Ryan Junell

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Born in Frankfurt, Germany during wartime, Junell moved with family to deep West Texas and lived between rural and urban environments throughout his youth. He matriculated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Plan 2 Honors Degree. Ryan currently splits time between New York and the Bay Area. His video work includes artful non-fiction about travel, politics, media, and society. His music videos and music films have appeared in programming on MTV2, MTV Europe, MTV Japan, Res DVD, Sonar Festival (Spain), The New York Underground Film Festival, and numerous theaters and galleries around the world. He has created music videos for bands such as Spoon (Merge Records), Gravy Train!!!! (Kill Rock Stars), The Octopus Project (Peek-a-Boo), The Soft Pink Truth (Soundslike), The Natural History (Star Time), Lesser (Matador), and Sagan (Vague Terrain). He directed a short documentary about John Kerry on the campaign trail in 2003. In 2004, he created an experimental documentary video installation about the Republican National Convention in New York. Junell interned for George W. Bush on capitol hill one summer when he was governor of Texas. Junell's duties included researching the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and compiling national press clippings in a "zine" format for the governor's desk. Ryan is founder and curator of The SLOMO Video Festival, 100 one minute slow motion short films by 85 filmmakers and video artists from around the world. In 2006, the festival toured to 9 countries and 22 cities and was distributed online independently on DVD. Junell's work with slow motion returns in October 2007 as The SLOMO Horror Festival... 100 one minute slow motion horror films by 100 filmmakers and video artists. Ryan is also an organizer of WEBZINE, an event series held in San Francisco and New York (1998-2001, 2005) featuring the art of independent online publishing. In collaboration with many other inspired West Texans, Ryan helped bring to life the title role in "Radio Free Steve", an 80s post-apocalyptic epic road-trip movie about independent media... and mutants. You can catch a rare glimpse of Ryan's acting abilities in the extremely unpopular online series "The Vlogger". He also recreated the role of Tycho Brahe in Sagan's "Unseen Forces", a 40 minute cinematic paean to the late great astronomer. Junell recently finished his third animation for Creative Commons. He also finished a short animation for Safari Books Online. He has produced animations for several non profits including H2O, WestEd, and PRX (The Public Radio Exchange). Mr. Junell has also done a ton of web building, print design, zine making, set design for theater, and on-air radio dj'ing (KROC/KIXY/KTSB/KVRX). His lifelong fascination with media in all its manifestations leads him to write longish biographical essays about himself in the third person just to get through it all. However, the links below probably do the better job at whatever this set of text set out to do. SLOMOHorror.com SLOMOVideo.com Webzine2005.com SeeTheElephant.org RadioFreeSteve.com MySpace IMDB Flickr Google Wikipedia Technorati Flickr Tags Friendster Halo 2 Pizza is almost good.

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