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Skills

Video Editing: Adobe Premiere; Short-form social videos, vertical video, promos, commercial ad campaigns, brand films, short films, short and long-form documentaries.

VFX/Motion Graphics: Adobe After Effects, Photoshop; Chroma keying, motion tracking, rotoscoping, motion design.

Writing: Dream Avenue; Non-fiction and fictional video scripts, reviews, editorial, aggregation.

Photography: 35mm film on Olympus OM-1 and Jazz Jelly 207, largely w/ Lomography film; Digital on Canon 70D and iPhone 12 mini.

Web Design: Not much more than what you see on this website.

Languages: English (fluent), Japanese (beginner), German (high school was a long time ago).

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Hobbies

Currently making

📺 Eganworks on YouTube [hiatus]

📝 Blogging @ Dream Avenue

🔴 Streaming on Twitch

🎧 Loud Friends: A Podcast

💸 Work that keeps me alive

Currently playing

🎮 20 Minutes Till Dawn [PC]

🎮 MegaMan Battle Network Legacy Collection (BN2) [Switch]

🎮 Motorsport Manager [PC]

🎮 Phantom Brigade [PC]

🎮 SteamWorld Heist [3DS]

🎮 The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom [Switch]

Currently watching

📺 The Mandalorian (Season 3)

📺 Poker Face

📺 Rockman EXE: Stream

📺 Teen Titans

Currently listening

Podcasts

🎧 A More Civilized Age

🎧 Comedy Bang Bang

🎧 Shift-F1

🎧 Threedom

🎧 Underunderstood

🎧 Waypoint Radio

Music

🎵 90.9FM WDCB Jazz & Blues - 'Chicago's Home for Jazz!'

🎵 Casiopea

🎵 Takako Mamiya

🎵 Talking Heads

🎵 They Might Be Giants

Currently reading

📚 A Profound Waste of Time Vol. 2 by APWOT

📚 [Lock-on] Vol. 1-4 by Lost in Cult

📚 The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin

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Favorites

Games

Star Wars: TIE Fighter (PC, 1998)

Megaman Battle Network 2 (GBA, 2001)

Boktai 2 (GBA, 2004)

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II (PC, 2004)

Civilization V (PC, 2010)

Quadrilateral Cowboy (PC, 2016)

No Man's Sky (PC, 2016)

Tangle Tower (iOS, 2019)

Kentucky Route Zero (Switch, 2020)

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut (PC/Switch, 2021)

Movies

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Amelie (2001)

Castle in the Sky (1986)

Star Wars (1977)

Stop Making Sense (1984)

Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)

Chungking Express (1994)

TV

Adventure Time (2010-2018)

Breaking Bad (2008-2013)

Better Call Saul (2015-2022)

Cowboy Bebop (1998-1999)

Seinfeld (1989-1998)

The X-Files (1993-2002)

Twin Peaks (1990-1991, 2017)

Albums

The Suburbs - Arcade Fire (2010)

Odelay - Beck (1996)

Fastfall - Lifeformed (2012)

Brill Bruisers - The New Pornographers (2014)

Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads (1984)

Apollo 18 - They Might Be Giants (2013)

Band on the Run - Wings (1973)

Books

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2001)

Shades of Grey (2009)

That is All (2011)

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Contact/Follow

💌 Email: mike [at] eganworks [dot] com

📝 Blog: My proper Wordpress blog, where I put effort into my posts.

📺 YouTube: Shorts, video essays, and vlogs. I used to be very active here.

🔴 Twitch: Occasional streams of Sonic the Hedgehog and other games.

🥚 Cohost: Current social site of choice.

🐦 Twitter: If we must.

🐘 Mastodon: I mean I guess?

🎮 Backloggd: Logging and sometimes reviewing the games I play.

🍿 Letterboxd: Logging and sometimes reviewing the movies I watch.

💾 Neocities: My profile on this website's host, Neocities!

💼 Portfolio: Freelance video editing and vfx work.