i like blue sky.

it's apparent throughout many of my personal photographs.

life continues.

where have i been? i'm really not quite sure myself. so much has been going on, it seems yet i haven't really been working all that much.

as for the job hunt, i've been diligently applying for positions in and around my field of interest. i decided earlier today that it's like going fishing in a swimming pool. so many people are out looking for a job, but there are really only a limited number of jobs. anyway, i had some encouraging news today, so thats good. more to come on that (but it involves a second interview, tomorrow.)

as for background work, (extras) i've done a few more shows since my last update. last week thursday night i worked on hbo's entourage all night long. literally. i got to basecamp at 845p, went to set at about 1130 and stood on hollywood blvd posing as a "screaming fan" until 430a. it was an exhausting night, but overall fun to see the huge production of a large budget show.

otherwise, i'm just pushing through. heading back to michigan for a week tomorrow evening, and getting to perform alongside some old and yet to be new friends in a broadway review called STREET SMARTS. definitely looking forward to it.

oh and how could i forget the lovely visit from my parents and littles brother ethan of their spring break and easter. it was a fun time and i really enjoyed being able to show them around my new city!

walking.

decided to take a walk through my neighborhood today with my camera in hand. i tend to have a hard time doing this sometimes due to peoples reactions to cameras. i'd definitely make a horrible paparazo. then i think about how i would love to start documenting different things i just have to get over that fear of getting in peoples face, but in a nice way :) i was thinking it'd be fun to start taking pictures of the people in my building. there is a very ecclectic group of people who live here and it would be really fun to do both candid and portrait sessions with them. hrm. we will see.

but for now this is what transpired from my walk. i actually saw it yesterday while scooting past and thought it was interesting. i want to know "and what?"

background.

well as you all know from my last post. i'm busy trying to find a full time job, something i will enjoy, further my career with and make a good living. but since that has yet to happen, i've finally been able to do something i've always thought would be super fun! background work!

An extra, also called a background actor, is a performer in a film, television show, stage, musical, opera or ballet production, who appears in a nonspeaking, nonsinging or nondancing capacity, usually in the background (for example, in an audience or busy street scene). [taken from wikipedia.org]

so i had my first gig on the new nbc series (starts april 9 2009) Southland as a restaurant patron. There were probably about 50-70 other extras as well, so it was a good first experience because i got to meet a few people and get some tips from some of the vetrans.

and then today i'm going to shoot an episode of the fox show Lie To Me. i'm actually playing a 30ish personal photographer for a rap artist who this specific episode is about. i'm really looking forward to this gig, not only do i love this show, but this is more of a featured extra position, not just a crowd member in a restaurant. i'll have more stories about it i'm sure.

someone told me this week to make sure i enjoy this current "freedom" as i'm job hunting, because even though it's not ideal, these situations hopefully don't come to often, so try to find the JOY in them :) and i think i am.

i'll hopefully have air dates for those shows soon.

job hunting.

well over two weeks ago hannah said "you have a lot to blog about" and i do and i should have been but really i was not in the mood and i didn't want to sit down and write. so here i am finally.

so much has happened since my last post. the biggest of those things being that splashlight closed their LA based offices and are focusing on their other two locations (new york and miami). that being said, i am a casualty of that close. so i am currently unemployed and seeking. let me tell you the hunt is not much fun. and i can't even imagine being someone who has been without a job for months or even years. it's scary right now.

without getting others hopes up as mine tend to on and off, i do have a few resume's out at a few places that i would be happy to work with. i made follow up calls today, one resulted in finding out the person i will hopefully be talking to is out of the office for the week... oh spring break! the second resulted in learning of a hiring freeze, but that there seemed to be some interest in me when the hiring freeze is lifted... but who knows exactly when that will be. lets hope soon shall we.

in other news. my middle brother griffin visited for two weeks. just left to go back home this past saturday evening. it was great having him out here and getting to show him around a bit. it was definitely a good time and i hope he too enjoyed it as much as i.

other than that i'm just plugging along. loving my church and my improv classes. hoping for that next thing to just show its head. join me in prayer if you wish.

creativity to come... i hope :)

improvisation.

some of you have heard that i'm taking part in a improv workshop once a week for the next two months. i had my second session last night. i've learned a ton already, mainly about myself, but it all relates to the act of improv or acting in general. one of the prevailing themes i'm seeing and learning about myself is that i need to trust myself. i tend if given enough time to second guess myself and my decision. last night it really came through during one scene where i was given a chance to step back after doing a minute or so of improv and watch someone else work with my decision, they did great, but i was already second guessing it and when i had to take back over the scene, i "ruined" it because my mind had decided to dwell on my "bad" choice.

but the best part of all this is : i'm learning! and i'm really enjoying it. i had a few scenes/character developments that i felt went really well, especially for my second time doing improv ever. and i just really really had a great time. the people are great. oh yeah, they all go to my church, so its a great way to meet people of likemindedness.

on a blog note. i am sorry for not writing lately. and i've actually had some fun things to write about, but i'll just start here today and hopefully continue on with a few more blogs this week.

a very disney birthday.

i turned twenty-nine this past sunday, jan 25th, 2009! i've always loved the fact that i was born on a zero (1980), it makes figuring out how old you are much easier! anyway. i had a great birthday weekend, but i'm going to devote this blog entry to my first disneyland experience.

i really don't have that much to write about it. more just put up some pictures. but thanks to my friends richard, grete and alex for spending the day with me at disneyland. it was a good day to go because the rest of the weekend had been rainy, so i think it kept people from going on sunday because they were afraid of the threat of rain, which we got none of that day! so it was a bit less crowded than most sundays tend to be, or so i was told. but it was a great day, and i got to feel like a little kid for the last twenties birthday of my life :) totally a great experience. thank you disney for giving away free birthday tickets for 2009!

here are pictures (i took a bunch on film too, but haven't finished the roll yet so these are iphone and pictures from alex)