13 posts tagged “lindsayerika”

As I mentioned before, I'm in this little film called The Wizards of Daggordale. While the wizards themselves still have a lot of footage to shoot, we in the supporting cast had our turn last month, and they've put together a little behind the scenes peek. Check it out!

And remember to check out www.Daggordale.com for more good stuff about wizards Berandar and Eloilder, their music, and the film.

p.s. Here's the quickie photo I got of my purple makeup while still in the makeup room. They may have some better ones, so I'll post them if I get them.

love-love. Lindsay

With all my photo organising and playing around in photoshop, I plan to eventually make a post comparing versions of my edits so you can see what I've been up to, and the changes that are coming through in my style. But for now I wanted to share a fun thing I made tonight. I had a bunch of half-decent pictures from a self shoot I did a month or so ago (trying to get a new headshot, but it just won't happen without decent lighting, which I can't afford). I ended up playing and making faces. Tonight I decided to use some to make a mock photo booth strip. And since photo booths aren't very common anymore, I had to make the pics look like I had them a while, complete with dirt and tears.  Whaddaya think?

love-love. Lindsay

Now available at an iTunes store near you: My first audio play! Woo-Hoo! Presented by The McCroskey Memorial Internet Playhouse, here's the blurb:

An anti-romantic comedy in two acts, Diary of A Superfluous Man concerns the misadventures of Chulkaturin, a tax official of late Imperial Russia, who, in chasing an improbable romance with a young lady of good family, battles against both a Russian prince and a fate that decreed him at birth to be “an extraneous bolt in the machinery of eternity.”

You can also listen online or download directly at www.theinternetplayhouse.com.

Sorry not to blab about it when I got cast or did the recording, but after my experience with Marry Me, in never knowing what's going on or when to expect anything (it may be another year now), I decided it would save on a lot of questions to just wait until it came out. So, really, I've saved you any suspense and given you instant gratification instead!

And is it weird that my first important role was in The Elephant Man, my first equity play was Man and Superman, and now my first radio play is Diary of a Superfluous Man? Does this mean I can expect my first feature length movie role to be a "man" of some kind? As in a superhero flick or something? Hm. That'd be cool.

Hope you enjoy the play. I've yet to hear it in its entirety, as it was only released today. For any of my low-tech relatives out there still living on dial-up, let me know if are unable to download it. I may not have been able to buy you copies of the calendar I made, but I'm sure I can scrounge up the postage to mail you a CD... eventually.

love-love. Lindsay

***EDIT***
So apparently I misunderstood and the buzz was not so official. I am leaving this post here because I sent it to everyone, and some may still come looking. This message is for you. My director had passed around an awesome trailer and said we could share it, but it seems they want to do some more work to it and he didn't mean for us to share it with the general public. Coulda fooled me. I thought it was fantastic, and the music so perfect. But I had to delete it. But I can still share it with friends and family, so if you fit that description send me an email and I can email you the link to download it. Or if you want me to make sure you are notified once it goes up again message me or leave a comment.

Sorry to get your dander up!

***end EDIT***

Marry Me, the little film we shot in the spring here in Seattle, is officially buzzing. There is still some editing, and most likely a bunch of sound re-recording to do, so a release date is still not set, but a full trailer has just been passed around. So here it is. Watch it, enjoy it, share it, get more people to watch it and share it. Get it buzzin', will ya? Seriously. I'll be watching the number of views and I expect it to jump to the hundreds. Got it? Good.

love-love. Lindsay

As I mentioned earlier, I participated in a little film last month. They're not expecting to finish editing it until June or July, but they posted a teaser for the film on their myspace (www.myspace.com/marryme2008). I thought some folks would like to see. I totally dig the mellow tune it has going.

It's not much, but I've finally got a couple videos of myself in acting mode posted on youtube.

The first is a monologue from the play "Seascape with Sharks and Dancer" that I did last spring. I may add another later, but this is what I have at the moment. It probably wasn't my best performance, as it was a straggler. We tagged this performance on a week after we were supposed to have closed.

The next was for the other actor's demo reel, done early in this past summer.
Feel free to critique my performances. I've done so, and could point out some things I'd have changed had I watched these at the time (like keeping my hands and voice still in 'Seascape.' Good grief they were all over the place!). But that's my own opinion. The only way an actor can grow is if they know what differs between what they think they are doing and what the audience perceives.  I only ever ask that criticism be kind and constructive. 'You suck' doesn't exactly tell a person what they've done wrong.

