall's Production: Top Teen Showcase". Beth did an excellent job working with the high school students and encouraging them to follow their dreams. I often find myself talking people out of pursuing this business and to do something else that will make a difference in the world. Too many actors…not enough opportunities…too hard to make a decent living. I am sure many of you can relate to this. But, who am I to discourage someone to follow their dreams? You are never too old to become an actor. The older you are, the harder it will be to pursue film and television since you will be competing with actors who have been in the business for years who have a resume and reel. Kathryn Joosten was a former actress I represented. Many of you might remember her when she worked at Disney. Kathryn started in the business working in community theater when she was 42. I remember when casting director Herb Mandell would request that Kathryn wear her teeth for auditions. 100% true…I can't make this stuff up! Herb passed away in 1999. He was one of a kind! Herb would call and ask me to meet a new actor. I knew she would be blonde with big boobs. I was never wrong. Kathryn moved to Los Angeles in 1995 and was very successful working on numerous shows including playing the role of Mrs. Landingham, personal secretary to the President in "The West Wing" and as Karen McCluskey in "Desperate Housewives". She passed away in 2012 from cancer. Two great people in the business gone too early. God bless their souls! Where was I going with this topic? I guess I am trying to say you are the boss and CEO of your life. It is never too late to start a new chapter and pursue your dreams. Do what makes you happy!
Tuesday, April 7th
After attending a seminar at The Gasparilla Film Festival, taught by Jason Teresi from Breakdown Service/Actors Access, I want to make a few suggestions regarding your reel. While nobody is born with a reel, hopefully, with hard work and dedication, you will have enough footage to put a reel together. Models have portfolios…Actors have demo reels. A demo reel is a showcase of your work and is THE best marketing tool professional actors can have. It is a must for career actors who are serious about their craft.
Technology has changed the way demo reels are distributed. We live in an instantaneous viral society which has made VHS tapes, CDs and DVDs a thing of the past. Thank goodness the days of shipping VHS reels via Fedex are over! Reels have gone viral allowing a digital file to be viewed at the click of a button, saving hundreds of dollars in DVD duplication costs and postage, not to mention the positive impact it has on the environment by not having your DVD's end up in a landfill.
It is also a good idea to have your individual clips from legit projects on your Actors Access page as well as your reel. I would define legit projects as any role you booked that required studio or network approval. Not independent projects or student films. They are fine to use on your reel but, I would not use these clips since most of the casting directors, producers and directors are not familiar with these projects. You should label your clips on your actor's access page: Name of Project (Role). Example: The Walking Dead (Police Officer). If you booked guest star list like this: The Walking Dead (Guest Star: Police Officer). Reels need to be named Reel or Film Reel or TV Reel or Film/TV Reel or Drama Reel or Comedy Reel (whatever fits what you have). Do not use the word video, clip or demo. Delete any old reels on your actors access page. If you have more than one listed your agent does not know which one to use.
Make sure your actors access profile is updated and your agent has a current resume on file at all times.
You can purchase your television footage from www.editplus.tv It is best to contact them before the episode airs.
A Few Tips for Putting Together a Demo Reel
A good demo reel will open doors for you to agents, managers, casting directors, producers, directors, and anyone else looking to hire actors in the entertainment industry. A high quality demo reel is guaranteed to give you the competitive edge over actors who do not have one. Amateur footage on your reel will hurt more than it will help you. If you do not have professional footage don't waste your time putting a demo reel together. Start by compiling your footage until you have enough for a demo reel. And, then be prepared to update your reel the same as your resume.
Wednesday, April 8th
Do you know what really frustrates me? When actors do not return phone calls about an audition, and then after giving them a few hours, I call back and their mailbox is full. Don't let that happen. EVER!
A lesson in the first pass system for actors. First pass = first actor to call or request to audition. Second pass = second round. Third pass = third round. For commercials agents always call first pass before moving on to second or third choice. Slots are limited for commercials and since most talent in the area are multi-listed, slots can't be held. When first pass actors do not respond in a timely fashion they move down the ladder to make room for an actor who is on the ball. When the casting department receives submissions for film/tv they request who they feel will best suit the role. It is not unusual for casting to receive 500 submissions per role. They narrow the submissions down to approximately ten percent and send out requests for the actor to audition. If the producers or director want more choices they move on to the second pass and so forth. How do actors become a member of the first pass team? By being consistent in their auditions and callbacks. You move up the ladder by booking a job and making money so your agent can stay in business; by returning phone calls or emails promptly; by being a professional and always being prepared. The early bird gets the worm! When opportunities happen make the most of it…they don't come around often. I called an actor last week to ask why he did not respond to two auditions. I emailed another actor asking if he still wanted to be represented by the agency since he does not return phone calls or audition notices. Trust me, they won't let that happen again. I will continue to call actors out in hopes they will understand the demands the business requires and if they can't comply, then it is time to say "Hasta la vista". Help your agent help you be a member of the first pass team.
Thursday, April 9th
I started the day downloading auditions only to find out the actors and/or the taping person did not follow directions. And, then the blame game began. There are days I feel like I am hitting my head against the wall dealing with this on a daily basis until I remind myself to be grateful for the actors who read and follow directions.
Shout out to Chay Santini and Victoria White on auditions I received today. I seldom have time to watch entire auditions, but when I do I love watching a great performance and these two delivered.
I love the enthusiasm I receive when actors receive an audition notice. I feel like Santa Claus on Christmas!
I finalized two deals for actors to return on a high profile tv show that I can't announce the name of or I will be eaten by zombies. I am happy their characters will be returning for another season. The actors are thrilled they will have the opportunity to work again on the # 1 show in the world! Who wouldn't? Great opportunities are available in the Southeast for actors.
Love this note from Owen Harn who is working this week on the "Untitled Autopsy Project" pilot shooting in Miami. "I just want to take the time to tell you how grateful I am to have you fighting at my side in the battle to work and how much I truly appreciate you. I know life gets in the way and I find it overwhelming at times but overall I am very lucky to live the life I live at a career that only makes sense to tackle. Thank you for all you do and put up with". Thanks Owen!
Friday, April 10th
"Don't Give Up" by Andrew Lock
Often life doesn't go in the direction we want it to. Does that mean our lives are doomed and we can't achieve the success we dream of? Let's be realistic: Everybody fails, bit consider the following.
Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." Disney went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland. In fact, the proposed park was rejected by the City of Anaheim, California on the grounds that it would only attract "riffraff."
Thomas Edison's teachers said he was "too stupid to learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs for being "nonproductive." As an inventor, Edison made more than 1,000 unsuccessful attempts to invent the light bulb. When a reporter asked him how it felt to fail 1,000 times, Edison said that he didn't fail all those times, but that the light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.
Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4 years old and did not read until he was 7. His parents thought he was "subnormal," and one of his teachers described him as "mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in foolish dreams." He was expelled from school.
Every comic strip cartoon that Peanuts creator Charles Schultz submitted to the yearbook staff at his high school was rejected.
After Fred Astaire's first screen test, the 1933 MGM memo from the testing director read, "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little." Astaire kept that memo over the fireplace in his Beverly Hills home.
Decca Records turned down a recording contract with The Beatles with this fascinating evaluation: "We don't like their sound. Guitar groups are on their way out."
A friend of mine in the music industry personally auditioned a singer by the name of Reg Dwight in the 1960s. He unceremoniously shoved the singer out of his office for wasting his time. That singer is better known as Elton John.
Imagine if these individuals had given up, believing they were doomed to failure and wound never achieve success. Do you think they ever felt down and depressed? Sure. But they didn't allow a gloomy state to overtake them, to overpower their wildest dreams.
Bad experiences can be viewed as positive in hindsight. They can be stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks. It's your choice. But be determined to NEVER GIVE UP.
Monday, April 13th
It is a typical Monday at the agency. Catching up from emails over the weekend, sending out and uploading auditions. I received an audition request for a role of a teen male for the new show "Vice Principals" from the producers of the raunchy HBO show "Eastbound and Down". I read the sides and sent a note to the parents letting them know it is fine with me if they want to decline due to the content. Agents seldom if ever receive sides or scripts prior to submitting. We can't be the "script police". One actor is fine with the dialogue, another might not be. It is a decision an actor, or parent of the young performer has to make on whether to accept or decline. Please do not get offended if you receive an audition that you are not comfortable accepting. Just say no thank you, you are going to decline and let your agent know the reason why. That way your agent can let the casting director know in case anything changes.
I appreciate when actors follow up after a booking. I am sure most agents do. Frank worked two days ago on "Nashville". Not only did I receive a set pic but, Frank also sent me an updated resume and updated his Actors Access account. I call that the business side of "show business"…Go Frank!
