In The Static is a podcast about the making process before the finished thing exists. Every episode, host Brandon Keith Osborn sits down with filmmakers, musicians, writers, journalists and artists to talk about what it's actually like to work in the static that unformed, uncertain space between the idea and the moment the signal comes through clear.
Ep.007 - Andrew Bernstein | How An NBA Photographer Captures The Moments That Matter
I sit down with Hall of Fame NBA photographer Andrew Bernstein to trace how a kid with a film camera becomes the person behind some of the most recognizable images of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. We talk about preparation, trust, and why the quiet human moments around the game often outlast the highlight play. shooting the Los Angeles Aztecs on film and building a garage darkroom to hit next-day deadlineswhy old arena lighting forced photographers to use catwalk strobes and heavy power pac...
17 Sept 2026
BONUS | From MySpace Photo Passes To Tom Petty
Six episodes in, the host finally takes the guest chair. Brandon Keith Osborn on getting his start shooting his friends' bands at Numo's and the High Dive in early 2000s Seattle, messaging band managers on MySpace while pretending to be a bigger deal than he was, and talking his way into press passes for Minus the Bear, Them Crooked Vultures, and Tom Petty at The Gorge in front of 20,000 people. Plus Home Depot floodlights on his first fashion shoots, the lie his mother told to get him into A...
20 Aug 2026
Ep.006 - Craig Semetko | “Very Expensive, Very Complicated, Not For You”
Craig Semetko didn’t pick up a camera until he was 40. He was a comedy writer and performer, working a corporate gig that took him around the world, and he bought a Nikon so he’d have something to shoot with. A woman at the lab told him he had a good eye. That was the whole permission slip. In this episode we get into comedy as the strange cousin of photography, both of them built on timing and on withholding, and his master’s degree in consciousness studies, which turned out to be a thesis o...
31 Jul 2026
Ep.005 - Errol Gerson | “Prime the Pump.”
Some mentors tell you what to do. The rare ones show you who to become. Errol Gerson has spent 55 years teaching Entrepreneurial Spirit at Art Center College of Design — 6,000 plus students, and I was lucky enough to be one of them. In this one I turn the mic around. We get into his four years inside CAA in 1999, when he stood in front of the entire music industry, said the letters “MP3,” and got told he belonged in a mental institution. We trace the same fear across every era — film to digit...
22 Jul 2026
BONUS | Welcome In: Who's Behind the Mic (Hi, Murderinos)
New here? Welcome! Especially if Karen and Georgia sent you. I'm Brandon Keith Osborn, director, photographer, and your host. This quick bonus episode is my hello: who I am, why this show exists, and how the letter I wrote to My Favorite Murder brought you here. Start anywhere, but here's the map: Ep. 1 — Hannah Smith (The Knife): the woman who pushed me over the ledge to start this showEp. 2 — BJ McDonnell: DGA director on the long road from crew to the chairEp. 3 — Killah Priest (Wu-T...
2 Jul 2026
Ep.004 - Shooter Jennings | "An Extra Chapter With Him"
Shooter Jennings — Grammy-winning producer, outlaw country torchbearer, and son of Waylon — sits down with Brandon Keith Osborn to go deep on Black Ribbons, the dystopian rock opera narrated by Stephen King (including how "keep bugging me" became a collaboration). Then: the thousand unlabeled sessions of his father's lost recordings, what it's like to mix Waylon's voice alone in an old studio, and the found-tape albums Songbird and Diamonds. Plus Robert Randolph, a Robbie Robertson studio com...
11 Jun 2026
Ep.003 - Killah Priest | "We're Already In Space"
Killah Priest doesn't do small talk. He does octopuses, UAPs, simulation theory, and the kind of conversation that makes you pull over and write something down. Priest is a Brooklyn-born lyricist, Wu-Tang affiliate, and founding member of Sunz of Man. His 1998 debut Heavy Mental is considered a classic. J. Cole called his song NASA Case "like a book" and listened to it nine times. Flea walked through his garden alone just to tell him the album was great. We've known each other since the pande...
20 May 2026
EP.002 — BJ McDonneel | "The Best Job In The Film Business"
BJ McDonnell has operated camera on over 100 films. You've seen his work. You just didn't know his name. From running around Pensacola with a camcorder and a VCR in a backpack, to steady cam on Top Gun: Maverick with an F-18 ten feet over his head, BJ built one of the most respected careers in Hollywood the old fashioned way. He paid his dues, surrounded himself with the right people, and never stopped trying to direct. We talk about what it actually takes to make something when the budget ru...
30 Apr 2026
EP.001 — Hannah Smith | Making It Before You Know What It Is
Episode Description: Hannah Smith is a podcast producer and co-creator of The Knife on Exactly Right Media. Before that she was a producer and host on The Opportunist. She has spent her career inside the making process, building shows, finding stories, and figuring it out in real time. In this conversation we talk about what it actually looks like to develop a show from nothing, how you know when something is working, and what keeps you moving when the picture hasn't come through yet. This is...
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