Needed immediately for "The Outskirts,"  shooting in Great Neck, NY 
starting July 7, 2014  for six weeks.  
Needed: experienced SAG/AFTRA STAND-IN 
FEMALE, BLONDE, 5'7' 

Please send your contact information, VITAL STATS and photos as follows:
1. jpg photo files of your current photos.
2. In the email include your VITAL STATS.
3. Label your photo filename clearly with YOUR NAME. 
4. NO PDF photo Files.
5. SEND TO: [email protected] (please only send to this email, no Facebook communication, please)
6.  SUBJECT LINE:  Blonde Stand-in, Your Name 

Needed immediately for "The Outskirts,"  shooting in Great Neck, NY 
starting in July.  Needed: experienced male, living statue  (soldier type if possible).

Submission Instructions:

Please send your contact information and photos:
1. jpg photo files or links to youtube videos.
2. We need to see a good selection of your statue photos or video!
3. Label the photo or material files clearly with YOUR NAME 
4. NO PDF photo Files
5. SEND TO: [email protected] (please only send to this email, no Facebook communication, please)
6.  SUBJECT LINE:  LIVING STATUE, Your Name (or Business)

CASTING TEEN TYPES

'THE OUTSKIRTS'

FEATURE FILM CASTING FOR BACKGROUND TALENT 

TEEN TYPES ONLY 18-20 years old (must be over 18)
Filming in July in Great Neck, New York (must be able to work local to Great Neck).

Jodi and Mindy have suffered years of torment under the thumb of the school's alpha female. They plan to ride out their senior year under the radar, but when they become victims of a humiliating prank, the two hatch a plan to unite the outcasts of the school and start a social revolution.

Starring: Victoria Justice, Eden Sher, Avan Jogia, Ashley Rickards, Peyton List

We are looking for ALL TEEN types from Goths to Steam Punk, Fantasy Kids, Skaters, K-pop, EMOs, Twihards, Poms, Hipsters, Sci Fi, Techies, Jocks, Marching band, Popular Kids, etc, etc. 

BRING OUT YOUR MOST 'ALTERNATIVE' SELF!!!! 

Paid participation SAG/AFTRA and NON-UNION. If interested, please complete the Casting Registration by clicking the link below and carefully filling out the form!  While you are filling out the form, please indicate which types of clothing you have that fit into our groups!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rF_KQTa_YQueaDSZ9cTZTSR7xpPcHDhUIQu8NuASKHU/viewform

PLUS, Please send 2 CURRENT PHOTOS (face and full body) that have all the following...
1. jpg photo files 
2. We need to see your face and what you look like. (If you can send us a photo as one or more of the types that would be great! We don't mind really nicely taken cell phone shots as long as they aren't cluttered or blurry.)
3. Label the photo file clearly with YOUR NAME 
4. NO PDF photo Files
5. SEND TO: [email protected] (please only send to this email, no Facebook communication, please)

We look forward to your submissions!

I stayed at the Forest Hill Inn in Hazelton, PA to celebrate Wayne's oldest son, Alexander's graduation from High School!

For a very long time, I have been connected to Hazelton, PA, once by skydiving, forever by my step-brother's daughter, and now forever again, by Wayne's oldest boys.  This place reminds me of the feeling I had as a teen when I was anywhere where there seemed to be little to do, everything of interest was miles and miles away and the only thing to do was to get in trouble.  Eventually  I found connectivity in the Drama Club in my hometown which saved me from the nowhere trap.

Even now when I come here, to Hazelton,  I feel the distance, the lack of culture, the oppression, the feeling of a place where coal mining once was the culture that lured people here for work and the hope of any kind of life.  Hazelton reminds me of my hometown, Brockton, MA. In Brockton it is the leftover community of a shoe industry that has long since failed, though we do have Marvin Haggler and Rocky Marciano as our famous boxers to brag about.  It is a tough town and it doesn't surprise me that we raised and produced famous boxers from our culture or lack of it.

The other thing that dawned on me was that I had been to a football game there in Hazelton and there was a huge sense of community at the games, with the band playing, and the half-time game and all the people who came out to support the game!  There were hundreds and hundreds present there at that game I saw and also hundreds there to see their seniors graduate.  So the nowhere feeling I experience  may not be  nowhere for others but somewhere dear and full of love and community.  I also remember this from my hometown football games.  Our High School was the culture of our community.  We had over 5,000 students back in my time and because of the size we had a lot of funding.  Our sport teams were out of this world and the Drama Department was 200 strong.  There was money for good ball games and money for good plays and musicals.

For me there has always been a yearning to grow and move beyond 'here,' wherever here is, here being Hazelton, PA or Brockton, MA.  I did that with my home town.  As soon as I could leave, I did and I didn't really look back.  I often feel that if I stay 'here' too long, then 'here' turns into nowhere and somewhere else would be better, anywhere else.    The few times I did go back to my hometown, I felt that if I had to stay, I would be a failure somehow.  I wonder why people stayed there even after college.  I have moved 16 times since I was 22 years old, because I wanted to.  Some of my favorite times have been when I had all of my stuff in a truck and was camping from place to place, never staying in a building.

 When I stay in a hotel, such as the Forest Hill Inn, I start to look at the stained ceiling tiles,  the nicked up tub, the unmoved lawn, and the dingy carpet, I feel a good sense of being away from my 'nowhere' with my own job and daily duties, my dishes, laundry, and countless things to do and I appreciate the simplicity of  someone else's nowhere or perhaps 'elsewhere.'  But I feel also the wear and tear of the nowhere place on someone else's life, hopes and dreams as I feel relief from my own nowhere.  I wonder how they came to be attached to the place, and if they are happy there and what dreams of elsewhere they may have, if any.  Do they feel the way I felt when I lived in Brockton?  If so, do they want to move?  Do they want to find some kind of new freedom?  Or are they stuck somehow?  Or are they happy there? Are they staying out of duty or contentedness?

One man's trash is another man's treasure.  This is something I believe in, especially as someone who really only shops in second hand stores.  I guess we can also say that one man's nowhere is another man's somewhere.  My Dad loves his home in Brockton, MA and I know the boys love their friends and their community in Hazelton and that is where they feel connected.    I feel that I seem to be creating a collection of nowhere's every where I live and that every now and again I have to rip the rug out from underneath my life, and set it all up again elsewhere.

I finally saw Frozen last night.  I do love the film and I think Disney is getting better at writing stories with strong female characters. It is a  sweet story where the love interest isn't the hero who saves the girl (although he helps her a lot), and focuses on sisterly love.
They still need to draw the women with more realistic body shapes.  Women used to maim themselves and cinch themselves into painful, health crushing corsets to gain a waistline like the ones drawn for Elsa and Anna.  Intentionally deformed women's bodies are distorted.  That is all I have to say.