Frank Licari with Charles Esten on the set of "Nashville"
Tuesday, April 14th
I am starting to prepare for the cold reading workshop. Invitations will go out the beginning of May for "BTG" actors. Since agents seldom see talent face to face, it is a great time for me to see the talent I represent and the progress they have made.
Thank you to the person who sent goodies from "Cheryl's". A note was not included so I do not know who to thank. They were delicious…my diet was shot for the day, but it was worth it!
Mom of the week goes to Alkoya Brunson's Mom Nikki. I called her yesterday to let her know Alkoya had a callback in Richmond, Virginia for the new PBS TV show "Mercy Street". I know this is a lot to ask of anyone so I wanted her to think about it overnight. When I called her this morning they were two hours away from Virginia. I am not sure if this is dedication or insanity but, it works for me! Some roles book off tape…other require a callback. Actors must expect every audition to have a callback. It is a bonus if casting books off tape. It is a part of what actors have to do to live and work in the Southeast.
Wednesday, April 15th
FINALLY an audition for a SAG national commercial for "Cheerios". I have missed SAG nationals…more please! Casting sent out a note to agents asking them to read the breakdown and relay all of the information so that actors can be prepared for the audition. WHAT? Isn't that a given and common sense? It is one thing for actors to not read the information, but, add agents in that group and this market is a hot mess!
Gotta love this phone call I received. Caller: "Hey are you an agent?". Me: "Is that anyway to start a conversation?". Caller: "It is a free country" and then hangs up. I doubt whoever this was will go far in life communicating like that. And, when did "living in a free country" mean you have the right to be rude?
It is a first in 25 years! Nobody called to find out who much money they made so they can file taxes.
Thursday, April 16th
We lost another actor yesterday. Kent Lindsey passed after battling cancer the last few years. Kent was always positive and had the best outlook on life. I will miss our talks and the good times we had together. It was an honor to represent Kent. My thoughts and prayers go out to his beautiful wife Pepper and daughter Samantha. RIP Kent!
I have been busy this week with appointments. Remember out with the old in with the new? It is not a good thing when I find my mind thinking about something else during the meeting. This must be how directors feel when an actor is auditioning who doesn't hold their interest. You have one shot to make a great impression. One of the actors I met had an "Empathy Workshop" listed on their resume. WHAT IS THAT? I thought you were born with empathy? My daughter needs this workshop. Maybe I should teach a workshop called "Common Sense for Actors".
Friday, April 17th
I could not sleep last night. Between the boyfriend snoring, the cats purring and the frogs croaking outside I said to heck with sleep and did the next best thing. I got up and watched the latest episode of "Nashville". Aubrey Peeples plays the role of Layla Grant. I am so proud of Aubrey! I had the privilege of developing Aubrey many years ago and have watched her turn into a force to be reckoned with. I have no doubt Aubrey will have a long career in acting, song writing and singing. You might remember Aubrey from the cult film "Sharknado". Aubrey will be starring as Jem in the feature film "Jem and the Holograms" opening this fall.
I held meetings this week with new potential talent. I was interested in representing one out of six. How do agents represent actors without meeting them? How do they know if they can talk, listen, look like their headshots and act? I have to know the talent I want to represent and what their essence is. Trust me, it takes a lot more than a headshot and a heartbeat to make it in this business. The relationship between an actor and agent is one of if not the most important business relationship an actor will ever have.
Monday, April 20th
It is confession time…I HATE LOW BUDGET FILMS!!!! Especially ultralow budget films. Too much work and not enough money to be made. Don't get me wrong, I am happy when actors have the opportunity to work. All producers and writers feel that their project is the best in the world and they love their "baby". Nobody will love their baby as much as they do. Not me…not you. It is a fact of life. So, please do not get offended if I do not get excited about working on low budget projects. I would rather scrub toilets! If you want to pursue low budget films, and I suggest you do if you need the footage for your reel, then submit away. It is a great way to be productive with your career. Let your agent concentrate on bigger projects. Or, do what Tunde Laleye did, "I am happy to announce that I self-submitted for a role on actors access and I booked it. This is very special to me because it is my first official booking role even though I know I am on first right for a bigger project. This is a short film that will shoot for 4 days in Huntsville, AL. I am just excited to start my journey of making my resume extensive".
Tuesday, April 21st
29 film/tv auditions were sent out before noon today. A couple with very quick deadlines. I understand that some actors can't tape before the deadline. Others want an extension which is seldom possible. Traci says, "Worry about what you can control, not what you can't control". Episodic television is fast paced. I wonder how it feels when an actor can't meet the deadline? I guess not great because you can't get to fourth base without going to first. But, I am really proud of the actors I represent who bust their ass to get their auditions in before the deadline.
Nothing makes me happier than letting an actor know they have a callback, are under consideration for a role or booked the job. That is a lie…a trip to the spa at the Ritz would be just as good!
Wednesday, April 22nd
Our commercial season is over! It came in like a lion and went out like a lamb. There will be a few auditions but, the bulk is done. Time to drink my sorrows away.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the film incentive. We are not the only state fighting for incentives. Louisiana is having problems and the state is looking into phasing out their incentive program. Keep writing and calling your representatives and senators asking for their support of the "tax credit" bills. The buzz in the halls of the capital is to refer to the bills as credits not tax incentives. Time to retrain my brain to say credits.
Thursday, April 23rd
Thank goodness for SAG residuals and for entertainment lawyers!
Friday, April 24th
Fridays are the happiest day of my week! I cherish my weekends, even if I sometimes have to work and upload auditions. I am going to Lake Meadows Farm tomorrow to buy some fresh eggs and a big fat juicy grain fed boneless rib eye. I am grateful for vegans and vegetarians…more meat for me!
Monday, April 27th
I spent the weekend watching my new favorite tv show "Bloodline". It takes a few episodes to get into the show but, it is compelling to watch. It is required viewing for all actors! The lead actor Ben Mendelson is amazing, as well as the rest of the cast. Ben plays the role of Danny. He has the uncanny ability to own the scene even when he is not talking. This show is a great example for actors to see how important it is to create a beginning and an end of the scene without saying a word. I loved watching all of our "BTG" actors especially the ones who had recurring roles, Dan Bright, Claire Bronson, Tyler Cravens, Bill Kelly, Jeremy Palko, Zach Robbins and Owen Teague. None of these actors knew their character would return. Some of these roles were under five lines and look what happened. Everyone did a great job representing Florida talent. Get ready…season two will start shooting at the end of summer.
Tuesday, April 28th
I went to UCF this morning to watch monologues and talk to the future stars of tomorrow! I wish I had a crystal ball to see where the future will take the students I met. A big thank you to Be Boyd for inviting me to meet her students.
I received this from a personal client today. This is how it is done! "Thank you for the excellent talent! All three actors showed up on time and did a great job. Their memorization was good, their wardrobe selections were plentiful and spot on for the part and their delivery was exactly what I needed. I would definitely use them again".
Wednesday, April 29th
IT IS A GREAT WEEK AT BREVARD TALENT GROUP! I am one proud Mama Agent today! I closed three actors on "The Walking Dead", Richard Regan Paul wrapped work in Atlanta on the feature film "Keep Up With The Jones", Owen Teague is in Richmond, Virginia working on "Mercy Street", Erin Beute booked a guest star role on "Finding Carter" and booked the lead in the independent film "Mind The Gap" shooting in Orlando, Tyler Cravens booked "Graceland" and Roger Floyd's character will return to work on "Graceland" next week, Greg Pitts will be in Miami working on "Alvin & The Chipmunks IV", Alkoya Brunson booked the film "Birth of a Nation" shooting in Savannah, Michael Crider is heading to Atlanta to work on the last episode of the season "Halt and Catch Fire" and last but not least Logan Allen will be heading to Miami for four months working on the new Nickelodeon show "Talia's Kitchen". The life of the agent is similar to an actor's…when the going is good it's great…when it is slow not so good. And, remember the only way you are destined to fail is if you quit. Robert Pattinson had already decided he was done with the business before accepting his last audition. That audition was for "Twilight". Need I say more? You never know what your future holds. This should be inspiration to everyone to keep working hard…sooner or later it will pay off!
Thursday, April 30th
I will dedicate today to all of the loyal actors in the business!
Monday, March 2nd
It is a great way to start the week by booking Nick McNeil on the CBS show "Under the Dome!"
