I’m in a group at linkedin.com called Voices.com.

A week ago the group originator started a conversation and it has received much attention from the voice over community.

Here is the  question and my responses and maybe one or two others to answer my above question.

How many auditions did you do today?

Stephanie CiccarelliVoices.com Co-founder

If you’ve been keeping track of how often you step up to the mic each day, comment and join the conversation.

 

 

 

 

 

 jay beacham

The voice as an instrument-your source for voice work-actor -singer -voice talent

When I was paying for an audition factory to provide audition opportunities, I regularly did ten + a day.
Now Once a week is rare. Audiobook reads are longer and take more time.
With just as little likelihood of being hired.
The amount of auditions don’t seem to correspond to the times being hired.
The only jobs I’ve gotten are from people who know me outside of the internet. The internet only being used to transport the demos and final work. 

In  my experience, I would get tons of jobs, if I sat at home and waited and jumped at each thing that came along.

Once a casting lady from Atlanta called me. She liked my voice and 9 other guys’ voices. On a day when I was working at a non voice related job away from home, I got home late to an email about a read, I being her first choice. It was 10:30pm Utah time making it very late in Atlanta. I called the next morning to learn that it had been filled. She’d wanted a 1 hour turn around.

In film it is the same. On a Monday, an email arrived for me to be at a shoot as an extra Tues, & Wens. or Wens. & Thurs. that week in northern Utah, I live in southern Utah and had a pre-scheduled acting gig on Wens. in southern Utah.

This is an instant business. Casting directors never plan ahead. And they want quick turn around times and there is a surplus of voices or actors to choose from, who are are sitting waiting for the call or email.

So the number of auditions one does will never translate into jobs.

Other responses to her question are:

Ralph “Allen”

 

 

Ralph “Allen” Allenbaugh

President, Owner Ralph Allen Media

I think that there are a lot of really special and well qualified and talented people doing voice work. The successful people soon learn how to prospect for clients that use free lance talent.
I guess the need for prospecting is a huge part of this job.

 

 

Jeff

 

 

Jeff Lavoce

Voice-over at wordsofwisdom.biz

I do agree with the above comment. Nowadays, its about how smart you run your business, and how well you prospect, and that is not just voice-acting. If your voice is spot-on, I would suggest a business/marketing course, rather than yet more voice-coaching.

so get your voice out there, and get prospecting! 

 

So the number of auditions one does will never translate into jobs.

That’s my opinion.

Jay Beacham

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 It’s still blowing in the wind.

I was going to the street mail box yesterday and my next door neighbor says “Hi” to me. He’s holding his little 2 year old daughter in on arm and with the other a spray wand attached to the spray tank strapped over his back.  He’s spraying the green intruders in his front yard rock landscaping.

President Obama is very concerned about chemical warfare being used in Syria.  He wants to blow the place up while most Americans don’t want to.

Are those war chemicals so bad? What about the weed chemicals?

What is worse?   With a quick Google search I found weed poisons one can get at Lowes, Home Depot, Amazon, Scott and hundreds of other places on 10 pages.

I did find a link to a “Home made” Organic from Daily Green

http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/homemade-weed-killers#slide-1

No expensive chemicals needed.  And they even advocate learning how to pull weeds again.  Why?  Because these chemicals linger for “Decades After Use in Homes and Gardens”.

Read more: Homemade Organic Weed Killers – How to Kill Weeds Naturally – The Daily Green
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Visit us at TheDailyGreen.com

One commenter really gave a good explanation of  the matter.  Here is her comment:

Colleen Marie Gray

 

“Roundup from Monsasnto is highly toxic to the environment , animals and humans! Doesn’t even come close to a safer alternative mixture of vinegar and salt!
1 out of 6 Americans today suffer from Asthma and allergies! You have to question if this could be from all the chemicals we’ve been exposed to today.
Anything we can do to live a cleaner healthier lifestyle without exposing ourselves to more chemicals is the way to go! Monsanto has poisoned enough people with all their dumping of chemical waste in our waters. What they don’t have to disclose in the US today is the truth of what’s in their ingredient line up.
Big companies can have just a few chemicals listed on the package but there may be as many as 7 or 8 toxic chemicals that they don’t list. It’s not required by law! And the companies hide behind the line of “it’s proprietary”! No….it’s just how they can use down, dirty and cheap chemicals to accomplish their goal without considering the ramifications to human, animal life and our environment. In other countries such as Europe they do require full disclosure on their skin care, cosmetics and cleaning agents.
Keep up the good work! Doing it naturally is always the best solution!”

