What a way to start out the month of March, with not one, but two flat tires on my car!!
I hope and pray this is not a sign of the month to come....please, please, please let things start picking up and becoming more positive.
I do feel very fortunate however that these flat tires came on the heels of a weekend and not on the 805 to LA while going 70 miles an hour. I know it could have been so much worse.
It's easy to forget how well taken care of we are when faced with daily adversities. So right here and now I thank you God for keeping me and my baby boy safe from the harm that easily could have befallen us.
My gut tells me March is going to be a slammin month for Ben, he's right on the cusp of making his mark on the entertainment world. He's got the best agent and she is fully behind him sending him on audition after audition. I know it is only a matter of time before he books something cool!
He of course still really wants the movie part but i am doing my best to keep him grounded in the reality that not all auditions are going to lead to parts or bookings. He does seem to be understanding this more and more as he goes on audition after audition.
I have to admit the little guy is a trooper, going up to LA two sometimes three times in a week and handling it like a pro.
Which is a little suprising considering we are in the age of mini-meltdowns and the need to express his individual personality.
Speaking of individual personalities though, mine has just been stiffled beyond belief lately. My writing has taken such a back burner to my son's goals.
I miss writing. I miss creating that world of make-believe creations and situations.
I have been sadly disappointing in the area of my fan-fiction in that I've had no new updates in over a month now.
I hope whatever this funk is that I am able to shake it and soon. Wish me well.
Showing posts with label acting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acting. Show all posts
Monday, March 03, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Be Careful What You Wish For
Wishing in and of itself is good, it keeps the dream alive and the hopes intact.
Getting a dream is a whole other ballpark.
It was easy to dream of my son someday getting lots of auditions or big auditions, the reality is exhausting.
I can't really delve into what he's been auditioning for because you never want to count your chicks before they hatch, but the reality is that we have been going up to LA from San Diego on a very consistent basis.
His new agent is worlds more proactive than his last and she has us hop, hop, hopping in the hopes that these auditions will pay off.
I can say that one of my son's recent auditions was for a lead part in a FF and if he got it, well it would be astronomically great for him and his career.
It just so happens that the film also stars one of his favorite actors which is just like icing on the top of the already creamy and delicious cake.
It's surreal but I can actually kind of see now that my darling son could actually make a career out of this instead of just a hobby like the background gigs.
Don't get me wrong, I am in no way knocking the background gigs, they are the reason my son got his first movie screen credit and his tiny little foot in the door.
In fact I would highly recommend that if you have a child who thinks they want to act, that you do go the background route for a littel while. It gave my son the experience of being on a set and learning to work with actors, directors and crew.
It also showed me that even at the young age of 7 years old, that he was serious about wanting to do this.
He's gone from project to project setting himself different goals...ie wanting to do a commercial, wanting to have lines, wanting to be in a movie, wanting to be on a TV show, wanting to play something scary...and the list goes on and on.
I have a hard time getting him to remember his phone number and address, but give him a monologue or a script and he will memorize every line...including the other actors!
There's a lot of promise looming on the horizon for him right now, still some of the best advice I have received thus far is to audition and move on.
If we get a call back great...if not we'll probably already have auditioned for and booked another job.
When the part is right for him, it will be his...until then it was someone else's golden opportunity.
Oh and my son's next lofty goal...he want's to win an Oscar. I told him to go for it but maybe file it under one of his long term goals.
~Juana
Getting a dream is a whole other ballpark.
It was easy to dream of my son someday getting lots of auditions or big auditions, the reality is exhausting.
I can't really delve into what he's been auditioning for because you never want to count your chicks before they hatch, but the reality is that we have been going up to LA from San Diego on a very consistent basis.
His new agent is worlds more proactive than his last and she has us hop, hop, hopping in the hopes that these auditions will pay off.
I can say that one of my son's recent auditions was for a lead part in a FF and if he got it, well it would be astronomically great for him and his career.
It just so happens that the film also stars one of his favorite actors which is just like icing on the top of the already creamy and delicious cake.
It's surreal but I can actually kind of see now that my darling son could actually make a career out of this instead of just a hobby like the background gigs.
Don't get me wrong, I am in no way knocking the background gigs, they are the reason my son got his first movie screen credit and his tiny little foot in the door.
In fact I would highly recommend that if you have a child who thinks they want to act, that you do go the background route for a littel while. It gave my son the experience of being on a set and learning to work with actors, directors and crew.
It also showed me that even at the young age of 7 years old, that he was serious about wanting to do this.