All day I dealt with film and television auditions that were not taped correctly, edited or labeled per casting instructions. It is frustrating! One thing I don't like is doing double the work especially when detailed instructions were sent to the actors. It is the actor's responsibility to read, read and read the instructions again and relay this information to the person who is taping the audition. Another issue is when file sizes are HUGE. It takes a long time to download and upload. You can go to www.mpegstremclip.com to download software that will enable the file size to be reduced without losing quality. Agents do not always have the time to make sure actors follow instructions. It makes everyone look unprofessional when instructions were not followed. To make your auditions stand out make sure you have an excellent reader, take the time to work on the character and have your dialogue memorized. You need to deliver a performance as if you were already on set since you only have one shot to make a great impression. Lighting and sound must be great for studio approval. Use a good quality camera, not on a cell phone. You might try to save money by self-taping, but unless your home setup is top notch then go to a taping service. Your agent will thank you; the casting directors will thank you. I cannot tell you how many auditions were missed and not submitted to casting due to actors not paying attention to detail and self-taping.
Tuesday, March 3rd
Nothing exciting to write about today. I sat at the computer all day working… a typical day. What else is new?
Wednesday, March 4th
I had a chemical peel last night. My face is the color of a pumpkin and I am hiding in my office.
I sent callbacks out for a Florida Hospital commercial and submitted on more film and television projects that are filming outside of Florida. One casting director is looking for a real blind man, another needs a real veteran type in a wheelchair. These are tough roles to fill. Glad I am not a casting director. Agents can always say "I don't have what you are looking for." Casting directors can't. God Bless the casting directors and their assistants.
I wish that actors would book out when they are not available. I go through the work of submitting or pitching them to casting only to find out they are not available. I also wish all actors had passports. You never know when an opportunity will come in for a job that films out of the country.
I sent an e-mail to actors who auditioned for a pilot shooting in Miami letting them know first refusals have gone out. I love this response I received from Isaac Rossi "I have no doubt that I can only go up from here, and I will book one of these one day soon! Just gotta move on to the next one". Isaac is always positive, never complains, is grateful for auditions and doesn't sweat the small stuff. I need more Isaacs in my life!
Thursday, March 5th
Below is a list of film and television roles that came out this week. They are all from different projects filming in the Southeast. I hope this will encourage actors to have a variety of headshots that their agent can use for submissions. Some actors have one or two headshots. That is not enough. Actors should know their bookable essence and what roles they are right for. Would you have the right headshots for the roles below? An actor can never have enough headshots with different looks. It could mean the difference in being requested to audition or not.
Friday, March 6th
One of my actors is in Atlanta. He had a callback last night for a film and two callbacks today for pilots. I love killing three birds with one stone! Although when he arrived to one of the auditions, he found out the director and producers fell in love with an actor they met the day before so he read for a different role. Hate when that happens…but, I believe everything happens for a reason.
My exciting plan for tonight is to stay home and watch my face peel like a lizard. Now that is a reality show!
Shout out of the week goes to Kelly Malik super mom to Aiden. Kelly and Aiden's grandmother Shirley made countless trips to Wilmington, NC where the TV show "Secrets and Lies" was filmed. Aiden plays the role of Tom Murphy, the young boy who was murdered whom the show is centered around. I hope everyone is watching this show and all shows that are filmed in the Southeast. The show was cast by Feldstein Paris Casting. Ryan Phillippe can be my daddy any day of the week!
Aiden hanging with Ryan Phillippe
Monday, March 9th
Randall Miller, producer and director for the feature film "Midnight Rider," pled guilty today and was sentenced to two years in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the death of camera operator Sarah Jones. First AD Hillary Schwartz received ten years probation. Roger Floyd and Bill Kelly booked the film last year, but was unable to work on the film. This is a horrible situation for all parties. We seldom give safety a second thought on sets. Please keep safety in mind when working and if your instinct is telling you something doesn't feel right speak up!
Still no money from producer Steve Tatone for the film "Blind Pass". It has been 3 years and 3 months since the actors worked on his film. SAG said he has been sick. I manage to pay my bills when I am sick…don't you? I will not quit fighting for the actors until they are paid.
Every actor I know wants to be on the hit AMC show "The Walking Dead". Good news the show will resume production in May. For those who have been watching the show Jordan Woods-Robinson plays the role of Eric, one of the first homosexual characters to be introduced on the show. Jordan shot 4 episodes and will have great footage for his reel. Go Jordan!
Jordan on the set for "The Walking Dead"
Tuesday, March 10th
It is a typical work day. I am sitting in front of the computer answering e-mails and phone calls. The following are samples of a few conversations I had today with different actors:
Me: Can you please upload your new headshots on your actors access profile?
(Does your agent really need to ask you to do this?)
Me: I tried to submit you but, you don't have the agency listed on your actors access page.
Actor: What should I wear to the audition?
Me: Figure it out.
Actor: When does this shoot?
Me: Read the email.
Actor : Did callbacks go out?"
Me: If they did, you would be the first to know".
Actor: Do you think I will get an audition with my new headshots?
Me: If I was psychic, I would pick the winning lottery numbers".
Actor: Do I need to memorize the dialogue?"
Me: Not at all. It doesn't matter to me if you are prepared so you can do your best.
(I wanted to say "REALLY? ARE YOU @*%#*^* KIDDING ME?." But, I kept my
mouth shut…miracles can happen!)
The life of an agent isn't that exciting. It sounds glamorous but, it isn't. The only carpet I walk on is the one in my house and office…not the red carpet. Maybe that is why I keep thinking of stories to share with you instead of boring you with the stuff I deal with on a daily basis that I am sure most agents go through.
Wednesday, March 11th
I am so excited! The Go Fund Me campaign for Film Florida met the goal of $7,500.00. Due to the donations, the goal has been increased to $10,000.00. I am on a mission to meet the new goal. Too bad I am not that dedicated to haul myself to the gym. The "Rally In Tally" is today. A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who donated money, wrote to their Senator and Representative and is attending the rally. We will know the beginning of May if our hard work will pay off for the tax incentive to be funded. Tamara Austin sent this to me: "I want to work in my home state!" Hopefully they get the message. Thanks again for being a great agent and a strong fighter for you and your people. Your ambition and strength is not only admirable but contagious. Makes me proud every day to call you the agent who represents me." Thanks Tamara!
Casting director John Peros & Mary Rachel Dudley and Annette Victoria, Chip delVecchio & Mary Rachel at "The Rally In Tally"
Thursday, March 12th
I received this email from Isabella Ianuzzi, one of my young performers. It gives me hope for the future that children are taught to be thankful. I send thank you notes to producers and clients. I hope you take the time to send thank you notes to people who have helped in your journey. Sending a written thank you note is better than one sent by email.
"Hi Miss Traci!
Thank you for your support and for sending my audition along. Knowing that you thought I did a good job means a lot to me. I always try to do my best so that you and Miss Peggy are proud of me!!
If the producer thinks I'm right for the part then that would be awesome!!!!! My braces are off and right now I am eating popcorn and taffy!!!!
I turned down a low paying non-union commercial casting to work on raising money for Film Florida. Everyone has priorities. Today this was my priority.
Friday, March 13th
I do not know what is up this week with actors needing drama therapy. I don't know if it is because today is Friday the 13th or the sun, moon and stars alignment but, actors are depressed about not booking. I have never met an actor who wants to book less roles. Of course actors want to book and without actors booking jobs agents would go out of business. This is a tough business and it has become hard for anyone to book a job. It is the reality of the business and you must bring your A game or sit out on the bench. Time to pick yourself up from your boot straps, pick up the pieces and move forward. The best advice I can give any actor is when the audition is over FORGET ABOUT IT. When you second doubt yourself your mind starts playing crazy games. Your angel and devil personality is talking over your shoulders and messing with your head. Slap them silly and send them packing on a long vacation to your sub-conscious.
I am going to Tampa tomorrow to watch a master class at Performer Studios Workshop with Lori Wyman. I am looking forward to seeing actors I represent as well as new actors looking for representation. Not to mention I am going to the International Mall on my way home!
Monday, March 16th
The master class was great. It is refreshing to see actors working hard on their craft. Commercials are a look, personality and technique. Acting for film and television is a whole different ball game. Brevard Talent Group represents actors for commercials and/or film/television. There is more work in the Southeast than ever before. I gave up representing models years ago.
WE DID IT…we met the goal of $10,000.00 for the Film Florida "Go Fund Me" campaign. Thanks to everyone who made a donation. We could not have done it without your support. I am so happy!
Mom and dad of the week goes to Helene and Jim Cavanaugh for their dedication to drive their daughter Alana to Atlanta to work on the AMC television show "Halt & Catch Fire". On the show Alana plays the daughter of Scoot McNairy who portrays Gordon Clark. Alana films her 13th episode today. Not bad for a child actor in the Southeast. Not only is it important to support your child in the business but, it is more important to keep the business in perspective and not let it run your life. One day your child is working, the next day they are at school and/or doing chores.
