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brokenbulb.org
brokenbulb.org is the Web site of independent radio producer Jonathan Menjivar (men-HEE-var). I'm based in Philadelphia where I'm an Associate Producer with NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. I have reported and produced work for a variety of public radio programs including This American Life, Studio 360, Marketplace, Weekend America, Chicago Matters, KCRW, Michigan Radio, and the Web site transom.org, where I was an artist-in-residence in Winter 2002. I'm available for all aspects of radio production including reporting, editing, mixing, and tape syncs.
Why brokenbulb?
For several years when I was in high school and college I worked at a movie theater. It was a sad, surburban mulitplex that played movies I never wanted to see. I worked nights a lot of the time, sticking around past 1 a.m. reading books and waiting for people to leave. Some nights if I got bored, I'd go hang out with the projectionist. Watch him cut and splice film with speed and precision – thread it through the maze of sprockets on the projector. Once you pressed the start button on a projector, this giant xenon bulb would light up and turn those tiny pictures on the film strip all cinema sized. Every so often, one of those bulbs would break or fizzle out like a star in a distant galaxy. And then all you'd be left with was the sound of the film, some gum stuck under chairs, and a room full of people suddenly aware of each other again.
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Just because I like to get all nerdy about what gear people are using, I'm going to make the assumption that you might be that kind of person too. These days I record using a Marantz PMD 660 coupled with the Audio-Technica AT835b shotgun mic I've been using for years. I've also got a Beyerdynamic M58 mic, some old Sharp minidisc machines, a Marantz PMD 222 and Sony TC-D5 at my disposal. I edit and mix using ProTools LE with an Mbox on an iBook G4. Answers to every possible radio related gear question you might have can be found on the tools page at transom.org.