And what are those chemical ingredients?

How Does Roundup work? See:

 

 

 

 http://home.howstuffworks.com/question357.htm

I’ll quote some from the article:  Glyphosate-based herbicides all work on the same biochemical principle — they inhibit a specific enzyme that plants need in order to grow. The specific enzyme is called EPSP synthase. Without that enzyme, plants are unable to produce other proteins essential to growth, so they yellow and die over the course of several days or weeks. A majority of plants use this same enzyme, so almost all plants succumb to Roundup. 

• most people react badly to glyphosate (and other chemicals mixed with it) when ingested or applied to the skin, so you want to avoid any contact with the chemical.
• Roundup will kill almost any plant, including aquatic plants, so you want to be sure to avoid spray drift onto other plants or into water…

About 100 million pounds of Roundup are applied to U.S. farms and lawns every year, according to the EPA.  What are the cumulative effects?

So What does the manufacture say about it?

Read for yourself:  http://www.monsanto.com/products/Documents/glyphosate-background-materials/back_history.pdf

Not harmful? Scientific American had the following article about Roundup @

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=weed-whacking-herbicide-p

It’s the inert ingredients that don’t have to be listed in combination with the main ingredient that cause the havoc to humans.  The comments have some great information.  Be sure to read them too.

What is agent orange?

 Agent Orange or Herbicide Orange (HO) is one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its chemical warfare program,

Read more about it and other chemicals used to deprive the enemy of their food supply @  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange

Many of these chemicals are “known to be a human carcinogens“

And does this stuff ever go away?

Of the two herbicides that make up Agent Orange, 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, the latter is considered to be less biodegradable. While degradation of 2,4,5-T with a half-life on a scale of days can be achieved by adding bacteria of a special strain, “no substantial degradation” was observed in the same soil without addition of bacteria. The half-life of dioxins in soil is more than 10 years, and that of TCDD in human fat tissue is about 7 years.

And when combined with other chemicals?  Tests haven’t been conducted on most of those things in combination.

I wrote a post last year that fits this discussion. I am including it here in it’s entirety:

Blowin’ in the Wind.

 06 Apr 2012

 

Many people get ill in the Spring, I even had a chest infection(bronchitis) last week.

Why?

Well I believe the answer is blowing in the Spring breezes.  Let me explain.

The grass and quick growing spring vegetation starts growing and the towns, cities, counties and home owners, not wanting to work and abhorring green, start spraying poisons of all kinds all over, day after day. These chemicals are not only poisonous to plants but to man and animal alike.  And with the winds are blown every where when applied and when outgassing in the sun.

The people breath this stuff in and then become ill and the illness is just blamed on “it going around”, “I’m old”, “I’m run down”, etc.

The sprayers are waging a chemical war on the world and the weaker people get ill, and the yet weaker ones die and the weeds live on and on.

Part of an article talks about weeds, I’ve only included one paragraph and a link to the rest of the article.

“After New York unleashed Operation Ragweed–spraying 200 to 300 gallons of the toxic brew on each acre treated–other communities joined the fray. Although they bought into the idea, as Zalck puts it, “that killing ragweed with herbicides would produce new vegetation, cleaner air, and healthier people,” that’s not what happened. After soaking its landscape with over eight million gallons of 2,4-D, New York City threw in the towel. Worse, and consistent with the contemporaneous blanket spraying of DDT, phenoxyacetic herbicides worked their way up the food chain, compromising air and water quality, and public health.”  http://www.kcet.org/updaily/the_back_forty/commentary/golden-green/roundup-thinking-about-weeds.html

Most of the weeds sprayed, just dry up and leave the dried remains to be a fire hazard.