Alana in Atlanta waiting for enough snow to build a snowman…every kid's dream who lives in the Sunshine state!
Tuesday, March 17th
It isn't a great way to start the day with actors who DO NOT READ INSTRUCTIONS! I am sick of it! Do not respond to an audition until you read ALL of the information. I send everything that I can to actors so they can be fully prepared. The least the actors could do is READ THE ENTIRE audition notice before accepting the audition.
I wrote letters to House Representatives to support House Bill 451. If I can find the time, so can you. Make sure you check www.filmflorida.org daily for legislative updates or call to action where you can help make a difference by sending emails to support the film incentive.
I was contacted by casting for two actors who worked last year on "The Walking Dead" with interest for the actors to return next season. I guess they were not eaten by zombies. Dahlia Legault's episode aired on Sunday.
Dahlia with Michael Cudlitz who plays Abraham on "The Walking Dead"
Wednesday, March 18th
I will call this day "Who Knew Mandy Moore Would Become Mandy Moore?" Mandy was a pre-teen when she shot an industrial for "Disney Quest." Who knew Mandy would become a pop singer and actress at the same time that Disney had the right to use her image forever. Not me and not her agent at the time. Not too long after that I saw a picture of my client Dean Napolitano on a bus advertising "Wet & Wild." Dean shot a commercial and the client pulled the image without my knowledge and without paying any additional money. I had enough of producers having the right to use a talents image in perpetuity in commercials. Although I was not Mandy's agent, this situation upset me so I started an agent association. The agents got together and agreed to set booking policies and limit terms on usage. Guess what? It worked for many years. Agents stuck to the agreement to work together to make the market better and stand up for the actors' rights. Then new agents entered the business and took whatever auditions came in without limiting usage and caring about actor's careers. In 2007, I organized another meeting with agents and casting directors to address this situation again. I told everyone at the meeting if this continued we are "cutting off our nose despite our face" and it will become difficult for actors to make a living in this market. Without actors, agents and casting directors would be out of business. Steve Benz walked out of the meeting in a huff. And, then something special happened that I will never forget. Kirsten Dalrymple, founder and owner of Azuree Talent Agency, stood up and let everyone know that in the long run there are more important things to deal with in life than this business. The following year Kirsten passed away from cancer. Her words have stuck with me through the years. She was right. I find myself working in a market where rates are lower and the way a client can use the talent's image has increased due to changes in advertising. This week a breakdown went out for a Disney commercial that pays $400.00 a day. The standard Disney release gives them the right to use your image forever in all media. I don't understand why anyone would think this is acceptable since Central Florida is the theme park capital of the world. I refer back to the diary entry on February 9th. What are you worth? How much have you put into training, headshots, marketing materials, gas, time and therapy? I wish I had the energy to organize another meeting with agents and casting directors but, I don't. Are you in the business for fun and to make a few bucks or are you in it for a career? Actors are paid for their talent and image. If I hear one more time "I needed the money so I accepted the job" I am going to lose my mind! My advice is GET A JOB…or two or three! Desperation is a disease. Very few actors make a living in the entertainment business without supplementing their income through other means. You never know where your career will take you so think twice before you accept an audition where you have to sign away the right for your image to be used forever. This is my opinion so take it for what it is worth.
Thursday, March 19th
It is spring cleaning at the agency this week. Out with the old in with the new. Time to release talent from representation due to a variety of reasons. If you have not received a "Dump Notice" you are safe. One of the actors was released because I have waited over three years for new headshots. A few were released because they do not respond to auditions. I know this is shocking but, true. Others because they have too many agents. Some suffer from the disease I call "Desperate & Needy." I do not know any agents who want to work with desperate needy actors. If you are a high maintenance actor you better be a big booker! The most common reason that most actors are released from the agency is that I seldom hear from them…no updates on what and how they are doing…if they are alive or dead. It is not up to your agent to make sure you are breathing! There is no point representing actors I don't call who are not proactive with their career. It is the reality of the business…agents dump actors and actors dump agents. I am a 54 year old semi-crazy woman inching closer to menopause every day. I can't deal with incompetent people who don't take this business serious. From the beginning, I wanted to be a small boutique agency that specializes in film, television and commercials. That will never change. I do not understand how agencies represent thousands of models and actors and brag about it. The highest compliment I receive is when a casting director refers actors to me. It means I am on the right track which is always a good thing.
Friday, March 20th
WE DID IT! Brevard Talent Group raised over half of the $10,000.00 goal for the Film Florida "Go Fund Me" campaign. THANK YOU to everyone who donated! I was a woman on a mission and with the support of everyone who donated, that made me one very happy agent.
This week I had two things that have never happened before. Number 1: an appointment confessed she was not wearing panties. TMI. Number 2: some nut job started a twitter account for one of my actors and pretended he was said actor tweeting away like he was the actor. Now that is freaky!
It is "Bloodline" week at Brevard Talent Group! The new TV show "Bloodline" is available today. Lori Wyman cast the series that shot in Key Largo. It is the first time actors can watch the entire series in one day that was filmed in Florida. This will be my first time to "binge watch" on Netflix…I can't wait! I am looking forward to seeing my clients Dan Bright, Claire Bronson, Larry Bukovey, Tyler Cravens, Andrea Crouch, Josue Gutierrez, Bill Kelly, Fernando Martinez, Jeremy Palko, Zach Robbins and Owen Teague.
Monday, March 23rd
I received the following from casting director Tracy Kilpatrick. "FROM THIS POINT ON IN OUR DEALINGS, I AM REQUESTING THAT YOU AND YOUR TALENT REFRAIN FROM USING THE TITLES OF PROJECTS WE ARE WORKING ON IN ANY TYPE OF SOCIAL MEDIA (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc). It is important to our producers to preserve the integrity of our projects. Please let your talent know this immediately and ask them to remove any references to current projects."
This brings up a good subject about social media.
Yes or no to social media? That is the question all actors need to think about. It is a given that every audition an actor receives should be considered confidential. The breakdown and sides you receive should remain private and should not be shared with anyone no matter what your intention is. Do not post any information about the project and storyline. Never post your auditions on YouTube for the general public to view. A few years ago, lawyers from the television show "Army Wives" contacted agents to have auditions removed from YouTube because members of the "fan club" were finding out about future story lines and blasting it all over the internet. When in doubt do not post anything on social media.
Once you have booked a job the game has changed. It is important to be relevant in the business and a great way to do that is with social media.
I asked social media guru and actor Tom Hillmann to share some social media dos and don'ts.
Social Media 101 for Actors
by Tom Hillmann
Social media is now being fully embraced by studios and networks to create buzz and publicize their projects. Verifiable reporting shows "live tweeting" ratings for shows which tells advertisers that viewers are watching live, thus seeing commercials (which help pay the bills for free content). http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/07/nielsen-twitter-tv-ratings/
Here Are a Few Social Media Pointers
Auditions – It's really best not to talk about auditions too much. Remember you are competing. It's possible your competition wasn't sent on the audition. Play this game to win. If you do talk about an audition or a call back, NEVER mention the name of the project. EVER. If you have put anything up on social media and used the name of the project without permission, delete it now.
Working – When you are on set, ALWAYS ask a producer what their social media strategy and guidelines are. (If you ask a PA, they will often not know, and tell you "no.") Some projects encourage Tweets and pics from set, as long as no special makeup, wardrobe, set pieces or story line are given away, and often only if any photos taken on set are held and not released until press begins. If you play it dumb and think it's "easier to ask forgiveness than permission" in this case, you could be fired and sent home. Millions of dollars are at stake.
Press – When the premiere, or launch of the product you worked on is close, monitor what the studio or company who produced the project is doing, and follow their lead. It's usually at this time that any pics you took on set are allowed to be released. Mary Rachel Dudley worked on the CBS show "Reckless" and that show actually had a Social Media Specialist email Mary Rachel with guidelines and stills of her to use leading up to the air date of her episode. She "live tweeted" during the broadcast, and got some great compliments from the show's writer/creator/Executive Producer. Which brings us to the next point:
"It's About Being Social"
When I was working on the CW show, "Star-Crossed," William Shatner, a fan of science fiction shows, began "live tweeting" during broadcasts, and he and I have kept in touch over Twitter ever since. An invaluable lesson is that you never know who you will run into when you are being social. Mr. Shatner is known for explaining the concept of Social Media in a very simple way: "It's About Being Social." You can watch a show together with the stars, writers, creators, and luminaries like Mr. Shatner, and snark, laugh, and gasp while engaged online. Studios love this of course because people are drawn back to watching shows like a "live event." Remember to use discretion, courtesy, and decorum. Everything you say is in public and is forever on the internet. Think of it as if you are at an entertainment industry party and stars, writers, producers, directors, studio executives are all there with you. Be polite and on your best behavior. Some social media advisors suggest you keep certain divisive topics off the table like politics, etc.
