April 2, 2025

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The Professional Blur – Episode 1 – Alex Salem

In our first episode, we talk with actor Alex Salem about getting his start and getting a line on Grey’s Anatomy. You can also watch the episode on YouTube, including Alex’s Grey’s Anatomy clip. Check out my Professional Blur posts on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasonklamm/ Insta Hashtag: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/theprofessionalblur Twitter: @jklamm Twitter hashtag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/theprofessionalblur Music: Music from https://filmmusic.io “Open Those […]

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The PEZ Safe – Jason Does Something

Jason presents a 3-D model/print he’s been holding on to for a while – the PEZ safe, big enough to hold a MicroSD card, but the exact size of twelve pieces of PEZ candy, to hide away with your other PEZ. You can download the STL file here for free, or for a donation to […]

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The Professional Blur Episode 0 – Pilot
Blur, podcast

The Professional Blur Episode 0 – Pilot

I was an extra in everything from Mad Men to The Aviator.  My new podcast, The Professional Blur: My Life in the Background, is a chance for me to interview friends and collaborators about their own work as or with background actors.  This pilot episode is a little explanation of how the show will go. Check […]

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The Professional Blur Update

It’s crazy to me that after 20 years “officially” (read: first check) in the entertainment business, that extra work has any place among the things I regularly bust my ass to create.   When I was 19, getting paid to produce a video on grant writing, I didn’t even think I’d ever be an extra, let […]

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The Professional Blur: Three Weeks In

In 2009, my last extra gig that I did for actual money I needed to live was on Mad Men. I’d just signed up to be a “regular extra,” which meant they’d tailored three suits for me and, like those suits, my fedora, shoes, ties, period glasses – everything – were to be dedicated to […]

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#TheProfessionalBlur Returns

I started doing extra work in 2003 and then stopped in 2009, when I found a full-time job. I’ve been posting on Instagram about all my extra work for a while now, as The Professional Blur. 10 years later, I’ve had to quit my day job and, well, here we are. Back at it again. […]

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