At the end of the existential play “No Exit”, Sartre’s character says “well, let’s get on with it” implying that they’re going to have to repeat the absurd and tormenting thing all over again.  That play is about three people who each upon arriving in Hell find, instead of medieval torture devices, simply a quaint nice room and the company...

A fellow coach posted a series of question on taking action.  I’ll list the question and then what I think each question accomplishes under each quesiton -What’s the first step you need to take? -What would someone, who is fearless, do about this? -What needs to happen now? -What would it make sense to do now? -Can you come up with some action...

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1081179 Carradine’s death and Heath’s death in early 2008 (both suicides) shows that actors are unhappy. They need and are lost and confused. I’m 100% convinced that the reaons for following film and studying acting for a bit was to eventually Coach actors in areas of fulfilment and health and performance and meaning. ...

Jan 3, 2009

Are they production? Are they for film or productions? Who produces tv or film? How do they handle copyrights or distribution? Why would anyone want to know this? Or who the hell cares? I DO!! If you’re watching film and have half a brain to think about the process of “How the hell do I have this DVD or how am I able to watch this footage of...

Aug 5, 2008

Weather: Man what is up with seismology on Tuesdays?! Last tuesday California experienced a deep seismic shake and today China gets hit with a 6.0! The Sichuan province of China got hit with an after shock from a quake that occurred almost 3 months ago. I had not idea earthquakes were still wreaking such havoc. It’s the latest of numerous of...

Clooney had some wisdom on fame. Basically you can still make it at an older age, and should, to carry the success, apparently. Reassuring for young burgeoning actors. And Crowe had some wise wisdom (that’s totally true, I agree) about Hollywood. People get paid out of there but it’s not necessarily The Hub for all film. It’s certainly...

Jul 13, 2008

Heath Ledger might win the oscar for his maniacal Joker character, making this the second posthumous “Best Actor” award in over 30 years, the most recent (hardly not recent) went to Peter Finch in Network in 1977. Also, I noticed the ever-growing “I hate Paris club” has continued to spawn. Disdain for that woman — who, imho, is not...

grocery store “directors” (on receipt) Nancy kerr “acting is everything” response non-acting = math, some writing, chess lots of thinking with lots of decisions    Send article as PDF    ...

In regards to acting.  Thanks to anyone for that encouragement.  I sincerely appreciate anyone’s feedback and fortification toward acting.  I agree, when I was pursuing it during taking acting classes, I did feel extremely fulfilled.  The biggest obstacle toward that pursuit, however has been money.  MONEY, money, money.  That’s the only thing....

The tragic loss of Heath. This is shocking; it’s unbelievable. I feel partially mourning, partially stunned. He was an incredibly composed and immensely talented actor. My favorite role of his was in “Lords of Dogtown” as the Venice Beach “skate-boarding king”. But this, according to his father, “tragic, untimely, and accidental” incident brings...

Money is just an illusion. A trick. A carrot that always leads the donkey back to work. Therefore, anyone who lives to earn money is not very smart. The best thing to do, therefore, is to devote your life to passions and success with friendships and philanthropy. Now, personally, computers and acting are very strong interests. Computers could be my progress...

“The apex of the most highly-paid, most successful acting elicts the best actors who do not act, but re-act with completely normal human emotions in completely humanly abnormal situations.” In other words, the best actors dont’ “act” or put on emotional masks at all. They remove those masks and simply put themselves in situations...

I’ve been catching up on some recent episodes of “Punk’d” and a definite pattern has been emerging that’st definitely counter-intuitive. The actors and actress being punk’d, duped, and tricked on the show, when put in the hotseat (saying they stole something, they did something they weren’t supposed to do) are always...

The impassive process of decision-making generates the illusion of choice. Meaning that you can’t make decisions. No one ever makes decisions; people just take action. Action is the only way things ever get accomplished, initiated, and done. You finish things and start things by taking action not be deciding or making a decision. You generate initiative...

One hindrance in furthering success for people is that they believe they have accomplished enough already. Donald Trump, Julia Roberts, and Michael Phelps could easily say that. Those three could wake up and say I’ve made enough money, I’ve acted in enough movies, or I’ve won enough swimming medals, respectively. But they don’t. Despite...