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My friend Justin Barrett provides the voice for Pterry in this short clip promoting the Webosaurs site.

No, he wasn’t a voice actor; but Les Paul’s innovation with multi-track recording has touched all of our lives.

My thanks to my friend Liz de Nesnera for posting the link to this video on the VO-BB.

My friend Zurek has released a video on YouTube that combines commerce with a bit of bizarre comedy.

AudioFile editor Robin Whitten gives you a behind-the-curtain peek with Lorelei King as she talks about narrating Janet Evanovich‘s Finger Lickiin’ Fifteen.

My friend Dave DeAndrea has posted an interview with Bob Bergen on YouTube in honor of the anniversary of Mel Blanc’s death 20 years ago.

Fourteen years ago at this moment in the middle of the night, my middle son David Souer made his first appearance in the world. Happy Birthday, David!

Check out Rowell Gormon’s blog for his story about booking a job that provides him with a tiny corner of the Star Wars Universe to call his own.

For the last year and a few months, I have had the joy and delight of working with my oldest son, Eric as he has apprenticed himself to me. Working with him on a myriad of projects from audiobooks to eLearning has been absolutely wonderful. Today is his birthday! A very happy 19th to you, my son!

Michael Rankins files a report about Game World San Francisco on his blog. Good stuff.

This evening I had the delight of visiting with a number of folks involved in voiceover in LA at the invitation of my voice coach Marice Tobias. We had such good conversation about all kinds of topics, at least some of which was business related.

The highlight of the evening though was surprising my oldest son Eric with a birthday surprise. Marice, when she discovered that Eric is turning 19 this week, suggested that I let the restaurant staff know that we have a birthday boy at the table and they brough out a fabulous surprise.

Eric is blowing out his candles while surrounded by our new friends as well as a few that we’ve known for a long time. And this is what his plate looked like after removing the candles.

You can see voice actor John Taylor reaching for one of Eric’s lemon cookies as I snapped photographic evidence of his attempted larceny. Eric says they were delicious.
It was a truly wonderful end to our voiceover journey this weekend. Oh, and Happy (almost) 19th birthday, Eric!

The International Radio Creative and Production Summit 2009 has been a superb experience with opportunities to learn and stretch and grow so many different ways. It’s wonderful to make new friends and to catch up with those we’ve known for a while, too.

For me one of the major highlights was getting to spend some time with Bobby Ocean. Sadly, I neglected to take any photos with Bobby, but hopefully we’ll get an opportunity to run into one another again and we’ll fix that lack then.

The day started with a superb session on radio imaging by Dave Foxx.

My friends Pam Tierney, Janet Ault and Bobbin Beam were all there.

Bobbin for the first time. Pam and Janet for the third and sixth times respectively.

After a break for the lunch Nancy Wolfson joined Dan O’Day on the platform to provide critiques of demos and commercials submitted by attendees.
Nancy also took time to get a few photos.

From the left, Janet Ault, Doug Turkel and Nancy Wolfson.

Natalie Stanfield Thomas and Nancy Wolfson.

Bobbin Beam and Nancy Wolfson.

Nancy Wolfson and Rowell Gormon.

Then Nancy started what was the highlight of the weekend for me, her 3 hour session on understanding patterns in commercial copy and how to identify those patterns and put them to use behind the microphone. She had most of us in the room take direction.

Nancy Wolfson directing Mo Holland.

Nancy Wolfson directing my son Eric. And …

Nancy Wolfson directing me. What a great experience this weekend has been. I know I said that before, but it’s really true. I’m all ready looking forward to Summit 2010.

Tom Edwards has an article just out on VoiceOverXtra called Red-Faced Do’s and Don’ts For That Dastardly Audition.

Mark Perry talks about his voiceover business and why he loves using Source Connect.

I’m always fascinated to hear stories of other voice actors. I hope you enjoyed this too.

Voice actor and coach Kevin Delaney writes about The Art of the Audition, an article now available at VoiceOverXtra. By the way, Kevin blogs about voiceover as the Voice Over Ninja.

My friend Kara Edwards loves her job and relishes the perks that come with it. I hope you enjoy her blog post as much as I did.

My friend Jeffrey Kafer is interviewed on the Working Writers blog. Very nice Jeff.

My friend Anthony Mendez is featured as the promo voice for the CNN programming Latino in America. Good stuff, Anthony!