Author Archives: Courtney

Pretty Good Year

We often start the New Year by making our steadfast resolutions: I’m going to lose weight. I’m going to write that screenplay. I’m going to learn French… In short, we seek out to “fix” our lives in some way.  It’s equally important to take a moment to look back on the year and reflect on [...]

It’s an Awesome Day When I Must Juggle Robots vs Aliens in the News

A friend of mine sent me a story this morning with the following headline (image will link to story): Toy robot detours traffic near Coors Field Another sent me this one (again, image links to story): NASA Finds New Life Wow. Not EXTRATERRESTRIALS, sure, but it opens to doors to what we should be looking [...]

Extras Gig #2: Cold Case

(Picking up on my extras stories…) The second extras assignment I got was for the show “Cold Case.” Fittingly, the thing I remember most about this experience was that it was freezing. It was also wet and muddy- sometimes dangerously so (lights and their power generators and cables don’t mix well with “wet”). How a [...]

If I Could Write Music…

I’m working on it, but I have a long way to go before I can get anything this raw and honest out of my voice/fingers:

Extras Experience #1: 100 Questions

After weeks of dialing and dialing, I got my first gig in November of 2009: Bar Patron on the NBC summer season sitcom “100 Questions” (note: this episode will air on Friday. I will try to update with a screencap if I can get one). Since this was going to be my first time on [...]

Extra! Extra!

Ah, yes. It’s about time I got around to writing about this! It’s been, without a doubt, the activity my friends and family are most interested in hearing about. I had a bit of cash saved up before I moved out here, so I was able to play a little bit before “buckling down” and [...]

FAQ: My Dog

    That’s my dog, Pixol. This picture was taken at LAX. She is sitting in her soft dog carrier (read: celebutante dog purse) after having made me chase her through the concourse, knowing neither “come” nor “stay.” What’s a Pixol, you ask? Why, a pixol is a three-dimensional pixel in Z-Brush. A Pixol is [...]

Stargazing

You know that you are living in the land of celebrities when the local Whole Foods has a sign that says that you are not allowed to photograph people in the store. I’ve tried to train myself to notice the stars, but I only seem to notice them when someone is beside me and says, [...]