tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-169691 2012-05-09T08:57:00-05:00 POST-EVERYTHING CULTURE by BRENT KADO TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e201630526716a970d 2012-05-09T08:57:00-05:00 2012-05-09T08:57:00-05:00

Our Words Of Old A few years back we wrote a novel (ok, like almost a decade now!) It was a stream-of-consciousness deal very much inspired by Kerouac. (And yes I wrote it over the course of a month, highly...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e20168eb56dc88970c 2012-05-08T23:04:11-05:00 2012-05-08T23:05:45-05:00

Chicago MileXMile This is probably one of the dopest photo sites on the Net. A look at major Chicago intersections at each mile grid-mark from one angle. From Brandon & 135th to Bryn Mawr and East River - take a...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e20168eb2372b6970c 2012-05-08T08:29:00-05:00 2012-05-08T08:29:00-05:00

Need A Quality Video or Commercial? Let's Talk. FlowFeel Films' boutique-style service with less attitude, with 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...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e201676615e9b8970b 2012-05-07T12:28:00-05:00 2012-05-08T22:18:54-05:00

Scatter Brained Takes On A New Meaning Your brain operates on the edge of chaos. Though much of the time it runs in an orderly and stable way, every now and again it suddenly and unpredictably lurches into a blizzard...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e201630537a339970d 2012-05-05T09:55:45-05:00 2012-05-05T09:57:47-05:00

Coffee - Fueling Life #energy #thoughts

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e20168eb183323970c 2012-05-04T09:32:00-05:00 2012-05-04T15:26:42-05:00

A Photo With A Thought Nature is neither manifestly romantic nor picturesque: the descriptive terms convey cultural meanings that live in perceptions - Alan Trachtenberg. Meaning - beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (photo taken in the Tri-County...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e2016765ff768c970b 2012-05-02T11:53:00-05:00 2012-05-02T11:53:00-05:00

Creativity, Fulfillment and Flow: The Way of Life Social theorist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e2016764886384970b 2012-04-04T09:33:00-05:00 2012-04-25T18:50:41-05:00

Always The Photog - Our History In Images We've always been an amatuer photog. Ever since high school when we borrowed our parents quaility equiptment and would take nature shots and the like, we've dabbled in the simple art form....

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e201630370b549970d 2012-03-29T15:21:48-05:00 2012-03-29T15:23:02-05:00

YouTube And Art We are in the process of reworking a paper from a Fall Ph.D. class in to a journal article. The nexus of our work is based on the project below. YouTube Videos To Become High Art at...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e2016301595be6970d 2012-02-13T23:27:22-06:00 2012-03-29T14:53:10-05:00

Video We Worked On Showing This Thursday Head to iO to see our short video entitled "Contested". It is a humorous little period piece. 8 other films showing with it.

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e20168e5e80976970c 2012-01-30T07:25:00-06:00 2012-01-30T07:25:00-06:00

Video Shoot Today Some of us from Chicago Comedy Film Festival got a team and crew together to enter a short film into a comedy video competition. We will do our first day (out of 2) of shooting today at...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e20168e501d41f970c 2012-01-23T10:48:00-06:00 2012-01-21T18:17:42-06:00

Preview of Our Sched for '12 Jan. 24 - Laugh Out Local: Shorts of 2011 at the Hungry Brain Jan. 28 - Laugh Out Local Film Event in Elkhart, IN. Feb. 8 - America's Funniest Viral Videos at Black Rock...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e20168e5e819d1970c 2012-01-22T10:39:00-06:00 2012-01-22T10:39:00-06:00

Trying To Get Back In The Swing Of Posting It has been a couple weeks since we posted here. We had a nice vaca in Florida (above cell pic on the beach on X-mas Day), a great New Years with...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e20162feb92457970d 2011-12-30T14:51:49-06:00 2011-12-30T14:51:49-06:00

Year In Review - Chicago Comedy Film Festival The 1st Annual CCFF was nothing short of phenomenal. Screening nearly 40 films, having filmmakers come in from NYC, LA, Omaha, amazing press coverage, full houses for many shows and a fun,...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e2015438c603cf970c 2011-12-23T11:58:32-06:00 2011-12-23T11:58:32-06:00

