Archive for May, 2009
Morning People!
Its the weekend here in Sunny Cairo and I figured I’d give a few of you the heads up on finding some work through a couple of freelance sites that I know get some low paying but regular work. The term Freelancing originally came from the medieval sport of jousting where those Lancers with no allegiances to any of the Royal and noble houses would hire themselves out to lords with no budget to finance a full time Jousting champion (you’ll have to verify this info… I heard it through someone)
1. Get A Freelancer- http://www.getafreelancer.com/
2. Odesk – http://www.odesk.com/
Allot of you might already be aware of these sites so you guys can skip this posting. Read More
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G'morning people! Rise and shine, I got updates for you ... voice over bits and pieces: 1. The Voice Over Directory Project : http://voiceover-casting.com/emporium/directory/ has broken the 100 link barrier (I think I'm at 115 VO sites right now) also people please don't get upset if I don't include your personal voice over sites in there... this is for castings sites... places where voice over artists like you and I can go and register and possibly get jobs. If I was making a directory with people's names in it I'd put my own site now wouldnt I? If you know of any other voice...
Read MoreTo listen to Taji's Podcast of this article Click Here Good Morning, I have been thinking about this for a while and a few incidents have made me decide to deal with this subject immediately. For an industry who's business it is to speak... we seem to have a problem voicing what bothers us... what unfairness comes our way... and what total ruthlessness some of our industry "Partners" seem to think is acceptable to treat us with. We are the same way with our peers we are their friends and their siblings in this profession as long as it doesn't step on our toes or...
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Greetings and Salutations,
As a voice over artist… one of the things that I think is necessary for us as an industry is that we help each other. We don’t do that… we think we are by talking about how we should avoid getting colds or suggestions of what hot beverages will sooth our voice… or bribing our sound engineering crew into liking us with donuts and cookies.
But the fact of the matter is that as much as we want to help our fellow VO artists… we still want to horde what treasures we have found so that we may have an edge on the competition.
Peter O’Connell said in his recent free ebook “The Voice Over Entrance Exam” on page 43:
“There really is no competition in voice over as actors are only ever competing for the subjective ear of the producer doing the hiring. He or she decides how talented any voice talent is based only on that producer’s opinion that day; since no voice talent can control that, I believe we work in a business pretty much void of competition.”
Think about that… we are in a business devoid of Competition… yet we have workshops designed by some of the biggest and most influential voice over coaches that are designed to give you the competative edge over other voice over artists by giving you Voice Over Resources that the other VO talent don’t have.
Which means that the idea that we are not in a business that harbors competition is wishful thinking. Read More
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Good Morning Folks,
Yesterday was an interesting day for me…. I took my wife and baby girl (she’s 16 months old) to the park. There aren’t that many parks here… Not like Canada… My wife grew up in Vancouver so Cairo is practically a desert in comparison.
So the Park we went to is called Azhar park (here is their website) We went there initially to have late lunch early dinner at the Lakeside Cafe Its an artificial lake…. actually more like an oversized pond compared to Lake Ontario. Anyway I was looking around and I saw a bunch of tourists who were sitting there kinda of taking it all in.
I’ve lived in Egypt for many years so other than Luxor and Aswan … I’ve pretty much seen most of the sites and cultural elements that are popular to tourists.
But something did strike me. I know alot more about those tourists culture than they can possibly know about mine… if they did they would be called orientalists… I’m a dual culture kid… I grew up knowing both… I am an arab but I can think using two mentalities.
And then as I was laying on the grass (as much as I wanted to run around with my daughter… I couldn’t due to a back related injury that I thought was due to a 6 hour audio editing session that I had a few days back) I heard something that is a staple of my culture and thought… I think this would be an excellent introduction to my friends and readers of my blog to introduce them to my culture. Read More
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