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Back in the States

May 17, 2014 By Dan Finnen

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 […]

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Filed Under: Misc Tagged With: Italy, Orvieto, Roma, Rome, travel

Heading to Rome!

April 29, 2014 By Dan Finnen

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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Filed Under: Misc Tagged With: Rome, Site Updates, travel

I survived the Krispy Kreme Challenge

February 11, 2014 By Dan Finnen

“Because it’s there” – George Mallory, when asked why he was about to make a (fatal) attempt to climb Mt. Everest I don’t know when it first came up in conversation, but suddenly we couldn’t stop talking about it. Somewhere in the United States, there was a race where one ate a bunch of donuts […]

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Filed Under: Misc Tagged With: doughnuts, events, general insanity, Krispy Kreme Challenge, North Carolina, running

Celebrating Four Years of Failing at Tumblr

January 13, 2014 By Dan Finnen

I am an old man on Tumblr. I’ve seen kingdoms rise and fall, hipsters explained, memes analyzed, photo blogs rise, photo blogs fall. Most of the people I followed even two years ago are long gone. My friends that got me on the platform originally departed for greener pastures years ago. Yet I remain. Four […]

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Filed Under: Misc, Photography, Writing Tagged With: fail, late night thoughts, social media, the internet, tumblr

Happy 2014 everyone!

January 2, 2014 By Dan Finnen

I’m a bit behind the times due to a little stomach flu that decided to pay me a post-Christmas visit, but this wouldn’t be a blog without New Year’s Eve/Year In Review Blog Post(TM). For some reason, I initially felt like I didn’t have that much to report, but looking back, 2013 was a huge […]

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Filed Under: Misc Tagged With: 2013, 2014, lists... sort of, new year

Welcome to the new DanFinnen.com

October 26, 2013 By Dan Finnen

Welcome to DanFinnen.com 3.0! This site started many years ago as a flat personal webpage that looked like garbage (too much red!) When I graduated from college in 2011, I tentatively started adding articles and reviews about photography, which quickly expanded in popularity and became the reason 99% of people came to the site. The […]

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Filed Under: Misc Tagged With: danfinnen.com 3.0, new site, welcome

News Archive 2012

September 6, 2013 By Dan Finnen

This page features all the news posts on DanFinnen.com in 2012 for historical reference. Some links may be broken and formatting may display incorrectly. December 1, 2012 Polaroid Job Pro Camera Review Just in time for the holidays, I got up a new review of the Polaroid Job Pro camera. It’s a hardy little camera, but almost […]

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News Archive 2011

September 6, 2013 By Dan Finnen

Below are news stories that we posted on DanFinnen.com in 2011. 20 December 2011, Tuesday Holy crap, it’s only five days away from Christmas! This unusually warm Chicago December has me all thrown off. Not complaining though, if we can keep this for another month or so that would be greeeat… As the year winds […]

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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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