Radio Free Europe goes VJ
Prague… home to RFE We are here in Prague to kick off our first VJ training bootcamp with Radio Free Europe. While RFE is headquartered in Prague, its work today takes place in locations like Kazakhstan or Turkemenstan. And...
Read moreThe ‘Other’ Academy…
Resistance is futile… We like to think that we are on the cutting edge of the video revolution. We are at a moment where, for the very first time, anyone can get access to the tools, and indeed the...
Read moreOur Day with the GSA
No exteriors! About two years ago, we were invited to a fund raiser for Senator Hillary Clinton as she was making her run for the Presidency. It was at the home of a VRG (Very Rich Guy) in the...
Read moreNewspapers….and Coal
Can’t see the forest….. In 1450, Europe suffered its first major energy crisis. It ran out of wood. For more than 2,000 years Europeans had depended upon the seemingly endless forests of Europe to provide them with all they...
Read moreSki & Shoot
Could you go back and do that again? I didn’t learn to ski until I was 40. My ex was a Canadian, and started skiing at the age of 3. Her parents had a ski house in Sugarbush, Vermont....
Read moreWelcome to the Video Revolution
call now. operators are standing by… The Travel Channel Academy is a great course, but its also expensive. $2000 is a lot to commit for a novice, (not that we don’t have our share of novices in the course)....
Read moreCritical Mass
Chicago reactor team. Enrico Fermi, first row, first on left. For more than a year, physicist Enrico Fermi and his team had been building a pile of blocks under the racquet courts at the University of Chicago. The pile...
Read moreKPIX SF Goes VJ
Two down, three to go… KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco announced today that they are moving to a VJ-driven newsroom. The official press release today said: Feb 11, 2009 3:58 PM EST KPIX management told the staff...
Read moreThe World’s First Liquidity Crisis
The depth of the current financial crisis is far more than a mere recession. Trillions of dollars seem to have effectively disappeared.
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