Actor Growth

So tomorrow is when most agencies will start opening up again as well as some film productions that will be getting back on schedule. I injured myself a little in martial arts training yesterday from punching a bag too much, but it’s nothing major as it is just a bit of skin that is ripped on the knuckles. I’m sure that will look lovely during the agent meeting though huh?

I remember one time before an audition my 2 and a half year old nephew accidentally head butted me on the lips and as a result I had a cut for the audition. Wasn’t really noticeable though which was the good thing

The snow has come back too it seems, so that is the only thing that could possibly put a damper for people’s schedules.

So one thing that I do for the new years is that I usually try to learn/do something new. In general, I enjoy acquiring new skills or knowledge in different things to help me become a more well rounded and experienced person. Indirectly, this can help with acting as well since special skills can often be a good way to differentiate yourself from everyone else. So what should I learn?

As I mentioned before too, I was still interested in looking for a supplemental martial arts place as I believe I can push myself a bit more. Learning a new language is another thing that can be useful for life in general and at the same time is a useful skill set as an actor. My English is actually a lot better than my Chinese ironically, so maybe I’ll improve that.

I guess I will try and do some research or get opinions from people in regards to some good things to possibly learn. Like always though, whatever it is I would prefer not to learn it just for acting specifically. Will probably need to find an activity group of some sort too as it is usually easier to learn that way.

Happy new years everyone! I’m personally all ready for 2009. First thing is first, I will be having a meeting soon with my new potential principal agent. From there on, who knows what is going to happen. Either way, it is a definitely something that has been long overdue as I believe one year is more than enough to conclude if an agency is working for you or not. At this point, unless something falls from the sky most likely I will sign with this agency.

Hopefully some of those projects will go through that my friends wanted to do which should make the year more fun and will definitely provide new experiences for me. Looking forward to the rest of the year.

Guess everyone in the Eastern Time Zone is going to have New Years in just a short while. Still plenty of time here for people living on the West Coast. Next year should be a lot of fun. It also reminds me on how close the Olympics is coming to Vancouver for 2010.

Hope everyone has a great New Years!

With only a few days left until new years that means having to do those taxes again. Like most people I find these things a little repetitive, so I usually end up just buying a software to do everything digital to avoid all that paper work.

I guess a benefit about being an actor too is that you are considered as a self employed individual and can hence write off items as expenses. Usually in a business this is when people would scramble to buy things as a way to write things off as an expense, but for me I can’t see anything that I really need to purchase.

Depending on how busy and active I get next year I’ll probably having a bigger need for things like an expensive data phone.

It seems that I received a message from a friend who was telling me that he will get in touch with me in the New Years about a mini film project that I agreed to participate in. The thing is, this has been up in the air for a couple of months already and I still haven’t received the script for it.

He is an aspiring writer/director and so this will mainly be a practice project for experience I guess you can say. I’m getting a little worried about the procrastination though as I know many times when it comes to doing your own stuff you can easily get too relaxed with no set deadlines.

This project is suppose to involve a little bit of fighting too, so I’m personally interested in seeing how it ends up.