As a professional actor you can use social media to build relationships which has the added side-effect of promoting your work.
I suggest you contact Tom at www.TomHillmannMediaDesign.com for websites, demo reels or promo post cards.
Tuesday, March 24th
It is a typical day at the agency. Actors are not reading information for their auditions and then letting excuses role off their tongue. I had one actor who I asked to correct the file he sent and then he sent the same exact e-mail without READING the info that was sent the first time. When am I going to stop preaching about this? I had another actor who turned down an audition for a Tom Cruise film. Really?
Wednesday, March 25th
I had two appointments today. Both boys, ages 10 and 15. I really love this part of my job. You never know what will happen and who I will meet and that includes the parents. I also made a pact with myself when I turned 50 to be honest with encouraging people to pursue acting or other another career that they would be better suited for. And, I always encourage college for teenagers. The truth hurts…but, doesn't everyone want to hear the truth and not have smoke blown up their a double ss?
I am sure all agents love to receive set pictures from actors. It is also a great idea (if I don't say so myself) that you print a picture or two and send a written thank you note to the casting director who booked you on the project.
Dan Bright with his new wheels on the set of the CW pilot "Cordon" shooting in Atlanta
Thursday, March 26th
I am leaving the office early today to attend and speak at "The Gasparilla Film Festival." I am looking forward to seeing a lot of films including "In Lieu of Honor" starring Rus Blackwell written by Mary Rachel Dudley. I am so proud of Mary Rachel for making her dreams come true!
Friday, March 27th
Three things I know for sure:
# 1 Actors are their own worst enemy.
# 2 I never want to hear another monologue as long as I live.
# 3 I hold a lot of keys to Pandora's box.
Monday, March 30th
I had a great time at the "Gasparilla International Film Festival". I will confess I have not attended many film festivals. I was proud of the "BTG" actors who appeared in numerous films that were being screened at GIFF. What struck me the most was the positive energy in the crowd. The filmmakers were so proud of their films and were networking with other film makers. It was an honor to be invited to speak at the festival.
"Break A Leg" Panel: Julie Schubert (Casting Director), Cinda Snow (Snow Entertainment), Sabyn Mayfield (Panel moderator, director & producer), Kelly Paige (Level Talent Group) and Traci Danielle (Brevard Talent Group)
Tuesday, March 31st
I will close the month by saying "Be grateful for what you have. Make the most of it what you don't." Being 5' tall did not stop Danny DeVito from moving to New York to become an actor. Being a little person did not stop Peter Dinklage, or Tom Cruise who has dyslexia, or Marlee Matlin who is hearing impaired, or Michael J. Fox who suffers from Parkinson's disease. Where there's a will, there's a way. What is stopping you?


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As you know, my hubby and I recently returned from another trip to Las Vegas. Last week I wrote a post about my experience rafting with Black Canyon River Adventures. I had such a remarkable experience, I had to devote an entire post just about our trip. And then I realized that I one more experience that deserved it's own post, and that is our trip to Madam Tussauds.
Madam Tussauds is located at The Venetian casino resort, smack dab in the middle of the Vegas Strip. LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION! It's an affordable entertainment option that will surely provide you with hours of fun! AND it's one that you can get an even better deal on if you click here to take advantage of a special offer!
I have to hand it to them for how absolutely realistic every "celebrity" looked. Most are set up in a scene that you can participate in….so I mean when I saw the opportunity to pose with Hef on his famous round bed, I was going to take advantage of it… Check out my pics to see all the shenanigans we were up to!
What are your favorite celebs at Madam Tusssauds?
Xoxo, Shana
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Good Morning Dreamerz,
Today I want to share with you a cute Kitty Witch that is part of a new release of digital stamps from KaDoodlebug Designs. The digital set is called Just Halloween and comes with precolored as well as uncolored digital stamps. I chose the Witch Kitty uncolored version for my card today.
Thanks for taking the time to look today Dreamerz.
Don't forget I still have the giveaway going on until the end of the month. Just click here -> GIVEAWAY to be taken to the blog post for all the details
Until later Dreamerz, Have a Great Day!!!


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In last week's Sunday's how-to post, we discussed about how to get personalized domain. Let's move to next step of running your own site – hosting. Basically, hosting refers to storage of your files in remote server. The files necessary to load your site are kept in a server storage where it is always up and connected to the internet, well at least theoretically.
Fortunately, there are many interesting web-hosting services in Nepal and the prospects are getting better and better with increasing progress in tech sector. Let's make a short list of some web-hosts in Nepal.
Before entering the technical portion of this article, let's discuss some practical aspects. First of all, there are going to be two divergent groups of people requiring two different types of hosts – free and premium.
Free hosting provides most basic services required for hosting while restricting some optional services as well as limiting the bandwidth, space or file size. Some may require you to advertise their service. Usually they are not as reliable as premium service, but that goes for granted. Also, their costumer care isn't very good. Lack of SSL, hotlinking and SMTP seem to be the catch of free hosting in most trusted ones. With that being said, there is no need to panic since the modern free hosts provide all basic services required for a basic website.
Following is the list of some good free web-hosting services.
Premium hosting on the other hand provide state-of-the-art services, top notch costumer care and best in market utilities for easy setup and running of your site. It has to be noted that a lot depends on particular web-host although the distinction is generally very small.
There will be no discussion about pros and cons of each services. So, its up to you to check out the features of each services yourself.
So, lets move on to the how-to part. Since most readers of last how-to were interested in free hosting, we'll discuss free hosting here. Unfortunately, there are no free web hosts operating in Nepal, so I'll be demonstrating freehostia as a example but the procedure must be similar for most services. It should be noted that I have no affiliation to freehostia whatsoever and is only as example.
- Check out different service listed above (or find on your own) and find one perfect for your needs.
- Signup for an account.
- Fill the form with required details. Choose free plan. If you don't have a domain, you can add that later.
- Login to cpanel. The login details are e-mailed to you.
- You can access all available services in cpanel.
- Determine the nameservers. Nameservers are address unique to each host which help to link files hosted to your domain. Use this nameservers while registering your domain or while chainging the hosting.
For freehostia, it is as follows:
Primary nameserver: dns1.freehostia.com
Secondary nameserver: dns2.freehostia.com
- Check site status. It may take a while for you site to come online.
- Create sub-domains if necessary.
- Start uploading related files. It can be done via File Manager or FTP.
- Alternatively, you can use Application one-click-installer to install certain web-apps or use website builder to build site.
- Create a Webmail account.
- Manage SQL database accounts.
Now, you're ready to host your site.
Click here to learn how to get .np domain if you require one and click here to check out how to set up your website with no to minimum coding skills.


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With the summer release of their first full-length CD, the creamy pop gems of
mother's choice
have skeptics crying, "I can't believe they're not butter!!" The 13 song release is sure to please even the choosiest of mothers. With songs of unrequited love, swollen outlaws, & sleep deprivation, the band proves that while they may be Mother's Choice, they are no "momma's boys."
, guitar, is the newest member of the band. He hitchhiked from Chicago and has played each song only once.
, bass, hails from Minneapolis. Previously, he played a stint with the Cow Tippers in St. Paul. His "take no prisoners" style has, at times, been known to set captives free.
was the lead vocalist in the NJ rock band "To Be Announced" before joining Mother's Choice. He has been honing his chops to sing nude on Broadway.
spent his teen years in Chicago modeling fake mustaches and testing the limits of a phony birth certificate while drumming with Tiger Beat has-beens and new wave hopefuls. He has performed with members of The Buckinghams (KIND OF A DRAG) and members of Elvis Presley's band.
, guitar & vocals, is the band's main songwriter. Staying one step ahead of the law from Ohio to Virginia to North Carolina, he settled down in Portland two years ago and assumed the name "Jeff."
With musical influences ranging from The Replacements to Uncle Tupelo, a night with Mother's Choice is more fun than rubbing steel wool on grandma.


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J.D. MacDonald ~ Or Reading Outside of One's Genre
I consider myself a SF/F reader by preference and inclination, Gentle Reader. But I guess you could say I'm writer enough to appreciate a really good author no matter what their genre. You know, the kind that actually chuck you out of the world they have created with a sentence or a paragraph so beautifully written you can do nothing but pause and appreciate the art of it. I have a few literary types in my ken: Margret Atwood, for example. Sadly, they usually aspire to the noble title of
, none of that dirty
tagging thank you very much. I don't go out of my way to read them, much as I appreciate the skillz. I actually don't enjoy being chucked out of the world I'm absorbed in. Also, I tend to dislike their subject matter as it's generally pretty depressing.
