Holy roller-blading Shakespeare! It’s almost the end of August. We’re about 66% of the way through 2011. That just blew my mind a little bit. How are those annual goals coming along? You still have 4 months to make them happen so let’s get crackin’!

So what the heck have I been up to that’s keeping so busy that I haven’t posted very frequently in the last couple months? Well thank you for asking, I’ll tell you.

Thrival Job
As you may or may not know, I started a company in college with some peers that helps out-of-state students get in-state tuition. The good news is that we’re doing incredibly well, are expanding to new states, hiring new employees, and significantly growing our company. All of this has taught me a tremendous amount about how you scale an idea/project/company and has proffered a lot of insight into my pursuit as an actor. I’m increasingly convinced that being an actor is exactly he same as being an entrepreneur. The only variation is that for actors their product is themselves. Everything else is exactly the same, and the lessons from the world of entrepreneurship can be directly applied to the entertainment business. I don’t think I’ve ever read a single article from the Harvard Business Review or Seth Godin’s Blog and not been able to find a correlation to my career as an actor.

The “bad news” in all of this is that I spend a considerable amount of hours in my week growing our company, getting new clients, etc. I am now at a point where this can be the only job I need to support myself which is incredible, although the time commitment can be a bit of a time-sucker. Fortunately I can effectively craft my own schedule, and when I have a same-day commercial audition I can just grab my laptop, make some phone calls on the road, and head out.

New Manager
I’m excited to do some more blog posts around this, but I recently signed with a new manager, David Kohl of Stein Entertainment Group. Well, I’ve never had a manager before so I suppose it’s A manager, not a NEW manager. I’m thrilled to have brought him on to my team, and think that he’s going to be a tremendous business partner over the next couple years. More on all this soon.

Acting Classes
For most of this year I ended up focusing quite a bit on my commercial career. I took Killian’s Workshop (AMAZING, by the way) as well as the first two levels at UCB (and am looking forward to more). I’ve also been going on quite a few commercial auditions, though they seem to come in waves. All this to say that I hadn’t really focused on the theatrical side of my career so I audited a bunch of acting classes (because everyone loves their acting class) and have been taking a scene study-esque class with Anthony Meindl and an audition technique class with Billy O’Leary. Both of which have been amazing and a great reminder of why I actually do all of the hard work. Performance is such a rush. Oh! And I re-took Mary Lou Belli’s Advanced 3-Camera Sitcom Class which was a stitch. Louder, faster, funnier!

Shots of My Head
I fairly recently did a wonderful (and wonderfully affordable) headshot session with Cathryn Farnsworth and was thrilled with the results (see: new manager). The top row of pictures on the actor page of my website are from that shoot.

Get the Uhaul…
For various (good) reasons that would bore you I’m moving in with AJ Meijer of Inside Acting Podcast fame over in Santa Monica. I’m really excited to mix things up after being in the same place for a while, and to continue to be surrounded by amazing people. If you really like packing and lifting boxes hit me up on September 1st.

Action!
Most fortunately I’ve been able to work on a couple really cool projects recently, and also see them in their finished form. I was in Episode 4, Part 1 of Brandi Ford’s delightful web series, Diary of a Wedding Planner (I start at minute 2:25). I also starred in a short film called Boss’ Weekend that my friend David who I went to college with wrote, directed, and produced in conjunction with John Myers and Wood Pictures. I’ve also had a number of projects I did in the past show up on my IMDb page which for some reason brings me great joy. Perhaps because it will forever be a reminder of the amazing projects I’ve been a part of and the crazy-talented people I’ve had the fortune of working with.

Final Thoughts
The longer you’re in LA the easier it is for time to run together. As a result I find it increasingly important to step back and appreciate how far I’ve come. It can be easy to forget the elation I felt when I got my very first audition in LA (a crappy music video spoof for which I lip-synched a rap, in case you were wondering). As I enter a bit of a transition period I’m committing myself to focusing on being present, in the moment, and smelling those fu&k!ng roses. =D

I have a theory that an actor’s ability to continue pursuing their career long enough to see meaningful success is based on three things: 1) One’s ability to get fully excited and feel satisfied (for a long time) when a success happens; 2) To not skip a beat when something that looks like it will be #1 happens to fall through; and 3) The ability to recognize and appreciate small successes along the way.

