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          I draw maps and images from almost everywhere I go - they're available as postcards,

          notecards, prints, on tote bags and more! Ask your local bookstore or gift shop or find me on etsy

          California
          Lake Tahoe
          L.A. Icons
          Monterey
          Nashville
          Pt. Reyes National Seashore
          S.F. Icons
          Sonoma County
          Tomales Bay
          Capitola
          Hollywood
          La Jolla
          Marin
          Napa County
          Oakland
          San Francisco
          Santa Cruz
          Sonoma Valley
          Yosemite Valley Icons
          Davis
          GGNRA
          Lake Tahoe Winter
          Mendocino
          Napa Valley
          San Diego
          Santa Monica
          Tennessee
          Postcard back
        • Physical Samples

          Postcards | Notecards | Prints

          California Notecard
          Santa Cruz
          San Francisco
          Yosemite Icons Notecard
          California Notecards
          Monterey Notecard
          S.F. Icons products
          Sonoma County products group
          Nashville Tote Bag
          Marin County
          L.A. Icons Postcard/ Notecard
          S.F. Icons
          San Francisco Postcards
          Nashville Tote Bag
          Postcards in display crate
        • Glass Magnets

          Large Glass Magnet 2" X 3" | Small Glass Magnet 1.5" Square

           

          San Francisco Magnet
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        • Contact

          Alden: realcaliforniapics@hotmail.com | Rep: nancy.harvey@mac.com

          Nashville | Santa Rosa | L.A.
          707.799.7663
          707.799.7663
          realcaliforniapics@hotmail.com
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          Homestead Bicycles

        • Bio

          "I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
          The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
          I shall use my time.” – Jack London

          Born & Raised

          I was born in a small town called Glen Ellen with John Olmsted as a bulldozer-blocking-nature- crusader father, a history major mother, and one older brother.

           

          Sonoma became our home, where despite a divorce I had a semi-normal childhood filled with paper routes, street football, computer game playing, and BMX.

           

          I attended college in Santa Rosa and Los Angeles and have explored parts of Europe as well as 47 of these United States.

           

          I have owned 16 vehicles the most famous being a 1966 Chrysler convertible featured in Catch Me if You Can (00:58) and Bottle Shock.

           

          In 2017 I received a 'Real Hero' award from the Red Cross, North Coast Chapter for my efforts to preserve my father's legacy in Mendocino and across California. Link

           

          I currently reside in Nashville and, when I hear the call, on the road.

           

           

          Experience

          Beginning with skateboard videos, summer camp mash-ups, and Super 8mm shorts, I have landed in the documentary world without intention, focusing on interesting people and their stories, and oral history that may be lost.

           

          Here's the short list of films I've directed and or produced:
          2012 - My Father Who Art in Nature

          https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1870481/

          2014 - The Story of Jug Handle

          https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3620786/

          2018 - Unprotected (DP)
          https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8539512/

          2020 - 30 Bikes The Story of Homestead Bicycles
          https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11045998/

          2022 - A Wild Independence
          https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15343766/

          2022 - Dysconnected (DP)
          In progress

           

           

          Philosophy

          From a young age I understood the value of stories. I loved telling and retelling stories of myself or my friends' adventures.

           

          As I began experimenting with film I was drawn to Super 8mm, the colors and the emotion it evoked. No speaking, instead focusing on the power of music to match the visual, causing a full range of emotions and reactions.

           

          My philosophy with documentaries starts, not surprisingly with research. Fiction films are made in the edit room, documentaries are made in the research. When the arc of the story appears, when the peak of conflict and resolution POPS out of an old picture, a letter, a revelation that slips out in an interview, those are the moments I live for.

          The story then can be massaged and built, much like a house, to enhance the peak, the moment of revealed truth which of course every great story should contain.

           

          Alden – January 2022

           

           

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          Alden Olmsted

          Writer | Director

          SAG - Eligible

           


          6' 4"

          160 lbs.

          Blonde hair

          Blue eyes

          Can play age 30 - 50

          alden.olmsted@gmail.com

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