Hello dearest friend and reader. I have now uploaded my promotional demo reel on youtube and put a link on my site, you can watch it by clicking on the Media button.
Well, that is all for now.

On a different note: I hope you are enjoying the world cup! I know I am! :)


Leo Florence
 
 
What does it mean to be an artist? An actor, musician, painter, poet...etc? Do I have to label myself any of the above?
An artist is supposedly someone who expresses their thoughts, feelings and inner conflicts freely through one or several media.
So why is it that you still end up serving "the Man" if you want success? Why do you have to do things like everybody else, because everybody expects it from you? You can't take a shortcut, you shouldn't wear this, you shouldn't say that, you shouldn't be seen with *insert name*, you shouldn't! Well I don't want to have to should. I don't want a label stuck on me, I don't want to do things the way I should do them because "that's how you do it" or "that's how you're gonna be successful". Art is only art if it comes from the heart. And I want art to be my profession. And your job is about half your life. Should I really have to spend half of my life doing stuff other people tell me to do? Living by guidelines?
Call me an anarchist but that just sounds dreadful. I want to do with my life what I want to do. I only have one life, dammit! Everybody only has one life! And it doesn't matter whether you die when you're 20 or when you're 90, if you've spent your life doing something you hate you've already lost. Lost a lifetime. Do you want to live or what? And if you don't, what the fuck are you still doing here?
 
 
Hello!
As you know I have travelled half the world to get back home. So don't think I'm gone, I'm just far away. For those at home: I'm closer now!
Right now I'm "in limbo" so there won't be a lot of news right now. So stay put because I will be back for good in your life very soon!

Much love,

Leo
 
My dear readers 04/29/2010
 
Today is my last full day in Toronto and Canada. Tomorrow evening I'm flying over the Atlantic Ocean, home to Europe.
It was a pleasure being here but my European roots are beckoning me to the homeland...or at least the home continent.
I shall be back here in a while though, maybe a year or two.
In the meantime, stay safe, don't eat too much bread (because it's full of sugar and other strange ingredients) and keep in touch!

Best of luck and bye!

Leo
 
 
The situation in Europe has apparently calmed down which is good. Also, I'm flying in 9 days and not in 5. If I was to fly in five days they would want me to make space for people who have been waiting to get home for a while. I'm glad that I don't have to take a ship home. Although I've been thinking about it. Travelling somewhere by cargo ship could be a great adventure! I might just do that next time, when I don't have deadlines and a tight schedule.
I have been wondering what the consequences were of the icelandic volcano eruption. For a week nearly nothing was going in Europe, at least flight wise. Thousands of flights that should have been arriving or departing were grounded somewhere. Hundreds of millions of Pounds/Euros/fFrancs were lost. And there I thought I'd come back to a more stable European economy...thought I might even find a day job! Haha. Anyway, I'm positive, optimistic and well spirited. Because Europe is my home and I love it and I'm going back home in a couple of days!

Don't forget: It's Earth Day tomorrow! 40th anniversary of Earth Day, to be precise! So switch off your lights, leave the car at home and live vegetarian for a day.
 
Editing 04/17/2010
 
Everybody who has ever worked on a film behind the cameras knows that a huge part of the work is editing. That's what I'm doing right now. Literally and metaphorically. Editing happens behind everything you see, yet it is crucial to the success of the film. It is indispensable. So I'm editing the material for my new project, but I'm also editing the material for my career. I'm editing my resume, or should I start saying CV again, since I will be back in the UK shortly. I'm editing my website, my email address, my blog, my facebook, twitter, you name it I edit it.
Yes, that's what I'm doing right now. You have to constantly edit yourself, your style, your wardrobe, heck even your friends. Kick the ones off who hold you back and try to bring you down and keep the ones who support you.
I'm even editing my accent. Which one? Ha, see? Not everybody has accents in the plural. How blessed am I?
I'm editing new monologues. Oh speaking of which: I am still looking for each a dramatic and a comedic monologue in French and German. So if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. I'd be grateful for any help in that matter.
 
Nearly done 04/12/2010
 
Today was the second last day of our course. I'm already worried what I'm going to do with the rest of the time I have in Toronto.
But I'm really excited about my new project. This week I'm going to see the Niagara Falls and hopefully other cool things around Toronto where I'm going to film things which I will then feature in the episode of the insignificant findings of a Toronto Tourist. Stay put, it will be online in a couple of days!
 
 
Five minutes ago I wrote a highly important post about queen bees, worker bees and the unimportance of my existence. It was a poetic and yet direct post that would have been valuable to every human being on this planet and beyond. The pope would have wanted to read it.
But of course the moment I pressed the "publish" button, my connection was cut and I was left with a blank page. All my efforts to write something intelligent were a waste. And I'm angry. I'm so angry at my internet connection, I could eat a donut. But I won't.
Ha, maybe it was fate that it didn't get posted. It would have solved all the problems in the universe and brought world peace, something Miss Universe has been wishing for for a long time. Maybe we're not meant to live in peace. It certainly looks that way when you look at the world. Everything you see on the outside comes from us, from the inside. We carry all this violence with us in our hearts. We're responsible for it. And we're not gonna stop, are we?
But that's not the point.
Really, all I wanted to do is write a post about the food here and how annoying it is that I can't find bread that has no sugar in it.
 
A new post. 04/08/2010
 
I have become more and more inconsistent updating my blog. My apologies.
Here's a new post:

I love my monologues. I think they are both brilliant and suit me well. And I love performing them. Actually, I can't wait to perform them in front of the Agent.
And I can't wait to be back in Europe, where I can actually start working as an actress...because I'm allowed to work!
I love being an actress, I don't think any other profession would be as suitable for me as acting. It's what I love and I can't imagine my life without it. Yes of course it's hard and most people never make it in the industry. Well what can I say, I don't count myself as "most people".
Oh I agree, it sounds totally self-absorbed and arrogant. But to be honest, have you ever encountered a successful businessperson who wasn't confident and selfish to a point

 
 
My dear friends, family, people I know, people I don't know.

It is going towards the end of my course here. My days in Toronto are numbered. I shall travel back to Europe in a month and I'm looking forward to it. I have also thought about my future. What am I going to do? How will I get my career going? Where am I going to live?
Well, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna live for a year. Why should I worry about the future of my career now? I should just enjoy what I'm doing and do as much as I can. I shouldn't constantly think about getting older and the time that's passing. I'm young and I will be young for a while. You've got to do stuff while you are young, because when you're older it will be more difficult. So I'm gonna do exactly that: Do what I've always wanted to do, go on adventures and live life.
"Seize the moment, cos tomorrow you might be dead."
And you, my friend, are welcome to join me, just drop me a line :)