Small Victories

One of the difficulties in pursuing any career over the long haul, especially one in the arts, is that the fruits of your labor are not always readily apparent. Nor are they things that your cousins will understand as a leap forward when you tell them about it over a couple wine coolers. For example, having an amazing coffee date with a top producer may very well lead to the biggest development in your career. It’s something that should absolutely be celebrated and something you should be proud of. However, if you run home elated to tell your roommate-the-accountant that you just had coffee with the showrunner of your favorite show, the response will probably be something to the effect of “cool. Did you pick up more air freshener on your way home?” Not exactly the kind of shared excitement you were looking for.

So what to do? First of all, recognize the small victories as progress and celebrate as such. Every time you book even the smallest project, develop a new relationship, force yourself to send out that marketing campaign you’ve been procrastinating…those are huge accomplishments. Even if no one understands what a big step it was to do your first agent mailer or how much you grew to do that difficult acting scene, celebrate with yourself and feel proud.

Ah, Crap

I can’t tell how many times I’ve been elated over something that ended up being a big, steamy pile of turd. Right before I came out to LA, for example, I got cast in a spec pilot as well as a second show with the same team. It was non-union at the time, but the producers then said that their pitches had gotten picked up at a network and they were re-shooting everything as SAG. In one fell swoop I was supposed to become eligible for SAG, get great footage, and end up being able to move to LA already working on some projects. Now, I was certainly more naive back then than I am now, but we had filmed a bunch of stuff and everyone seemed on top of their game. Long story short, I never got paid, the project fell through, and I was never able to get in touch with the people from the project again.

At that point, it would have been very easy to adopt a defeatist attitude and feel sorry for myself and my poor fortune. However, I specifically remember telling my roommate at the time that even as everything fell through, if I wanted to get closer to joining the union and being on a show, then the best way to get there was to fail at that exact thing. Getting (ostensibly) close to the thing I most wanted and having it fall through meant that at least I was getting close to the thing I wanted.

The Big Kahuna

While there are hopefully lots of small victories along the way, every now and again you will have something happen as a result of all those small victories adding up. Your first co-star, signing with a great agent, or that first residual check. You know the kind. The phone call that you booked the job, the audition you knocked out of the park, or viewing the footage of your recent project that came out better than you imagined. This week I had one of these such moments, where all of the little victories added up to a huge success. I met with a manager and it could not have gone better. Everything I’ve done in the last two years–acting classes, business of acting classes, all my time at The Actors’ Network, research, blog posts, Tweetups, marketing materials, having a kick ass website, learning about the business, my constant pursuit of increased productivity, previous meetings with reps–all cumulated but half an hour of a fun, professional, successful meeting.

Final Thoughts

I’m not sure you’ll make it past the first few years of any endeavor if you can’t recognize and relish the small victories, even if no one else does. The small, day-to-day things are the absolute foundation of the greater career you imagine for yourself. With that said, there will certainly be bigger moments. Times when all that hard work comes together in an easy-to-recognize success. Cherish those moments as well. Have a glass of champagne and share the news with your dog. You’ve made progress and your next small victory will be that much greater than the last.

Ben Whitehair is the Los Angeles contingent of this blog. Find out more information and view his materials on his website, or read the rest of his blog posts.

Hello you beautiful and sexy readers. Full disclosure, I feel about New Year’s as Chandler feels about Thanksgiving. However, 2010 has been such an epic year, that I can’t help but be happy. And for your part, I want to thank you. Yes, you. And you. Even you.

When we started this blog a little over a year ago, I could not have imagined that we’d have tens of thousands of views and thousands of regular readers in a few short months. Damn.

I haven’t posted much in the past couple weeks as I’ve been in a whirlwind of trying to finish up projects before the new year and getting mentally and physically prepared for 2011. I’ll be posting soon on goal setting and a more in-depth look back at my life in 2010, but for now I just want to send a quick shout out to all of you. The journey really is the destination and I want to send my sincerest appreciation to all of you for joining me on mine.

To an incredible 2011…

B

I had a particularly daunting day today and it got me thinking about “the struggle.” About how hard it can be to be an actor, an entrepreneur. To not always know where your next paycheck is coming from. To follow your dreams instead of what everyone else screams. So, yeah, it can be effing hard sometimes…really hard. As my Dad would say when we were growing up: “Sometimes you’re the pigeon, and sometimes you’re the statue.”

