Saturday, October 5, 2024
my foliage pix for october 2024
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Ads for the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS)
This gig filmed in the Chicago area in June. It was an exciting gig, because it was bilingual. I didn't think that my Spanish was good enough for a bilingual gig, but they booked me.
English 60 s
English 30 s
Spanish 60 s
Spanish 30 s
Age related macular degeneration (AMD) is much more common in fair skinned people, especially with blue eyes. I was chosen for this ad, because they felt I looked like an AMD patient.
My mom did, in fact, have this condition. I've been told I look like her. My poor mother had AMD, cataracts, glaucoma, and herpes in the eye. I'm hoping that the brown eyes I inherited from my father will protect me from some of this. She had blue eyes.
I learned from this ad that AMD is much more treatable than it used to be -- with injections into the eyeball. While that doesn't sound so great, the ad emphasizes that it isn't as bad as you think.
The actress for the main character told me that she was particularly interested in this ad, because several of her family members suffered from retinal disease.
This ad was filmed in the Chicago suburbs. I was out there for a personal trip and was able to combine the filming. Here's the blog about the trip June Car Camping Trip .
I am not fluent in Spanish, but I was able to rehearse the Spanish lines driving out to the site. My pronunciation is good, but I found that the muscles of my face needed a workout to be able to form the words properly, especially since it was medical terminology. My scene partner, who is a native speaker of Spanish, was very complimentary of my delivery.
#Actor #Actress #ActorsLife #ActressLife #ASRS #RetinaSpecialists #BilingualActor
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Updates May 2024
All sorts of things are coming out, clips are being added to the blogs listed at the bottom, as they come out.
Sunday, September 1, 2024
The Divorced Billionaire Heiress
May 6-9 I had my first sleep away acting gig. We were shooting a vertical format web series of mini-episodes. This is a remake of a series that has been very successful in China.
Here's a promotional video for the series, my part starts shortly after 19 minutes. It's a long promotional video. These vertical series are typically viewed in an app on cell phone. This one is apparently called Short TV.
Thanks to my sister-in-law for finding this clip. She immediately remarked that the real "Raft of the Medusa" is 16'x24', much larger than the one shown in this clip.
Director: Ying Xiao
Production Studio: Paradox Films https://www.paradoxfilmsny.com/
Here are some set pix
The director gave me a nice compliment. She said I was the prettiest grandma in NYC. Swelled head.
I bought myself a little souvenir on my own. Part of the plot includes references to fake antiques. This is such a one.
The team that made this series is very impressive. Since there is vertical format, they can have multiple cameras at once, each one focused on one actor. They only had to do one or two takes of each scene. Normally they have a separate take for each view, but this way they don't have to take separate takes for different views.
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Concerns:
The characters in this show are mostly very poorly behaved. My cast mates compared this show to a series called "Succession," which I haven't seen.
Some of the characters are depicted committing crimes such as commercial bribery and conspiracy to monopolize interstate commerce. A concern I have, as an attorney, is that viewers may not realize that these acts are white collar crimes.
If you see a murder depicted on a a show, I think you know right away that that's a crime. You immediately know that you're not supposed to do that yourself.
I'm not sure if the viewer of white collar crimes -- as shown here -- knows that they are just as much crimes as physical crimes like murder and assault.
I wish there were some kind of warning about the criminal nature of the activity depicted.
#DivorcedBillionaireHeiress #VerticalDrama #ShortTV
Sunday, August 25, 2024
The orange (or red?) dress
Update 240825
She is also running a group to stop honor killings.
I can't find the post that I originally watched on Instagram, but hopefully the Ted Talk will give you an idea. I don't have the courage to watch it again.
Story from the original Post
Let us begin with the dress. I wore this dress, because I perceive it as orange. The color here is not quite the same as the dress, because my scanner was not quite right with the colors and also I think the computer display may also not be quite right. Gerry's picture has the right color. The original is more orange than this. In any case, I've found that others perceive the dress as red, even in person. I wanted to wear orange, because it was the 25th of the month.
I've been told to wear orange on the 25th of every month to protest violence against women and girls.
So, red or orange, I wore this dress into New York City on May 25, 2015.
One thing I planned to do on that day was rehearse with Gerry. We were both in a class at the Wynn Handman Studio. Wynn cast us in some scenes from Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," as Kate & Joe Keller -- just for performance in class.
We planned to meet at Grand Central Terminal (GCT) and find a place to rehearse lines. Ultimately that place turned out to be an empty platform.
Aside: Just for those who don't know, the difference between a train station and a train terminal is that in a station the tracks go through and in a terminal the tracks end. The tracks mostly end at GCT. That's why it's considered a terminal.
We agreed to meet, as I think most people agree to meet, by the information booth in the main room of the terminal. When I first got there, I didn't see Gerry, so I pulled out my trusty cell phone and started accessing the Internet -- probably Facebook -- and also sending him a text, telling him I was there.
While I was using my cell phone, Gerry, who is a professional photographer, started photographing me, because of the striking color of my dress. He points out that behind me in the photo there is also someone photographing me. He thought there were others as well.
When he took this picture, he did not realize who he was photographing.
When he started taking pictures, I did not notice, but eventually I did see him taking my picture. I looked back down at my cell phone, because I wanted to finish something I was writing, and also figured he would want to finish his photograph.
Afterwards, I waved at him and he realized who I was. He was quite bemused.
So, we live in a city that tourists often visit, the largest city in the country, home of the United Nations, arguably the capital of the world -- and here we were in a historic landmark -- but a striking dress still draws a lot of attention, apparently.
I am hoping that that attention might go to the campaign to end violence against women and girls.
About the possibly now defunct UN Campaign
Monday, July 15, 2024
HIstorical Media links
My YouTube channel (mostly selfies)
Story Telling -- amateur videoReading Dracula Sides -- selfie
List of my YouTube videos that include me singing
Miscellaneous
List of Improv Courses I Have Taken
What I worked on in Wynn Handman's Class
Photos of my clothing -- this is not complete. I'm still taking pictures. I have lots of clothes