Grant Bailie and friends

MOVIE #1,497 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 04.01.24 This is another entry in Mark’s early interview series, though the video is given the more colloquial, casual title “[subject] and friends.” Bailie is an author who I’m not familiar with — via his Amazon bio: “Grant Bailie is the author of the novels Cloud 8, Mortarville, New Hope for Small Men, and TomorrowLand, as well as numerous short stories and articles both in print and online…In 2005, Grant Bailie took part in "Novel—a Living Installation", in which he and two other authors lived on display for a month in individual habitats designed and built for them at the Flux Factory Gallery. During that time each writer was to write a novel. Mr. Bailie wrote two.” He seems like an interesting fella. After a brief clip from a book talk, Mark speaks with Bailie and another author Dan Memmolo (Mark’s neighbor is there too).

He seems to be deferential to these writers (as opposed to the filmmakers), but of course he derails the conversation with a classic Baumer query: “If you happen to have a chainsaw for one of your hands, what time period would you like to travel to?” The interview ends soon after.

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"Grant Bailie and friends" (Mark Baumer, 2008)

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Mark Baumer (December 19, 1983 – January 21, 2017) was an American writer, adventurer, and environmental activist. I am attempting to form a canon around his work as a filmmaker. This was released on Mar 10, 2008.