As I got to thinking about it though, everyone struggles. Some more than others for sure (let’s take a quick moment to note that 2 BILLION people on the planet don’t have clean water), but no one gets a reprieve from the hardships inherent in life. And I think there are two things we must remember. 1) As artists, we are uniquely suited to handle struggles, and to help others with theirs. And 2) It doesn’t HAVE to be a struggle.

Allow me to elaborate. As to the first point, actors and artists have unique training and experience to deal with emotions and troubling situations. Not only do we have an outlet for our emotions, but we’ve often lived the life of someone surrounded with darkness on stage or on screen. Looking to the broader picture, when times are tough people look for escape and understanding. Sometimes all it takes to cheer someone up after their 472nd crappy day of work in a row is simply half an hour of their favorite sitcom. That’s pretty remarkable when you think about it. People spend a measly $7 $11 $49 to go see a movie, eat some ju ju fruits, and forget their problems in a movie theatre for a couple hours. Let us not neglect our roles as leaders in the community. Let us nurture that gift and give people catharsis when they see our play or hear us sing.* That’s amazing.

Now, as for the second point. For some terrible reason there’s the idea that artists HAVE to starve, to fight, to struggle. First off, that’s total bullshit. I’m sorry, but there’s no vending machine where you can exchange sadness for artistic (much less financial) reward. And more than that, to say that artists have to struggle is to day that PEOPLE have to struggle. That may be true, but we certainly aren’t special in that regard. I know lawyers, agent-assistants, accountants, bar backs, and consultants who ALL struggle. And that’s ok! We all do now and again, but we must remember that there’s no bonus prize for “the struggle.”

Why am I writing this? I think it’s especially to encourage anyone caught in a world where they feel they must struggle to get to the next stage or to be considered a true artist, to expand your thinking and consider that maybe you need to rid yourself of that fight in order to progress. I’m writing this because I can sometimes forget that it’s not always going to be easy, but that the reward of living a life of choice, of purpose; is a reward that few are granted. And I write this to remind myself of the trade-off. Regardless of the path you choose, there will be obstacles, there will be things you don’t like. Not only is that part of the journey, but if the destination isn’t where you want to go then how much worse is that? I am thankful every day that no matter what comes at me, I can wake up every day and say that I’m living the life I choose.

Bring on the pigeons…

*Note: Hearing me sing will NOT make you feel better or provide any sort of cathartic experience.

I would wager that the single most important thing you can be doing right now, is figuring out what you are most passionate about. What is at the core of your driving force? What is that which keeps you awake at night racing through your mind? Whatever that is, is your golden ticket. It’s the key to your future.

Economy 2.0

If you follow the people who often discuss what I call “Economy 2.0″ such as Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, Chris Brogan, Tim Ferriss, Chris Guillebeau, and the like, you very much get the sense that we are in the midst of a revolution. What’s better than that, is the idea that the the core of thriving in this new frontier is finding your passion and living it…hardcore. This is something new, something different. As Seth Godin talked about at his recent breakfast talk in LA, during the Industrial Revolution you thrived by becoming a cog in a larger machine. Now you need get to be your own machine.

Finding Your Passion

Some of you have known your passion since you were 3 years old. My sister, for example, has known that she’s wanted to be a pastry chef since she started making me chocolate chip cookies when she was 8 (I know, I had a rough childhood…) I, however, was not one of those people. I’ve had myriad interests and passions (and still do). In college while I maintained a theatre major, I was also a biochemistry major, then a molecular biology major, before finally getting a degree in political science. While organic chemistry was something I would never wish on anyone, it helped me hone in on my passion. My junior year of college I finally stepped back and realized that theatre was the thing that I had consistently been passionate about the whole time.

So why do I write all this? If you’re the kind of person with many interests, or someone who’s not exactly sure what that “one thing” is, then I think you need to try on as many hats as possible. Read books, watch internet lectures, do internships. Experience as many facets of your interests as possible.

“Waste of Time”

Every new thing you discover you don’t love is never a waste of time. Never.

“I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.” ~Thomas Edison on his “failures” before perfecting incandescent lighting

Look, if discovering your true passion is the key to your future, then how could getting closer to that ever be a failure?

Resources

There are a few books and blogs I’ve read recently that really hammer home these points that I would recommend checking out, starting with this video from Gary V:

Watch. This. NOW!

