tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358908385753920400.post8260826544978899391..comments2009-09-21T14:57:48.124-04:00Comments on Acting Baby: Canon FodderUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358908385753920400.post-69489758806475356752009-07-17T10:46:04.106-04:002009-07-17T10:46:04.106-04:00Thanks for that. I recently bailed on a 'backg...Thanks for that. I recently bailed on a 'background' part in Jonah Hex, with Josh Brolin & Megan Fox, realizing I would be sitting in the Louisianan sun for 12 to 16 hours or more, at a rate of about $6 an hour. <br />I would get more respect (and money) and less heat rash standing over the Fry-o-later at Mickey D's.<br /><br /> Your clever analogies, while certainly amusing, also bring it home quite clearly; this is a fool's errand unless done with forsight in to the eventual career path and an awareness of how far the Screen Actors Guild has come in standing up for hardworking talent, recognized or not.<br /><br /> This used to happen in commercial art, as well. Mega Corporations would hold 'Logo Contests', asking artists to submit their designs for free, eventually choosing a 'winner' who's work would be then be purchased at a fraction of standard rates.<br /><br />Until an organized majority portion of any skilled labor group refuses this method, they are exploited for their hunger to work, and multitudes of the untrained are fed through the mill simultnaeously as camouflage, baited by the dream of association with their objects of interest.<br /><br />You shoulda seen 'em line up when Miss Fox's name was dropped. Nobody mentioned that she'd finished filming and left town ovewr a week before.Lord Davidhttp://lorddavidtruth.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358908385753920400.post-90819193462617220332009-07-17T10:36:29.445-04:002009-07-17T10:36:29.445-04:00I registered on Mandy.comn: thanks for the suggest...I registered on Mandy.comn: thanks for the suggestion.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11601332367435052820noreply@blogger.com