If you are an American voice actor in the Northeast or a Canadian voice actor in Ontario or even southern Quebec, I would encourage you to check out the seminar Pat Fraley has planned on September 26, 2010 in Buffalo, NY.

Called the “Pick Up Your Oscar” Event -The Craft of Voice Over Acting, Pat welcomes only 12 students (and many spots are already taken) for the event which is the “Only Acting System Created Specifically for Voice Over”.

My friend, teacher and agent Toni Silveri from All Coast Talent is again hosting Pat and his seminars are can’t miss events.

For more info, visit All Coast Talent.

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Depending on your point of view, technology is either a help or a hindrance. For me it is mostly a help.

It’s also a help now for my voice over friend Mahmoud Taji who called me all the way from Cairo on a new low cost internet phone service he found.

Smartly, he’s expanding his contacts in the US so they know him as a person and not just a web presence.

It was a nice surprise and I appreciated his kindness.

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Just caught this – Faffcon – the voiceover unconference taking place on September 11 & 12, 2010 in Portland, Oregon, now has a full line of official Faffcon tee-shirts, mugs, mouse pads – everything a professional voice talent needs to prove his or her worth!

Some of the designs are destined to be classics. Check them out here.

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Claire Dodin is a classy lady and a talent actress (for screen and voice).

But many of us were so pleased for her that others could see her creativity in a Facebook post Wednesday (shown above).

Her post read as follows:

Pay what you can for voice-overs until this Friday!
All money will go to a breast cancer prevention charity paying for mammograms for women who haven’t got insurance. Get your order in now. I’m only asking that you pay straight away as I’m sending the check next Friday, and that you try to pay for at least one women ($90)

To contact Claire and secure her for your voice over job (English or French), visit her web site.

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OK, so sometimes I forget to hit the edit switch when I come up with an idea that’s going to take a lot of time and effort to put together (effort I got, time not so much). Such was the case when Amy Snively of voice over fame and Faffcon lead sled dog said she needed help and ideas to promote Faffcon.

Well though it took longer than it should have the promo video for the event is done and it is great fun as well as informative only because of the following very talented reasons:

Philip Banks
Mandy Nelson
Todd Ellis
Bruce Miles
Pam Tierney
Dave Courvoisier
Roger Tremaine
Bob Souer

They are my peers and my friends and this video (and this conference) would be a whole lot of nothing with out them.

I am grateful for each of you.

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Voice Talents Peter K. O'Connell, Diane Costello Merritt and Dan Lenard

Hey, it happens!

Folks DO come to Buffalo, NY.

Many of them are lost and have found us by mistake or their plane got re-routed but none the less many come and a few stay.

More still leave the area but do so miss it and love to return if for no other reason that to visit. For all its issues, Buffalo, NY is a very nice place to live.

Just ask my friend Diane Costello Merritt, who lived and worked in radio for many years before comfortably settling in the Carolinas. This weekend, in to see family and attend her high school reunion, Diane sought out me and Dan Lenard for a visit which was a great treat for me (this time I didn’t have to get on a plane). I didn’t get as much time to visit with Diane at VOICE 2010 as I had hoped so Saturday’s voiceover meet-up was great for me.

It was also nice to see Dan again, who I hadn’t seen since VOICE 2010 (we shared great dinner conversations with a bunch of our friends one night at VOICE and an even funnier story FROM that dinner).I hadn’t seen before that since a Fraley workshop some years back (we traced a bagel marketing meeting even further back than that to when we last got together). This is especially pathetic because we live likely 15 minutes from each other. We’re going to try and make sure we don’t make it that long between visits again…too much good stuff to talk about.

My sincere thanks to Diane and Dan for taking time to visit with me Saturday.

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