He's gone from project to project setting himself different goals...ie wanting to do a commercial, wanting to have lines, wanting to be in a movie, wanting to be on a TV show, wanting to play something scary...and the list goes on and on.
I have a hard time getting him to remember his phone number and address, but give him a monologue or a script and he will memorize every line...including the other actors!
There's a lot of promise looming on the horizon for him right now, still some of the best advice I have received thus far is to audition and move on.
If we get a call back great...if not we'll probably already have auditioned for and booked another job.
When the part is right for him, it will be his...until then it was someone else's golden opportunity.
Oh and my son's next lofty goal...he want's to win an Oscar. I told him to go for it but maybe file it under one of his long term goals.
~Juana
Monday, February 11, 2008
Picture Input - Money Outpour
Who knew that being unemployed could be so hard.
I've always had a "it will work out attitude" about life in general - but for the first time I'm really beginning to wonder...will it?
And for the first time in forever I feel financially challanged.
Alot of it has to do with the output for my son and his acting.
Having found a new magnificent agent and agency to represent him, I thought all the hard work was done - boy was I wrong!
Ninna has us hopping!
It all started with the fact that my son's current zed card pictures were to put it midly "inadequate".
I've known for a while that the pictures didn't really look anything like he did - one even made my blonde boy look like he had red hair...yikes!
Knowing this and fixing this are two different worlds though, first up was finding a new photographer to take my sons pictures.
Which we did in Shandon Youngclaus. He is an LA photographer who I would recommend to anyone in the entertainment business who is needing headshots. http://www.amazingheadshots.com/
He was very good with my son and has a really good eye and ability for getting the picture and if you want fast...this is the place http://www.argentum.com/
Shadon's studio uploads the pictures to them and i don't know if this is the norm or not, but I had the viewing proofs emailed to me that very night!
283 in all...whew! The best surprise though was that, with very few exceptions, they were amazing!
Hoping Ninna would feel the same way I sent the link to her and she narrowed down her favorites to 46 pics - which I then had to order on line in 4 x 6.
These 4x6's I then took up to LA for Ninna to whittle down even more.
Who knew that just the picture process could be so time consuming.
I look daily to try and find that one elusive job that will fit all the niches required to make it workable for all the obligations we've put on our platter now with the acting.
I'm still writing daily on my book and have progressed little by little. It's weird...I have the whole outline on paper but still manage to get writers block.
I've neglected my fan fiction horribly and feel so bad because it already has a reading audience, but it just doesn't pay the bills.
With the resolution of the writers strike looming on the horizon it promises to get busy, busy, busy around the house with auditions and hopefully actual acting gigs.
Let's cross our fingers for the boy X0x0
I've always had a "it will work out attitude" about life in general - but for the first time I'm really beginning to wonder...will it?
And for the first time in forever I feel financially challanged.
Alot of it has to do with the output for my son and his acting.
Having found a new magnificent agent and agency to represent him, I thought all the hard work was done - boy was I wrong!
Ninna has us hopping!
It all started with the fact that my son's current zed card pictures were to put it midly "inadequate".
I've known for a while that the pictures didn't really look anything like he did - one even made my blonde boy look like he had red hair...yikes!
Knowing this and fixing this are two different worlds though, first up was finding a new photographer to take my sons pictures.
Which we did in Shandon Youngclaus. He is an LA photographer who I would recommend to anyone in the entertainment business who is needing headshots. http://www.amazingheadshots.com/
He was very good with my son and has a really good eye and ability for getting the picture and if you want fast...this is the place http://www.argentum.com/
Shadon's studio uploads the pictures to them and i don't know if this is the norm or not, but I had the viewing proofs emailed to me that very night!
283 in all...whew! The best surprise though was that, with very few exceptions, they were amazing!
Hoping Ninna would feel the same way I sent the link to her and she narrowed down her favorites to 46 pics - which I then had to order on line in 4 x 6.
These 4x6's I then took up to LA for Ninna to whittle down even more.
Who knew that just the picture process could be so time consuming.
I look daily to try and find that one elusive job that will fit all the niches required to make it workable for all the obligations we've put on our platter now with the acting.
I'm still writing daily on my book and have progressed little by little. It's weird...I have the whole outline on paper but still manage to get writers block.
I've neglected my fan fiction horribly and feel so bad because it already has a reading audience, but it just doesn't pay the bills.
With the resolution of the writers strike looming on the horizon it promises to get busy, busy, busy around the house with auditions and hopefully actual acting gigs.
