by Lisa Orkin | May 11, 2015 | blog
This week, YouTube turned 10. Wow – ten. Actually, if pressed, I might have guessed it was a little older. What a refreshing change – time doesn’t seem to be going quite so fast! Also this week, I had a little recording job for a TV vo. Okay. And? No doubt you...
by Lisa Orkin | May 4, 2015 | advertising, blog
The conversation goes something like this: Your client: “Oh, I’m always in my own commercials.” You: “Uh, no.” As radio writers/producers, we must disavow our clients – particularly the small, retail guys we love and who can be our bread and butter – we...
by Lisa Orkin | Apr 27, 2015 | blog, Uncategorized
I would never accuse myself of being tech savvy. I am probably most aptly classified as a demi-Luddite, one who uses about a tenth of the capacity of the internet but enjoys her Solitaire and her ability to edit in Word. So it is that when I picture my memory as a...
by Lisa Orkin | Apr 20, 2015 | advertising, blog
I consider myself very lucky. For a lot of reasons, actually, but not the least of which is I came to comedy, and to advertising, at a time when the only rule seemed to be that there weren’t any rules. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I soon came to...
by Lisa Orkin | Apr 13, 2015 | blog, Uncategorized
Because sometimes we need to look back and see all that we’ve accomplished to fuel our future fire. By Ranch Hand, Becky Bonar I just got back from a trip to Austin, a city I love. It was where my brother spent all of his adult life, and he had a deep, abiding...