Feedback aside, I hope you enjoy the clips.

love-love. Lindsay

I don't usually draw much attention to my birthdays... and they don't usually draw much attention to me. I have a history of very non-stellar birthdays. They come and go like any other day. Sometimes I will treat myself to a movie or dinner, but still they are pretty quiet. But I don't know if that's what I want, or if I just feel too weird shouting out to everyone, "hey, it's my birthday!" compelling them to respond superficially, so things don't really change much from year to year. (I tell people at other times of the year, but I don't typically announce it on the day.)

Either way, this year I break with tradition by actually announcing to the general public that it's my freakin' birthday! Why? Perhaps because it's my first birthday celebrated in my new favourite city, perhaps because I've only got a couple left before I hit the start of my fourth decade on planet earth, or perhaps because I've got some pictures to post. Of course that last one could be working the other way around.

About a month or so ago I decided to start collecting twenty-eight pictures of the number 28 so I could make a nice little collage to celebrate my birthday. Whether it was an excuse to mention my birthday, or a mnemonic to remember how old I am, or simply a project for a photo scavenger hunt (I look for hearts, too) I couldn't honestly say. Though I do tend to forget how old I am sometimes. When asked you will often see me falter for a moment, then reply, "old enough to forget." Nevertheless, here it is. Can you guess what all the 28s are? Some are pretty easy, some you'll never be able to tell, but it might be fun to try, and you'll never forget how old I am either. ~__^  Answers are on the photo caption.

I haven't been posting much lately, I know. *Bad Zoot, Naughty Zoot!* I don't know if it's just my attention span, or the fact that I hate the way I have to sit at my computer (an arm chair that I am tired of and a t.v. tray with my laptop on it, which is too high for comfortable typing), but I have been playing with my camera. A lot. Of course, then I don't have the attention span to sit at my computer and edit and upload all of my photos, but every now and then one will get through. If you haven't seen my flickr yet, please check it out. (And if you're on there, please leave comments. I love feedback. It gives me direction. I don't actually know what I'm doing yet. ~__^ ) I've also embedded a feed widget in my new widgetized vox side bar. But it's not very good. It doesn't fit, and the ones that do don't seem to work. Still you can see right here on my vox when I've added to flickr.

Anyway, I digress. I'm sleepy. For the reason I am posting. Tonight I got bored and invited myself over for tea. ^___^ I got along so great with myself I think I'll have to hang out with me again. Hopefully I won't begin to bore myself down the line, but for now I enjoyed my company.

This is my first attempt at cloning. Too bad the lighting in my apartment is so lousy. I did what I could (it was practically red when I started.)

And just in case you need some background music... might I reccommend:

Tell us two truths and a lie about yourself.

I am a welder, a liar, and the best "red headed" actress named Lindsay you have ever heard of.

But, hmmm... which is which?

Well, it seems I've been tagged by Matt to spill some insider information 'bout myself. After much thought and deliberation I have come to the conclusion that this is supposed to be stuff you didn't know and I therefore cannot talk about coffee, Jamie Cullum, or Stargate. Sooo... what don't you know? I'm an open book and tell everyone anything. Okay, I'll start there.

1.) I am an open book. I will tell people anything about myself (not to be confused with keeping secrets - I take confidentiality seriously). I am very honest about myself and who I am, even if those things may be construed as negative. People sometimes think that, because I talk so openly about stuff that may not be desirable, that it means I have low self esteem, or that I am a pessimist, but really it is the opposite. I did the low self-esteem thing in high school. But now, I am comfy enough with myself that I can tell it like it is. I believe in being who I am, and I don't believe in doing things that would make me want to hide who I am.

2.) I NEVER talk on the phone. I never really have been much of a phone person. Apart from the annoying hot ear and inability to do anything else while talking (seriously, I stop everything because I can't multi-task for crap) I don't comprehend as well when I can't see the person I am talking to (I am very visually-oriented). Plus I never feel like I have enough reason to call. That's why I love vox. It is reason-less keeping-in-touch. Wait, you need proof that I don't talk on the phone? I only use a cell phone and I used 176 minutes TOTAL last month, and I only have 14 calls on my phone to date this month. (That includes voice mail and ordering take out!) Yup, I'm a socially handicapped person. I don't text either. Even if I had somebody to text, there's never been anything so big to say that it couldn't wait till I got home to email them.

3.) I don't do video games. I have tried on occasion, and even own some computer games, but I'm really terrible and I give up easily because I can't stand playing the same bit over and over. I am, however a PRO at real-life tetris. Or would it be considered a real-life sliding puzzle? You need to fit 5 square feet worth of stuff in this one available square foot? Gimme a minute, I'll get it all in. And you will probably even be able to get at it when you need it. I put it down to lots of practice from moving and wanting to take it all with me... in a car.