Back in the 1960s when a paperback book cost $1.95 and pulp fiction was on firm footing, a certain gentleman named John D. MacDonald invented a character called Travis McGee. Yes ~ his books are mysteries, often quite violent and gruesome. Yes ~ they are alpha male occasionally anti-woman. No ~ I don't read them for pleasure. No ~ I don't own any myself. But I think he's probably the best writer America has ever produced.
Just look at this set up for a fight scene:
"He stood up, impressively tall and broad. "You insulted the lady."
The lady was sitting erect, buttoning her blouse. The lady said, "Deck him, Lew!" Sick him, Rover. He swarmed at me, obedient as any dog.
I am tall, and I gangle. I look like a loose-jointed, clumsy hundred and eighty. The man who takes a better look at the size of my wrists can make a more accurate guess. When I get up to two twelve I get nervous and hack it back on down to two oh five. As far as clumsiness and reflexes go, I have never had to use a flyswatter in my life. My combat expression is one of apologetic anxiety. I like them confident. My stance is mostly composed of elbows."
Brilliant! I'm not a good enough writer to describe how good he is. Unfortunately for him, like Picasso producing only postcards, he never got credit as a writer because he produced only pulp mysteries (and one, extremely hard to find but wonderful, collection of sci-fi shorts). He still, to this day, has a small but rabid fan base (Spider Robinson is reputed to be one). They ought to teach this man in schools. Commercial fiction, baby, is all too often underrated.
You don't have to take my word for it:
Jared over at Pornokitsch also loves J.D.
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My Man Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse}
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Your Infusion of Cute . . .
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Galactic Suburbia Podcast: Teen Feminism Edition
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Your Writerly Tinctures . . .
Fiction University: The Do-It-Yourself Writers' Retreat
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Linux For The Kids?
So there's this old laptop that's been hanging around my house in need of both a regular battery and now a CMOS battery as well. It's a Thinkpad 600e, for the curious. I'm thinking, now that my oldest is in school and her sister is coming up right behind her, that it might be time to designate one of my machines as the kids' setup.
Linux is the only real option, but which one? You can't just say "ubuntu" whenever the question is "which distro?" Sometimes it just don't work. Here's the constraints:
* Easy online setup (driver recognition) so they can play Flash games.
* Must be able to play Flash games. :)
* Graphics requirements not high (this thing will probably do 800x600 at the most), but I'd like them to be able to play TuxTyping, TuxMath, those sorts of games.
* Boot without login option. There's no need for them to worry about usernames and passwords.
* Fast bootup! Perhaps most important of all, when a 4yr old child wants to play on the computer, she does not want to wait 3 minutes for it to get started.
Suggestions appreciated. The system does have a hard drive, so I shouldn't have to worry about running off a USB stick. But if somebody tells me that Puppy Linux or some other mini-distro is what I'm looking for, then I'll take it!


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Migration of 200 websites from sixteen Redhat 3.0 to four CentOS 7 Servers
Budget $250-750 CAD
Project description: Migration of 200 web sites from sixteen Redhat 3.0 to four CentOS 7 servers.
- 200 websites running on:
o apache
o html (http/https)
o php
o perl
o tomcat
o mysql
o vsftp
- create ftp user accounts
- create and configure sites on target servers
- move sites contents, ssl certs and mydsl db's
- configure the msql connections, if applicable
- configure tomcat, if applicable (very few sites)
- configure/adjust php (upgrading the php version)
- test and ensuring all sites functionalities are working
o ftp access,
o http – at least 20 pages/links
o https
o tomcat
o home page & 10 links
o php (if applicable)
o mysql connection (if applicable)
Environment: Target web servers will be provided with all applications installed and ready. Source and target web servers will be on the same network segment. Ssh access to source and target web servers will be provided.
Expectation: All sites are fully configured and all web pages are working with correct contents. Provide test results. Radiant will do the dns cut over, the actual migration to new servers.
Ideal Candidate: LAMP developer with system and tomcat experience.
Please submit your proposal, a brief summary and/or portfolio of similar jobs, and bid.
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STEMed Labs
This year, all proceeds went to STEMed Labs, an organization dedicated to promoting K-12 students' engagement & academic success in science, technology, engineering, & math (STEM) education through extracurricular activities and mentorship programs. By rewarding risk, encouraging curiosity, and expecting creativity in their students, STEMed Labs is expanding STEM education opportunities in communities across the city and preparing students to be the innovators of tomorrow.
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Lana McGilvray has led marketing efforts for both international consumer brands and technology companies since 1997. She is a principal at Blast PR, a national marketing communications firm with offices across the U.S. Lana is a frequent commentator on traditional and digital communications topics and sits on numerous industry committees. She is also the co-director of Pecha Kucha Austin, helps produce The CMO Club's annual SXSW program and is on the board of BreastCancer.org's national Bowling for Breastcancer event in New York City.
Master of Ceremonies
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Alon Bernstein is the lead singer of three time Austin music award winning band More Cowbell as well as 90s band Chandler and the Bings and has won the prestigious Ginger Jew of the Year award 11 consecutive years beginning in 2004.
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Something about Soho by Windowless Consultant
A little way up from the Coach and Horses street on Charing Cross Road, two bookshops - Foyles on one corner, and Soho Bookshop on another - with which I was equally familiar, the one mostly from the inside, the other mostly only out. At Foyles, what gets me is not only the shop, but the cafe, whatever it is in the coffee keeps me coming back. I'm sure if I go there enough I'll catch up with what, many years back at St Mary's, I saw as my destiny - still, contemplative, never looking up at the world without a cautious finger keeping the page it distracts me from - an intellectual. I return from time to time, take a seat, and look out for the person I might have been had I not got into windows. I don't miss it, it's not melancholy - the windows have always kept me happy, busy, missioned up - just curiosity. Is that me, there, with the pencil, or somebody else?
The Soho Bookshop has always interested me in its window display for its effective mixture of subtlety with brazenness. Upstairs clear windows open onto a bookshop selling books dealing with an arty content – paintings, photography, film – at knock-down prices. Once inside the bookshop, though, stairs lead down to an area set aside for magazines and films for the over 18s. There you have the two sides of 'Soho' condensed. What somehow manages to preserve for the area a charm so much more pronounced, inimitable, heady, than other central London areas is the unaccountable mixtures it makes of business with pleasure, local cocktails unrepeatable elsewhere, where industry and idleness cross the street and pretend not to know each other. In Soho, on the other hand, the industries - music, film, sex, the hairdressers so over-represented there they must be servicing one, other, or both, and come themselves to take on louche connotations they're quite free of elsewhere - and the pleasures - music, film, sex, and haridressers - segue, as the local jargon would have it, so seamlessly into and out of each other the place takes on the exaggerated features of inbreeding.
Liquid lunches spill onto the street there as nowhere else, sex is investment, music a way of life. In my consultancy role, I'd always felt the place belonged to me as it did the other media types, as a location to buy cloth, stock up on props, pick up fads, and of course use the cafs to plot, meet, note. And then, this was life, was the theory, which the window would dust off first, but replicate, life in a densely reproducible form, and the window of the Soho Bookshop, though a window, had as much a claim to be a part of it as any.
I say 'has always left me', but the tense was a dodge. Whether or not I am still a window consultant I leave unresolved - I am, as I ever was, but, while I'm not, I no longer am. It was seeing the window there today I understood something of the power of the other door. That same mixture of the blatant and the concealed, the shameful and the shamefaced, I had been naïve not to have understood on the Coach and Horses street, and a door there I'd photographed for my first post, but, unable to account for its effect on me at the time, left out.
SHOP CUT WOMEN HOP a lamp, and between them, a door to a green hall, a naked bulb hanging, plastic flowers outside, signs on the wall within. Looking back at the photos of the barber's, something was undoubtedly suspicious. I realised that this other doorway was not, as I had thought, the entrance to the barber's at all, but a separate affair. The place at the same time advertised and concealed itself. Was this, I wondered, what had leant everything the unreal air on the street? The fact I'd missed it at the time making this more probable, I decided to return and check the next time I passed.
As I held my camera up, a silhouette appeared down the passage. Focusing, I waited for the form – male - to emerge, but instead, he withdrew rapidly into the shadows, and immediately I realised my mistake – a 'walk up', 'working flat' or 'knocking shop', whatever name you give it, is a place few are happy to be seen emerging from or entering. I stuffed the camera back in my bag and made off, irritated to notice an unaccountable blush to my cheeks, and disappointed to think that this should in some way have been at the origin of my discoveries. Soho.
