Shazam Bugs Your Life

I recently saw the new Star Trek movie with my wife (we enjoyed it quite a bit) and in the pre-movie advertising there was an advert with a Shazam logo on it and if you tagged the ad audio using your Shazam app it would hook you up to a store site so you could...
DataTale Thunderbolt RAID Review

DataTale Thunderbolt RAID Review

The recently released DataTale SMART 4-bay Thunderbolt RAID caught my attention as an affordable Thunderbolt storage unit for video editing so I contacted Oyen Digital here in the Twin Cities and they sent over a unit for me to review*. I supplied my own 2TB Toshiba...
The State of Crowdfunding Panel

The State of Crowdfunding Panel

Join me to discuss the state of crowdfunding your movie projects at the 2012 Flyway Film Festival this weekend, on Saturday, October 20th. I’ll be joined by Slamdance co-founder Paul Rachman and consulting filmmaker Lucas McNelly. Armed with the data from our...
Kickstarting TRIUMPH

Kickstarting TRIUMPH

How we raised $12,000 in 30 days for our feature film. Note: This is a repost from a post I authored at the TRIUMPH67 website. Upon first hearing about crowdfunding via kickstarter I was obsessed with how I was eventually going to put it to use on a film project. I...

My Feature Film Premiere

At long last. After three years of laboring behind the camera, in front of the editing computer, over weekends and late nights, we have a finished feature film. TRIUMPH67 premieres on Friday, April 15th, 7:00pm at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival....
A Film Triumph

A Film Triumph

The past couple of months has seen a sudden flurry of work, from outdoor location shoots (in the pouring rain, no less) to Fortune 100 corporate green-screen video (to be public soon), to productions featuring animals and babies (ignoring the advice of W.C. Fields)....