Another article about weed killer points out  ”Americans just race to fix one problem by replacing it with a potentially larger problem.”

http://www.safelawns.org/blog/index.php/2011/01/80-percent-of-canadians-protected-by-pesticide-laws/

As I describe  in my book “The Canaries are Dying”, the weaker people get their immune systems weakened to the point that they develop disease and die due to exposure to the chemicals in our environment.  And like the Monster of Dr. Frankenstein, science becomes a menace to society because mankind attempts to improve on God creations.

The best way to get rid of the weeds you think are so harmful to your health, is to dig them out.  Then no one is harmed but the weed.”

So Chemical warfare.  Who’s waging it?  Will it harm us?

A book might be helpful.

 Silent Spring   http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Spring-Rachel-Carson/dp/0618249060

Handbook-Natural-Methods 

 http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Natural-Pesticides-Methods-Practice/dp/0849336511/ref=sr_1_26?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378606656&sr=1-26&keywords=herbicide+handbook

 Let’s stop poisoning the world.

Some resources:

 

Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature

 

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I just finished reading this book. I’d been asked to read and review it as a portrayer of Lincoln by an ardent Lincoln enthusiast. She asked me if I’d learned anything new. Yes I had.
Like most books there were spelling errors and in one chapter misstated dates that the proof reader had failed to correct. But it didn’t ruin the reading.
One thing annoyed me and that was the restating of some points over and over again.
The same could have been said in a shorter way and still have gotten the point over.
What did I learn? I learned about a recurring dream Mr.Lincoln had prior to major happenings during the war. I found that very interesting.
As with all books, I took notes. And some of that information that I haven’t used in prior shows, I will use in future shows portraying Mr. A. Lincoln.
I recommend your reading
Abraham Lincoln: God’s Humble Instrument
-Jay Beacham

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 A. Lincoln talks about Mob Law

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgment of Courts; and the worse than savage mobs, for the executive ministers of justice. This disposition is awfully fearful in any community; and that it now exists in ours, though grating to our feelings to admit, it would be a violation of truth, and an insult to our intelligence, to deny. Accounts of outrages committed by mobs, form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country, from New England to Louisiana;–they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former, nor the burning suns of the latter;–they are not the creature of climate– neither are they confined to the slave-holding, or the non-slave- holding States. Alike, they spring up among the pleasure hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order loving citizens of the land of steady habits.–Whatever, then, their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.

It would be tedious, as well as useless, to recount the horrors of all of them. Those happening in the State of Mississippi, and at St. Louis, are, perhaps, the most dangerous in example and revolting to humanity. In the Mississippi case, they first commenced by hanging the regular gamblers; a set of men, certainly not following for a livelihood, a very useful, or very honest occupation; but one which, so far from being forbidden by the laws, was actually licensed by an act of the Legislature, passed but a single year before. Next, negroes, suspected of conspiring to raise an insurrection, were caught up and hanged in all parts of the State: then, white men, supposed to be leagued with the negroes; and finally, strangers, from neighboring States, going thither on business, were, in many instances subjected to the same fate. Thus went on this process of hanging, from gamblers to negroes, from negroes to white citizens, and from these to strangers; till, dead men were seen literally dangling from the boughs of trees upon every road side; and in numbers almost sufficient, to rival the native Spanish moss of the country, as a drapery of the forest.

Turn, then, to that horror-striking scene at St. Louis. A single victim was only sacrificed there. His story is very short; and is, perhaps, the most highly tragic, if anything of its length, that has ever been witnessed in real life. A mulatto man, by the name of McIntosh, was seized in the street, dragged to the suburbs of the city, chained to a tree, and actually burned to death; and all within a single hour from the time he had been a freeman, attending to his own business, and at peace with the world.

Such are the effects of mob law; and such as the scenes, becoming more and more frequent in this land so lately famed for love of law and order; and the stories of which, have even now grown too familiar, to attract any thing more, than an idle remark.

