Several years ago, I was fortunate enough to have the life-changing experience of working with the Utah Shakespearean Festival’s 2001 Summer Season. I had the time of my life, worked with some amazing actors, and made some very close friends. I put together this little slideshow of my experiences out there. I more or less put it together for my family, but I thought it was worthy of my podcast, too.
Photography by myself and Jeffrey Nauman.
Enjoy!
So, today was Morgan’s first day of Preschool. Not as many tears as I expected, which I guess is good. Morgan just decided that she was going to have fun and that was that. She walked right into class and told us, “Okay! Bye, Mommy and Daddy! I love you!” and started playing with Play Doh. We all made it just fine. Ian wanted to get down and play, too, but we decided that was a bad idea. He was not happy about that.
Anyway, if you are family or friends, and already have a login to the gallery, all of the pictures from this morning are online. (If you don’t have a login, you won’t be able to see them!)
If you know me well, you know that I love my gadgets. In fact, I’m posting this from my Motorola Q right now. However, with great technology comes great responsibility.
Whipping out your cell phone in the middle of an actual conversation is rude; regardless of whether you are answering a call or reading and replying to an SMS. I think we can all agree on that, right? Other pieces of cell phone etiquitte that have evolved over the past several years include being mindful of your ringer volume (or, more importantly, the on/off status of the ringer) in various public locations. That’s why most phones have a vibrate feature!
However, I think it’s time to add another to that list: when and where to wear your bluetooth headset. Last night, my wife and I were at dinner and we couldn’t help but notice the guy sitting at a nearby table who was obviously on a date wearing his headset the whole time. There was a romantic light blue glow radiating from his right ear throughout the entire meal. The best part about the story is that his phone NEVER RANG AT ALL! At least he could have arranged for a buddy to call him halfway through the date so he could pretend to talk someone through the life saving brain surgery of several orphaned kittens or something. You know, make it look good.
You know? Nothing says, “You are not as important as whoever is not currently calling me” quite like that romantic blue glow.
Don’t get me wrong; I love my bluetooth headset. In fact, I just had to buy my third one because I wear them out from over use. In fact, mine stays on and connected most of the time even if I don’t have it in my ear. Maybe I’ve watched too many episodes of 24, I don’t know. Anyway, if I start to carry on a face-to-face conversation with someone, I will take it out of my ear out of repect for the other person - especially if I don’t kow the person well. And I will definitely not wear it while I’m having dinner with a woman as beautiful as my wife (as if that were possible!).
Seriously, if you are in a situation were you can use you phone in the traditional way, do so. Otherwise you just look like you are trying to appear more important than you really are.
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I’m not sure exactly what’s been going on, but there’s been some issues with my podcast via iTunes lately. I’m still working on getting it fixed. The frustrating thing is that it looks like it should be working fine.
I’ll make sure to let you know when it’s back up and running. Sorry for the trouble!
UPDATE!
Well, it seems I got it working. Please let me know if you have any problems with the podcast through iTunes! Thanks!
UPDATE II!
Now iTunes is not listing the podcast. You can still subscribe to it “manually” with the podcast RSS feed until I can get this straightened out. Sorry!
UPDATE III!
Got it fixed. It was a problem with the WordPress plugin I’m using to manage my iTunes feed. The iTunes button is now working again (if you have iTunes loaded). Thanks for your patience!
This was what I was treated to early this morning when I arrived on location to shoot a Tennessee Lottery commercial at the Elm Hill Marina on J. Percy Priest Lake in Nashville. The cameras started rolling almost precisely at 6am and the whole shoot went off pretty much without a hitch. The only stumbling blocks came as the 9:00 hour approached and the temps started to rise and the glare off the water started to hit the perfect angle to always be in our eyes. Oh yeah, in addition to the near 100 degree temps on the docks, I was wearing jeans, a dark blue t-shirt, my hiking boots, and a flannel overshirt!
The commercial will air statewide in Tennessee and in some surrounding markets. It might even be played in the Huntsville market for the hometown folks. If not, I’ll podcast it after it hits the air in September.
Anyway, special thanks to Holly at FilmHouse, Director Bruce Van Dusen, and everyone at Dan Williams Music and Motion! A special shout out to Josh Childs who played my older brother in the commercial. He and I had a ball improvising some of the reaction shots.
