Hey guys. It's us, Footnote. It's been awhile! Sorry about that. Please don't take our silence as a sign of laziness or, worse, apathy. We've been really busy, actually. Making programs, yes, but also fighting for our lives. Let's explain....
Piper: What's that movie with Christian Bale? Jon and Tyler (Together): BATMAN! Piper: No. Jon and Topher: NEWSIES! Piper: No! It's with Matt Damon and they're both fighters. Tyler: The Fighter. Piper: The Fighter! Tyler: It's not Matt Damon....
I'm not claiming to know it all. But trust me. I know some things. Like the blow of exposing my hopes and dreams, weaknesses and failures to someone I love and trust, only to be told I don't quite make...
I stumbled across the blog of Ann Voskamp recently, and there was delighted to discover a clarity and precision not often found in the online format. This bit on secrets, including the very dark one she grew up with, left...
I know for me, it's always just been easier to hide things. It's easier to keep things to myself, simpler to brush off the hard questions that friends might ask about a certain situation or what-have-you. It's easier to inconspicuously...
Friday night, we'll be re-airing "Secret Society," our episode on the secrets we keep, share, and create. This episode also features our interview with Frank Warren, the creator of PostSecret. Here's some people's answers to the simplest question we could...
JON: I'm thinking we make it like the final scene of Juno. [Pulls out laptop to show Youtube clip in demonstration] TYLER: Juno sucked. JON: [Playing clip from some movie that is not Juno] Actually, this isn't the Juno clip....
The trailer for our next episode has been available for a while, but we thought we'd make it more conveniently available. Get ready for Episode 8. It'll air October 15 on WGN, but, of course, we'll post it right here...
I wrote down my secrets. It was a simple exercise. We're working on a Footnote episode on secrets, and I thought it'd be a good way to get off the sideline and into the game. I made a few rules...
Our experiments in the "Secret Society" episode with masks and secrets was two parts disturbing, three parts revealing, and all haunting. Disturbing, because we heard some secrets that chilled us. Revealing, because we realized just how many chilling secrets most...
