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WHAT'S NEW?
Spring/Summer 2008
CSI:NY ...In Second Life! Starting in September of '07 - April of '08, Ari had the pleasure & honor of voicing 8 games for Virtual CSI:NY in "Second Life" which is a virtual world according to Wikipedia -- not a "game" per se -- a "metaverse" where people can buy land, see concerts, build houses, etc.
I myself have just started to play concerts in SL of my original Ambiant/New-Age music!
There are a number of businesses who are using SL to add to their presence and who utilize SL for promotion, etc. CSI:NY has an ongoing presence (as of August '07) with, in this case, a series of crime mystery games anyone can play for free. It's free to get a basic setup and playing the CSI game is free. Ari voices several of the players in the games "High Flying" and "Furry Love" with another several upcoming. Ari's favorite character and one which is in both games is "Washington" who is very conversational and almost mumbles in his speech -- tons of fun!! [Warning: SL can be addicting....really, so using discipline it can open whole new worlds for business and for fun]
SECOND LIFE Here is a link to an article about my TV appearance in SECOND LIFE with a link to the video which you can watch (Choose the March 16th show) http://www.voiceovertimes.com/2008/03/18/paisley-beebe-interviews-voicedude-reinoir-on-second-life-network-television/ Have a look at my interview in VOX Daily where I am interviewed about my experience in SECOND LIFE: http://blogs.voices.com/voxdaily/2007/12/voice_acting_in_second_life_voicedude_reinoir.html
TALK SHOW Ari has been doing a good number of V/Os for "The highest rated night-time talk Show" over the last year or so -- The Tonight Show With Jay Leno! He has done many made-up commercials & Movie Trailers and such! (I have some of the clips of my work over on the N_C network website)
DUMB AND DUMBER DVD In late May/early June Ari voiced two fun bits for the upcoming "10th Anniversary "DUMB & DUMBER HD-DVD release's Special Features disk. This will be one of the very early DVDs created for Hi Definition Television! I'll be able to report with more info on this once it's released.
PHOTOSTAMPS.COM You will hear Ari's voice in an upcoming TV spot launching a new product called Photo Stamps -- which will allow anyone to purchase postage stamps with a picture 'em of their choosing from photostamps.com.
STREAMING SESSION -- WITHOUT ISDN Ari recently put my new streaming method (for broadcasting my V/O live to any computer over the Internet without using any ISDN equipment or lines) to the ultimate test: He voiced a very large e-learning project (dozens of pages) -- transmitting the audio to his computer, on which he recorded the content using basic recording software -- with no reported drop-outs!
Feel free to visit Ari's page on the subject or contact us here to run a free test.
WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK -- RADIO Ari plays the befuddled customer at the "other" bank getting all the fees applied to his account, one after the other... after the other...
QUENTIN TARANTINO'S VOICE Ari looped several pages of lines (Quentin Tarantino's voice) for the classic Miramax film "Four Rooms!" He replaced some of the "naughty language" lines for a television version, soon to be nationally broadcast.
PINK... & BROWN Ari recently had the honor and pleasure of winning the Miramax Films audition held recently here in LA to replace "cuss words" (27 lines in all) for a Television version of the feature film "Reservoir Dogs." On top of that...Ari ended up winning two roles - "Mr. PINK" (played by Steve Buscemi) and "Mr. BROWN" (played by none other than the Tarantino dude himself). Ari says that the job was both a challenge and a blast. [c l i c k o n l o g o t o l i s t e n]
POWER! A production company in India has produced a movie trailer type TV spot for a leading gasoline in East Asia. Very high budget with a great film trailer look!
ISDN TO IRELAND
Ari voice matched Sylvester Stallone and Will Smith for an Ad Agency in DUBLIN IRELAND.
The best way to see the two spots on a PC is to RIGHT mouse click on one or the other of the two links above and select ""Save Target As" to save it and watch in full motion. MAC users would apply the corresponding commands to save a file.
For Peace.. A track of Ari's New Age-ish music was chosen to be included in a CD called "Music for a Better World!" This is an album where Ari's song (Entitled "Awakening") is alongside Chaka Khan as well as many other name artists!
The 2 volume CD was created to promote peace around the world. The work was released to coincide with "Peace Sunday" and was sent to many influential people all over the planet. TOSHIBA Ari recently completed industrial on-camera projects for "Toshiba." He played various characters showing employees how to behave -- and how NOT to behave...
Just in time for Halloween... A while back Ari did A CD-ROM Trivia game produced by Trik Media and the entity which produces Fangoria Magazine. The game is called "Reel Scary Trivia" on which he did two main voices of the game - each differing entirely from each other - the Game Show Host and a character called "The Creep" (a sarcastic -- yes and creepy -- side kick).
Altogether There were 500+ questions for the players of this game to hear and try to answer. It was over 20 hours at the microphone recording content for the project over the course of about a week and a half.
OTHER ISDN A record was set for Ari in his doing a V/O for a housing development project in Pakistan from his Calif studio to the country of Singapore!
As far as Ari's US record, he patched in with a studio located in PORTLAND MAINE to do an extensive industrial narration session. Other ISDN projects include cities from DALLAS TX to NEW YORK to BEND OREGON.
Stay tuned for more next Year -- 2006!
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