Morning Folks, its 9:30 am in Cairo and I just got back home... I've spent the last 20 some minutes in a cab trying to get to work (I live about 8 minutes by car from work) and All streets leading to my work have been blockaded because of Barak Obama's visit to Cairo. Cairo wasnt built using the Western Grid system... it was built organically ... its an ancient city called Heliopolis (city of the sun) so the streets more or less all lead into each other... no matter what way the cab took it was blocked because the Egyptian government
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Hello All,
I read this blog post a few weeks ago… and its implications have been stuck in my head ever since.
I wanted to share it with you in case you didnt have a chance to read it on Voice Over Universe. The writer is James Herron and he talks about his experience with BBS Syndrome:
” I had been finding that some days by 11 am my voice was beginning to fatigue. If you rely on your voice as your livelihood as I do, this can be particularly troublesome.
I first noticed this issue about a year ago. What was going on? What the heck was causing this to occur? Was it something serious? Was it environmental?
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Good Morning Folks, Sorry about not posting that many voice over related posts lately... I've been stuck doing a complete revamp of the advertising company I work for... We recently landed an affiliation with a major global advertising firm and for some reason I, the guy who brokered part of the deal, am also stuck redoing all the branding for our modest 150 plus employee company. Anyway...where was I... so in light of my previous post and because I practically always root for the underdog... I would like to make a suggestion to the members of the site that helped me start
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I have to be honest… I’m a pretty aggressive guy. As a youngster I always had to exercise self control in situations that tried other people’s patience. I used to … and to some degree still have a very short fuse. But three things worked toward controlling my anger:
1. My father saying … think before you speak… words are far worse than any laceration.
2. The fact that in Kuwait where I grew up they had very little tolerance for vandals and impetuous teens… if you misbehave … they’ll shave all your hair off and possibly put you in jail for a night. Also possibly deport non Kuwaitis (like myself) and the rest of their families to their country of origin.
3. And although this should be the first and most important to me… it was the one I learned last… The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) saying ” Do not be angry” and in another Saying ” shaytan (satan) flows in your veins when you are angry” those two traditions (sayings) affected me the most when it came to anger management.
Age of Innocence
If you follow my blog you’ll know that a few days back I wrote an update about the Voice Over Casting Site Directory Project that I started in April of this year. I was happy that we had reached 136 listings and wanted to share all this info with the rest of the voice over community.
To further promote the Directory to the Voice Over Community I also went and emailed a simple PR email to a few of the more established blogs in the VO community… I won’t mention who but some did actually write a quick post about the directory and helped promote the directory to their readers.
Surprisingly though I received an email from one of the pillars of the VO community telling me that they will not be able to promote my directory because of MY site’s dubious origins… here is an excerpt from that email: Read More
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The Answer to that question is … no you may not! go find your own desk and feed it.
Translating from one language to another is a challenging endeavor. I am not particularly good at it which is why I leave such things to the professionals. The other reason I don’t delve into it is because Arabic and English are languages that come from completely different origins… English is germanic in origin… and Arabic is Semetic. English is at best a few hundred years old… where as Arabic (the classical form) has remained the same for more than 1430 years.
The cultures are different. You really don’t realize how much language and the human vernacular is effected by Pop culture. A few years back almost no one but a video gamer would understand the term Woot! or FTW (For the Win). I’ll leave it to you to wiki the definitions though! Read More
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