VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Philip Banks

Kimmy rushes into the kitchen at 3.40pm; her mother knew this because she glanced at the clock on the cooker. The eight old daughter of a professional artist was eager to show the fruits of her labours.

"Look! I did this for you" she handed Mum a large sheet of paper still damp in parts. It was a watercolour painting. Mother looked and thought for a moment.

"It's a little naive. Where's the form, the balance, the structure? Sorry. I just don't see the passion or feel you're trying to say anything through this work. The house is boxy yet is not cubist, the animal is Dali-esque in a very simplistic way." Kimmy looks at her painting, shrugs her shoulders and proceeds to use a magnet to stick it to the door of the fridge. "Honey" asks Mum, "would you like me to make you something to eat?"

"Good grief woman NO! Your cooking sucks!" shouts Kimmy over her shoulder as she goes into the sitting room to watch TV. She doesn't notice her mother's knees buckle as she burst into tears.

Grown ups aren't resilient and are seldom honest. To get ahead and to survive BE 8.

Lizden · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:55 am Post subject:

Yep...don't take this biz personally.
You get the gig? Great!
You don't? Oh well, move on to next one.

SOMETIMES more easily said than done, but it usually works for me. Laugh

Thanks Philip!
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Bruce · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:03 am Post subject:

Actors were once described to me as people who are still playing under a card table with a sheet over it...pretending it's a fort, or a cave, or a car, whatever. I'm afraid I resemble that remark.

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bobsouer · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:09 am Post subject:

Philip,

Thanks for the reminder this morning that "it's not about me."
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Lizden · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:09 am Post subject:

Love that, Bruce!
I recently found a picture of me in the fort I built in our living room when I was about ....8!
Another reason not to grow up! Laugh

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bobsouer · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:16 am Post subject:

Yes, I like that word picture, too Bruce; especially now that Eric and I are using a card table every day as our temporary dining room table while we're getting our old house in Pittsburgh set back up. I'll have to crawl down under there one of these days and remember.
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Lizden · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:21 am Post subject:

ERIC!
I want a picture of your Dad under the table!!!!! Laugh

Awww, C'mon, Bob!!!!!! Kiss

It could be a new VO-BB tradition! cool

....& we wouldn't even have to drink to do it! Inoccent

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bobsouer · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:47 am Post subject:

Liz,

Be careful what you wish for.
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Deirdre · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:26 am Post subject:

It's hard to stick VO work on the fridge.
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Philip Banks · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:30 am Post subject:

The cyber equivalent is Facetube.

"Mum LOOK WHAT I JUST DID!!"

Comments

Yeah...whatever.

Ed Gambill · Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:24 am Post subject:

When I grow up I still don't know what I want to be.
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Chrissy · Guest

My goal is to avoid growing up until I'm old enough to be in my second childhood then I won't remember what it was I was trying to avoid.

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Brutal feedback is good. That which doesn't kill me makes me frickin' spiffy, yadda yadda yadda...

It's when people can't be bothered to critique you and don't hire you that it's an issue.

In other words, a tough parent is better than a silent parent.
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todd ellis · Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:11 am Post subject:

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