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Does Your Business or Band Need A Quality Video?

Let's Talk. FlowFeel Films' boutique-style service with less attitude and high quality has provided our customers with proven results. Award-winning videos for bands, press coverage while producing films and the final product as well as highly impressive traffic numbers are just a few of the elements you'll get from us. Not to mention an engaging, powerful video to connect you with your clientele. Let's make your video happen. Contact us here.

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For the time being this blog is pretty much inactive. This site has seen many lives as it were, from one of the most covered and visited Chicago culture blogs to more of personal musing spot. With our other projects - FlowFeel Films, Chicago Comedy Film Festival and teaching - coupled with the ease of sharing on sites like Twitter, blogging doesn't fit in the schedule very well. Thanks to all who stopped by over the years. We encourage you to scroll through the archives as there is tons of interesting items to digest. Also please keep up with us at these spots....

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Check out Chicago Comedy Film Festival

Join us for Chicago Comedy Film Festival 2012. LOCATION DePaul University Computing and Digital Media Theater, NOVEMBER 2-4. Watch trailers here. Get Tickets now.

Check out the trailer for Servitude - Official 2012 CCFF Selection

Buy passes here.

End of Summer - A Photo Rewind

 

Summer is winding down, the days at our lake retreat cooling off. Usually we'd be excited for Fall in the Midwest, but this year we're trying out LA for a stint. Will be quite the exciting juxtapostion to go from the small-town habitat to the SoCal environs. We'll be back next summer, maybe we need to do a video instead of a photoging it all summer.

Watch Pocket Porn - New Video from Dani Deahl

Check out the trailer for Bad Parents - 2012 CCFF Official Selection

Buy tickets now.

Fun New Song & Video from Rah Rah

Blame It On Obama - New Andre Williams Video

Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Festival This Weekend

100 short films by creators from around the globe will showcase in Chicago this weekend for the 9th annual Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Festival. Films in multiple genres including comedy. At Columbia College Film Row Cinema.

Cellphone Art/Twitpic/Instagram/Photo

Nature by the Lakes series continues. Right atop the Continental Divide. Long Lake, Syracuse, Indiana.

New John Cale (Velvet Underground) Video

Bob Dylan & The Band "Down In The Flood" on DVD

 

In 1966 Bob Dylan began his first electric world tour. It was a landmark moment, both for Dylan and for the history of rock music. Backing Dylan on stage was an obscure group of Canadian musicians collectively known as The Hawks and later, The Band. This is the story.

2 Worthwhile Video Events in Chicago

• DINCA Vision Quest - 3 nights of audio/video performance w/ a new media, internet art and experimental focus. In Pilsen at Thalia Hall which the group hopes to revitalize as an arts space.
• Chicago Film Archive has a media mixer/fundraiser at the Hideout tonight. Footage, new films and audio will all the part of the event. Raffle with prizes.

New Gucci Mane ft Jim Jones - "Kansas" (Official Video)

Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires - "Ain't No Stranger" - New Video

New visuals for these infectious, swagger-filled southern rockers.

Video Premiere: The Burning of Rome – “Ballad of an Onion Sprout”

Memorable music and video from SoCal rockers.

Two lectures by Klaus Wyborny - Film

Klaus Wyborny talks about film. Lecture one covers the camera as a musical instrument. Love it.

"Call Them Brothers" - Regina Spektor & Only Son - Video

Instagram inspired?

Tight - World's First All-Girl Adult Film Star Band

Well....we're intrigued! Tight, a mockumentary follows the world's only all-girl porn star band as they struggle to put their wild pasts behind them and make it in the music game.

Does Your Business or Band Need A Quality Video?

Need A Quality Video or Commercial?

Let's Talk. FlowFeel Films' boutique-style service with less attitude and high quality has provided our customers with proven results. Award-winning videos for bands, press coverage while producing films and the final product as well as highly impressive traffic numbers are just a few of the elements you'll get from us. Not to mention an engaging, powerful video to connect you with your clientele. Let's make your video happen. Contact us here.

Support Indie Film - Fundraiser For Chicago Festival

Support Indie Film - Fundraiser For Chicago Festival

Take a look at this Kickstarter campaign. Excellent rewards for giving at each level. Support the comedic arts. Every donation helps.

Synthesis/Regeneration - A Magazine of Green Social Thought

Back in '98 we ordered a life time subscription to a progressive political magazine called Synthesis/Regeneration. Every quarter they send us a simple but information packed issue of social justice, ecological and green democracy news. The Fall '12 issue is out, but not online yet. Here are articles from past issues on Iceland's Left-Wing Reveolution and Ecosocialism as a system of thought. Check out some alternative journalism.

New Gram Rabbit Video

New Gram Rabbit Video

New single for Fruit of the Loom commercial. Deserate Heart by Gram Rabbit.

Yeasayer Offers Up Audio/Video Scavenger Hunt

Yeasayer Offers Up Audio/Video Scavenger Hunt

PSCYVOTV from Yeasayer allows fans to stream new album via web scavenger hunt. Watch videos for all tracks as they are revealed. Nice creativity for a release.

All Things Chicago Comedy Film Festival

All Things Chicago Comedy Film Festival

Let me catch you up on your Chicago international comedy film festival.

• Happy to have Radisson Blu Aqua as a Red Carpet Sponsor
• Check out our poster contest
• Want to advertise in our program - Contact us.
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• Submissions are now closed. Look for our programming soon!
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• Meet our 2012 Jury

New Video, Single from Two Wounded Birds

New Video, Single from Two Wounded Birds

Simple and subtle new video off debut album, out now.

New Video For MSGM Lookbook Gets All GIFish

New Video  Gets All GIFish

Directed by videographer Luca Finotti, the clip is entitled “Flowerworks”, and is the preview of the Fall/Winter line for MSGM.  Not only is it very colorful and snazzy, but it has a GIF-influenced feel that makes one's head bobble.  (via Livin' Cool)

We Are Coming To A Little Festival in North Webster, Indiana

Coming To A Little Festival in North Webster, Indiana

Couple years back we screened our feature film Welcome to Gentle Waters in our favorite summertime haunt for Dixie Days. We are back this year with the Chicago Comedy Film Festival. Stop by the North Webster Community Center on July 26 for great, hilarious films from the 2011 fest. Bringing independent film to unique places.

Burrito Quest Marches On - Updates

Burrito Quest Marches On - Updates

Living and travelling the Southside of Chicago, we have plenty of chances to work on our quest for the perfect burrito. Over the past few weeks we've added some more to this map. Take a look.