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EXTRAS

Jonathan Storment — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:40:26 +0000

This is a video that we showed at Highland a few weeks ago as we kicked off the new series EXTRAS. I read an article last year about the myriad of people who are in front of the cameras but behind the scenes in all of your favorite films and TV Shows. Most of them will never get discovered, they work hard and are paid little. And the question that kept coming back to me was..."Why? Why would anyone do this?"

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(Script)ure.

Jonathan Storment — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:30:19 +0000

The story that the Bible is telling is Epic. It's this large over-arching story with a thousand different characters that are flawed and hopeful, deeply broken yet strangely included. And there is a plot that is guiding these little stories toward a larger more magnificent one.

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Eucatastrophe

Jonathan Storment — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 07:00:04 +0000

Last year I read the Lord of the Rings for the first time. I had a feeling that I would like the books, but I never wanted to be “that guy.” It kind of seemed like a slippery slope. One minute I’m reading about Frodo, and the next I’m wearing a Star Trek uniform and [...]

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Lost

Jonathan Storment — Mon, 24 May 2010 05:18:20 +0000

So over the past few years I’ve written several times on the show Lost. I never wanted to be “that guy” who found meaning in a T.V. Series, but for those of us who have watched for the past 6 years, we know that there was something unique about Lost. I know that it ultimately [...]

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Alternative Stories

Jonathan Storment — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:30:09 +0000

In the book, Super-Freakenomics, the authors begin with a curious story about what happened when cable television came to villages in India. Which doesn’t sound like it’d be that interesting. I mean nobody wants to read about what cable has done for my life. But this is actually fascinating. Because cable television didn’t come to every [...]

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