Goodbye...In a Ferris Wheel.

Last Audition!

Video of me before and after my last audition! And afterwords we went to the famous Amoeba music store which was cool!

First Time Surfing!!!

Easter at the Graves!

We had a wonderful easter with the Graves...We did a scavenger hunt and the team mom and I were on came in last, but it was still fun! The video probably won't make much sense. I didn't film very consistently. I wish I had footage of me proposing to a girl working named Kelly. She was very chill about the whole thing...That's all for now...more updates soon!

Griffith Park and Disney Building...

Vocal Warm Up Fun!

I find this hilarious...you might not...but I do.

Video of Ashley Tisdale Meet and Greet!

More updates soon with pictures and story!

Graumans Chinese Theater!

We visited Graumans today! It was very cool! I realized I didn't watch this video before uploading so it could have some blurry moments...so forgive me! More updates soon.

Malibu Beach Trip!!!

Malibu Beach Pics...

Disneyland Pictures...

I love these mountains!

Every Friday on the way to acting coaching I see these mountains and I love them so much...Keep saying I will film them so I did. The end...

Meeting and Downtown L.A.

We had a very cool meeting with the new Voice Over team at my agency. It was very relaxed, just a meet and greet really. Then I went bowling with church friends then came home. The end. :)

Disneyland!!!

I went to Disneyland last Tuesday with a wonderful family from church! I had a lot of fun, but Disneyland was different than I expected. The rides are more about the magic and the experience than actually the actual thrill. Still it was very fun, and I really loved spending time with that group!

La Brea Tar Pits...

We went to the La Brea Tar Pits on tuesday, because it was free that day. I think we went through the museum in record time...Let's just say we were glad we didn't pay to do it. In other words...it was boring. Really boring. Well, actually it wasn't so bad when we did it, but it took us 30 minutes for the whole museum. Any longer and it would have been really boring. We also walked by the museum of...modern art? Maybe. I can't remember what it exactly was, we didn't go to it. Then we went to the farmers marker which is HUGE! And they have delicious food!

A sunset...and that's it. Nothing else...

I feel like I start many of my posts with "Sorry it's been so long!"...So I won't do that this time. I'll start it with what I'm typing now which is "I feel like I start many of my posts with "Sorry it's been so long!"...Which very similar to just apologizing... well too bad.
I don't know how many of you people have mothers that yell "Oh come here quick!" and you get up from whatever relaxing or enjoyably task you were doing to find that they just wanted you to see a sunset. This one was rather pretty, but I still don't like having to leave a task and rush to a window to see it. So heres a sunset. That's all. Goodbye.

More pictures from Santa Monica...

Auditions and Stand-In work...

Well, it's been a while since I updated hasn't it? I'm sorry. Forgive me. So, the audition we were at for the video entitled "Hollywood Audition..." produced a callback! I'll tell you about the callback in as second. I want to go chronologically! Last week on Thursday I had an audition in Santa Monica for a commercial. It was a really good atmosphere, and I auditioned with a group of four other kids. On a side note one of the girls looked just like Rory from Gilmore Girls too! They have specific callback dates for that audition, and they are sometime next week. So prayers for that are very, very welcome! Prayers for anything are very welcome! After my audition in Santa Monica we went to the Santa Monica pier and that's the video below...They were filming Gossip Girl at one place and a new pilot from the producers of Modern Family on the pier. When you went on the pier there were signs saying going past a certain point you agreed to being filmed and possibly used for the show. In the background of course. I took some pictures of the pier and I'll attach them. Also, I got some paparazzi pictures of Blake Lively on set from earlier in the day. I think we missed her...But one of the pictures is her with a guy in a puffy black coat that I did film...I think he's a producer or director. Blake Lively is one of the stars of Gossip Girl which is a popular teen dramatic TV show... Santa Monica was on Thursday and it started to rain pretty hard so we left after about an hour. Then Friday I had my private acting coach in the morning then we went to the same studio in Hollywood that you saw before. We were on set from 1:45 till 5:30 I believe. We were just stand-ins to help with rehearsal and putting the production together so it would run smoothly. We did get paid and that was a plus, because we thought we were doing it free. I would say what we were doing and what the production was, but we signed confidentiality agreements. They're very strict. Our stand-in work also acted as a second audition kind of...but we won't know for a little while if we actually are able to do the real thing. This is all so vague...Anyways, we saw a set and behind the scenes aspect and met a not very big celebrity which was very cool. Saturday I had an acting intensive workshop with the Harvey Lembeck Comedy Workshop. It was uh-mazing! I loved it! They have been teaching comedy for 45 years or so, and they use improv scenes to bring out comedy. They trained Robin Williams as well as a ton of other professional comedic actors. Michael Lembeck helped with the workshop and he's director of Santa Claus 2 and 3 with Tim Allen. He also directed The Tooth Fairy as well as Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure. Oh and he has directed a bunch of episodes of Friends and got an Emmy for one of them! So it was super cool to meet him and receive direction from him. On Sunday I started an Improv class at Cynthia Bain's Young Actor Studio where Hailee Steinfeld from True Grit and about 5 million other child stars have studied. It was also super fun! Then Monday I had another commercial audition and it went very well...And callbacks are today! So prayers...yes prayers. We've been busy as you can tell and it's been so, so neat to study at/see/meet all these amazing places and people. That's a little confusing. Hopefully you understand it. Oh, oh and during Improv Class during break the class went downstairs to Jamba Juice and guess who was there?!! Nick Cannon! Aka Mariah Carey's hubby. He was very nice, but I think he wanted to go. The entire class kind of attacked him, including myself. I got a picture. Ok I'm done typing. The end.
P.S. PRAY!

