To me, this is a game changer.
As reported by Tech Crunch: “A hardware/software combination for mobile devices (launching first for the iPhone/iPod touch) that allows vendors to easily accept and process credit card payments” via a product called Square that was developed by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey.
For my business, for any business, this application has enormous potential. Watch.
In my high and might board position at MCA-I (it’s neither really but with no stipend for my work I try and make myself sound more important than I really am) I was reading a critically important email chain (it really wasn’t that important actually).
What WAS important was that I saw one of the names in the email was from San Diego voice over talent Jeff Gelder who runs Gelderhead Productions. Part of his web site includes a blog which has now been added to this site blog roll.
Welcome Jeff!
Voice Over Master Don LaFontaine
Most folks in voice over are aware of who Don LaFontaine was and what an enormous impact he had on our industry. He was our public face and best of all our public voice.
Don’s friends and fellow voice talents Joe Cipriano and Paul Pape have been the leaders in establishing the Don LaFontaine Voice-over Lab inside the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. This will create a studio where union talents can attend classes and record free of charge. All this in recognition of Don’s legendary generosity to other voice talents.
I’m not a Union voice actor presently so I can’t use the facility…so why will I financially support it? Why am I asking you, my readers, to do the same?
Because, as Don knew and showed through his actions, it is the right thing to do.
For the full catalog of promotional videos promoting the Don LaFontaine Voice-over Lab inside the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, please visit the always enjoyable blog of George M. Whittam but in the meantime here’s a video of support for the Lab from one of Don’s very satisfied customers, Entertainment Tonight.
I got pinged today by my friends Pam Stromecki and Debbie Oberg who own Tall Girls Design Studio to let me know that they are celebrating their 8th anniversary in business.
This is terrific news and I want to wish them a very happy anniversary.
Forever the Voice of the Detroit Tigers - Ernie Harwell, Photo courtesy Paul Sancya-AP
I was not a Detroit Tigers fan, nor did I listen to any of their broadcasts but I knew of Ernie Harwell.
If you read some of the stories about him today following his death, you may know a bit about him too.
“I know into whose arms I’m gonna fall,” Harwell told writer Mitch Albom in one of their last conversations. I’ve the sense it was a safe, easy and comfortable catch for the Holy Fielder.
OK, it’s a bit geeky for a grown man to watch a video of how the Batman logo has evolved over the years, I’ll grant you.
I’ve always like the Batman comics and some of the movies and there’s a chance maybe you have too.
But unlike me, you can watch this anonymously and no one will know just how geeky you are. Enjoy.
