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We finished our six-film tour of 1990s international independent cinema on the Family Pictures Podcast with Gianni Amelio s Il ladro di bambini (1992), and I m not sure we could have picked a better film to put an exclamation point on Continue reading
Back in 2009, I participated in a NMC presentation with Tom Woodward and Brian Lamb called Uncanny Learning. The conceit was a radio show premised on Art Bell s Coast to Coast, wherein I played a salesman from the future selling Continue reading
Now that Mike Caulfield has taken over the production duties we re likely to see a more regular episode-a-week schedule for the film podcast Couch to 4K. Right now new episodes are being released via YouTube, but we ll get them distributed Continue reading
It will be no surprise to the folks running Domain of One s Own (DoOO) on their campus, but Reclaim has been in the process of rolling out a welcome upgrade to our flagship product. The long and the short of Continue reading
I am a bit late on this one, but sometimes that s how it goes in the dog-eat-god world of blogging. On July 28th, Reclaim Hosting finished up its thirteenth year of business. The fact that it is still here more Continue reading
It took me a while, but last week I finally saw Christopher Nolan s The Odyssey on IMAX. Almost the whole family came, and we travelled an hour and change south at 8:00 AM to make our 9:45 showing—which was almost Continue reading
I m using Blaugust as an excuse to push myself to write more regularly about my film podcasting, so far so good. Got one post out over each of the last four days, and this one will make five. I still Continue reading
In a meeting today I ended by referencing the public service announcement (PSA) It s 10 PM: Do You Know Where Your Children Are? . No one got the reference—except maybe by way of The Simpsons. Here s the actual PSA I remember: Continue reading
I guess it s official now that Mike Caulfield has finally blogged about the new film podcast we re doing: Couch to 4K. In fact, we ve been recording episodes since April as we ve tried to figure out both our chemistry and some Continue reading
With this episode, number 72, Michael Branson Smith and I are 4 films deep into our series on international independent films from the 90s. We started down under with Muriel s Wedding (1994), then we headed up to Tehran for The Continue reading
I literally have scores of blog posts about my film podcasting adventures that I ve yet to publish. For nearly two years now, I have been co-hosting the Family Pictures Podcast, and we re closing fast on 80 episodes. This spring I Continue reading
It s been well over a month since I ve seen the backside of this blog. My last post, from June 19th, chronicles a talk I was preparing for in Hamburg in late June. I m happy to report it turned out to Continue reading