Monthly Archives: June 2009

Oh My Awesomeness: Week One

Each week I’m going to tip my red, straw summer fedora to AV projects I think are awesome. (And in the cooler months it is the tip of a knitted beanie.) This week it’s a hearty “hooray!” for the creative duo Dorothee and Mark at OrganicNation.TV. Organic Nation Trailer from OrganicNation on Vimeo. And it’s [...]

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Teva B1-G Air Contest

So you know that Adventure Film School I keep pimping? I promise you this– the 7 days you spend training with guys and girls who are world class climbers, DPs and go to work everyday at NOVA, National Geographic and Discovery Channel– are TOTALLY WORTH IT.  And you can go to film school for free [...]

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Stories from the Olden Times of VHS

Somewhere in the 1990′s my husband John was studying film at Columbia College Chicago after departing a chemistry program at Oberlin. (“I was always protesting apartheid, I couldn’t concentrate,” he would tell me.)        Over the weekend as I was raking my way through what production contracts look like, and just generally trying to learn the [...]

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