Santa Monica and TV Shoots!

Hollywood Audition...

French Frustration...

I do the same thing the entire time so you should get the gist after about twenty seconds, but watch the whole thing if you like. Go ahead do it! See if I care...I should sleep. I may be 16% slap happy. Ahaha

Mentally Ill Street Dancer...Not really.

It's hard to accomplish anything when he's outside my window breakin' it down. Solution: Film him.

Firetrucks, Po-Po, and Ambulance...So 911 I guess.

Enjoy the hair! I was laying down :)

Universal City and Miranda Cosgrove Video...

Meeting Miranda Cosgrove!

I read on Miranda Cosgroves twitter that she would be doing a CD signing at Hard Rock Cafe and so we went today! You had to buy her new CD then get a wristband to be able to meet her. I read online that the CD's went onsale at 12:00 so we got there around 11:00 and the CD'S didn't even go on sale till 2:00 so we had to wait till then after getting my wristband we went to "The Adjustment Bureau" (which was very good f.y.i) and then I waited in line for another hour then she signed the CD and we talked for second about a mutual acquaintance and that was it...So that was fun, but it was a rather long wait for something really quick, aaaaand we could have just arrived at 5:00 and only waited like 30 minutes...But no use in looking at what we could have done. Video will be uploaded soon and some pictures are below!

Nothing Like Our Mountains...Overlook Trip!

I just can't think of a title...

Well, this last week was very chill. No auditions, but that's to be expected. It's such a finicky business. I've been doing school. I started Advanced Algebra sooo fun. Not. My second lesson completely confused me so mom had to help... her conclusion of the lesson was "Who gives a rip about this stuff!", but I convinced her I had to understand to finish the rest of the book. So, basically it's a lot of useless minutia, but there is helpful stuff as well. I just dislike math. I'm also doing French Rosetta Stone, and that's really fun. Then I have a bunch of acting books to read...and I just started a Stephen King novel so I'll see how I like him. I went to a vocal awareness class last Wednesday at Dennis Lavalles studio (where I also take scene study class on Mondays) and that was very fun. We breathed and shouted and ran around a lot. It sounds fake, but it was helpful and very enjoyable. So, I'm going to keep doing that class. Over the weekend I went to my acting coach (who was in "The Changeling", I don't who she was though) . Then we went up to an overlook on a mountain (uploading the video of that now) and then went over to the Graves house and hung out all day...then ended up spending the night and going "yard saleing" the next morning. Then Sunday we went to church and then a guest luncheon. Then over to the Graves house again and watched a movie. So it was a very enjoyable week, but probably kind of boring to read about. I'm sorry. You will live. I'm going to upload a video of the pool and work out room soon so you can see that! And I think I'm going to meet Miranda Cosgrove tomorrow at a CD signing! So more updates soon!

Oh and the Graves boys have and awesome band called "The Graves" so I'm going to attempt to embed their music video! You can also check out their youtube page here - http://www.youtube.com/user/DigginTheGraves

Trip to Beverly Hills!!!

Warner Bros and all that Jazz...

Finally figured out a new way to upload my videos! So here is part of the video of J. Lo and Mario arriving and their interview and such...Also if you look up photos Jennifer Lopez on the red carpet when she arrived you might see me in the crowd because I was right behind her! Video Below!

So anyways...Had an audition yesterday and it went well. We actually got to go to the Warner Brothers studio lot!!! It was soooo cool! They had all the streets made for filming, but no one was in them so it was like a ghost town kinda...Not really because people would drive by on golf carts looking all important, but ya know. They had old western streets with antique buildings and then a suburban neighborhood and stuff. They had these huge buildings that looked like six story city buildings and then and they were really just a giant wall. We also had to show our ID's and go through a metal detector. Also, I we walked past the Two and a Half Men sound stage where it was filmed. And we went by the art department for Big Bang Theory...So yes it was super exciting. Oh and the girl sitting next to me plays Leonardo Dicaprio's niece in a his new movie! I thought that was cool. Well, we still love the apartment. We're really settling in, and I'm getting my routine up and running. I want to do a video that shows a typical day for us out here, but I haven't had a typical day yet so...But maybe in a while I'll have enough a routine to film that. Ok...I'm kind of rambling so I guess I'm done now...You know what's cool though? That the blog has about 650 views on it! It's probably only 20 people who just check often, but still that's cool! Sorry I'm erratic updater, but considering how bad I am at texting and things like that I think I'm doing pretty well! Ok NOW I'm done...More updates soon! (Hopefully :)

J. Lo at the Grove VIDEO!

First Celebrity sighting!!!

