About Me
So while at the Re:Frame Convention, I attended a seminar given by superstar photographer and blogging Goddess, Jasmine Star.
Amongst some great advice, she emphasized the point of not putting your on-line bio (written) in the third person. So I took a look at mine only to be horrified as to how impersonal it was, and written in the third person. Yikes!.
I almost immediately went about re-writing it, to try and let my potential clients know the human, vulnerable side of david robin. So here is my attempt. I would LOVE some feedback as to whether it is too over the top? Not funny? Too long? Too short? Semi-Perfect? Perfect? Thanks!
ABOUT ME
“My name is david robin. My company is called david robin | films. I love what I do”.
I was born with a piece of Harrods stainless steel flatware in my mouth, and I scratched and clawed my way out of upper middle class Jewish suburbia of North London, England, to become the feared yet loved pariah that I am today. I produce award-winning event videos and travel the country educating my audience. It is not true that I performed covert operations for the MI6, and I think Phil Collins was a brilliant artist until he went solo”.
“I now play drums in a Steely Dan tribute band. I was the original drummer of Toyah. We were really big in England. I raise prize-winning terriers. I wrote, produced, shot and edited a documentary entitled “ProgFilm” which took me two years and led me all over the world, which I did for no money, financed by a lot of awesome brides and bar mitzvah moms. I pay my bills on time. I don’t perspire. I think smooth jazz is dishonest but sometimes necessary. I once hid from my parents in a pillar of the Acropolis”.
”I am a semi-accomplished speaker, a master collector, and an obsessed facebook junkie. I once spoke to an audience of 3000 and could not sleep the night before. I own many of Burt Bacharach’s instrumental recordings and periodically annoy the family by playing them at a high volume. I am awed by contemporary art, an investor in the hearts and minds of my clients, a rabble-rousing innovator, and an inspiration for freedom fighters everywhere. Children and animals trust me”.
”But I have never directed a feature, although I will”.
-david robin.
November 5th, 2009 at 7:03 am
When I read your new bio I understood perfectly why writing in the third person doesn’t work. This is sooooooo good I found myself laughing throughout this. It is WAY more personal and now allows people to see that not only are you human but gives them a glimpse into whoyou are and your sense of humor. Great work on this!!!!