Terrible, Terrible, I know….

I’m a slacker in the blogworld.  I know, HOWEVER, not a slacker in the real world!

I was overwhelmed with work, shoots, and most hectic (and important) of all: MOVING!

As of December 1, 2007, I’m officially a Manhattanite! Well, a Washington Heightser…

Besides the hellish move I’ve:

• enrolled in NYIP (New York Institute of Photography
• shot a new model Brandon (results can be seen at www.myspace.com/whimsyphotography)
• modeled for category_6 Images (results coming soon)
• submitted for and auditioned for two short films (didn’t get cast in either, but gained valuable auditioning experience)

Since the major part of the move is over, I feel like I’ll get a little calmer and get back into the groove.  Updates will be far more frequent these days, promise!

HEADSHOTS!

So, big step, I got my headshots back from the printers.

Great quality, I must say, they get a big thumbs up in my book.

The photo itself, i’m not to hot about, so I’ll not disclose the photographer’s name.

Next step – SUBMIT SUBMIT SUBMIT!!!

I’m going to do a solid round of submissions to commercial agents…starting today!

I’M HONORED!!

I just figured out how to see if people are looking at my site. AND PEOPLE ARE!!! I am shocked, happily.  THANK YOU FOR VISITING!!! I hope you are enjoying the content.  I wish I was funny for ya, but I hope to at least be informative.  Thanks Again, I’m so grateful!!!

I love my acting class!

Yesterday was my on camera acting class with Chris Lutkin @ Weist Barron.  I get SO nervous before I perform, then I get nervous when I’m through.  When I’m actually performing, the nerves go away and I’m not Danielle, I’m …..whoever I’m trying to be, and instead of feeling nerves, I feel the character’s feelings.  It’s crazy.  (it’s acting lol) Me likey.  I’m learning a lot and hopefully will be a much better actress at the end of this class series.  Hopefully I’ll learn to trust myself and my abilities a lot more so nerves wont be a factor at all in the near future.
I ordered some temporary headshots today from spotlight printing. (www.spotlightprinting.net) The price is wonderful! customer service was great so far.  I cannot wait to get the actual results in my hand.  I’m not happy with the photo itself, but I NEED headshots.  I’m still on the hunt .  In the upcoming weeks I plan to shoot with my friend and wonderful photographer Hector from Hydra Multimedia.  I’m sure I’ll get a good headshot from that shoot. (the problem is, i look like an idiot when I smile…photoshop can’t fix that)

Resources

I have no updates since yesterday, so I just wanted to list some sites I visit every day that may be very useful to an aspiring actress/actor.  They have sides, casting alerts, you can post your resume and headshot, get TONS of info, mailing labels, info on agents/managers, and so much more.  Oh and showfax/backstage have great forums with very helpful working actors and others in the biz who are a wonderful resource as well.

 www.showfax.com

www.nycastings.com

www.nycasting.com

www.backstage.com

www.actorsaccess.com

Happenings

This was a good week.   I landed two auditions, one today and one for tomorrow.  I’m a little nervous considering A) I have no  headshots and I’ll have to use old comp cards stapled to my resume hahah; B) I have yet to memorize a monologue.  I’m praying that they have copy to cold read at the audition.

I bought a new camera on thursday, a Canon EOS 30D. It’s beautiful, I had a shoot yesterday with it and just fell deeper in love.  A few results from the shoot can be seen in the headshot and portrait galleries on my website, www.whimsyphotographics.com.  I also did my first product shoot for a bakery called Let ‘Em Eat Cake.  I’ll soon have those images posted in the products gallery.

This week’s Acting for Camera class with Chris Lutkin went well, I realized that I make some atrocious faces when on camera so I NEED to work on trying to not look like a monster.  I also started a Commercial Improv class with Shirley Sender, a casting director here in NY.  It was fantastic! I discovered that 1) I don’t suck, 2) I’m a ham, 3) Improv is AWESOME!

30 Rock – Background Work

 

Oh man, SO, yesterday I got a call out of the blue to do background on 30 Rock that night! I got to meet Tina Fey, who’s really nice and Tracey Morgan. Alec Baldwin wasn’t there, unfortunately. In the scene, I danced with Tracey Morgan. I hope I didn’t look like a retard…ACTUALLY, I hope I’m just in the shot at all. Best thing about doing this lil bit of background…. I got my first SAG Waiver!!! Two more and I’m eligible to join SAG! I’m Psyched!

Today I’m just going to hunt for headshot photographers, apply to castings on backstage, actorsaccess and nycastings and later, go to my acting class. I’m taking this Acting for the Camera series at Weist-Barron, the instructor, Chris Lutkin is quite awesome. So far, I don’t suck! I’ve got to find a monologue though. My biggest fear about acting is forgetting my lines or botching a monologue at a casting, just up and forgetting everything…

Humble Beginnings

 

Welcome to the wonderful world of ME!

The goal of this blog is to chronicle my journey to super stardom! (…or my journey to being able to make a living doing what I love)

What I love: Acting – Modeling – Photography

I’m at the very beginning of my climb to the top of the entertainment industry mountain so hopefully, if you are too, you can at least empathize with me or enjoy my journey as I go along as well. I plan on posting interesting links, articles, etc. that I find helpful here as well. Although this blog will be mainly focused on my acting/photography success, I’ll likely post items about success in general here too.

Background on me:

1. I’m awesome.

2. I decided to pursue my acting career (again-but seriously this time) like 2 weeks ago and already have had some fruitful occurrances (3 auditions…but no bookings)

3. I have a hellish 9-5 that I need to work my “future careers” around…. for now at least

4. I’m super positive, all about LOA, Personal Development and am a major goal-setter

I hope you check back frequently to see my progress! Sooner rather than later, I plan to soon be living the life I’ve always dreamed about, join me on my way!