Morning Compadres, Today's blog post title is based on a lyric from a song for a band called My Morning Jacket. It was recently featured in the animated series American Dad... and I found it appropriate to use for this post since we're talking about Voice Over community sites on the web. Very recently I got an the following email: Meet and join to the better website for Voice Talents Hello, Visit the www.ChooseAVoice.com and meet the website that was build in fit for you to disclose yourself. We don't talk only your language, we also talk the language of your client (in english, spanish or
Read MoreThis last weekend was quite the busy weekend. As they say in Half Life 2... Prepare for Unforeseen Consequences. After Friday Prayers: Since moving to my new home in the 'burbs... I've found it a little difficult to stay in touch with my friends from the old neighborhood that I lived in. So every friday... I drive to my old neighborhood... pick up my old neighbor (who happens to be one of my best friends) and we head on over to the mosque I used to go to for friday prayers before the move. Its a nice tradition that I'd like to keep going
Read MoreThe Following webcast, videocast... whatever you want to call it. Is from Ed Victor's Straight Shootin with The Big Gun Series. Since I exclusively work overseas (if the work comes from anywhere in the world its considered overseas to me) Ed's Tips are pretty comprehensive and accurate. Although I usually prefer to get paid in Bank Transfers because the bank's commission is allot less than my getting paid to Paypal ... then transfering that amount to my canadian bank account (thereby incurring exchange fee costs) then withdrawing the amount from my ATM machine here in egypt. Also... I got this email yesterday
Read MoreGood Morning Folks, So I've been weighing the pros and cons of this idea for some time now and I've come to the decision that I will be moving Taji's Voice Emporium to my personal server by the end of this year/ beginning of the next. I am very grateful to Produlz.com and Voiceover-casting.com for their help in starting me out as a blogger ... the experience has helped me learn allot about the voice over world (that I wasn't aware of) and has helped me meet some wonderful people who I hope will continue to be my friends even after I
Read MoreThis is old news.... I mean really old news. more than 2 years ago my fellow Canuck Jodi Krangle Wrote a note in a forum: http://www.voice-overs.com/forum/general-voice-over-chit-chat/1146-platinum-membership-voices-com.html This announcement came through today on Voices.com and I'm curious what the rest of you think of it: Platinum Membership to be Exclusive to 100 Voice Actors at Voices.com Now there's no WAY I could afford that kind of a fee (which was probably their point. I don't think MOST voice over folks would choose to pay this kind of money unless they had it lying around because they already MADE that kind of money regularly ... and didn't
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