But you are, perhaps, ready to ask, “What has this to do with the perpetuation of our political institutions?” I answer, it has much to do with it. Its direct consequences are, comparatively speaking, but a small evil; and much of its danger consists, in the proneness of our minds, to regard its direct, as its only consequences. Abstractly considered, the hanging of the gamblers at Vicksburg, was of but little consequence. They constitute a portion of population, that is worse than useless in any community; and their death, if no pernicious example be set by it, is never matter of reasonable regret with any one. If they were annually swept, from the stage of existence, by the plague or small pox, honest men would, perhaps, be much profited, by the operation.–Similar too, is the correct reasoning, in regard to the burning of the negro at St. Louis. He had forfeited his life, by the perpetuation of an outrageous murder, upon one of the most worthy and respectable citizens of the city; and had not he died as he did, he must have died by the sentence of the law, in a very short time afterwards. As to him alone, it was as well the way it was, as it could otherwise have been.–But the example in either case, was fearful.–When men take it in their heads to day, to hang gamblers, or burn murderers, they should recollect, that, in the confusion usually attending such transactions, they will be as likely to hang or burn some one who is neither a gambler nor a murderer as one who is; and that, acting upon the example they set, the mob of to-morrow, may, and probably will, hang or burn some of them by the very same mistake. And not only so; the innocent, those who have ever set their faces against violations of law in every shape, alike with the guilty, fall victims to the ravages of mob law; and thus it goes on, step by step, till all the walls erected for the defense of the persons and property of individuals, are trodden down, and disregarded. But all this even, is not the full extent of the evil.–By such examples, by instances of the perpetrators of such acts going unpunished, the lawless in spirit, are encouraged to become lawless in practice; and having been used to no restraint, but dread of punishment, they thus become, absolutely unrestrained.–Having ever regarded Government as their deadliest bane, they make a jubilee of the suspension of its operations; and pray for nothing so much, as its total annihilation. While, on the other hand, good men, men who love tranquility, who desire to abide by the laws, and enjoy their benefits, who would gladly spill their blood in the defense of their country; seeing their property destroyed; their families insulted, and their lives endangered; their persons injured; and seeing nothing in prospect that forebodes a change for the better; become tired of, and disgusted with, a Government that offers them no protection; and are not much averse to a change in which they imagine they have nothing to lose. Thus, then, by the operation of this mobocractic spirit, which all must admit, is now abroad in the land, the strongest bulwark of any Government, and particularly of those constituted like ours, may effectually be broken down and destroyed–I mean the attachment of the People. Whenever this effect shall be produced among us; whenever the vicious portion of population shall be permitted to gather in bands of hundreds and thousands, and burn churches, ravage and rob provision-stores, throw printing presses into rivers, shoot editors, and hang and burn obnoxious persons at pleasure, and with impunity; depend on it, this Government cannot last. By such things, the feelings of the best citizens will become more or less alienated from it; and thus it will be left without friends, or with too few, and those few too weak, to make their friendship effectual. At such a time and under such circumstances, men of sufficient talent and ambition will not be wanting to seize the opportunity, strike the blow, and overturn that fair fabric, which for the last half century, has been the fondest hope, of the lovers of freedom, throughout the world.

I know the American People are much attached to their Government;–I know they would suffer much for its sake;–I know they would endure evils long and patiently, before they would ever think of exchanging it for another. Yet, notwithstanding all this, if the laws be continually despised and disregarded, if their rights to be secure in their persons and property, are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob, the alienation of their affections from the Government is the natural consequence; and to that, sooner or later, it must come.

Here then, is one point at which danger may be expected.”

From Abraham Lincoln 1838 Lyceum address.

The burning of the negro was used as an example but mob law had become very prevalent through out the USA at that time.
Example:
The Mormon War is a name sometimes given to the 1838 conflict which occurred between Latter Day Saints (Mormons) and their neighbors in the northwestern region of the US state of Missouri.
Which was not a war at all but the Mormon people trying to protect themselves from mob rule.
During the conflict 22 people were killed (3 Mormons and 1 non-Mormon at Crooked River, one Mormon prisoner fatally injured while in custody, and 17 Mormons at Haun’s Mill).  An unknown number of non-combatants died due to exposure and hardship as a result of being expelled from their homes in Missouri.
There is never a right time for mob law.

