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Vlogging like I am Blogging

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20 years ago I used blog a lot , at least for me. Blogging was a way to keep a written record of my thoughts and experiences. It wasn’t anything ambitious, just trying something to communicate. After a couple years I realized it was a fun repository of my life to look back on and have a few laughs at what I felt was important at that point in my life.  Today, I don’t really have as much time to blog and I don’t feel the need to fill the internet with my written silliness. I do not feel that way about video’d silliness. In fact, I am as in love with creating videos now as I was in 1999 when I first learned how to edit in Media 100 & Final Cut. The only difference between now and then is I’ve produced hundreds of hours of video content at this point and the projects are starting to whiz by. So instead of just letting them fall into the void, for the last few years I’ve been toying with the idea of producing commentary companion videos . This week, I did just that for ...

The Film Lounge: running the show

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The Film Lounge returns with a new season of powerful and exciting locally produced films. Join us on air and online Jan 31 and Feb 7 for Season 6 as we celebrate Iowa filmmakers with @ProduceIowa and the @IowaArtsCouncil ! #TheFilmLounge #IowaFilm pic.twitter.com/VAA30XfQDA — Iowa PBS (@IowaPBS) January 10, 2022   For six years one of my ongoing projects at Iowa PBS has been The Film Lounge . When the show launched way back in 2016, the show was brain child of Chuck Czech, former local programming manager at Iowa PBS. Chuck and I both started at Iowa PBS in 2014 and in the years leading up to the creation of The Film Lounge we spent a fair amount of time talking movies and filmmaking. In particular there was one night in 2015 after the crew wrapped a day-long broadcast of high school volleyball championships and everyone stayed up far too late sharing a few beverages in the lobby of our hotel. That evening Chuck and I talked our career paths and our love for film for probabl...