#gsmd

[khayr]

sushi ♡ elden

we do always love a cousin weekend at the house, tbh. @doberbutts

[doberbutts]

The world's squishiest service dog turned three years old today! Hard to believe she's been with me through so much and yet she's only three years old. Here's to many, many more!

[thatbritishbastard]

She's adorable. I'm going to die

[dantesinfurno]

ink/dogtober day 4: greater swiss mountain dog! ⛰

[winnipegtails]

Bennet, (8-y-o), Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, The Forks, Winnipeg. “Laziest dog alive. He’s a greater Swiss Couch Dog really.” • #Animalwelfare #wedontdeservedogs #fortheloveofdogs #fujilove #fujixt3 #winnipeg #winnipegdogs #dogsofwinnipeg #35mm #greaterswissmountaindog #greaterswissmountaindogsofinsta #fujifilm #gsmd #swissy (at Winnipeg, Manitoba) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsZFvQOgvLa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qzdghu28br4c

[pixpup]

I’m so excited, I had my very first client session a few weeks back and I’m super happy with how the pictures turned out. Here’s hoping for more sessions to come!

[dramaschoolblogs-blog]

Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) audition @ Vermont Hotel (Newcastle), March 2018

If I’m being completely honest, I thought I’d love Guildhall; I really did. I admire so many of their alumni and even have friends there. That said, this school; from the get-go, just wasn’t for me.

We started with a warm-up, but, I mean, they said we weren’t being assessed but it totally felt like we were. As opposed to quelling our nerves, for me, it just heightened them — I felt as if they were judging how far we could stretch; and, to be real, the panel straight up humiliated this little 17-year old that was noticeably very anxious. We were made to line-up, come to the centre, and then tell them about something we love, something we hate, and then speak a line of our Shakespeare. But this poor girl couldn’t find the centre of the room without glancing at her feet and they totally just ripped her for it… it just wasn’t cool.

We stretched, spoke our speeches in a circle; basically just the usual jazz you do in acting class (but with the intense pressure of a drama school panel hawking over your every move).

After the thirty minute warm-up, we went off and waited to be called up for our speeches. I was fifth, which was fine, I guess.

So, I went in said hello and they let me do my first speech, uninterrupted. Then 1/3 or so through my second speech I got some redirection, then some more, and then some more. Actually, I didn’t get halfway through before they cut me off and asked for my song. I went for it and totally bombed the thing, I mean, the panel were cringing whilst I was singing (yes, it was that bad). I was stopped halfway through, told to run around the room and do it again (it was still dead as fuck). They sat me down for my interview where they asked me all these really specific questions: “what’s the difference between stand-up and acting?”, I replied, they then asked me to elaborate and I just choked — another one was something like “tell us your favourite syllogism...” and my mind just blanked, I sat there just sinking into the chair (lol); trying to push out something intellectual and I really couldn’t, oh God! It was so fucking awful. Then came the normal questions “what have you been doing? etc. etc.” As I was in the middle of telling them they asked for my third speech, I gave it; there was some redirection, then they asked for my song again and my second speech after that. We then resumed the interview and that was that.

The moment I left the room I knew I’d fucked that audition. I mean, yeah, it was kinda fun; really intense, but ultimately I knew the school was not for me.

After about an hour they came in and told us that nobody had been recalled and that was it. It’s a really weird school, I’m also probably salty as it’s my first rejection this season (crazy, I know!) but hey, at least I know not to audition next year. That school totally ain’t for me haha.

Oh well, onwards and upwards!

[oliveramy]

The gang all together.