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This Week’s Episode (9.8.14): Dan Knudson and Mike Anderson

This week’s guests are Dan Knudson and Mike Anderson, principals at Dan Knudson Productions. They sit down with Jon and have a very laid back chat about the unpredictability of life as a commercial photographer and videographer, the excitement of not knowing where they’re going to be working a week from now, and how 99%…

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Ep. 27: Christian Ijin Link – Unit Production Manager for The Magic Bracelet, a Make A Film Foundation Production

Christian Ijin Link is listed on IMDb as having worked in 14 different departments. He recently served as Unit Production Manager on The Magic Bracelet, which is a project of the Make a Film Foundation, directed by Jon Poll, adapted by Diablo Cody, and starring Bailee Madison, Hailee Steinfeld, Jackson Rathbone, JK Simmons, and James…

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Sprawl

In last week’s article I talked about how that Arcade Fire song, “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains),” made me feel many of the feels. The biggest reason for that is this video, created by Brooks Wheelan. He notes that “if you only film one second out of your day and put it to music, it…

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This Week’s Episode (9.3.14): Christian Ijin Link

This week’s guest is Christian Ijin Link, Unit Production Manager on The Magic Bracelet. I first talked to Christian at the 48 Hour Film Project, and you can hear him in the back end of the Kristin Nolan episode talking about the film he wrote, among all the other teams talking about their projects. After…

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Thirty-three

If you’ve read me for a long time, you know every year around my birthday I create a new mix CD to mark the occasion. This tradition started accidentally, but evolved into something I spent way too much time thinking about. Sometime around November I’d start adding songs and begin to ruminate about in what…

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Ep. 26: Reed Saunders – Voice of Coors Field, Colorado Rockies Public Address Announcer

Reed Saunders is the Voice of Coors Field. He has served as the public address announcer for the Colorado Rockies since 2007, and has also served as the public address announcer for the Colorado Eagles since the team’s inception in 2003. On this week’s show, we talk about how Reed came to replace the iconic…

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True Blood

Last Sunday True Blood wrapped up its seven season run, after which I Tweeted and Facebooked: “Thank god that’s over. #TrueBlood” I meant it, too, because this seventh season has been a boring slog that Kristin and I have watched for the sake of completion, and basically no other reason. Without seemingly anything else to…

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This Week’s Episode (8.25.14): Reed Saunders

This week’s guest is Reed Saunders, the Voice of Coors Field. If you’ve been to Coors Field since 2007, you’ve heard Reed’s soothing baritone welcome you to the park, announce the home and away batters and pitching changes, and, he hopes, helped you enjoy the experience of watching the Colorado Rockies at one of Major…

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Open Screen Night: This Tuesday, August 26!

As I post this on a Friday, I realize many of you are making and/or finalizing plans for the weekend. That’s all well and good, but I’d like you to look just a bit beyond that and think about what you’re doing on Tuesday of next week. Wait. “Tuesday?” you ask incredulously, fully understanding that…

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Ep. 25: Ryan Frost and Brad Haag – Hosts of the Reel Nerds Podcast

Ryan Frost and Brad Haag comprise 2/3 of the Reel Nerds Podcast, and they join this week’s show to talk about how their love of movies has led them to a weekly podcast that’s grown and thrived over the last 3 years. They are (Unofficially) The Official Podcast of Denver Comic Con, and in the…

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