Let's cross our fingers for the boy X0x0
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Busy...busier...busiest
Well I've come to the quick realization that a daily blog is not always going to be do-able.
Mainly because the days since my last blog have had "whirlwind" written all over them.
So, just a slight amendment to my resolution (not breaking it, just tweaking it), is that I will write as often as I can barring lifes little or big surprises as is the case this time.
Life's most recent surprise was nothing short of great though.
On the last day of my son's 2-week winter break I decided to finally get his headshot and resume out to a few LA agents to see if we could interest someone in representing him in the crazy world of modeling / acting.
I had been formed on many occassions that this was the first and probably the easiest step, the next, the waiting would be the hardest.
Absolutely none of the agencies I submitted to had the time or inclination to send back anything in a SASE, so I really had to reconcile with the fact that after a few weeks or a month of hearing nothing it was probably going to have to be considered a "thanks but no thanks" response, so imagine my surprise when three short days later (Monday) I got a call that an agency wanted him to come in for an on camera audition that Thursday for possible Talent representation.
The whirlwind was on...they wanted him to have a monologue memorized, so the first step was finding one, which luckily we did the next day at a Barnes and Noble.
It constantly amazes me to watch me son do what he does when it comes to the acting, he's seven but he picked out by himself and memorized the one he liked doing the best...simply amazing.
By Thursday he had it down to a tee and to top it off he was cool as a cucumber. I don't really remember being seven but I 'm pretty sure I wasn't as "unafraid" of public speaking as he is.
Needless to say Thursday was here before you know it and we got to LA a couple hours before our scheduled time and just chilled as he read the book the "Spiderwick Chronicles" to me.
Having only the experience of his free-lance agency to go off of, I was pleasently surprised by the office of the agency we were at now. It was very professional looking and had a receptionist and everything.
It also appeared to be running smoothly, something I never saw happening at my son's freelance agency.
My son was given a commercial side, which he also memorized on the spot - I do not know how he does that :) and before we knew it he was back with the agent and doing his thing.
When they came out she told me he was "awesome" and that she would be in contact with me on Monday. I can only assume at this point that means she is going to want to rep him.
If that is the case it would mean no more background work, just primary roles. The other good thing is that she might also be interested in repping him for print work, which she hadn't previously mentioned on the phone.
Anyway fingers crossed for Monday.
This writers strike needs to stop now, all my shows are fast coming to their last episodes :(
I feel for the writers, I do and I think their complaints are beyond legitimate. It's just so sad to think no more shows for a while.
The last episode of "Grey's Anatomy was good and heartwrenching like always - poor Bailey, maybe she should just marry the chief at least he understands her life. I love Bailey's husband though he's a good man. Meredith...what can I say she is just never going to figure out Derek and he is never going to figure out her. I feel pretty disappointed about the whole Izzy and George thing - I mean they had such a wonderful relationship and now they have zilch. I don't really care about the whole Dr. Hahn and Dr. McSteamy thing, I guess I'm just not buying it.
Meredith's sister is growing on me - I love that she ate the eggs regardless of her allergy, but I do not want her taking Izzy's place with George. Izzy and George need to figure it out and get that elusive factor and chemistry they had back! And poor Christina with out Dr. Burke she really has no story line to speak of.
My other highly anticipated show return was "One Tree Hill" and it was really very enjoyable.
I feel for Nathan and Haley more than I ever have and the new addition of their son Jaime is a welcome one, he's a cute and very smart kid and I love all his relationships with the various characters.
I can understand Peyton trying to start a label from Tree Hill a little bit, but Brooke running her agency from Tree Hill seems to suspend the realm of belief for me. Successful or not the epi center of Fashion is New York and Los Angeles....big cities, not tiny Tree Hill.
I actually like Luke and Lindsey together and feel sorry for her already because she is obviously just being viewed as a stumbling block in Luke's path back to Peyton ( a relationship I never understood, thought he was perfect for Brooke).
Mouth needs to seriously get some cool back he looks way, way geeky - he was way more cool in high school.
I like Luke and Skillz as coaches taking over Whitey's legacy. Haley as a teacher makes perfect sense. I was glad when she took the power back, the wimpy Haley was in no way reminiscent to me of the strong Haley we left four years back.
I think that "One Tree Hill" writers have done an exceptional job of breathing fresh air into a show that needed it to keep the fans watching.
Monday starts my writing class again...Yes!!!