• Crush It by Gary V. This book is amazing, and if it doesn’t inspire you to start crankin’ away on your passion then I don’t know what will.
• Seth Godin’s blog is universally applicable, and touches daily on all the most important aspects of what I call Economy 2.0 in a well thought out, eloquent matter.
• I’m less versed on The Other 8 Hours than some of these others, but have heard amazing things. Plus, this addresses one of the biggest concerns people have: trying ot pursue your passion while maintaining a “normal” day job.
• Ignore Everybody And 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod is a great, creative, approach to breaking out of the bubble and doing what you love
• Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi is a great look at how to get out there and meet more people, stay in touch them, which I assure you, will be the key that opens the doors you most want to go through

Translating to Cinemaland

I find that this approach has tremendous application in the specific realm of film as well. Figuring out exactly what you want in this industry is crucial. Under the guise of entertainment (and sometimes creativity ) there are SOOOO many things you can do. Write screenplays, be a PA, go into casting, act in sitcoms, be a host, be a professional game show contestant, WHATEVER. The opportunity here is immense, it’s truly limitless. That said, there’s enough competition out there that you don’t have the freedom to NOT figure out what it is you care about more than anything. You don’t. Someone else already figured it out and is spending 18 hours a day pushing out content, talking with others about it, and living that passion. Get started.

"My trailer"

So I moved to Los Angeles in February of 2009. That means I’ve been living, as my brother would say, ‘on the fault line’ for almost exactly a year and a half. That’s kind of a long freakin’ time! Or at least it feels like it sometimes. And to be honest, just like everyone else I have days where I wonder, what the hell am I doing with my life…? (It doesn’t help that Mark Zuckerberg is barely a year older than I am…) When you’re on a long journey, it can be hard to remember how far you’ve come. It’s important, then, to take a step back, look backwards, and appreciate the journey.

I view that last few segments of my life in 4-year windows. I had the 4 years of high school (though I was a homeschooled cowboy playing 8-man football my freshman year which kind of doesn’t count). Then there were the 4 years of college. Then a partial-year transition period. And now I’m in the midst of what I consider my sophomore year of Los Angeles. When I contextualize it like that, the amount of time here feels a pittance, and when I remind myself that 18 months in LA is nothing in the grand scheme of a career in film and television, I feel a little better. The other day I was bummin’ a little bit looking at somewhat of a lazy month in the past 30 days, when I got to thinking about my very first audition in Los Angeles…

I remember when I first got it. I had put myself on the various submission services a couple days prior, and was submitting myself for basically any project in the greater LA area that was asking for a male between the ages of 16 and 37 (maybe not the smartest strategy, but hey, if you don’t think I look like a former pro-bowl football player, then don’t call me in ;p). Then it came. The email from Actor’s Access. I had an audition in Santa Monica for a nerdy rapper in this little comedy video. I was elated. I bolted into my roommate’s room, jumping for joy that I had an actual audition in Los Angeles. Barely one year later, I’m at a point in my career where I pretty much entirely look beyond the submission services, spending my time working towards opportunities on projects big enough that they probably don’t even end up on those sites.

Opportunities like the recent horror movie I just finished filming. I got an email from an industry friend I have kept in touch with out here pointing me to an audition for one of her director friends. I saw the email, didn’t think a whole lot of it, but the project seemed very professional and I never pass up an opportunity to audition. I went to the audition itself which went great, and it was clear that the people in the room really liked my read. The next day I got a callback, which I couldn’t make because I was filming a short that two of my buddies from college were doing (that in and of itself is freaking awesome…how many people can say they made a movie with their college friends in Hollywood?!?). Even so, I got a call the day after saying that they wanted to cast me for a different role than I had read for. Awesome, but something that I didn’t really think twice about. Until…

The shoot was at night up near Santa Clarita, meaning that I had to spend 2.5 hours driving north on the 405, braving probably one of the worst commutes in the country. But I made the best of it, making some phone calls, listening to some rad acting podcasts, and personally lamenting the inability of Democrats to form a coherent message. Then it happened. A moment I’ve been waiting for all my life. I arrived on set, checked in at the production trailer, and then had one of the production assistants show me to my trailer. That’s right: My. Trailer. Now in interest of transparency, the trailer itself was basically a broken down old RV, but it was mine for the evening to do with as I please. And after getting into costume and makeup I got to utter the words I’d jokingly said hundreds of times: “I’ll be in my trailer.”

