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Chuck Olsen, aka Chuckumentary, is a photographer, filmmaker and entrepreneur who loves luna moths, lichen and lynx. Since 2020, he’s lived on the edge of Superior National Forest with his wife Lori and beloved cats. The North Shore of Lake Superior endlessly inspires Chuck to focus his camera on boreal landscapes, wildlife, and community.
View a relaxing 24/7 stream of Chuck’s North Shore videos at TheWildNorth.tv.
Chuck’s previous lives include:
• A decade-long career as a web producer in public television
• Co-founded a virtual reality company and launched WellnessVR for senior communities
• Co-founded vidtiger, a digital video agency and art gallery where Futurekave was born
• Co-founded a journalism non-profit, where he trained citizen journalists, produced news stories and livestreams around the world
• Produced Blogumentary (2004; 1hr 5min.) – a feature documentary film about blogs (Mother Jones review)
As a filmmaker and journalist, his award-winning work has screened internationally at film festivals and attracted lots of strange comments on the internet. He’s been on YouTube so long (2005) that he was the first man to wear glasses on the platform, and the first person to swear. He feels very sorry for degrading civic dialogue in this way.
Chuck is a communications professional who has worked with clients including Grammy-award winning musicians, professional sports teams, museums, universities and Fortune 500 companies. He’s been featured in WIRED, the New York Times, NPR and the Star Tribune. You can hear Chuck on-air on WTIP (North Shore Community Radio), and he makes ocassional visits to CBS News Minnesota and Almanac on Twin Cities PBS.
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