Baseball has truly reached the globe as evidenced in yesterdays fire power from Tokyo in that of Matsui!

So with that, I’ll close by including this video below of Jay-Z & Alicia Keys…Stand up New York,  History has been forever marked!  Congrats Yanks…

Stock photos are sold as royalty free images to people that may need specific photos for a project they are working on. They pay one price for unlimited use of the picture. In my web development days, back in the mid 90′s, [damn I'm getting old] I used royalty free images on websites I was working on at the time. So the long and short of it, I had the opportunity to work with this company www.ImageSource.com and took some photos, with a group of other models, that will hopefully be up for sale on their site Feb 2009.

Now that we got that out of the way, lets see what 2009 holds for me.

I had a great time on the set and it went really fast.  We shot the scene in under an hour and my day was done in about ~3hrs.  Very different than my experiences on the set of movies and/or shows like Lipstick Jungle that ran for what felt forever…lol

All in all, great time on set and experience and can’t wait to do it again!

Btw here’s a clip from the show from one of the scenes filmed that day, if you see the full show you’ll notice me throughout but here’s one clip…

So lets talk about the my national debut, well I played a few roles in the commercial, although as a background actor but then again that’s what we all were in the commercial as there weren’t any speaking parts.

So what can I say, well I’m excited that I had the opportunity to be in this commercial and if you look at it, you really can’t see me too well but I’m sitting on the stoop 3 secs into the commercial.  I’m sitting with a lady on the stoop directly behind the guy dressed as a bike messenger in this opening scene. 

If you continue to watch, you’ll see me (my profile, damn I need to stop eating junk food) 15secs into the commercial again.  I have a white tank top on and you really can’t see it but I supposed to be holding a bike while I’m looking up.

The last scene I was in, you can’t see me at all, I’m standing behind Dereck and A-Rod while they are signing autographs and my role was to be a fan asking for an autograph.  Well looks like that shot got cut and it’s good for me because I’m a Mets fan

By the way, as I was typing this blog entry, I saw the commercial air on Fox ch 5 in NY.  How cool is that!

A few years ago I played the part of an inspirational “commercial guy” (you can see the clip in my reel or still in my gallery) in a movie called Fillbilly that was directed by the very talented director called MIG.  He sent me an email and informed me that the movie is about to make its LA debut at the film festival.  So if you are in Los Angeles next week on July 18th you can stop by the theater and check it out.  

If you see me at the theater, don’t forget to say hello and if you ask me for an autograph, you’ll really make my day…lol

I’ve heard from several key sources (Mom & Dad  ) that this commercial has been airing on YES, FOOD Network, HGTV & USA Network in the metro area.  So if you haven’t seen it, you should see it soon!

That’s my line from the commercial.  If you live in the NY metro area, you’ll see this funny commercial as it’s already aired.

I had a great time filming this, I noticed that they edited out my scene where I’m actually saying that line to the camera and they cut out a few more scenes towards the end but overall they left in the sound so it comes across as a voice over on the commercial. Btw I’m the guy wearing the brown baseball type shirt. Oddly enough, I didn’t realize I wore this same shirt on the King of the Bounce web series I did that month.

So here goes:

Well the good thing is I have been keeping busy acting.  I’ve recently completed two acting projects.  I had an opportunity to work on a short film where I played an African American father role.  The name of the movie is called “The Heights”.  I know, dependant upon what side of NYC you are from it could sound like it is Washington Heights but actually it was written by a couple of upcoming writers from Brooklyn Heights.  The film was shot completely in Brooklyn.  If I can get a hold of some stills or a clip I will post it on my Gallery or file it under Clips.

Stay tuned!

They are doing a job just like you and enjoy it the same as you.  You don’t see people running up to them to get their authographs and what not, they are truly just regular people.

With that said, the cast did a great scene and one side note about Brooke shields, she is in incredible shape, having grown up watching her in movies like Blue Lagoon, it was great to chat with her for just a minute and see her in person…

You can see my TV debut as a jazz club patron on the show on episode five (105) about 50 seconds into the scene at the jazz club I can be seen behind Victory Ford in that opening scene.  I’m hard to miss with my blue/white club shirt.

I have also performed again the Lead role of Jose in the play “Lessons Learned” in the public schools in and around NYC.  I can still connect with this character because I still remember what it was like when I was graduating Lehman High School and had to figure out what my plan for life was going to be.  The last performance we did in Queens was an exciting one and I felt the audience really connected with the cast.

I’ve also been on a few auditions for other theatre and film roles.  I’ll keep my fingers crossed and keep going full steam ahead because “I know I can” little quote for JC from one of his favorite shows

One last piece of news to wrap this up, ActorsConnect.com is still going strong and we are averaging more than a handful of user registrations a day!  This free social network geared towards Actors, directors, entertainers, etc. that was founded a couple a years ago by yours truly me.  We don’t intend to compete with myspace but we do intend to continue to bring castings notices and more useable functions & site content to this very niche market.  Also stay on the look out for some new solutions spewing from the geeky side of my brain

Till then, be well…