I've been trying to upload my JLo video for the past two days and it WON'T work!!! Ugh...

I'll figure something out... I saw a tweet from J. Lo about being at The Grove which is a giant mall really and she was doing an interview for Extra with Mario Lopez...So we headed out there, it was only 20 minutes from home! And we had to wait about two hours altogether, but I talked to this really sweet lady most of the time and that helped pass time. I was a couple feet from Jennifer a few times, and she was really sweet to all the fans. Mario seemed kinda...I don't know. He wasn't as "warm" but he does interviews there a lot. I held my hand in front of Mario's chest when he was being ushered out, but I realized I was being a creeper so I didn't actually touch him. I was like two inches away though! So it was a good day. I worked on a script and worked out finally earlier today so, yes...very good day! More updates soon!

Sorry, I walked through our new apartment kinda fast...We had to go. Anyway, this is a our new place. We'll be here the next two months! Aaah! It has a pool and a jacuzzi and work out rooms which is VERY nice. Also, the separate rooms is VERY, VERY nice. The room is quite, the walls in the apartment complex are very thick. We are next to a busy street, but in L.A. it's hard not to be it seems. We had an interesting afternoon/evening as well. We went to Target right down the street and got groceries and such, then when we came home we brought all our groceries up aaaaaand our key didn't work in the door of our apartment. So, we called the girl we're subletting from and she made calls to the manager and then she had to drive across L.A. to us....But before she got their we met Miyesha (a.k.a Mi-Mi) and she's called another tenant who is good at breaking into rooms with a credit card (sounds sketchy, it wasn't...she was good cuz she has a two year old that locks her out or something)...And then they couldn't get us so they called the maintenance man and he let us and gave us another key. Then Stephanie (the lady we're subletting from) got her and apologized over and over, and yeah that was our evening. The we watched American Idol...Now I must go. I have scripts to read.... :)

Our temporary home...

We had a car wreck!!!! So. Much. Fun.

We Found a Place to Live!!!

We found a home!!! Oh happy day!

Agent, scripts, Thai...

I officially have an agent now. We really like her and the company she works with! And she's best friends with my manager as well! So we have a good team together. When we were at the agency signing contracts I got to do a voice-over audition, and that was really cool. I went in a little studio and just read one line. I was a bit tongue tied at first, but I think I got it after about...1o tries...or so. Also we went to a Thai restaurant yesterday that was delicious! I've never really had Thai, but mom and I really enjoyed it. Although they brought me the wrong dish and then after I had eaten half of it our waitress came up and said "I brought you wrong thing, that ok?" so I had something with coconut milk, curry, and beef instead of Duck Curry. It was purty good though, so I didn't mind. I got a script last night for an audition coming up and I'm pretty excited about it, it's a neat story. I also have a 30 minute session with an acting coach on Monday set up, and I have to memorize a script for that. I also have an all day commercial workshop next Saturday with some neat acting coaches! So, busy, busy, busy. Mom and I are enjoying ourselves even though not having a place to live is mildly stressful. I believe that's all! More updates soon!

Rush Hour Fun.

We tried to make it to the Department of Labor after my audition , but we hit rush hour traffic and we didn't get there till 5:02...So two minutes late! And then we went the next day, but they wouldn't accept the letter we had saying I'm home schooled because it's from 1998. So, we have to get an updated letter saying I'm still home schooled and we can't do that till Monday...But this is rush hour traffic in L.A! Oh joy!

1st audition!!!

Heading to my first audition. It went ok, but I'll be more prepared for my next one. I have a few days to study the script for one coming up!

Checkin out sketchy sublet...

Heading to check out an apartment we were going to sublet in Glendale. It turned out to be an illegal sublet...Or so we think, and the lady was not happy with us for not subletting the place. It was small and tacky and she wanted to leave all of her stuff there sooo....Not the best option. We'll just keep looking and praying till we find a place!

Our Quaint little Motel...

This is where we're staying till we have a permanent place to live...

Driving on the freeway for the 1st time!

Mary Blount on the 134...Yes, it's true.

Our Little Hell-Hole

We arrived in L.A. at 2:30 am EST, and we were overjoyed when we pulled up to this shack! I wouldn't say it was in a total Ghetto area but it wasn't a very nice or safe area either... Needless to say we checked out as soon as possible and we're now in a nice motel in a different area of the city! More updates soon... :)

Arriving in L.A!

It's been an exciting and crazy trip so far! Our flight from Roanoke to Charlotte ended up being delayed four hours. So we ended flying from Roanoke to Pittsburgh then taking a very long 7 hour flight from Pittsburgh into LAX in Los Angeles (Justin Bieber was there yesterday, but apparently he's a jerk). Anyways, we made a friend too! Our friend is a girl named Chandler who is a dancer in L.A. and she sat with us the entire flight. She also let us share her ride to Burbank with her! She was super sweet, oh and she is dancing in Jennifer Lopez's new video too!!! That's all for now! More updates soon!