Fidget Barn Productions
...witness the birth of our vast media empire.
Fidget Barn is basically two guys: John Harden and Glen Kinion. We met in the 1980s while enrolled in film production classes at Santa Rosa Junior College. Soon we became creative partners in a whole mess of film, video and musical projects.In 1989 we both were looking for new housing and found it in San Rafael. That's in Marin County, California, just north of San Francisco. The house we rented had a big detached garage, which became studio for our experimental noise outfit, Turbo Messiah.Making music our way involved a lot of equipment: cheap keyboards, old record players... all linked through a whole lot of wires. We're freakin' tweakers, okay?! And so the term "Fidget Barn."
Short projects by John & Glen have screened at the Film Arts Festival in San Francisco and the Mill Valley Film Festival. A funny video we made about John's Ford Pinto sold to PBS in 1991 and aired as part of the documentary series P.O.V. You can see that video, Crutemobile, online on the ReelMind site. You'll need Microsoft's Media Player to view it. If you don't have Media Player, the ReelMind page has a direct link that'll take you to downloadable Windows or Mac versions. Eventually some scenes from "Breakfast with the Colonel" may make their way onto the ReelMind site as well! And SF Bay Area residents can see Glen's work just about every weeknight on the KRON Channel 4 news (he shoots and edits for them). Readers of the news weekly The Northern California Bohemiancan see graphic design and the occasional illustration by John.