 
Mr. Lincoln continues:
“When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made.–I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed. So also in unprovided cases. If such arise, let proper legal provisions be made for them with the least possible delay; but, till then, let them, if not too intolerable, be borne with.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. In any case that arises, as for instance, the promulgation of abolitionism, one of two positions is necessarily true; that is, the thing is right within itself, and therefore deserves the protection of all law and all good citizens; or, it is wrong, and therefore proper to be prohibited by legal enactments; and in neither case, is the interposition of mob law, either necessary, justifiable, or excusable.”
In my 2010 Lincoln’s Ghost Returns, this speech is rehearsed.
You can hear by getting your dvd copy from:
http://jaybeacham.com/lincolns-ghost-returns-2010/
Or you can read the speech at:
http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm

 

 

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“We want a college age voice.”

What?

“We need a 20 to 40 year old voice.” 

Searching for voice over, voice talent jobs these and other like statements were in the demo-requirements I found.

Who are they kidding?

There is no particular voice sound that depicts a college age student. And Now every one from all age groups are in college.

And 20 to 40? So you can tell?

I was a radio announcer at age 16  and sounded very much not like a child. And I am not an ‘exception’.

I understand that some casting directors didn’t cast Deanna Durbin when she was a teenager because she sounded to old.

I think these folks who are asking for the ‘age related voice’ are insane.

I sold a bare root apricot tree to a woman once.  From her voice she could have been in her twenties.  She was 11.

I have a friend who is 55 now and she sounds like a young girl where as her two daughters sounded very mature as teens.

So what’s in your mind about an age related voice sound?

You tell me what does a college age voice sound like?

I suppose if you were a “toother” and had no teeth you might sound old. I know folks who started wearing ‘dentures’ while still in their twenties. Without their chompers, they sound old.

Take Walter Brennan for instance.  He never played the part of a young man from the 1930s until he died in 1974 at age 80.

Here is an excerpt from a Wikipedia post about him:  ” Throughout his career, Brennan was frequently called upon to play characters considerably older than he was in real life. The loss of many teeth in a 1932 accident, rapidly thinning hair, thin build, and unusual vocal intonations all made him seem older than he really was. He used these features to great effect. In many of his film roles, Brennan wore ‘dentures‘; in Northwest Passage — a film set in the late 18th century—he wore a special dental prosthesis which made him appear to have rotting and broken teeth.”

These age requirements for a voice are so dumb.

Its all in people’s minds as to what makes someone sound young or old or in between or even look a certain age for that matter.

Now what do you think?

 Another matter before I’m out of here.

To those dorks who are putting links to keywords on my sites and posts, I hope you never sell a cent’s worth of product. If you had any integrity you’d pay for the advertising I and others are forced to give you.

 

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• In 1966 just after I turned 16 yrs old, I had an opportunity to travel to Los Angeles, California.
  After my business was done at the Federal Building in downtown LA, I waited for my ride near the Greyhound bus station.
  You can meet many interesting people in big cities. A man was begging for a nickel or dime from by passers so he could “buy a cup of coffee”. I don’t drink coffee but had some extra change and gave it to him. After doing so, I saw that his pockets were bulging with coins. I thought well, he’ll buy some alcohol of some kind and maybe some smokes and the money will be wasted. But how did I know? Maybe this was his only means of self support. He asked, I gave.
  Should I have withheld from my abundance?
  Remember the story of Lazarus the poor man and the rich man? Luke tells us (16:19-31)
  “Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. He cried and said, “Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.”
  But Abraham said, “Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish. Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.” “
  And remember, “in as much as ye do it unto the least of these…ye have done it unto me.” And the opposite is true also.
  $10 or $20 wouldn’t hurt most Americans but might be a great blessing to a person in hard times.

  What’s this leading up to?