So there I was, sitting in my very own trailer, thinking back to my first audition in LA. Ho-ly-crap. What a journey. I had just been snapped in half and flung against a tree by an alien (I know, right?!), and was sitting in my very own trailer on a set filled with dozens of professionals making a legitimate, union, feature-length film. I don’t care who you are, that’s awesome.

My point here is not to brag (okay, just a little), but to remind myself to be thankful for the life I have chosen, and the incredible opportunities and experiences along the way. And I implore you to do the same. It’s a long and hard road, but truly, how many people can say that they’ve looked at the Hollywood sign as they drove to set. That they’ve been paid to do the thing they love the most in the world. That they’ve gone against the advice of their closest family and friends and, even for a moment, been part of something they had dreamed about as a kid. Not many. You’re a special breed, my friends. Keep fightin’ the good fight…

Take a good look at the the “Special Skills” section of your resume. What does it say?

“Fluent in Spanish?” “Licensed motorcycle operator?” “Can juggle flaming bowling pins with one hand?”

Sure you can do it. Well, can’t you?

I was on Columbia College’s campus Saturday afternoon, auditioning for a lead role in a student-produced web series. The audition was being held in room 317, the inside of which I know well from previous auditions. But unlike many of my previous attempts, I knew I was perfect for this role from the moment I read the character description. So I prepared like a maniac! I read the script a hundred billion times. I came dressed for the part. Hell, I even brought a small prop to use in the audition. I was the calm, cool and collected actor waiting patiently in the hall for my name to be called. I was the man.

When I walked into the audition itself, I let that confidence shine through in my personality and my smile. God, I was on fire! We did the first take. Nailed it. Felt great. Second take, even more so!

And then it happened.

“Alright Joe, we want you to do this next one using a Cockney dialect.”

This is the part where the lights in the room suddenly go out and you find yourself strapped to a chair with a single hot light burning into your eyes. You start to sweat. You think, “Did I put a Cockney dialect on my resume?” Yes, Joe, you in fact did. That children’s theatre production of My Fair Lady you did when you were a kid? Well, somewhere along the line you decided that was training enough. Well what a fine spot you’ve gotten yourself into now. Bravo.

Don’t get me wrong, I can do a Cockney-ish dialect. And that usually works for my improv shows. But vocal caricatures simply won’t cut it for film and television. Producers, directors, and especially viewers want the goods.

Hoping to lighten the mood, I smiled and wryly quipped, “Ah, so you’re the director that makes his actors actually do the stuff on their resume.” The comment garnered a hearty laugh from the producers, and even the director couldn’t help but smile. “Oh, you know it,” he replied. So with that, I jumped into the scene, which ended up sounding like something between a wannabe Michael Caine and a giraffe trying to swallow Rupert Grint. It certainly could have been a lot worse.

Here’s my point, and it should be a pretty obvious one: Be sure you can actually do what your resume says you can do. You never know when a director is actually going to ask you to do it!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a resume to adjust.

~JVB

This is going to be short:

I was in Boulder the past week for some family things and I had the opportunity to get coffee with an old friend/teacher/mentor. He is an MMA fighter and one of my coaches from the days when I trained Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. And though our arts (theatre and martial) seem to be so very different in trade, we quickly discovered that the path to following your dreams, the path that strays from the typical school-job-family-death, the path that tests you every step of the way, and especially the path that hasn’t even been created yet is one that we share. It is one that is not easy. Paving the way, making your own road, is a lonely task until you realize that every dreamer is following the same journey. My fellow bloggers (Joe and Ben), this teacher and friend, myself, my parents who started new jobs after filing for Bankruptcy in the fall of last year, my sister who has gotten up again and again and again… we’re not so alone after all.

As he and I kept relating to each other, I discovered this sort of reassuring thought. We can take joy in the challenge knowing that we are not truly alone. And he went on to say: “I used to be so afraid to take the gun out of the holster because I was afraid I wasn’t going to hit my target. My target is so far away and I don’t even know if that dream even exists at all since I made it up. Its an end point but there can be even more past it and there is something equally great beside it that I have also yet to discover. So, every time I don’t take aim, I will miss it. I had to stop being afraid to even get my gun out of the holster just because I didn’t know where the bullet was going to land.” And – in fighting, in the performing arts, and even in personal life, if you don’t take that chance then you don’t move forward. If you don’t take any step on your path, then you remain in the same place. Frustrated. Watching others pass you.

