Lobbying Artists
I didn't think this thread would generate so much interest, but glad to see this horse is still kickin'.
Since it appears to be one of the longer-lived posts in this forum, I'd like to know how you'd support a MTJpub (or other capable production house) compilation of our resident mega-artists with these themes in mind?
Just a thought.....
BAC
FTKL
Alvarez
Saudelli
Coco
Bandito
Farfat
Meade
Capri
etc. (sorry if I left you off).
I dare say it would be one of the best-selling ventures to date.
I have a slew of ideas and would gladly share them with any artist. I'll spill one now...actually this just happened for real last week. I was present for a small voice-over production for some training videos with the same lady who's voice is used by major production companies and phone companies...she's one of the "the number you're trying to reach is not in service" ladies, as well as the voice of numerous corporate phone queue messages and some upcoming books on tape. Anyway, she was working on a production in her office (not a studio which was suprising) with a corner area carved out with microphone, podium, etc. Anyway she said she had to do a few messages and I could stay as long as I didn't make any noise and didn't get into mischief....ok sure.
I sat watching her for a few minutes and saw that she was very much in the zone...exercising her vocal chords and stretching her mouth before each one. Anyway I kinda laughed at her silently because she was just so damn serious and she turned away to keep from laughing herself. She scolded me and told me to behave, so I told her if she passed a willpower test I'd leave her in peace. I had to leave anyway, so I figured I'd just be playful and up front, which is how I am anyway if you have read my other posts.
Anyway, she agreed and I brought over a burgundy easy chair (armed and padded but no wheels) and had her kneel in it facing away from me and toward her printed script on her easel. She was dressed in a light grey pantsuit with these linen-textured high heels and sheer off-white nylons. I prefer sheer nude color myself, but I digress.
I had her scooch forward in the chair and get comfy while she asked what I was up to. I told her I wouldn't hurt her, but she had to start reading before I started and couldn't stop even if she messed up. It was a 2 minute read, so I had time to wait until she was 20 seconds in before I slowly slipped off her shoes and exposed her soles - size 9 (rather large for her 5-4 frame), but very elegant and slender. She tried to scrunch up as to keep me from taking them off, but I prevailed. I could hear her tense up and hesitate just a fraction of a pause as they popped and came all the way off, then she scrunched them up like she was holding onto a gynastics bar. I started at her heals with a slow finger rake and by the time I got to the balls she was twitching and trying to cover one foot with the other back and forth every few seconds. It was a very light, itchy tickle since I wanted to prolong her predicament for as long as possible as opposed to going in hard for the easy laugh.
I gave her a few breaks here and there and the 2 minutes went by quicker for me than for her I'm sure, but she never broke character until it was all over, then she laughed and almost tipped the chair over leaning forward (more from pent-up emotion than the tickling I think). She called me a rat, but I could tell she was flattered by the attention. Next time I'll try to get a recording of her valiant efforts.
Let me know your thoughts - I've reincluded a link below from BAC that I consider to be the gold standard of why I started this thread in the first place....
http://www.tickletheater.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=63389