Super Happy Fun Saturday of Love and Awesome Power Joy, NOW with LASERS!

Last week we had  a great laser tag adventure with our new friend Keith. Below is Zach's recruitment email:

Super Happy Fun Saturday of Love and Awesome Power Joy, NOW with LASERS!

I got that from a marketing class I took on Japan!

Sport notice, we just pulled this together, but I have finally cleaned my desk and as a reward, we're going to ULTRAZONE to play laser tag. It's a two-story laser tag ARENA. If you've never done this before, it's actually beyond awesome. It's Awesome Power Joy with Lasers. 

Check out our destination at www.ultrazone.com. Join us for fun! Aim for my eyes and try to burn my retinas! Witness Laura's beserker bloodlust! Irradiate children with your laser gun, and give them tumors in hilarious places!

If you don't already have Saturday plans, or want to drop your plans and join us, reply ASAP to let us know.

Best to all and hope to hear from you...

Zach "One Shot, One Kill" Hanks

and 

Laura "Swath of Destruction" Simms

PS: Scoring is determined by number of kills, or number of crying children in your wake. Double score for crying teenagers. Triple if you can make their parents cry.

Welcome to Schrute Farm!

The Screen Actors Guild has a program called SAG Foundation which sponsors free workshops open to all SAG members. Sometimes they are business related and the speaker talks about the SAG/AFTRA Federal Credit Union (that was an exciting one) or how to market yourself, or use some new film-related technology. But the fun ones are when they invite an actor, director, writer, or cast to come in for a Q&A. Last night I went to one with Rainn Wilson, an actor best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on The Office. First they did a screening of the season finale of The Office, and then a Q&A. He went to grad school at NYU, and I loved hearing him talk about the program there, what kind of training he got, and how it has benefitted his career. He was a theatre actor for years before he moved to LA and started pursuing film and television, and like every actor out there, he had stories about rejections and failures and disappointments. He talked a lot about the craft of acting and it was great to hear his slant on this as well as what he had to say about the business. It made me feel good about the decisions I am making now and the steps I am taking.

I like Rainn! He was funny, genuine, and down-to-earth. When you're competing for roles with Philip Seymour Hoffman, you're doin' alright.

The Change

Bunny's fur is changing color! We're not sure if this new lighter coat is of a summer bun or an aged bun.

At the Studio

A few months ago, we started a voiceover production company called SOUNDAWG. You can visit our website at www.soundawg.net to read all about it. We spent the last two weeks in the studio working on the video game Dawn of War II (www.dawnofwar2.com). It's been a real treat to work with some of the best voice actors in the industry and listen to their remarkable talent. These people can do things with their voices that you can't even imagine! Zach has been directing and training me to do the same. I'm including some pictures of the studio where we've been the last two weeks. It's called Sticky Notes, and is located in Hollywood. 

Behind the glass, you can barely see a music stand. That's the booth where the actor is and the recording takes place. It has a music stand for the script, a microphone, headphones, and a chair. It's small and soundproof; that's what the headphones are for. Once the actor is in there, he can't hear what's going on outside the room. If the engineer (the guys who uses all the equipment you see in the photo) or the director needs to talk to the actor, they push a little button that's like a speaker phone into the headset (or "cans") that the actor is wearing. The button looks kind of like a garage door opener, and the keeper of the button has great power. Zach loves the button.

Here are some pictures taken outside the studio, including one of Zach hard at work during a break.