Everyone Is A Critic
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJarz7BYnHA[/youtube] All too true… An Interesting article in The New York Times on Sunday opens the door to an entirely new realm of DIY TV. The article is actually a profile of Peter Principato, an agent for aspiring comics,...
Read moreIndian Village TV
Miss India, 2010 Yesterday’s NY Times carried an article by Anand Giridharadas that gave me an idea. The piece was a profile of village life in India. It centered on one Ravindra Misal, who lives in the small village...
Read moreEat Your Vegetables!
sooo good! Like most children, I had an aversion to eating vegetables. This could, no doubt, explain why I am only 5’6″…. Food in Paris is a religion. So when we decided to spend New Year’s Eve in Paris,...
Read moreMama Don’t Take My Kodachrome Away
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXZTBu_3ioI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Twenty years ago at the Paul Simon /Art Garfunkle reunion concert in NY Kodachrome. Gives us those nice bright colors… Now it’s over. The New York Times reported yesterday that Kodachrome, Kodak’s film (for those too young to...
Read moreThe Mona Lisa’s Smile
don’t move! We are in Paris for the New Year. We have taken Lisa’s sister Nicky and her two twin children, Amy and Ben (both 14) to Paris for the holidays. None of them have ever been here before,...
Read moreA VOA VJ Does Good
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnnnjWkulac&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/youtube] Mazel Tov! Way back in 1993 I was teaching at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. It was the same year I founded my first VJ-driven company, Video News International. I later sold VNI to The...
Read moreLast Minutes With Oden
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0QRajHRO9g&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] A man, his dog and a video camera Here is a fantastic example of the burgeoning and relatively new medium of ‘online documentary’. This one was done by Eliot Rausch, and it won first place and a $25,000...
Read morePamplamoose Music – An Online Video Success Story
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xMCNmUaGko&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] OK A few days ago we looked at a couple who made Space TV from their home. Now, our friend Eric has turned us on to Pamplamoose, a couple who make music videos (and music) from their home....
Read moreAnd A Merry Christmas To All
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Read moreWallace & Gromit and Desert Island Discs
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jvOTsi3i64&list=SL[/youtube] Unembeddable… This morning I was listening to Desert Island Discs on The BBC (radio 4). It’s a show where they invite the famous to come on and pick ten songs they would take with them to a desert island....
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