From there, wandering up the street, I'd come to the bookshop, and found what had been staring me in the face there, then, stared me in the face again at the shop, too, stared everyone in the face, those who passed by and didn't see it, those who did see but without seeing, those - the one, I - who saw and saw. There was, I realised, something in the image that should explain the other moments, the moments I'm tracking, if only I could see it. There was something that had happened, that was yet to happen, that was visible, obvious, unseen. It was a private joke, a public crime which those who contemplated it ignored. The city, determined to get on regardless, stared at the image, frozen, hypnotised, as, seeing nothing, it rushed on about its business.
This one I would capture, hold, place here, perhaps identify the role of in events.
But while I was bent, focused, there in my viewfinder appeared a face, looking unseeingly at where the woman was, I knew.
I say knew. Many years ago, in fact, I had been married to him, before my present marriage, the husband in passing I occasionally refer to. Feels like another life. I didn't immediately straighten back up, but rather deliberately kept him there in the reflection, the world I held.
I hadn't thought of him for some while until just recently, when he began to return to my interest. I had started wondering what had become of him since we had drifted apart, divorced, lost touch. Indeed, a couple of weeks back I even thought I saw him, strangely, in a kind of waking dream, in Holland of all places.
He had, in fact, been in my youthful imagination my only true love. I told myself in my imagination since, as things had started coming to divorce, I had learnt to mistrust those early feelings. Here he was, though, in this world in many ways of my imagination, coming at me from the porn/art shop window, and I found my eyes itched warm, sorry and glad. The idea of being able to will the clock back all those years was clearly ridiculous, love again the candid confusion on his face, as I liked to call it in jest, but I realised as I saw it again that's what it was, and a melancholy enthusiasm that had always appealed to me before at some point I'd begun to find it irritating. Something so delicate in a man, it used to give me a feeling approaching laughter it was so strong. Protective, although I knew he'd resent the idea he needed protecting – he didn't – it made me feel, of such breathless sensitivity.
Lost your dig? I joked, bending up. An archaeologist by trade, one of the things, I recalled, that had drawn us apart, was the depth of his obsession with his work – not the archaeology, which was appropriately charming for him to do, the protective care over the supremely delicate, nurturing the broken, cherishing the irreparably damaged, recording the long forgotten had all seemed a part of who he was, affording himself, too, the rarefied air in which to flourish into all his trembling splendour, but the politics, the jealousies and clawing for a corner of power within museum life diverting his attention into paranoia, his ardency into ambition, his sensitivity into bitterness.
But over his face I'd grown accustomed to thinking of as cold now fluttered a shadow at this jest in which I undoubtedly caught that melancholy and so once again guessed at the candid sensitivity I'd thought extinguished. I really have no idea why that should so have hurt him, but unaccountably in the same movement of regret I felt at having caused the smart, I was surprised by an inwardly laughing happiness that it was there.
A confession, then, it turns out, the purpose of today's entry, and not one the hubby would be that glad about my making, I'm sure, but then I blog in my growing downtime from the windows work, the windows work has always been the focus of our marriage, the time I find myself with now something else, somehow, apart from that, stranger and new.


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Hi everyone,
I'm following this topic:
Indeed I also had to start installing drcsim and I am following these instructions to install from sourcehttp://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=drcsim_install#Compilingfromsource
However when I reach the last catkin_make I get the following error:
CMake Error at /home/hugo/erle_simulation/drc_catkin/devel/share/gazebo_plugins/cmake/gazebo_pluginsConfig.cmake:141 (message):
Project 'drcsim_gazebo_ros_plugins' tried to find library 'atomic'. The
library is neither a target nor built/installed properly. Did you compile
project 'gazebo_plugins'? Did you find_package() it before the subdirectory
containing its code is included?
However I am sure I have the boost library installed. In fact for other packages the Boost library atomic is found as in for example:
-- +++ processing catkin package: 'gazebo_plugins'-- ==> add_subdirectory(gazebo_ros_pkgs/gazebo_plugins)-- Using these message generators: gencpp;geneus;genlisp;gennodejs;genpy-- Boost version: 1.58.0-- Found the following Boost libraries:-- thread-- signals-- system-- filesystem-- program_options-- regex-- iostreams-- date_time-- chrono-- atomic-- Boost version: 1.58.0-- Boost version: 1.58.0
Do you have any ideas??
Thank you very much,Hugo
Are you installing on Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit?
Sorry for not specifying. I'm installing on Ubuntu 16.04 64bit
I believe only 14.04 is currently supported. And mentioned in the docs here: http://docs.erlerobotics.com/simulation/configuring_your_environment
Hi @Hugo,
please, check out the official documentation, as @PureRockets point you.
Hi @LanderU @PureRockets
I am following that documentation, but as per discussed in this topic:
I was under the impression I would also be able to simulate the erlecopter on 16.04 using ROS kinetic, which is what I have. In the case that I have to go back to 14.04 and Indigo, how then will I test on the real copter since I have a real copter with the EB3?
Good question! This has come up before, Erle hasn't tested/updated the simulations to 16.04 + Kinetic yet.
Hi @LanderU ,is there any ETA for realising simulation tools based on ROS Kinetic and Ubuntu 16.04?
Another question - do you also plan to update gym-gazebo to run on Kinetic + Ubuntu 16.04?
thanks in advance
So was anyone able to follow this topic http://docs.erlerobotics.com/simulation/configuring_your_environment on ubuntu 16.04?
It uses 14.04 only, version 16.04 is not supported yet
Thanks! I just ended up downloading the 14.04 version and it works fine


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The "mind-altering aliens" were an unnamed alien species that the Excalibur encountered.[1]
Long ago they found rather than actually attempt to seed the galaxy using traditional means, it was far easier to spread their consciousness into a preexisting species. Their consciousness became the dominant one, repressing the host's consciousness.
Prior to their encounter with the Excalibur in March 2267, the aliens attempted to take over an unnamed alien's ship. They were unsuccessful when the aliens they were trying invade sacrificed themselves in an attempt to jettison everyone, infected or not, into space. One alien was able to put itself into suspended animation, to keep itself from dying. The rest of the infected aliens were able to transfer their consciousness back into one body.
Unaware, the crew picked up the remaining lifeform, which was later able to infect a med-tech, Janey, who then began to infect the rest of the crew one by one. Max Eilerson quickly figured out that the ship had two separate and distinct writing languages on the ship, and that one was completely foreign to the other. The infected crewmen began to descend on Max, who was able to escape from harm, but not before crewman Stewart Greenberg was killed. Eventually a large portion of the crew was infected, with Mr. Welles taking the role as their leader. David Arkham was then killed in a show of force, which spurred Captain Gideon into action.
When Gideon went to meet the possessed people, Eilerson figured out that Gideon wanted them to depressurize the deck, forcing the intelligence back into one person. The alien consciousness was tricked into entering Greenberg's body, which was left available for the aliens to use per Max' suggestion. The body was then flushed out into space and fired upon.
Though not heard by the crew, the last thing that the alien consciousness said before it was killed was "Don't do this! I know what you're looking for!" and "I know where you can find it!"
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NFLPA announces calendar for Rookie Debut
With the lockout ongoing, and the draft less than three weeks away, the NFLPA has put together its own series of draft-week events that will not actually conflict with any of the league's usual draft programming. The events will be in Times Square, Broadway, Harlem, and on Wall Street. As the PA put it in a press release, "The series of events is a celebration of legacy — of past, present and future football players coming together to honor those making the journey from prospect to professional." A number of draft prospects will be involved, including Prince Amukamara, Marvin Austin, Adrian Clayborn, Marcell Dareus, Nick Fairley, Blaine Gabbert, A.J. Green, Mark Ingram, Julio Jones, Cameron Jordan, Ryan Kerrigan, Corey Liuget, Von Miller, Rahim Moore, Cam Newton, Patrick Peterson, Robert Quinn, Aldon Smith, Daniel Thomas, and J.J. Watt — in other words, a good percentage of anyone's projected first round. In addition, several current and former NFL stars will participate, including Charlie Batch, Cornelius Bennett, Dwayne Bowe, Sam Bradford, Ahmad Bradshaw, Roger Craig, Zak DeOssie, Eric Dickerson, Eddie George, Marshall Faulk, Felix Jones, Maurice Jones-Drew, Dustin Keller, Brandon Marshall, Kevin Mawae, Willie McGinest, Brian Mitchell, Warren Moon, Sean Morey, Shaun O'Hara, Ray Rice, Tony Richardson, Takeo Spikes, and Mike Vrabel. The activities, which will run from the evening of April 28 to the early morning of May 1, will include several celebratory dinners and receptions, a long media availability session, and a "Let Us Play" fitness and skills clinic in Harlem. There was some talk that the NFLPA might put together events to conflict with the draft, and several rumors that draft boycotts might be organized in line with the current labor dispute, but public opinion was swift and clear — it's bad enough that you guys can't figure out a new CBA; taking away any aspect of the draft will not reflect favorably on anyone.


