Online Course // The Path to Senior Product Designer
Today I completed work on the online course around the book The Path to Senior Product Designer: An Actionable Growth Plan for a UX Design Career by Artiom Dashinsky.
Audiobook // The Impact of “2 Second Lean”
Today I completed work on the audiobook for the book The Impact of 2 Second Lean by Paul A. Akers.
The audiobook was released on YouTube, and it is available for listening here:
Video Presentation // “Extensional Devices Revisited”
Today, at the 2020 General Semantics Symposium hosted by the Institute of General Semantics, my video presentation titled “Extensional Devices Revisited” was released.
The presentation gives a brief overview of general semantics and its founder Alfred Korzybski’s vision, mentions five linguistic devices he recommended for making one’s language more correspondent with empirical reality, and introduces two new extensional devices to the list.
The 15-minute video was uploaded to the IGS YouTube channel here.
Essay // “What Can You Do for General Semantics? (J. Talbot Winchell Award Acceptance Speech) // ETC: A Review of General Semantics
My acceptance speech for the 2018 J. Talbot Winchell Award, given by the Institute of General Semantics, was recently published in the institute’s journal, ETC: A Review of General Semantics.
The speech is titled “What Can You Do for General Semantics?” The issue in which the speech appears is ETC 75:3-4.
Video of the acceptance speech is online on IGS’s YouTube channel. An introduction by IGS treasurer Jacqueline Rudig is also online.
Award // 2018 J. Talbot Winchell Award // Institute of General Semantics
This evening at the Princeton Club in New York City, I accepted the 2018 J. Talbot Winchell Award, given by the Institute of General Semantics.
The award was given as part of the annual Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture event sponsored by IGS.
Upon receiving the award, I presented an acceptance speech titled “What Can You Do for General Semantics?”
Video of the acceptance speech is online on IGS’s YouTube channel. An introduction by IGS treasurer Jacqueline Rudig is also online.
Improvised Sermon // Dixon Place
This evening I performed an improvised sermon as The Reverend Raymond Nader based on the audience suggestion of “Sucking on Peanut M&M’S” at Dixon Place, as part of Victoria Libertore’s burlesque showcase Liza Goes West (The Blowout Cabaret).
Click here to watch the sermon on YouTube.
Improvised Sermon // Dixon Place
This evening I performed an improvised sermon as The Reverend Raymond Nader based on the audience suggestion of “Napster” at Dixon Place, as part of Victoria Libertore’s burlesque showcase Liza Goes West (The Blowout Cabaret).
Click here to watch the sermon on YouTube.
Audition // Grovo
This afternoon I had an audition for corporate educational videos for Grovo.
The audition worked its way into a Grovo YouTube video of other auditioners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RjHlX2qKH8
Ben Hauck’s SlateShot Makes the ActorIntro SlateShot Hall of Fame
This morning I found out that one of my SlateShots — a very short introductory clip tailored to masthead an Actors Access profile — was chosen for the first ever ActorIntro SlateShot Hall of Fame.
My SlateShot — which mentions my being like the male version of Flo from Progressive — appears around 2:50 in the video.
Links
Hall of Fame reel on ActorIntro.com
http://vimeo.com/108660451
Improvised Sermon // The Back Porch
This evening I performed an improvised sermon as the Reverend Raymond Nader on the audience suggestion of “Dropping Water Bombs Out The Window” for Aaron Simms’s Inwood variety show The Back Porch.
Here is video of my sermon:
“State of Affairs” Debuts Nov. 17th on NBC!
State of Affairs, the new NBC series starring Katherine Heigl in which I play an aptly named CIA analyst named Ben, comes out at 10pm on Monday, November 17, 2014.
Improvised Sermon // The Back Porch
This evening I performed an improvised sermon as the Reverend Raymond Nader on the audience suggestion of “Big Mac” for Aaron Simms’s Inwood variety show The Back Porch.
Here is video of my sermon: