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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
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This week I was contacted by a local Agent who is providing people for Auditions for a new French movie to be partly filmed in Thailand, partly filmed in Europe.
Having seen a few pages of the script (for character background and setting) I can see the character, a mercenary, is not a big part, but he does get some lines (Essential. No lines means you are a featured extra, getting lines means you are credited as an actor) and will be in a noticable part in the movie.
So will I take this lesser role than I am currently looking at in my Auditions, would it be a step backward for me to take this lesser role? Yes it would.... will I go to the audition and meet the director?
Yes... and here is why...
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Monday, 09 November 2009 |
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This week my Agent was emailed - a BIG movie studio is filming a movie and they would like to consider me for a role.
Seeing the working title I can see why they want to look at me for a part....
Oh yeah, and there might be a new movie role in a Hindi movie too...
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Tall Actors Giant Life
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Thursday, 29 October 2009 |
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Conan has been very quiet, what has been happening in the East to keep him so quiet?
Work.
What Conan works? Well no, not actually, not in the usual sense....
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 |
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Just wrote a whole article on the new teaser and my F'ing Internet dropped as I saved it. Look inside for some pics and a summary, Iam rather pissed off as I wrote quite a bit...
Conan Stevens as Molotov In The Epic Chinese Movie "True Legend"
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Motivation Inspiration Success
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009 |
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Your life purpose - Forget all the spiritualist hanky panky on finding the meaning of life.
Go back to
basics. When you were a kid and someone asked you what you wanted to be
when you grew up what did you answer? That alone will probably answer the question of what is your life purpose, or at least it'll
give you a good place to start.
Failing that think deep down,
really let your imagination go WILD.
What would life be like if you were a rock
star, an International speaker, movie star, Multi-National CEO,
successful entrepreneur, soldier of fortune in Africa, deep sea
scientist, retired on the beaches of a tropical paradise (easier than
you think), helping children in the 3rd world, legitimate Porn Star, tracking down Khmer
Rouge leaders in Cambodia and making them pay for what they did?
Any fantasy life purpose, no matter how wild, you can do it and you can start right now....
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 |
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Eat dog meat - Would you do it?
Eating dog has been a part of many cultures for hundreds, even thousands of years. If you were starving, not 'starving' in the Western sense of the word (hungry), but starving in the real sense of the word (as in you are going to die) and Fido was sitting in the corner chewing a bone he'd buried last year. Wouldn't you be looking at Fido and seeing a big lump of delicious, life saving, dog meat? Dog meat, sorry Fido, would be straight in the pot.
And so there I was sitting in a Chinese restaurant in Northern China, filming in the Hindi movie Chandni Chowk To China and I was handed the menu - Dog Meat - right there on the menu. The Chinese lady says to me "Do you eat dog?" with a sly smile knowing Westerners don't eat dog.
Here I took a photo of the menu with dog meat, I didn't take a photo of the dog meat, but I did take a pic of the menu...
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Monday, 28 September 2009 |
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Recently on an Actors forum I replied to a post asking if an actor should have a personal website. Another qualified poster said it was more than important it is essential these days and talked about the old days when you would get out the Telephone book and look someone's number up.
He then went on to say when was the last time you looked up a business in the Telephone book? Years and years if I can remember rightly, probably over 10 years for me. These days I type in the business namke into Google and get the details from the web, or if that fails I use the Yellow Pages online.
You as an actor are a business, selling yourself, so yes you need to get online and findable....
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Monday, 28 September 2009 |
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Everyone knows that America is currently the strongest nation on Earth, they have the most advanced military, the biggest economy, their media influences the rest of the world directly or subtly through Hollywood movies. But none of those are it's strength....
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Saturday, 19 September 2009 |
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A couple of months ago we had an armed robber hold the girl in the apartment next to mine at gun point and try to rob her. She screamed, which awoke me and alerted some other residents.
As soon as I heard the scream I jumped up out of bed, ran to the door and heard Ski, the apartment owner call "Stop him." I knew something was up.
Dressed only in red boardshorts I raced dopwnstairs to find a Thai guy struggling with one Thai resident and Ski, the American owner helping. I pushed them both out of the way and...
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Saturday, 19 September 2009 |
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This week on Pattaya cable TV this 20 minute interview is showing, regularly. Better yet you don't have to travel to Thailand to watch the interview, you can watch the video right here!
Interviewing me is Raine Grady from Capital TV, Australian viewers will recognise her from the travel shows in Australia as Captial TV films Destination Thailand and Travel Asia which are syndicated around the region.
In this interview....
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Friday, 04 September 2009 |
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I am unable to write any details at this stage but my Acting Agent in Australia, has managed to secure an audition for the pilot of an upcoming American TV series, in a role that could be very suitable for me.
With a number of opportunities arising at present, it is only a matter of time before I sign up with one.
The best thing about all this for me is that the quality of the productions and the quality of the roles is better than any I have previously done. It looks like my plan to serve my movie apprenticeship in Asia was in fact a good choice and my plan did work. Great. My plan to be found via Search Engines and approached for auditions because of this, my actors website, is also working very well. Now I can launch into the US movie market at a 'reasonable' and financially interesting level.
So I grabbed a mates camera, grabbed my mate who has no acting or 'reading' experience and we filmed the audition...
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Thursday, 03 September 2009 |
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New Opportunity = New showreel.
Just about everytime a new chance for a movie part that is big comes along, out I come with a new showreel... if I can... So that means I have been asked if I would like to be in a new BIG movie that everyone will know??? Can't say just yet but had an interesting social meeting the other night....
Since Bangkok Adrenaline is now out all across Thailand I can get some footage, unfortunately it has all been dubbed into Thai.... except for 2 deleted scenes that were added to the DVD edition as extra features!
Yay! Footage of me speaking English! Not dubbed into Thai, Hindi, or Mandarin as usual.
Bangkok Adrenaline In Stores (Powerkids is the DVD above)
Funnily enough the Powerkids DVD was on sale just above the Bangkok Adrenaline DVD. Too bad the Powerkids footage is useless at this point in my career....
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Blogging Adsense And How To
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Thursday, 03 September 2009 |
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Over the next month my site will be running full page ads between pages, say you read an article see another you like and want to read it then an ad will display.
I am sorry to do this as personally I do not like this form af advertising but I do understand that to write 1000's of pages requires a lot of time and I myself, like many others, like to get paid something for their time.
Also I want to see how much money this can generate and see how it affects my readership stats....
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Bodybuilding and Muscle Gain
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Monday, 24 August 2009 |
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Peanut butter and bodybuilding, what am I talking about?
Well there is this myth going around some bodybuilding circles that peanut butter is some new miracle food for growing muscle. Why? Rumours and misguided attempts to eat the right bodybuilding foods.
Peanut butter is good for bodybuilding in certain circumstances, in other circumstances it is a terribly bad choice...
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Motivation Inspiration Success
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 |
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Hopping around my apartment complex is a 3 legged dog that I see pretty much daily. Now you might not give a semi feral street dog much attention but here in Thailand you do or they'll sneak up and bite the back of your heel right at your Achilles tendon, or worse the other dogs in it's pack will join in and you'd better be willing to fight.
So paying attention to the personality of the dogs is a big must if you don't want to end up with serious injuries and/or rabies, tetanus, infections, etc.
But this 3 legged dog, what is special about him, I mean besides missing a leg....
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Monday, 17 August 2009 |
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"You're always right"
"Yes, I am"
"No, you think you are always right but you're not"
"No, I am always right"
And so has gone the conversation with just about every girlfriend I have ever had. But what makes me so sure that I am always right?
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Sunday, 16 August 2009 |
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How to startup? This is a question nearly everyone asks themselves at every major turning point in their lives, it is also asked by nearly every living person at least once a week.
How to startup is up to you and depends on the task, cleaning the house barely needs consideration. Starting up a new business venture requires some forethought.
Talking on the phone to a friend in Australia the other night got me started up in a couple of ventures that I have been thinking about for a year, but not got around to actioning.
What did he say to me that spurred me into action?
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Blogging Adsense And How To
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Saturday, 15 August 2009 |
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Those regular readers will have noticed that over the last few months my site has become flaky, with frequent crashes and hanging (ie no data served to your browser). I have been working with the help of a more knowledgable friend on fixing this.
For those other Joomla users who have hangs due to a high CPU load or high I/O writes I am detailing the fixes I have undertaken so that you may benefit.
This will probably bore the average reader....
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Friday, 14 August 2009 |
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New movie?
No, just my ordinary everyday life. On top of catching the armed burglar at our apartment the other week, this week I foiled though did not apprehend, a rapist....
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Friday, 14 August 2009 |
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For the last six weeks or so I have been training with a shoulder injury.
The injury started as a slight nagging pain after training chest or shoulders, so I backed off on the weight and concentrated on getting my form perfect with slow reps and a light weight. Then we caught the armed bandit at our apartment and I really put it out.
So since then what have I been doing to train around my shoulder injury?
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009 |
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This exact phrase was uttered by a Thai friend from a very underprivileged background who works in the now non-existant tourism sector and it was a sentence that struck me significantly.
We were talking about her past and why she was where she is today and she told me of her hopes for her future, then told of the 'friends' and associates that put down her dreams and told her she could not have them. She has nothing good in her life except that it may one day get better. What a pack of A-holes...
