Feed on
Posts
comments

Archive for June, 2009

Little Epiphanies

Bonjour Mes Ami,
It’s been a tough week. A few hours ago I spoke to my Uncle in the UAE to give him my condolences on losing his wife. He’s my favorite uncle on my mother’s side… tough times.
I’ve been living alone for the past few weeks.. my wife is in Jordan with my daugher visiting [...]

Read Full Post »

Good Morning,
Today’s post concerns one of the business tools that I use daily to run my voice over business… my iPhone. I wrote a blog post about it a while back … for those of you who would like to read it Click here.
As you might know I own a 2G (first generation) Apple iPhone. [...]

Read Full Post »

The Passing

After a long fight with cancer. My Paternal Aunt. My father’s baby sister. Mother of my Cousin passed away today June 27th at 3:27 pm.
Many thanks for those who contacted me… your kind words were and are water that smother the flames of sadness in my soul.
I accept my Aunt’s death as Allah’s will and [...]

Read Full Post »

Fail To Plan… Plan To Fail

Apparently this is a New Business Mantra that is pretty popular… I only heard of it a few months ago when discussing one of my friend’s idea for a new business. My friend Izzy is a very ambitious kind of guy… He is one of the only people that I know that has been able [...]

Read Full Post »

Death and Taxes

It’s kind of hard for me to feel  sorry for the passing of a Pop icon or a hollywood starlet when my own family is facing the pending demise of one of its members. It’s strange to think that I have lived with my Aunt’s illness for so long but never really pondered it. As [...]

Read Full Post »

Bongiorno, Today I’m just gonna showcase a new advert I recorded for Egyptian FM. Its in English so don’t worry and its for a company promoting NGVs (Natural Gas Vehicles).
I wrote the copy and the client liked it.
This has not been sped up… I only removed the breaths out of the mix. And replaced one [...]

Read Full Post »

Today’s post is a tutorial on how to use the Envelope plugin in Adobe Audition CS3.
I reacently learned about this feature and it tackled a problem I had been having with my voice over files since I started using my home studio to send out work.
Often times when you are working on a long project [...]

Read Full Post »

A Little Bird Told me

Kind of a waste using that title for a short post like this.
But I got a message over twitter yesterday ( I think it was yesterday) from username Travsonic … who are actually TravSonic Studios… this is what they sent me:
We are updating our voice-over talent directory. If you are a pro talent and would [...]

Read Full Post »

Here is an interesting post from Peter O’Connell’s blog voxmarketising… I thought you guys would find it interesting:
voice talents – show us your business cards
Posted on June 18th, 2009 by peter o’connell voiceover
OK gang, fun idea time!
As this blog is about voice over (vox), marketing (market) and advertising (tising) I thought we should have [...]

Read Full Post »

Morning Peoples,
Just a quick note for those interested in developing and improving their Audiobook Skillz!
The Great Bettye Zoller emailed me a few days back and asked me to inform you folks of a new course she’ll be giving in the Dallas Area.  Here are the deets:
DALLAS AUDIOBOOK INTENSIVE WORKSHOP WEEKEND:
JULY 11-12
By popular demand: AUDIO BOOK [...]

Read Full Post »