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 […]
Read More...Off to Europe!
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 […]
Read More...The Buyout is now online!
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 […]
Read More...Old Town is now streaming!
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 […]
Read More...What I’ve been up to: Old Town
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 […]
Read More...The Year in Words I Didn’t Know
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 […]
Read More...Celebrating one year of the new DanFinnen.com
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 […]
Read More...What I’m Up To: Teenage Ghost Punk
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 […]
Read More...Back in the States
It is true, I have officially returned to the States! I had a fantastic time shooting the short film ‘In My Brother’s Shoes‘ in Italy with an awesome cast and crew. We trekked across every inch of the city and I ate way, way too much pasta and pizza for my own good. I’ll have […]
Read More...Heading to Rome!
Things might get a little slow around here in early May, as I’m off to Rome with my video company Polymyth Productions for the next two weeks to shoot a short film! I’ll have more details on the short once we return, as well as a boatload of photos of things and places that have […]
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