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 |
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Alright after much delay and much sidestepping the issue I grabbed my phone out of my pocket after training today and asked a fellow that I have never seen before to take a few photos outside the gym.
Bigger Leaner And More Bearded Than Ever
Yep, I have a beard - why? I ran out of razors one day then forgot to buy them next 2 times I went to the supermarket and decided to grow it to get some new photos as I believe it gives my face and demeanor a totaly different aspect...
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 |
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Is Conan's movie career about to emulate the Big Bang? i.e. before there was nothing and after the Big Bang there was a whole universe (of opportunity).
Well not really nothing before hand, but for American audiences Conan is still an unknown. Which unfortunately translates to Australian audiences (and more pointedly industry professionals) equating Conan with a Zero, Indian and Asian films don't count apparently in Australia, such small minds... but that is a different article altogether, so lets get back on track...
Will Conan's career go supernova very soon shooting him in a bright light upon the American movie scene?
I have been contacted to work in a role that I believe I am suitable for, in a US movie, filming in the US, through my Australian Agent with a very well known film star. Now I have to complete the audition successfully as the next step and with any luck (luck = prior work and commitment) I'll soon be known to many millions more, and most importantly start working in movies that pay well.
That's all I can write for now. I will let you know any further developments when I am allowed to write about it.
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Bodybuilding and Muscle Gain
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 |
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Are egg whites good for you? Well it depends upon what you do with them and how many you take.
Cooked egg whites are high in protein, have next to zero fat and no carbohydrates so they are good for athletes, those on a fat loss diet and those watching what they eat for health. Cooked egg whites are not bad for you in any way. As long as they are part of a balanced diet then cooked egg whites are a good addition for many people, I myself eat 10 to 20 egg whites a day for the protein, for muscle building.
Are raw egg whites good for you is a completely different question....
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Saturday, 25 July 2009 |
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Last night I went to dinner with an Acting Agent, an International TV presenter, a multiple award winning Director and a film investor. Normally Idon't go out on Friday or Saturday nightsbut I guess you can see why I made an exception last night....
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Saturday, 25 July 2009 |
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So after discussing how to be a good acting agent and how to present me, my agent called up - he had secured a one on one interview with the Japanese movie Producer/Director. Perfect, exactly what we wanted.
I get to go in and meet face to stomach (when we are standing, remembering the height difference) the person directly responsible for deciding who is going to be in the movie.
Saying your 7 feet tall on paper just doesn't have the impact of a personal meeting, and this meeting was no different and very standard... well, standard in that regard...
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 |
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Day after day I see guys in the gym training too heavy, with weights they can barely lift. I'd be very surprised to see them complete even a single good rep with the weight they have chosen.
Yet they pump out set after set of swinging body movements that stressed the hips, back and shoulder tendons more than the muscle they are supposed to be exercising.
On some days you might see me doing the same.... why?
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Monday, 20 July 2009 |
As an actor the roles you get will be less dependant upon your abilitites than the abilities of your agent.
A harsh reality, an even harsher reality when your agent isn't very good.
So how do you get a good acting agent?
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Tuesday, 14 July 2009 |
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Ever considered getting a Personal Trainer when you next vacation in Pattaya?
Ever wish you could be trained by the regionally famous actor Conan Stevens himself?
Well now you can.... well in fact you can get better. Instead of offering Personal Training in Pattaya how would you like to train WITH me doing MY workout for the duration of your holiday. You'll also get the chance to eat with me (exciting isn't it) and I'll go into detail as to what you should/can eat and why.
My credentials? Well over 300lbs of muscle with a six pack says that I know what I am doing, 22 years in the gym, previously accredited as a personal trainer in Australia
Most Muscular 7 Foot Tall Actor
All the while though keeping in mind that you are on holiday so allowances will be made for you to enjoy your time in Pattaya....
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General Stuff
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Saturday, 27 June 2009 |
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Due to this website seemingly being banned in Thailand now, I have read through the last article I wrote and it looks as though my references to the Austrlian Police Corruption (that is documented and reported) could have been confused with my story about the Thai Police.
In this light it may seem that I was not happy with the Thai Police when this is certainly not the case, the Thai Police handled the episode in question very well in my opinion, and a hell of a lot better than could have been the case with the Australian Police.
For this reason I'll not be updating for a while as I go through and edit the article and check others to make sure my points and opinions are perfectly clear. The Thai Police are doing a very good job and any quick check of a Thai news service will show that they have a great many problems to deal with, making their job that much more difficult.
Thier quick response and helpfulness the other night that our apartment complex had a break in was much appreciated by all living here.
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