  
  

   Ebrima Manneh in Gambia is having a hard time.
  “right now I don’t have any house to sleep at the night. I usually sleep in streets and a times in uncomplete house in the town. Please help me any amount just to have a house where to sleep. Please! Please!. Am confuse right now! Your help is highly needed! ” “you can send the money through (Western Union Money Transfer) with my name Ebrima Manneh. I will get it within 24 hours. Your help is highly needed please! Ebrima.”
  Anyone who could help him would be good.
  His Facebook is:
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  Can a whole lot of people help him just a little?
  I’ve know Ebima for some time and  believe him. No not a scam in my mind. An honest plea for help.
  
  

   

• 

  Jay

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When I started at Dixie College in 1967(night classes in the art dept. with Mr.Adams and Ross Johnson), I was a radio announcer at KDXU. In October 1969, I left Dixie and KDXU for an LDS mission to Austria. When I returned in 1971, I co-hosted a radio program “This is Dixie” with Marsha Storrs. The program aired every Wensday evening on KDXU. (I never did work at the college station.) Burke Belnap was an instructor who supervised the show. I sent out students on news assignments and edited and produced the weekly news magazine.

Over the years I’ve dabbled in voice work(Voice Overs), Television, and wrote, directed, and produced radio plays but didn’t return to radio except to sell advertiseing for a station in Cottage Grove, Oregon.

A few years ago, I started to do voice work again, online mostly and got involved in online karaoke sites.  There have been some fine sites that no longer exist. I do recordings on 2 karaoke sites at present.  One is called SingSnap.  On it I’ve recorded nearly 800 songs versions of mine and on my station, I’ve made it like an old time radio program. I intro and outro songs and post in my comments about the songs’ history, composers, etc.

One man from Canada had this to say about my station:  “WOW, I am now officially HOOKED TO YOUR SS STATION.  I feel as if I were listening to a great radio show from the late 60s early 70s.  YOU HAVE AN INCREDIBLE RADIO ANNOUNCER’s BROADCAST VOICE… WOW WOW WOW  and this song reminds me of my childhood.  I loved listening to it… I am officially hooked upon your SS station!”

Well, I wanted to invite my friends to give a listen and to come back often.

http://www.singsnap.com/karaoke/member/jaybeacham

Just click on the link and above my picture is the recordings button, click on it, then chose 10,20,50 recordings per page for recently, 2013,2012,2010,2011 and find something you like. I’ve done songs in every style but rap so you should find something you may like.  Some of my own original songs too.  Recordings are in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Hebrew.   See if I’m any good with those languages which aren’t my own.

Thanks for you consideration. Now go there and hear some great recordings.

Jay Beacham

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Before I get into the topic, I want to thank all the visitors from around the world but an extra thanks to all the visitors from China.

Thank you!!

Did you ever feel like you could have had an award and money winning video?

Well, I have and know others who did and had some great ideas.  But due to circumstances never made the videos.

A classic is when my daughter, while living in Hawaii, noticed that one of her small boys would fall asleep while sitting at the table in his high chair.  After a time in the upright position, he would then slump forward face first into his unfinished  plate of food. This didn’t wake him, he would need to be picked up and cleaned off and taken to bed still asleep.  Her idea was to video tape this and submit it to Funniest Home Videos.  She got the camera set up and true to form the boy fell asleep sitting at the table.  She waited for 1 hour with the camera going and then had to do something else so went to do it and her son then fell face first into his food, the camera not being on.

Then there was my older brother who owns a white American-Alaskan dog. Cute little dog and smart and self willed too.  Don made a daily trip to the street mail box and took the dog along on a short leash. The dog was so eager to go that he would stand on his hind legs and jump along pulling my brother behind him.  A camera was even purchased but it would jump and the resolution was atrocious.  So we never made the video.  The dog will still do that but not for the whole distance.

Then there is the ACE Hardware man, Dave, in Hurricane, Utah’s Hurst’s-Ace Hardware.   Dave is a story teller of all that’s happened to him, family and friends throughout his life. Most of it is very funny but his dead pan way of relating in all makes it even more funny.   When he slipped on the ice and his armload went airbourne and was retrieved with ease, or the chip of wood flying a great distance to strike the stooped over man in the posterior, or when all cars in a parking lot were unable to move because of ice but with his help all got freed but his. Whatever he tells would make great videos but he laments that these occurrences just happen, they are not planned so of course no camera is running.

