A Voice In The Dark.

My Dear Scallywaggers, Scallyblaggers and Scallyshaggers.

After 3 years away from the mic, I am now about to take a break from my busy schedule selling gay porn to Sherpas on the foothills of the Himalayas to get back to whoring my voice rather than my DVDs. Yes indeed, the gaping hole left in the Voice Over Biz when I curtailed my participation is once again to be stuffed.

To that end I have commissioned my entire Web Design Team to launch a new page, presenting and promoting my work in this field. Part of this massive re-branding exercise required a logo to be designed, which highlighted my theatre background as an important influence on my voiceover work. Enormous credit is due to the tireless efforts of my Graphics Department, who's deep understanding of the design brief and consummate skills and endeavour were stretched to near breaking point before they triumphed with this master-stroke of corporate logo innovation.

The web page itself can be found here.

Your comments and feedback are, as always, welcome and appreciated. Do feel free to share that page with anyone and everyone who might need a voiceover. Which is everyone. Your life will sound much better when I have recorded the sound-track for it.

Plans for Spooky Mansion are to get it made by Spring to sell it to Festivals over the Summer. Watch this space for updates.

Laters.

Me Tube.

Video of newest solo Absolutely Anything is now up on my re-pimped YouTube channel.
Absolutely Anything on Youtube
A series of Made For YouTube videos is coming soon.
Watch this space. The YouTube space, that is.
Or this space, cos I'll post a link here too.
Probably.

Biog Blog.

A short, fun and informative snapshot of my professional life, experience and ongoing projects. In other words - Shameless Self Promotion.

http://jimbarnard-scallywagtheater.blogspot.pt

Project Finger Puppet.

Project Finger Puppet is GO! Making puppets in this scale and with this technique is something totally new for me, which means I have learned a great deal already. Each puppet is better than the last - which I guess is called "Progress". I had planned to make these puppets quickly and cheaply enough to be able to sell them. That didn't really work out. But I am now inspired to create content for the little buggers and develop a show that can be performed anywhere and for anyone. Hopefully next Summer I will be gracing the International festival circuit with them.

Back To The Blogosphere.

High there.

I had thought to start this post with an explanation/justification of why I have neglected this blog for more than a year. But you know what? Fuggit. It's not interesting and no one cares. The glittering highs and shit-smeared lows of my recent past won't even make a footnote in The Bigger Scheme Of Things. So really, fuggit.

What's new is a solo I just made for myself in Amsterdoomed. I was there for most of June working towards presenting 10 minutes of new solo material for a mixed program in Klub X over on NDSM called Freaky Vaudeville. Despite the "challenging conditions" I think I managed to make at least a decent start in a direction I intend to push/pull forward.

The solo is called Absolutely Anything and is mostly about how language fails, how shit happens for no reason, and how you shouldn't trust someone wearing a suit. Thanks to Babs and Bunny for shooting hugely incompatible videos of the premier that I had the profound displeasure of trying to cut together into a passable registration. What I did learn is that you can eliminate colour balance issues by eliminating colour. Here's a link to that edit - 

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7fAw9S2J2KKQjRfVWJTTWxCRWc/edit

As I say, I intend to develop and expand this into something much bigger and better.

In the mean time I welcome the feedback and comments of all you good folk out there, and in the spirit of Shameless Self Promotion inherent in Social Me!-dia, please do let me know of any festivals/theatres/weddings/bahmiztfahs/funerals that you know of where I might present this work.

More when there's more. Probably.

Scallywagitis.

Dear Friends, Fans, Independent Observers and Blogoshpere Junkies,

Scallywag Theatre is thrilled to announce the new and shiny Super Highway of exciting projects that stretches from the future, through this bubbling present and into our glorious past. Following the brief hiatus in Global Touring which resulted from the untimely and tragic passing of our former agent (well, she dead to me) Scallywag Theatre diversified, re-focused, strengthened our core-values and has risen like a fiery phoenix from the ashes of the economic/cultural Shitegeist.

Driving this re-birth - with the sun-roof open and the hand-brake off while she bangin' on da radio - is the newest member of the Scallywag family, the fabulous Marijana Mikolcic. Working as agent/producer/PR guru and general Rock Star, Scallywag Theatre welcomes Marijana to it's ample but firm bosom with joy and high hopes. She is now the public face and strategic mind behind Scallywag, and while the honeymoon lasts I believe that she'll be a massive success.

The brightest star on the firmament of Scallywag Theatre's near-future galaxy is the upcoming trip to Tallinn, Estonia, to complete work on a new production for the amazing NUKU Theatre there. The new show STICKY will premier in the superb TREFF festival on June 6, and I urge each and every one of you to get to Tallinn on that weekend for one of the best theatre festivals that happens anywhere in the world. I shit you not. TREFF flippin ROCKS.

Watch This Space as More Exciting News is immanent and will shortly bubble it's way from my twisted fantasy, through the filter of Social Media and infect your soul with Scallywagitis.

Aw, my frickin' head! Sweetness...

After more than three months (I really must find a way to work faster...) the puppet for the Meekers is finally finished!

Sweet dreams, kids...