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Crystal is coming to stay in Calgary for a couple months and will be here for her birthday, so she has requested I get all y'all to send her postcards from your hometown. Don't second guess "well, my hometown is boring", just send! Crystal Donovan PO Box 49104 CALGARY RPO OGDEN, AB, T2C 3W5 The PO b

Well, it was a longtime coming, but here it is: the final episode of our new podcast Odyssey Takes with Dan and Crystal. Than you so much to everyone who supported us from the very beginning of this podcast all the way to the very end, it means a lot to us.

The Odyssey Discord Experience (YouTube)

Dan and Friends went to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump to see if Dr. Robby made it on time. Spoilers: he wasn't there, but the enthralling history of the Piikani, Kainai, and Siksika was. Dr. Robby Day at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (YouTube)

Talking through some of the challenges and considerations that go into making a documentary, as well as specific points of research. Also it looks and sounds the way it does because I was like "hey, Dan, let's play with old cameras again" and set up the XF100, but then didn't take the time to fine-t

We shot some BTS footage during the filming and Jessica cut it into a little EPK for us. 'EPK' is the industry name for behind-the-scenes stuff, it stands for "electronic press kit" and encompasses all the little featurettes that you find on DVDs. The core use is that they're the source of pull quot

Happy April 35th, Fans & Followers! Apologies for abandoning you to Dan-only updates for so long. I hope the stream of content has been sufficient replacement for the update presence in your feed! Dan and I are still working out the kinks and the crossing-wires of both of us updating the Patreon. Th

Clickbait Title: garbage ass show for babies YouTube upload if the Patreon player disagrees with you: https://youtu.be/2ubYGdMCQTA This is the companion video for Why Was I Invited to Beast Studios, so go watch that one here https://youtu.be/0dwagg5wYY4 Written by Nathan Landel Edited by Jessica Bab

Thank you for bearing with us, we hope you enjoy . The second video, the exhaustive review of Beast Games Season 2 can be found here. https://www.patreon.com/posts/beast-games-2-155824194 and also here https://youtu.be/2ubYGdMCQTA depending on the flavour of app you wish to watch in. This is not a p

Hey, it's Jessica's first video with the team! Or the team's first video with Jessica?! As with previous Patron exclusives like Comfortably Doug and The Darkmoon Fiasco, it is up to all y'all if this goes out to main channel or if you keep it for yourselves. Either which way I hope you enjoy this sp

Hello Foldables! It’s Crystal, back with this month’s update, trying out names for the viewers. Do you have something you call yourselves already? If you’re wondering why you’re hearing from me, see the January post for a little more info on some channel updates. There’s a big announcement at the en

I'm really curious: did you see Scarlet? Did you like it? Did you not like it? Do you read/speak Japanese and know what Japanese critics and audiences had to say about it? Scarlet (2025) Vlog (YouTube)

Happy New Year from the Folding Ideas Team! We have some new things happening at Folding Ideas in 2026 which you can find later in this post. But before we start talking about the future… Wrap-Up for 2025 Hello Patrons, I’m Crystal, Dan’s Executive Assistant &c. For 2026, Dan handed over Patreon upd

Did you see both of these movies? What did you think? Agree or disagree? 28 Years Later 1 and 2 Vlog (YouTube)

Edit: uploaded a new version, swapped the link, RIP to the old one. This is the release candidate, assuming there are no substantive problems this will go live sometime this weekend once captions and thumbnail are done. Thank you so much for all the notes on the draft, they were extremely helpful; w

Hey everyone, it's been a chaotic holiday season with a lot of unanticipated administrative work, and I get to feel like a video game company because I get to say there's some big news on the horizon that we aren't quite ready to share yet. Here's the current draft of the Jarhead video that got my T

Just a thing I thought about on my way home from Victoria. What's the "Cost" of a Desert Bus? (YouTube)

PAX Panel reminders: Video premiere is Friday at 6:30pm PT in Firebird (Summit level 5) Movie Game panel w/ Mikey is Sunday at 5:00pm PT in Blue Dragon (Summit level 5) Well, everyone, this was a wild month, we're sort of a week behind schedule, but we have arrived at a release candidate. I can actu

Big news PAX West 2025, we have another two panels approved, along with tentative dates and times. 1) Folding Ideas Live: Exclusive Video Premiere + Q&A | Friday, August 29 at 6:30pm This will be the premiere of the fully scripted, polished, and complete version of Call of Duty: Ghosts - Power, Para

So, I gave two talks at PAX East in Boston back at the start of May and I want to gather some of my thoughts about them, how they went, and then just kinda travel log the rest of my PAX experience at the end. But first the links. Both of them are available on the official PAX YouTube channel (and I'

This is the exact same as the other post, but in Patreon's video player which some people might find more convenient.