Now it's time to start my weekend. Hubby is home both days this time so it should be a lot of fun hanging out with him and our dear son.
Later,
Juana
Mainly because the days since my last blog have had "whirlwind" written all over them.
So, just a slight amendment to my resolution (not breaking it, just tweaking it), is that I will write as often as I can barring lifes little or big surprises as is the case this time.
Life's most recent surprise was nothing short of great though.
On the last day of my son's 2-week winter break I decided to finally get his headshot and resume out to a few LA agents to see if we could interest someone in representing him in the crazy world of modeling / acting.
I had been formed on many occassions that this was the first and probably the easiest step, the next, the waiting would be the hardest.
Absolutely none of the agencies I submitted to had the time or inclination to send back anything in a SASE, so I really had to reconcile with the fact that after a few weeks or a month of hearing nothing it was probably going to have to be considered a "thanks but no thanks" response, so imagine my surprise when three short days later (Monday) I got a call that an agency wanted him to come in for an on camera audition that Thursday for possible Talent representation.
The whirlwind was on...they wanted him to have a monologue memorized, so the first step was finding one, which luckily we did the next day at a Barnes and Noble.
It constantly amazes me to watch me son do what he does when it comes to the acting, he's seven but he picked out by himself and memorized the one he liked doing the best...simply amazing.
By Thursday he had it down to a tee and to top it off he was cool as a cucumber. I don't really remember being seven but I 'm pretty sure I wasn't as "unafraid" of public speaking as he is.
Needless to say Thursday was here before you know it and we got to LA a couple hours before our scheduled time and just chilled as he read the book the "Spiderwick Chronicles" to me.
Having only the experience of his free-lance agency to go off of, I was pleasently surprised by the office of the agency we were at now. It was very professional looking and had a receptionist and everything.
It also appeared to be running smoothly, something I never saw happening at my son's freelance agency.
My son was given a commercial side, which he also memorized on the spot - I do not know how he does that :) and before we knew it he was back with the agent and doing his thing.
When they came out she told me he was "awesome" and that she would be in contact with me on Monday. I can only assume at this point that means she is going to want to rep him.
If that is the case it would mean no more background work, just primary roles. The other good thing is that she might also be interested in repping him for print work, which she hadn't previously mentioned on the phone.
Anyway fingers crossed for Monday.
This writers strike needs to stop now, all my shows are fast coming to their last episodes :(
I feel for the writers, I do and I think their complaints are beyond legitimate. It's just so sad to think no more shows for a while.
The last episode of "Grey's Anatomy was good and heartwrenching like always - poor Bailey, maybe she should just marry the chief at least he understands her life. I love Bailey's husband though he's a good man. Meredith...what can I say she is just never going to figure out Derek and he is never going to figure out her. I feel pretty disappointed about the whole Izzy and George thing - I mean they had such a wonderful relationship and now they have zilch. I don't really care about the whole Dr. Hahn and Dr. McSteamy thing, I guess I'm just not buying it.
Meredith's sister is growing on me - I love that she ate the eggs regardless of her allergy, but I do not want her taking Izzy's place with George. Izzy and George need to figure it out and get that elusive factor and chemistry they had back! And poor Christina with out Dr. Burke she really has no story line to speak of.
My other highly anticipated show return was "One Tree Hill" and it was really very enjoyable.
I feel for Nathan and Haley more than I ever have and the new addition of their son Jaime is a welcome one, he's a cute and very smart kid and I love all his relationships with the various characters.
I can understand Peyton trying to start a label from Tree Hill a little bit, but Brooke running her agency from Tree Hill seems to suspend the realm of belief for me. Successful or not the epi center of Fashion is New York and Los Angeles....big cities, not tiny Tree Hill.
I actually like Luke and Lindsey together and feel sorry for her already because she is obviously just being viewed as a stumbling block in Luke's path back to Peyton ( a relationship I never understood, thought he was perfect for Brooke).
Mouth needs to seriously get some cool back he looks way, way geeky - he was way more cool in high school.
I like Luke and Skillz as coaches taking over Whitey's legacy. Haley as a teacher makes perfect sense. I was glad when she took the power back, the wimpy Haley was in no way reminiscent to me of the strong Haley we left four years back.
I think that "One Tree Hill" writers have done an exceptional job of breathing fresh air into a show that needed it to keep the fans watching.
Monday starts my writing class again...Yes!!!
Now it's time to start my weekend. Hubby is home both days this time so it should be a lot of fun hanging out with him and our dear son.
Later,
Juana
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