4.) Sometimes my three-and-a-half-year-old kitten, Pippin, tries to wake me up in the "morning" by kissing me on the lips. No joke. When I was taking French freshman year I thought it was so funny that I found a t-shirt that said, "J'embrasse mon chat sur la bouche." [Translation: 'I kiss my cat on the lips.] Never thought it would be true about me. But she's so cute.

5.) I am almost 28 years old (in July), and I have never voted. For anything. (Well, I did vote for vox in the webby's, but does that count?) Now, before you go off on all the reasons I should care and should want to vote, and blah, blah, yadda, yadda, let me just say, that I agree with you. However, wouldn't you also say that it is important to have an informed and educated vote? I just can't get interested enough in politics (so much back-biting, back-scratching, hidden agendas, and saying what people want to hear) to ever feel informed enough to have an opinion. I hope the next election may be different, but it's really hard to get informed when the only kind of news you can pay attention to is The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Especially when you can only watch them on the internet (Motherload videos give my computer headaches.)

6.) Speaking of being 28, I am getting flaky in my old age! (I know that's not old, I still feel like a kid most of the time, but there are some 21-year-olds that make me feel ancient!) For one thing, I never seem to remember to do anything, unless I write it down. And it's very hard to remember to write stuff down. And I let stuff slide. People I've recently met that I just never contact again, cards and holidays. Oh, yes. I used to be one of the best greeting card givers in the world. I found the meaningful, non-sappy ones, with quotes and beautiful artwork appropriate to the person, and always sent it in time because I remember everyone's birthdays. Presents I gave usually came in threes, because, though they were not always useful, they always expressed how well I knew that person, touching on at least three aspects of their likes or personality. But now... I see the day coming, and do nothing. I put it off until I forget, or it's too late, and then I feel silly to send something after the fact. ...Uh... like Mother's Day... er,...Happy Mother's Day mom and grandma!... Here's some flowers... Or maybe I'm just lazy and want an excuse...

7.) I am a SAP! Yes, I have been know to cry at Hallmark commercials and things like the Free Hugs video. The truly ironic thing is how rarely I have been able to muster tears when acting! The last play I did was the only time I consistently cried on purpose. It is also ironic that I cry much more about stupid little frustrations than actual serious problems.

8.) I am addicted to vox. Okay, you knew that. But did you know that I actually feel guilty when I read your posts and can't think of anything to comment? And that I go back several times trying to think of something to say? Did you know that even when I am too lazy to compose full paragraphs to post I click around all over my page and yours, sometimes not even reading, just... clicking around? And that I am constantly looking for comments? I also secretly dream of one day finding one of my photographs on [TIG]. Okay, so I no longer secretly dream that...~__^

9.) When I am not lazy I am working on an epic. I don't say "writing an epic" because I think I'm still years away. I have some basic concepts, and hope that the series could be four, hopefully even five, books long. But right now I am just creating the world and mythology, collecting fun reference books, the perfect music, praying for plot points to occur to me.... And speaking of my vox addiction, I even started a secret vox for the purpose of this epic. I keep track of those books and music, and the characters, new words, places, all conveniently cross-linked and tagged. (If only vox would let me put posts in collections, and let tags show ALL items with a certain tag at once rather than check the posts, then the photos, and so on, so when I click on the character's tag I can see everything that I've ever attributed to them.) Maybe some day, if your really good and can help with ideas and such I will share the location of this secret vox, but until then, I plead lazy!

10.) I still play make believe! Well, I am an actress. But one reason I knew I had to be an actress was so that I can have an excuse to still play make believe. But I don't just do it when I'm acting. I have, on occasion, played out fanciful scenarios by myself. (Now you know how much of a dork I really am!) Of course, this helps in generating story ideas and such, too, so it has a purpose. Though, most often these days my make believing takes the shape of "Movie Montage Vision." What is Movie Montage Vision, you ask? When I walk around, great music playing in my headphones, my eyes start to see things and people in this really cool wide screen. I take in, not just what I am looking at, but the things around them, and can give them context and meaning. (Think Lost in Translation, when she goes to Kyoto. That song by Air is a great Movie Montage Vision song in a great movie montage.) If I don't get too lazy I am going to make a post now about my latest Movie Montage Vision episode, which I actually planned to do since yesterday. So stay tuned.

Well, that's ten. So there. Now's the part where you start running before I tag you! Let's see... Rebekah, Kristin, Sharon, Kel, Dave, aaaannnddd... Vu! You're it! Who's not chicken?

love-love. Lindsay