Another Stellar, Sunny Summer No matter where we go, the solitude and serenity of the lake house is always a constant for us. This summer was no different as we spend wonderful chunks of time along the waters. There was...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e2015438aa89e7970c 2011-12-22T08:37:00-06:00 2012-05-04T16:03:09-05:00

Year In Review - Video For Lotus Above is the video we directed and co-produced for Lotus. It was the lead track on their new self-titled album. During the shooting of the video, Chicago Jam Scene did a nice article...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e20162fe1f9e95970d 2011-12-21T11:14:00-06:00 2011-12-21T11:14:00-06:00

Year In Review - Colorado on the Rocks In July we got the amazing chance to be part of Lotus on the Rocks, Red Rocks that is. It was a special few days over the 4th of July. Besides the...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e20162fe1f5a57970d 2011-12-21T08:06:00-06:00 2011-12-21T08:06:00-06:00

Burrito Quest - Map Updated, Food Rated Its been awhile but we won't sleep too long on getting burritos up and rated once we scarf them down. We picked up a little grub before a meeting in Logan Square and...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e201675f035e1c970b 2011-12-20T07:14:00-06:00 2011-12-20T07:14:00-06:00

Year In Review - Music & Photos, Exhibit A Since starting the PhD program we haven't been able to hit the number of shows we used to (over 110 p/ year in '06, '07 and '08). But we still make...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e20154387ec9b9970c 2011-12-19T12:46:00-06:00 2011-12-19T12:46:00-06:00

Our Year In Review Its been a busy year and we havent always been totally engaged here on the site, but there's been a load of goodness going on. Starting today we are going to start dropping some of our...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e2015436dd74b0970c 2011-12-19T07:47:00-06:00 2011-12-18T15:44:23-06:00

Entries Now Being Accepted for the 2nd Annual Chicago Comedy Film Festival Lots of news in the realm of CCFF. Our submission period is open. Please visit this page for more info. We are happy to announce the festival will...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e20153943c1a4c970b 2011-12-09T11:59:00-06:00 2011-12-09T11:59:00-06:00

Another Weekend in Michigan After a show with our good friends The Werks at the HOB tonight, were off to Michigan again just a couple weeks after our T-day jaunt. Hope to grab some of that fine, fine MI wine...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e20154380fd3dc970c 2011-12-09T07:43:00-06:00 2011-12-12T23:57:46-06:00

New Umphreys McGee Video We've been super-swamped in PhD land, but we'll get back to posting over X-mas break. Here is a new video we co-produced and directed that finally got released. It was shot back on Labor Day weekend...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e20154365d918d970c 2011-12-01T08:03:00-06:00 2011-12-01T08:03:00-06:00

Flaunt Magazine's Arty, Modish Video Archive From the swank edges of art, fashion and music comes a cache of lovely video from Flaunt.

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e201543656f033970c 2011-11-30T08:03:00-06:00 2011-11-30T08:03:00-06:00

Interviews To Open The Mind Culture Catch has great video interviews with some of today's seminal creators.

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e20154378adf37970c 2011-11-29T14:02:00-06:00 2011-11-29T14:02:00-06:00

New Umphrey's McGee Video New video from Umphreys for Booth Love. Simple concept, cool visuals with Chicago focus and a great song. Look for a new live video coming from us for the band very soon!

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e2015436a8d550970c 2011-11-28T12:31:00-06:00 2011-11-28T12:31:00-06:00

Interview and Photos from the Lotus Video Shoot Some coverage from local music site on our Lotus video shoot at the Riviera. Nice photos and an interview with us.

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-46419860 2011-11-28T07:29:00-06:00 2011-11-28T17:02:09-06:00

Support The Artist If you'd like to order prints or work together on an event - get in touch.

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e20153927db9d5970b 2011-11-23T12:13:00-06:00 2011-11-23T12:13:00-06:00

2nd Annual Pizza Film Festival This upcoming Tuesday at the Hungry Brain the Pizza Film Fest is back. Shorts films with pizza in them. Dig in on some deep dish cinema.

Avant/Chicago aka Kado tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515e5069e2015437367d12970c 2011-11-22T11:58:00-06:00 2011-11-22T11:58:00-06:00

We Made This Call Years Ago - Forget 'six degrees' The world is a bit smaller than we thought. In a continuation of the concept of "six degrees of separation," Facebook and the University of Milan announced tonight they had...

Avant/Chicago aka Kado