Hey! A comic? Wow. 2010 is FULL of surprises!
Links for those who’ve never heard of Harvest Moon:
Wikipedia entry for the original
Moby Games entry
Kumeelyun
MoonVille
Blog
Strangeword
New mashup today. This combination has been tried before, but I was having a lot of fun with this so I finished it. Depeche Mode’s “Strangelove” versus Cameo’s “Word Up”. As always, comments are welcome!
Beautiful Mexican Radio People
Created a new mashup yesterday. Wall of Voodoo versus Marilyn Mason. Kind of an 80’s vs. 90’s kind of deal. I had actually attempted this before way back when I was trying Sony Vegas (yuck) but decided to try again now that I use software with some more flexibility. Any feedback is appreciated. Enjoy!
Funky Balls
Here’s something I made a while ago and I was able to repost thanks to Soundcloud. It’s a mashup of “Da Funk” by Daft Punk with “Chocolate Salty Balls” by Issac Hayes/South Park. Enjoy and let me know what you think!
Speaking Out
Quite a while ago, I auditioned for a voiceover studio over four months ago. I’ve had a little experience on my own, voicing for my own cartoons and a few Half-Life mods, and thanks to the last company I worked for, I got some experience voicing actual commercials, so I wanted to see how far I could go with it. As this audition happened, I made them aware that I would be moving to a new city (one where they also had a studio) I was assigned a new contact and they would call if any auditions came through.
I would call every week to speak to the new contact, but he was never available. I’d also check the website to see if my audition demo would be posted and it never was. After a couple of months I figured I had been lost in the shuffle, and I’d found a steady gig in another place (as a production artist), so I stopped calling back.
Yesterday as I was just pulling in to my morning Starbucks, I received a call from the studio asking if I could make an audition that was due in 90 minutes. I was a little taken aback by it as I hadn’t had my morning caffeine infusion yet, and that the audition was under such short notice. Further confusion happened when it turned out that they were under the impression that I was still in my old city. After a confused exchange (and a quick map lookup on my iPhone), I found I was too far away from the studio to be able to get the audition it time.
Lately, I’ve had to admit to myself that I’m not as eloquent a person as I wish I was. I stammer. I take longer than most people to think about my response. I sometimes talk about a subject like I know what I’m talking about when I really don’t. (I know, these don’t sound like good qualities for a voiceover artist to have, but when I have a script in front of me and direction, I do a lot better.) I really had to fight through these issues and tell the studio that I was feeling thrown by this call. First, they didn’t know that I was in a new town, even though I told them about it and they had responded as if they were prepared for my relocation. Second, they hadn’t bothered to keep in touch with me and I was the one that was reaching out to them with no feedback at all.
I have a feeling it may have set me back in my career a bit. On the other hand I could get some more work and it will be an amusing story I get to tell about my rocky start in the biz. Anyboby out there in the voiceover field gone through anything similar? Is this short time-frame normal for this field?
Happy New Year!
Heya everybody! Hope the new year finds you well. There hasn’t really been any activity on the site, I know. I’ve been trying to organize my thoughts. Not only on what to do with this site, but foremost on my mind is how to customize the look of it. I did some customization with Hoodyhoo, but the chance to work from scratch really excites me and could even help me in my professional career.
As much as I’ve been successful working as a production artist in the print field, there’s a demand for work in the web field. I’ve seen more than a few listings for ‘web production artist’. I think I could enjoy that kind of work. I believe it involves skills like CSS, and slicing Photoshop designs for adaptation.
So if you’re reading this, give me a comment. What do you think I should start out with as far as training and tutorials for web production work? I have access to a lynda.com account and a gift card for Barnes and Noble for $25. I also have CSSEdit and from just fooling around with the program this morning, I find it pretty powerful, especially since the live preview automatically updates. I also have Dreamweaver CS3.
Welcome to the new domain!
Every once in a while it’s time for a fresh start and that’s what this is. I’ve had the domain name for a while and I felt it was time to ditch the old ‘Zelig’ nickname for this one.
I plan for this to be a site for my personal thoughts and projects. I still have my professional resume site, and I will be posting and creating cartoons for the new TechnoChubby site. This will be the place for those things that don’t quite fit on those sites.
As of now, the look of this place is very generic. I hope to change that and at the same time learn how to skin Wordpress. Stay tuned!