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That little tiny pill you take to relieve your insomnia could relieve you of your life.

The professor who hired me, a fellow member of the AMI, insisted on hiring a professional voiceover talent. This was the first time a professional voice actor was used, and to great success:

Fast forward to my world of voiceovers, and over the last couple of years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with Christian Chinese clients and get to know some of the brothers and sisters from the congregation who direct me in our sessions. My role is to speak God’s words in a sermon-type of recital, which is sometimes nearly 10,000 words/an hour long.

In less than 48 hours, Donald Trump will take the Oath of Office and be sworn in as America's 45th president. What's In store for freelancers under President Trump?

As a kid, I walked down Michigan Avenue in Chicago with my family as we marched against the war in Vietnam. Once again I am finding issues that touch me, my fellow voice actors, colleagues, friends, and family, and am willing to stand up to have my Voice 'Be Heard' on our behalf.

Hasta ahora hemos hablado de programas que instalamos en el ordenador, pero existe una gran variedad de programas on-line para crear gráficos. Y yo me pregunto: ¿Me estoy perdiendo algo? Después de hacer una pequeña investigación por la web he llegado a estas conclusiones que comparto con vosotros: Leer más…

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Retomo de nuevo el blog para seguir hablando de dibujo digital. En el presente post os mostraré un vídeo de como he hecho un dibujo digital, desde el borrador hasta el resultado final. Además, explicaré las ventajas que tiene, en mi opinión, el dibujo digital frente al tradicional y así…

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Your words, my voice. That’s what I do. I talk for a living.  Recently I had the distinct pleasure of being interviewed by Sandi Klein for her podcast Conversations with Creative Women.

Instead of living in that cloud, I’ve chosen to live in the silver lining, and it’s exciting to feel the change in the air. Loss creates space — for new people, new ideas, new approaches and new horizons.

Days, weeks, months and years have passed since the newly minted scientist first launched herself on this quest to uncover exactly why this particular cell acts like a normal, happy member of society most of the time, but then suddenly veers toward a d...

Pretty darned good, I’d say. But I’d like to answer that with a different question – what would the world look like if NOBODY embraced science and technology? Even if you decided to move to the farthest windblown, scorched or frozen, basically uninhabi...

I think humans are wired for stories, and naturally seek to encapsulate their experiences into narratives that help to explain what has happened. Without an arc, any series of events that are somehow tied together, don’t really seem to make much sense....

Humans get pretty cranky when they forget the original reason behind why they’re working so hard at something. I do. But it’s easy to have happen, since working on anything that involves time, effort and thinking generates a lot of data, and that data ...

I had thought that came to me in a conversation with my very first ballet teacher, whom I spent the day with in San Francisco some months ago – There are several attributes dance and science have in common, that I’m not sure many people have thought ab...

Precise lines and rich, accurate details make medical illustration extremely useful in learning about the human body. When we turn on the computer to research a subject, we hardly stop to think how the graphic representation of the subject has evolved over time or the path it has taken to get there. Medical illustration has evolved along with medicine itself, but its progress has been impaired at times by religious and ethical concerns. For example,

She died on Friday, May 13, 2016. She didn’t want to die. She fought hard to the bitter end. She had patients she was supposed to see that day.  She was a family therapist. She was 88.