Nathan has been getting really into gridiron lately since Aussie Rules is in a slump or something, so we pulled out an oddity that was floating on the very periphery of The Future is a Dead Mall. Edit: a Patreon-player version is processing and should auto-publish once it's ready. The direct YouTube

Hey all! Mikey and Teara at Filmjoy have everything set up on their end, and I've finally done the stuff I needed to do on my end, but we're ready to launch! We have the I Don't Know Dan Olson t-shirts in many sizes (while supplies last) and the Serious Bear Country and Merged Faces stickers (4") th

Hello everyone! Sorry I've been a bit absent, I just couldn't seem to find a smaller video inside my brain that I could actually finish. We've been crunch crunch crunching away at this and it's finally in a watchable state, obviously with lots and lots of production notes and missing things. We comm

PAX posted this video weeks ago, but I wanted to post them here in the order that I delivered them, which is a weird hang up but it's my page. Anyway, here's my first solo panel that wasn't just a Q&A (though both Qs and As happen towards the end). Thanks again everyone who came out to these live sh

Dan's presentation at XOXO Festival 2024 This was an amazing and nerve-wracking experience, but I am so thankful to the Andys for inviting me, I got to see a lot of people I haven't seen in years and years and meet people I've admired for years and years for the first time. On one hand I'm a little

Wow Platinum, indeed A YouTube version if you prefer b/c Patreon's audio player breaks or whatever, or because you want to stealth drop it in the group chat, IDK: https://youtu.be/sYitakMP70E

Okay, so I'm (not-so anymore) freshly back from a trip down to Glen Rose, Tx to film a big chunk of the upcoming video. It was an exhausting week, the heat absolutely took a lot out of us, but we were very lucky with our timing and (heat aside) the weather was great and we were able to get some exce

We are super excited to let you know that after a mere 14 years on YouTube Folding Ideas finally has actual merch created with intent and we're bringing it to PAX West 2024. Featuring art from the immensely talented Jackie Musto, Agata Pankowska, and Claudia Cangini we have two stickers and a greeti

Hey everyone, here's an extremely, extremely, extremely early preview of the next video. This is actually just a scratch read, I normally do these audio-only but opted to do it on camera this time and walk through the whole process. These scratch reads have a couple key functions. First they give a

So I tossed this together because comments pointed out that I failed to include a collected map in the video

The latest (greatest? last?) geography video, after doing the highest and lowest elevations someone asked me to locate the middle. The Middle of Calgary (YouTube)

Hey everybody, how ya doin'? So, this has been in the works since December, and it's finally getting very very very close to done. There's still some work to do, particularly on the audio, there's one segment that might get re-shot, and and obviously there's the possibility of mistakes of all kinds

High Low Redux (YouTube)

What a wild week, I haven't even been able to compile a fraction of the good stuff purely because I'm also trying to wrap up this actual long form video that I'm working on. In short it appeared as though Keith Gill's Twitter account came out of hibernation last week only to spend a week pumping Ape

I finally saw Civil War and had some thoughts Civil War Vlog (YouTube)

The Lowest Elevation in Calgary Alberta rev 03 (YouTube)

I can say that it didn't make me verklempt. The Highest Elevation in Calgary Alberta (YouTube)

I have my opinions, what are yours? What Is The Worst AVGN Episode (YouTube)

A pointless retrospective on an internet slap fight that happened 20 years ago. If it had happened today, barring the fact that Harlan is deceased, do you think it would have been made better or worse by ubiquitous smartphones and effortless video hosting? Harlan Ellison v Mike Krahulik, 2005 (YouTu

What're YOU thinking about? See, that's funny because "What're you thinking about?" was the default prompt Patreon put in the text box and I'm turning it around on Patreon by asking them and/or you the question that was originally directed at me. Block.mov (YouTube)

Next thing's coming along, here's a little Friday fooling around because I spent most of the afternoon mudding drywall and was too brain tired to write after I got home but still felt compelled to make something. Patreon Macro 01 (YouTube)

I'm probably not going to smash the go public button on this one, but I needed to get this out of my system. I might update it further, might take it down, who knows, let's find out. Dan JS 03 (YouTube)

It's truly spectacular Reminiscing from the floor about Gary V's beautiful mind (YouTube)

So I've spent an awful lot of time lately thinking about my career, where it's been, where it's going, all that. This is in no small part connected to the time I've spent thinking about James Somerton's equipment combined with a general air of retrospect that seems to be sweeping through YouTubers m

Final final dot mov About That Idris Elba Gold Documentary (YouTube)

Hay all y'all, here's a potentially finished draft of the next video. I don't have any changes personally planned at this moment, but I haven't done my own watch-through of the YouTube upload yet, I will do that tomorrow while I make the thumbnail and get the transcript that becomes the captions fin

The Darkmoon Fiasco (YouTube)

The writers of This is Financial Advice discuss the based-on-a-true-story film Dumb Money starring Paul Dano and Seth Rogan Dumb Money: A Vlog (YouTube)

Deleted scene from This is Financial Advice Naked and Short (YouTube)