Vox Talk

VOX Talk PODCAST: EPISODE 7

Salutation:

Hi there, and welcome to the show. I’m your host Stephanie Ciccarelli, and today’s episode with you listening, is now officially ready to go!

The Loop:

Museum Podcasts

Museums have always been in a tricky position. Instead of bringing art to the public, they’ve had to make the public come to them – not so any more! Thanks to podcasting and other digital technology several major art museums have launched podcast collections that give the public easier access to art education as well as information about their wide-ranging art collections. For example, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has posted a series of podcasts on iTunes featuring artists talking about their work and New York celebrities reading from artists' writings. For instance, you can listen to actor Kevin Bacon reading excerpts from the letters of Vincent Van Gogh.
Many other museums of note, including The National Gallery in London, The Smithsonian, and The Art Institute of Chicago to name a few have recently launched similar podcast collections. Sources predict that many of these museums will eventually give you the ability to download their audio tours to your own iPod, saving you the hassle of renting the museums' audio devices.

For more information, check the VOX Talk links

http://www.oculture.com/weblog/2007/01/museums_have_al.html

has posted on iTunes

News #2

If you’re a fan of X Factor in the UK, you probably saw one of the most heartbreaking yet inspirational auditions and another side of Simon Cowell. Paris, a young teenager with operatic aspirations, auditioned in Manchester for the show singing “Time to Say Goodbye”, a song made famous by Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman. Her talent is obvious, but her age will surprise you. If you have a more than a couple of minutes, be sure to also watch 44-year old Katie’s emotional audition as well.
To watch the videos at YouTube, visit the links at the VOX Talk blog or search at YouTube.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhgoAs9DM68&eurl=

News #3

To wrap up, the blog at Webomatica.com noted this week that computer-animated films featuring the talents of Hollywood voice actors all follow the same cinematic formula. The observations were written in response to the fictitious opening of the new movie “Ferrets” (Ferrets is not real, just an example).

Some of the similarities include Plural Noun Titles for example, Cars, Robots, Ants, and so on. Another is the voice casting of at least one famous actor and a standup comedian. I wonder if in some way the new Transformers movie could be added to that list! While we’re topic, I’m happy to share that comedian and voice talent Bryan Cox was cast in the Transformers movie. Congratulations Bryan from your peers and everyone at Voices.com

To read the similarities in full at Webomatica, visit webomatica.com and click on their “blog” link.

http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2007/01/21/movie-notes-ten-computer-animation-must-haves/

If you have any news or a voice-over related item that you would like to send in, send it to media@voices.com.

The Biz:

This week in the Biz, Julie Williams will share some thoughts on one of the most dreaded and incapacitating illnesses a voice talent could encounter… the evil Laryngitis.

I’m glad that I don’t have laryngitis!

If you have any questions or topics that you’d like to see covered in The Biz, email your suggestions to media@voices.com

Tech Talk:

This week in Tech Talk, we’ll be chatting about FeedBurner.

Got a blog or a podcast? If you do, you are likely familiar with FeedBurner, King of the Feeds.
FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. FeedBurner’s Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web.

FeedBurner not only distributes feeds, it also tracks them. You can view how many subscribers you have to your blog, for instance by viewing an area of your account called "My Feeds".
The culture of the company is fun and inviting, too.

The team at FeedBurner has even made a sticker available of the infamous FeedBurner flame and encourages their fans to send in a self-addressed stamped envelope to get their very own FeedBurner sticker to put on their laptop or, in some cases, on their vehicles.

To learn more about FeedBurner and read their blog, Burning Questions, go to Feedburner.com

VoxBox:

Welcome to VoxBox! On Friday, I received an awesome tip from Donna Papacosta to share with you about how to get more voiceover work.

(Donna’s comment)

You never know who may hire you because of one little link ☺

Farewell:

I’m really glad that you could join us today. We’re always open to receiving feedback, so if you have something to say, zip it off to us! You can reach me at media@voices.com or by leaving a comment on the blog. Until next time!