Dan Finnen

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June 30, 2016 By Dan Finnen

One of my favorite games that I’ve had the chance to play recently was Firewatch, a first person game that managed to be tense, exciting and wonderful without anybody being shot or impaled. It’s a sad state of affairs when it’s the exception, not the rule, when a video game isn’t about shooting your way […]

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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

November 26, 2015 By Dan Finnen

As the year draws to a close, I want to thank you the reader for your terrific support! I have a blast sharing my adventures photography, writing, and more with you all. I’ve been working my butt off with NaNoWriMo the past month, but I have all sorts of new stuff coming your way for […]

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Back in the States (again!)

October 10, 2015 By Dan Finnen

I just got back from overseas, and while it was an absolute blast, I can say with certainty that I’m glad to be in Chicago. I’m catching up with everything at the moment and fighting off the various colds that one acquires from spending endless hours on a crowded plane, but in the meantime here […]

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Off to Europe!

September 13, 2015 By Dan Finnen

Things are going to be a little slow around here for the next few weeks as I’m off with the rest of the Polymyth crew to work on Lucia Mauro’s new film ‘One Year Later’ in northern Italy. We’ve already been hard at work on this project in Chicago, and we can’t wait to start […]

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Filed Under: Misc Tagged With: Europe, Italy, One Year Later, Orvieto, Polymyth, travel

The Buyout is now online!

August 16, 2015 By Dan Finnen

The short film I wrote and directed is now online for your viewing pleasure! The Buyout explores the limits of friendship in the face of a financial windfall of unimaginable proportions. At a two-man software startup, one man’s loyalty to his co-owner is put to the ultimate test when Google offers to buy out his […]

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Filed Under: Misc, Writing Tagged With: comedy, Film, short, the buyout

Old Town is now streaming!

June 9, 2015 By Dan Finnen

Old Town, the tv pilot that I co-directed is now stream-able (is that a word?) on-demand through the producers’ IndieGoGo! For ten bucks you can watch the 22-minute episode as many times as your heart desires. You can also watch the trailer below. Old Town follows the three different stories of people working to make […]

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What I’ve been up to: Old Town

March 20, 2015 By Dan Finnen

If you’ve been watching Polmyth Productions/DistractChicago.com over the past few years, you may remember Liars, the webisode series we produced. Well, at long last, we’ve reunited with Brett Elam and Josh Logan (of Michael Pizza fame) to create the tv pilot for Old Town. I had a blast co-directing the guys with Derek Cox over […]

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The Year in Words I Didn’t Know

January 3, 2015 By Dan Finnen

My Kindle has a funky little new feature that I’ve grown increasingly fond of over the past year. Traditionally, every time one holds their finger down on a word, it comes up with the definition. It’s an incredibly useful feature, and one that I now find myself sorely missing in physical books. (Looking up words […]

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Filed Under: Misc, Writing Tagged With: 2014, Kindle, vocabulary, vocabulary builder, words

Celebrating one year of the new DanFinnen.com

October 10, 2014 By Dan Finnen

Well, I guess I can’t call it the ‘new’ danfinnen.com anymore. It’s hard to believe, but the current WordPress-powered version of my site is now one year old today. I officially started writing articles about photography on my site in 2011, and back then I never would’ve thought that it would become anything more than […]

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What I’m Up To: Teenage Ghost Punk

June 9, 2014 By Dan Finnen

I don’t always talk a whole lot about my day job over at ol’ Polymyth Productions here, but I figured that I’d be amiss if I didn’t mention some of the more interesting stuff we’ve been working on. Take for instance, Teenage Ghost Punk, a feature length film written and directed by Mike Cramer that […]

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Filed Under: Misc Tagged With: Film, movie, Polymyth, teenage ghost punk, what I'm up to

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I’m a writer, photographer, co-owner of Polymyth, and Skyline Chili enthusiast. You can reach me at hello (at) danfinnen.com or on Twitter @danfinnen.

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