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.
Monday, September 9, 2024
*Primary* Ongoing Log of Updates
I aspire to be a natural appearance performer
Divorced Billionaire Heiress
A lot of my friends and acquaintances are telling me that they've seen me in this vertical drama, where I play the powerful billionaire gramma. Here's my blog about it Blog link
Performance Reels
links:
Animation: see Blog
Performance
- Sept 13, filming undisclosed ad
- July 12, discovered an ad for Divorced Billionaire Heiress with extended clip
- June 13 release of FOGO (Fear of Getting Old) https://vimeo.com/957504849
- June 4 filming ad in Chicago retina specialists ad
- May 21 release of Count of Monte Cristo more info on blog
- May 6-9 filming "The Divorced Billionaire Heiress" Blog
- May 5: I discovered that the "Secret Trillionaire" was renamed "Mystic Tycoon" and a clip is on FB. blog with clip
- May 2 "The Substitute Bride" starts streaming on Short Max Blog about The Substitute Bride
- Feb 26 Filming with "Secret Trillionaire" d Amy Omar.
- Jan 28 & Feb 5 Filming with "The Substitute Bride" d Ying Xiao
CLE
- 241020 State of the Law: Transgender Rights Lawline
- 241018 Artificial Intelligence & Chat GPT: Uses, Abuses, and Ethical standards Lawline
- October 2024 Poll Observer Training NYDLC
- September 10 JPPCLE
- July 23 NYDLC Supreme court Ethics
- Feb 16, "Protections of Geographical Indications in the EU and Beyond" IIPS
Media consumed
- Movies seen in Theatres: "DeadPool & Wolverine", "American Fiction", "Aquaman 2"
- Audio purchased (Yeah, I haven't joined a streaming service yet) : "Impossible Dream" by Aaron Lazar, Everything I could find by Tony Ann, "Hell Together" by David Archuleta, "Fraggle Rock" with Adam Lambert, "Musical Priest" by Lucia Micarelli
- Live theater & Music: "Cabaret" featuring Adam Lambert; Concert by Dave & Kat Foster in Staten Island
Other
- Participated in bicentennial of Randolph NH
- Attended NYYM summer sessions virtually
- Car camping trip to Chicago & back through Ontario blog link
- found a mention of me in letters to the editor of Science News. More here https://annebarschall.blogspot.com/2024/03/my-name-in-letters-to-editor.html
- Flower pictures I took this spring flower blog
- Snowshoeing pix
- Eclipse pix
Performance
- Oct 10 & 18 recording VO for Count of Monte Cristo
- June 8&9 -- recording VO for undisclosed commercial -- very pleased that new XLR mic is giving satisfactory results -- after struggling with USB mics for years.
- April 14 -- filming "Fear of Getting Old" Bridgeport CT d Leo Caserta
Courses
- Netflix CD's -- Actor's Connection
CLE
- 11/8/23 "One-Day Patent CLE Seminar" NYIPLA in person
- 11/1/23 "Is It Obvious? Let's Reconsider. Design Patent Obvioiusness vs Utility Patents" NYIPLA in person
- 9/7/23 JPPCLE -- on Zoom
- Dartmouth Lawyers Association’s July 18, 2023 program entitled, Generative AI and Its Legal Implications in IP Law,
- 6/22/23 "Anti-counterfeiting Procedures in Latin-America and Europe" IIPS
- 6/10/23 "From Madoff to SBF to Trump: The Changing Role of White Collar Prosecutions" Columbia Law School & a conversation with Dean Lester & Preet Bharara
- Dartmouth Lawyers Association’s May 24, 2023 program entitled, Town Hall,
- 2/3/23 "The New Unified Patent Court and "UPC Land" IIPS
- Live shows attended: Lindsey Stirling 8/1/23; Sweeney Todd 7/15/23
