A Warm Sunny Weekend

My lovely Aunt Dorothy's funeral was on Thursday. 
I spent the whole day walking and thinking about her.  I went into a Sear's where she use to work.  Went to the movies where she and my Dad grew up.  Not in San Francisco (where they were born and raised) but here in Clackamas.  Those dark rooms where you can take yourself away into another world just to get thru a day in the life of my Dad and his Sister ~ my Aunt Dorothy. 
They both had such difficult childhoods but grew up with love for each other.   Protective love.  To mask their sadness they both had such great senses of humor.  Truly funny people.  Now they are together making everyone around them laugh in that place we call heaven.

It is Summer here in Oregon.  90 degrees.

Shot a really cool self audition tape for a independent film being shot in July. 
It has become the wave of the future.  Pretty soon we won't need casting directors.  Everybody now is shooting their own auditions more often than you think. 
You still need, somewhat, professional equipment.  You still need another actor to read with you.  You still need the video to look good.  I had people that already knew what they were doing.  I now need to learn how to do it myself.  I don't have a smart phone.  Need to open a YouTube or Vimeo account.  It's not as easy as one might think.  I'm sure someone somewhere is capitalizing on making money = teaching actors how to make your own audition tapes.

As you can see from the photo = we had a great time.  Finding just the right lighting, rehearsing, did several takes, learning how to transfer the video to Vimeo.  My computer is too slow and would have taken 5 hours to upload to Vimeo so they went home and did it all on their, totally advanced, computer. 

Tonight is the TONY'S.  I will be watching a few friends in some of the numbers.  I'm hoping they didn't snub too many of the shows.  I guess in any award show that happens.  You would think I would know better after all of my years in the business.