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Another reason to love sports – March Madness and Murray State
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Last fall I wrote a post highlighting some of the reasons I really like team sports. This morning I was watching the mega coverage of the NCAA's March Madness. It truly is the best sports time of the year. In their coverage CBS (along with TNT, TBS & TruTV) focused in on the Murray State Racers. Read more of this post


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"When tracking evil, follow the money."
As a former Special Forces soldier deployed in Afghanistan, Sam Hawkins (aka Pono) has witnessed death, loss, and horrendous tragedies aplenty. Convicted for the murder of Afghani civilians, Pono has served some jail time in a military prison, yet another dehumanizing experience. Now he is out on parole, surfing, writing, and teaching foster care kids how to ride the waves. There is probably no better place than Hawaii to keep the demons of those haunting memories at bay. Hawaii is home. Hawaii is paradise. Or is it? When Pono stumbles upon the lifeless body of a young and beautiful woman floating off the coast of Waikiki, he is stunned. For a man who has seen more war casualties than he would ever care to count, the drowning of Sylvia Gordon, investigative reporter for The Honolulu Post, strikes him as particularly heart-wrenching and odd. According to the initial police report, the journalist has been floating dead in the ocean for at least six hours (strangely without being devoured by the sharks) and her lungs are filled with fresh water (not ocean water). Nonetheless, the local police dismisses the case as accidental death.
Pono lives his life in the pono way, the righteous way ('pono' is the Hawaiian word for righteousness), loving and protecting others: emotionally drawn by the haunting memory of the reporter's lifeless body, he sets out to investigate the truth behind her death, and what he finds out is bone-chilling. Sylvia was on the trail of a billion-dollar, taxpayer-subsidized scam, and she was ready to blow the whistle to the press. Governor, electric company, investment bankers, foreign developers, industrial wind companies, all masquerading as environmentalists, are trying to impose an industrial-wind and high-voltage undersea cable project ('Big Wind') on Molokai and Lanai, the most beautiful islands in the Pacific Ocean. Two major problems: Big Wind would have a terrible environmental, human health and social impact, without even producing any significant reduction of emissions and fossil fuel use. Moreover, the people involved in this project won't stop in front of anybody or anything (by means of lobbying, blackmail, bribery, intimidation, homicide) in order to get their money-making-machine running. For Pono is Kabul all over again: big western corporation and politicians are no better than Afghani drug lords. They're even worse, actually.
"...we've been given a pearl and [we] are crushing it into concrete."
Pono is morally committed to save the paradise of his fathers, even if that means having to use his military training, a few not-so-legal tricks, and all the help he can get from fellow veterans and questionable characters. His frenzied quest for justice will take him through an intricate web of conspiracy and corruption, misleading clues, unpredictable twists, and a list of possible suspects so long it made my head spin and threw me off-balance. The aspect of SAVING PARADISE that intrigued me the most is the thematic poignancy. There is, in fact, a strong connection between the facts narrated in this crime-story and the author's personal history. In 2012, Mike Bond, international energy expert, environmentalist, war correspondent and human rights advocate, exposed a very inconvenient truth about the use of wind as a source of renewable energy. Bond's environmental message is strongly delivered using the narrative formula of a hard-boiled detective story: the raw prose, the gritty dialogues, the pulse-racing action, and the unhinged avenger trope will certainly appeal to all fans of 'conspiracy theory' thriller novels.
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Taking Care of Your "Twins"-New Study Shows You Can Help Your Breasts Look Great For Longer!
Take care of your "Twins" and they will look better for longer! Maintaining healthy appearing breasts is very important to most women. A recent identical twin study reported that women can maintain great looking breasts with a few simple tricks. Sure, genetics makes a big difference to how things change with time, but after controlling


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80% of the business problems faced by most front line managers can be solved by using simple business analytics. — Harvard Business Review, Nov 2015
Number-crunching is rarely the challenge for marketers. In-house reporting tools, even Excel, can handle 80% of marketing analytics.
The challenge marketers face is deep-dive, data-crunching — managing and mining data. They're challenged by the volume and complexity of data. Many aren't sure of the data they have. They don't believe they have the data they need; and what they have, they question the quality.
Far too much handcrafted work — what data scientists call 'data wrangling', 'data munging' and 'data janitor work' — is required. Data scientists spend from 50% to 80% of their time mired in this mundane labor of preparing unruly data. — New York Times, Aug 2014
Ad hoc analysis frequently involves 'invasive' data management, deep-dive data mining and exhaustive exploration to answer specific, complex, business questions. In-house reporting tools, great for simple analytics, can't generate deep-dive analytics. And business analysts aren't trained to manage complex data or disparate data sources. So marketers fail to get the insights they need, and lose confidence in both reporting and data.
A problem marketers run into is they don't have the skillset to understand and manage data, along with tools to analyze and gather data… — Forbes, Oct 2015
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IDP empowers marketers to control their data, their analytics and their marketing technology. We remove the requirement that business analysts manage large data volumes or complex data structures. We bridge the gap between data management and analytics. So analysts focus on making recommendations from the statistics and not on data. We manage those large data volumes with complex structures; we integrate disparate data sources and build rock-solid analytical data sets.
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By Huw Jones and Marc Jones
LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Credit rating agencies and trade repositories licensed in the European Union must show by the end of this year they could cope with Britain crashing out of the bloc without a trading deal, the EU's markets watchdog said on Thursday.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), which authorises all ratings agencies and trade repositories in the bloc, said its work on Brexit would be key this year.
Both credit ratings agencies (CRAs) and trade repositories (TRs) are crucial to the smooth functioning of financial markets, and with many of them based in London their response to Brexit could have a big impact on British jobs.
"By the end of the year, all supervised entities should be ready if the UK leaves the EU under a cliff-edge scenario," ESMA said in a statement.
The "Big Three" CRAs, Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch, all have their European base in London. Though they also all have offices in countries such as France, Spain and Germany, their response to Brexit could affect how many senior jobs remain in London.
S&P has a market share of 46 percent in the EU, followed by Moody's on just over 31 percent and Fitch on around 15 percent, according ESMA's latest data.
The use of TRs by banks, brokers and asset managers to record their derivatives transactions is mandatory. Five of the eight TRs authorised by ESMA are based in Britain.
ESMA said it had already received contingency plans from CRAs and TRs for a range of Brexit scenarios, including where there is no transition deal, and where there is a "hard" Brexit with no trading agreement.
"It appears that a majority of the relevant supervised entities intend to continue to provide services in the EU following Brexit," ESMA said.
"ESMA has made it clear to the supervised entities that the post-Brexit structure of TRs and CRAs must be as strong as the pre-Brexit structure."
To stay compliant with EU rules for providing ratings of countries and companies as well as more complex securities that played a role in the financial crisis, CRAs would have to ensure many staff doing those jobs were in the EU.
These conditions echo those being imposed on banks, insurers and asset managers in Britain, which are seeking licences for new hubs in the bloc ahead of Brexit.
ESMA said it would also monitor the impact of Brexit on foreign clearing houses that offer their services to customers in the bloc.
London-based LCH is the largest clearing house for euro-denominated assets, and the EU has already proposed tougher scrutiny of such "systemic" foreign clearers as a condition for allowing them to continue serving EU customers. (Reporting by Huw Jones and Marc Jones; Editing by Carolyn Cohn and Mark Potter)


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Although you can't see it too well I actually made this skirt in the 7th grade. Its like a black tutu with colorful graffiti on it and a gold chain around it to make it tighter.Aren't I lucky to have such beautiful people in my life to model for me? So basically photo shoots is all I do with my friends these days. They love it cause they get cool photos, and I like it because I get portfolio photos and more experience. Plus they are amazingly fun.
We havin' ourselves a photoshoot
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i love these photos!! esp the last one.. great glasses and lipstick :)ReplyDelete
Nice photo! ^^ love the third picReplyDelete
What program do you use to edit picture (the second and third one) or you use a lomo camera?
Thank you very much! It's just the iphoto which comes in a mac computer (: Nothing specialReplyDelete
Thanks you :) It's beautiful...ReplyDelete
Nice blog !!ReplyDelete
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