- Recordings purchased; Josh Groban (20th anniversary edition of Closer); Mat & Savanna Shaw (2 albums); Lucia Micarelli & Leo Amuedo (Saudade, 2 Christmas Singles), Tony Ann ( Emotionally Red, Emotionally Blue, Emotionally Orange, Something I could ..., Rain); Jackie Evancho (Behind my Eyes, Carousel of time); Connie Talbot (4 singles with Boyce Avenue); Adam Lambert (You Make me Feel...); William Goldstein (Collaborative Composition); Voces 8 & Eric Whitacre (Home):
- Movies seen in theaters: Trolls, Wish, Spiderverse, Oppenheimer, Barbie, Mission Impossible VII
- NYYM Sessions in April, July & November -- all on Zoom
- 40th Law School Reunion, Columbia -- in person
- 50th High School Reunion, Livermore, CA -- in person
News from 2022
- 8/16/22 filming "Kew Gardens" d Mauro Bossi set pix
- Release of "Wax Castles of Love" by Amir Moverman, which I have a role in https://vimeo.com/663712959/1a75004097
- 3/2/22 filming ElliQ https://www.instagram.com/p/CdMVw1ZFx3J/
Courses
- "How to Help a Loved One Who Struggles With their Mental Health" by Women of Dartmouth 10/13/22
- Certificate Program in 3D modeling and 3D animation -- 1 year program completed this summer
- 4/21/22 Climate Change and Our Cities -- Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory virtual
- 7/19/22 "Environmental Pollution: from Sources to Human Exposure" Celia Chen (Dartmouth '78)
- 3/10/22 Presentation by Pfizer CEO -- Washington Post virtual
CLE
- 11/16/22 "The future of Fair Use After Warhol v Goldsmith" NYIPLA
- 11/9/22 "NYIPLA One Day Patent CLE Seminar" (In person!!!)
- 10/6, 12, 19/22 "NYPLA 2022 IP Transactions Bootcamp"
- 9/14/22 "Hot Topics for Congress and the USPTO: 101 Patent Eligibility and PTAB Director Review"
- August 2022 -- completed viewing recordings of the Summer 2020 JPPCLE
- 5/18/22 "Arbitration Seminar" Dartmouth Lawyers Association
- 4/5/22 "Intellectual Property Crimes and US Innovation" NYIPLA
- 1/28/22 "Using Petitions Effectively in Patent Prosecution" NYIPLA
Media consumed
- live concerts attended: Josh Groban at Bethel, NY (7/5/22); Caramoor: Caroline Shaw, Angélica Negrón & Raquel Acevedo Klein (7/21/22) ; Phoenix Rising (7/16/22)
- albums purchased: Avi Kaplan "Floating on a Dream"; Mat & Savana Shaw "Happy Like That"; Nathan Pacheco "Higher"; Barlow & Bear "Unofficial..."
- movies seen in theatre: "Top Gun Maverick" 7/16/22 (Bridgton drive-in, Maine)
Sightseeing Pix
Earlier updates, deleted from this blog and moved to separate blogs:
2017 Updates
2016 updates
2015 updates
2014 updates
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
Voice over
Friday, June 21, 2024
Trip May 31 - June 16, 2024
Here are some instagram posts from my extended car camping trip -- tho I also stayed indoors sometimes
Please note that a lot of these instagram posts have multiple photos or videos, so you should click through to see everything.
Mosquito Lake, Ohio
Harrison Lake, Ohio
Original Culvers, Sauk City Wisconsin
Devil's Lake, Wisconsin
Silos near Plano, IL, with weird Moiré effects
LaSalle Manor retreat center, Plano, IL
Cottonwood Campground, Lansing, MI
Straits State Park, St Ignace, MI
Oastler Lake, Ontario
There were tornadoes that night. They sounded like military aircraft buzzing the campground. I spend a half hour locked in a shower, because it seemed safer than my car
The next day, the ranger told me she saw, I think 3, tornadoes -- but they were all spiraling upwards. She didn't know if any touched down.
KOA Holiday, Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Back in the USA. Delighted to see a rest stop
Scenic Hudson Overlook, Near Bear Mountain Bridge
View from home looking very good after 17 days away