I say this now because I am preparing for a pretty important musical audition. I typically don’t talk about my auditions or castings because… I am superstitious and I worry about boasting. But this one is all too relevant to this blog and some of you, our readers, may relate. I haven’t had a true voice lesson in years and I haven’t had a book of songs … ever. In New York, you pretty much, at some point or another, have to decide to join the musical theatre auditions or move to another city where Musicals aren’t the main machine. So, I decided this morning that I am going to do a song that I love, for an audition this afternoon, for a person that I love: myself. I HAVE to do this. Someone needs to light a fire under my ass and it isn’t going to be anyone other than myself. And I realized, while talking with this friend, that I was beginning to feel this fire again. Hearing him talk about his dreams and his path and his words of encouragement and his stories of defeat. Relating to that, finding inspiration in that… I am not ready for this audition. I probably shouldn’t go – in a wise, safe, guarded world, I wouldn’t. But, in this world, I have to go. For, if I never take that gun out of my holster, it will sit there forever and targets will continue to fade into the distance. That goal will become hazier and hazier until the path to it disappears altogether.

 

Nothing happens unless you make it happen.

(Side note – I decided to sing Drumming Song by Florence and the Machine because we listen to it EVERY SINGLE day at Urban Outfitters. Its a song I love, its pop/rock, and I know it like the back of my hand. Here is an instance where I am taking my situation of retail-hell and turning it into … a practical tool for my career.)

I’ll be at target practice :-p

-E

Joe, Emily, and Ben here. We wanted to give you a few updates

Humbled

First and foremost, we are continually humbled by the responses and readership that we get on this blog. For three little actors to get tens of thousands of hits is just silly. You guys should probably get out more, but we’re glad that you don’t.

New Design

We asked, you responded, we listened. We polled you, our readers, about designing a new header image for our website and here you have it. (Look up, silly.) It’s kinda pretty, huh?

In addition to the new header image, we have pulled some fancy web shenanigans with the help of Chicago-based actor, improviser, and web guru Brian Vabulas and totally revamped the look and feel of the website. Some added features:

• Cleaner design
• Drop-down menus to make it easier to get to our information, as well as some additional information on each of the cities that we continue to compile
• Easier links to our facebook page, newly created twitter account, and our rss feed
• A new contact page where you can send us thoughts, questions, blog post ideas, whatever

Note: For those of you reading this on Google Reader or something similar, please take a second to visit our actual blog and take a look.

Quality not Quantity

From the start, we’ve been dedicated to quality over quantity. Your time is limited, so we won’t post anything if it’s not good. With that said, now that more people than just our parents are reading this thing, we’re going to move to a slightly more regular schedule:

Monday: Joe posts
Wednesday: Emily posts
Friday: Ben posts

However, if any of us don’t have anything worthy to post on that day, then we don’t. Again, quality over quantity.

New Slogan

On that note, thanks to a suggestion by the immensely talented Amro Salama, we have changed our logline to “3 Actors. 3 Cities. 1 Passion.” We still hope to have “thousands of stories” at some point, but really what ties us all together is the incredible passion we have for this thing called acting.

Broken Links

Because we moved to a new server, some of the links in our past posts (say that 10 times fast) are broken. If you find one (or more) of those, please go to our contact page and let us know!

Shorter Link

Our primary URL, www.pvspb.com can sometimes be hard to remember, so we went ahead and purchased www.PvsPB.com. Perhaps that will be easier to remember (or tweet!) when you tell all your friends about us.

Lots of Love…

We are SO thrilled that doing something that we love has provided others with value. PLEASE continue to comment (it’s the only way we know you’re actually reading), disagree, send us your thoughts and ideas, and above all else, follow your bliss.

xoxo,

Joe, Ben, & Emily

I'm so glad you agreed to meet in person. There are some things that just can't be said in 140 characters.

You demanded it, so we gave it to you. The creators of the first #LAActorsTweetup (@TheJudalina, @laurendwebb, @TiffanyAPrice, and yours truly) are at it again. Come on down to Busby’s East from 6pm – close on August 9th to meet the most awesomest tweeps around. And this time we ask that you bring someone who’s never been to a tweetup before. So grab that buddy (twuddy…?) and prepare them for the time of their life.

Full details (including info on the raffle!) found here.

Ben Whitehair is the Los Angeles contingent of this blog. Find out more information and view his materials on his website, or read the rest of his blog posts.