Fire-Wired Blog

Excited to share my latest multimedia endeavor, Audiography. A few feet beyond what I would define as a hobby, Audiography is a new nature sound recording effort mixed with personal storytelling. If that's enough for you, here's the soundcloud. As you may know I am a podcasting fanatic . I first started listening to podcasts in 2007 when I discovered Filmspotting , and in 2012 my good friend Jacob Rosdail and I set behind the mics ourselves to create our own podcast " Filmcast Without a Cause ." Well Audiography is something new. Part podcast, part storytelling, and a large dose of natural sounds. Roughly two weeks ago I drove up to Okoboji's Iowa Lakeside Lab to spend a day filming Alex Braidwood 's Acoustic Ecology course. For two weeks, Alex takes college students, artists, and creatively inclined individuals out into the world to record nature sounds and examine the world of acoustic ecology. At the end of the experience the crew produces a set o...

Recently this video came across my gReader . It's a couple years old but I love it. Of course because of the client headache story arc, but also because of what it says about people dealing with "creative" situations. Everyone likes to believe they are creative and when they are given a project to let that show, they strike. And while people feel they are creative, they generally worry that others, and definitely unknowns, are either not creative or need some hand-holding. Sometimes creative license leads to great things, sometimes bad things, sometimes project leads are so uncomfortable in the group mindset they micro-manage the project to death. I think we all know how painful that can be. Prior to my new job I've always worked in media production environments. Coworkers have always been some variation on my talents. The Foundation is much more of a classic work environment; numbers, clients, budgets... I am an outlier as employee talents go. I rarely deal ...