Dan Markham

An interesting story on NPR’s All Things Considered about Jay Craven a producer/director who distributes his films by driving them around in his Mini and staging screenings in small venues. I mean small. Like the public library’s community room.

Even so, his films have starred the likes of Michael J. Fox (who worked for free) and Kris Kristofferson. Not bad.

More on the ubiquitous voices in media (I’ll stop sometime)

Do you watch Frontline? You should, by the way. Best news-magazine style show on TV. Frontline retains a certain air of sober integrity amongst the crop of glitzy, ratings-hungry news-magazines one finds on network television. Anyway, much as there is a signature vocal manner associated with the marketing of films (embodied by these guys) Frontline, since I began watching it some years ago, has been graced with the commanding vocal imprint of one Will Lyman…and so has BMW.

This isn’t breaking news (this article bemoaning this association is from ‘05 after all) but as I have been thinking, lately, about signature voices in the media Mr. Lyman was bound to crop up.

Frontline is an incomparable, top-notch news-magazine program. I continue to watch it whenever I can. It’s hard, now, though, to get “The Ultimate Driving Machine” out of my head when I do.

More on “Cloverfield” aka “1-18-08″ Thanks to Daring Fireball for feeding my unhealthy obsession with the forthcoming movie from J.J. Abrams.