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On Sunday, my son Eric and I drove up the highway a couple of hours to Raleigh, NC to visit with some good friends and do what we could to get Rowell Gormon’s voiceover blog back in operation. While we did get things working again, it wasn’t quite as smooth an operation as I hoped it would be. But, we did get him functioning again. (He’s written about that experience on his blog, in fact.)

While we were there in Raleigh, we managed to pull together a few of our voiceover friends for a pleasant dinner and conversation. Thanks to the photographic skills and quick thinking on the part of my friend Donovan Corneetz, there’s visual documentation of this trip. As you can see, Eric and I wore our “I Want You for the VO-BB” t-shirts.

Here’s the whole group.

From left to right, Donovan Corneetz, Rowell Gormon, me, my son Eric, Vance Elderkin and Brian Bowman.
We had a very nice visit together. It was great to catch up with Donovan, Rowell and Vance. And equally nice to meet Brian Bowman for the first time. We also started talking about doing another Carolina Voiceover get-together this coming summer, so as those plans come together I’ll be sure to write more in the coming months.

Michael Oates Palmer, a friend of a friend, has posted a genuinely beautiful piece about why he’s a writer. Take a moment and read. If you enjoy writing at any level, it will make your heart sing. (Even if you don’t enjoy writing, your heart will likely sing.)

My thanks to Nancy Wolfson for sending me the link to this today.

Mitch Collins, better known in the voiceover world as Tiger Mitch, loves tigers and is a talented voice actor. These two great passions are highlighted in a terrific article on VoiceOverXtra that’s well worth a few minutes of your time. And as an interesting side note, I learned from the article that Mitch and I started our professional voiceover careers in the same year, 1983.

And yet, it actually does. Please take a few minutes read my friend David Houston’s heart-felt story about Mindy. Thank you for sharing this with us, Dave. After you’ve read, I think you’ll see the connection.

At the Marice Tobias Promo/Trailer workshop I attended in New York City in November 2007, one of the guys I met for the first time there was Doug Medlock. Doug has worked in radio for many years and is just one of those guys with such an amazing load of talent you can’t help but be impressed with him as soon as you meet him.

Doug emailed me yesterday to let me know that he’s launched a new web site. It looks great. His demos sound amazing. (I knew they would.) Good for you, Doug. Thanks for letting me know.

This fun little video features the audio and voiceover talents of my friend Bruce Miles. Only the “Captain’s” voice is someone else.

Here are the details from the YouTube post by Bruce: “This is an animated intro and epilogue for an industrial video promoting a high tech welding firm. Bruce Miles assisted in the writing, produced the audio track and voiced all but the Captain’s voice, which is the work of Jonathan Abel.”

I’ve added a non-voiceover site to my “Other Blogs” section today. It’s a blog called PennyWise PCs. I started building my own PCs and audio workstations in the early 90s and have continued to do so ever since. It’s not been so much to save money, but because I’ve really enjoyed the challenge of building systems, making use of as much what I already have as I can, and still getting them to work. The other benefit is that when something goes wrong, I usually know enough to be able to fix the problem. So, I’m linking to them because I’m seriously impressed with these young men and what they’re doing.

Update: I noticed in their archives that they see things much as I do regarding building your own computers.

Allan Melvin has just died at the age of 84. My thanks to Craig Park for posting this link on the VO-BB.

Update: You’ll find some wonderful comments from writer Mark Evanier about Allan Melvin on Mark’s blog, too. My thanks to my good friend and fellow voiceover pro Charlie Glaize for sending me this link.

My friend Kara Edwards is featured in this television ad, both on camera and voiceover. Check it out.

Really nice work, Kara.

Update: And Kara provides a bit of background about what it took to make this commercial in this post on the VO-BB.
Further update: Kara has written about this on her blog as well.

My friend Bruce Miles produced the audio for this television ad.

The woman announcer is another of my friends, Amy Snively.