Or my son James, the film maker, when we were in Santa Rosa, New Mexico one morning before 8 am.   We had rested and used the restrooms etc. at a gas station/mini mart and before driving on, Kari, a daughter-in-law, wife of another son, suggested we pray before we pulled out which we did.  The video camera was in it’s case in the back of the pickup under the camper shell.  I drove to the west entrance and paused for a few moments to decide whether to go back onto the freeway that way or to drive through town and get back on the east freeway on -ramp. At the same time the local ambulance went to the east exit from the parking lot and made a left hand turn out into the road heading west but only got a few feet when the driver felt to stop dead still right there in the west bound lane.  As he did, a semi-truck came around the corner from the south turning to the east at a faster rate of speed than was safe. The semi fell over on it’s side and went sliding east bound heading directly at the ambulance, diesel smoke bellowing out of its stacks.  It stopped its slide about 12 feet in front of the ambulance ejecting the man in the sleeper out the front window and he landed just in front of the ambulance. He had only glass cuts on his forehead and the EMT team was right there to treat him. The driver was unharmed and we witnessed it all.  A power pole was knocked down which shut the power down for the service station/mini mart.  There the truck lay on it’s side spewing out smoke until the dazed driver could crawl into the cab and shut the engine down.  The cause of the accident was not just speed but the  shifting of a load of 20 lb bags of carrots which then lay scattered all along the roadway. James got the camera out and recorded the scene but it didn’t have any bite as it showed only the aftermath of the accident, so he never published it. 

The funniest would have been when we were out in a gravel pit by the river on the 4th of July a few of years ago.  (  http://jaybeacham.com/2009/07/05/the-cannon-exploded/ ) Larry had his Civil War reenactment cannon there firing it.  He made a comment that if we had a video camera, he could shoot one of the gravel trucks and it would surely be a hit video.

       

Then he explained that many cannons during the Civil War would explode, killing the cannon crew, but this cannon had been forged in Missouri in a foundry so as to withstand explosions.  He also explained the side firing devise that was used but he hadn’t brought his that day or else he would stand by the side of the cannon and fire it.  Scott was loading the powder and I thought he was putting an excessive amount in.  The cannonball was added, an aluminum can with weight in it.  We’d seen this done many time that morning and on other occasions and Larry had done this for years. Then he added a projectile, a sharp pointed stick, this had been done in Civil war battles too. We all stood back. I was behind a bush on the west of it with my still life camera to get photos because on the east of the bush was an fire ant nest and I didn’t relish getting stung. (they hurt violently) Scott lit the fuse and got back.  

Then Bang!!! The cannon exploded into hundreds of pieces which flew in all directions.  Both wagon wheels splintered into toothpicks, one of the splinters hit my pant leg. Had I been on the east of the bush a large sharp piece would have hit me doing harm.              Dee H. was sitting in a folding lawn chair by the side of the road under a chaparral bush, near his son Tyler’s van. The round end piece of the cannon whizzed past his head and lodged it’s self in the side of the van entering the driver’s side tail light and traveling half way up the side towards the front of the van. No one else had even come close to being hit. Some said a miracle. (click on the photos to enlarge them)

        

I got some great photos and we tried to get all the pieces back on to the trailer that we could find. We never did find the projectile.  And of course no video camera captured the event.  But we were all safe, though shaken and that ended our 4th of July Independence day celebrations for the day.  Larry bemoaned that a video camera wasn’t on hand.  But had one been there, I feel certain that someone would have been hurt because of where a video camera man would have been to film it.  I have published a slideshow of the happening. Coming to my YouTube Channel soon.   http://www.youtube.com/user/leobennachoben1

Even today, several years  later, a man asked me after church, “Blowing up any more cannons?” No, I was just a bystander.

Well, there you have my short list of greatest home videos that might have been.

What are some of yours?

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