Forget The “Establishing Shot”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SAgsEN5JJs[/youtube] Now do you know where it is? When we run the face to face bootcamps we do a kind of parlor trick that proves an important point for filmmakers. We pretend we are going to shoot a story...
Read moreWitness To A Disaster
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmRtBEgOHo4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Even if you do speak French, these are hard to watch OK Witness is a wonderful organization Let me get that out of the way up front. I have met with them a few times over the years,...
Read moreOxford Health Care is Screwing Me
I am currently in perfect health. I have no pre-existing conditions. I have never had a major health problem, or hardly a minor one for that matter. My only current health issue is reflux. Probably from tension. So I...
Read moreToward a Very Different Economy
To do this you needed money Niall Ferguson has written a very interesting book, The Ascent of Money. Reading it made me wonder if perhaps we are not now entering a transitive phase in the value of money. This...
Read moreSpecial Thanksgiving Thanks to Zack Wilson
Webmaster and sensai As you have probably noticed, we have suffered our worst ‘hack attack’ since we started this. I don’t know by whom… But I know that Zack Wilson, our online genius spent the entire Thanksgiving vacation solving...
Read moreWe Train The UN To Tell Their Own Stories to the World
From here off to Kisangani This week we are with the United Nations in Geneva. Or more specifically with UNHCR, or the UN High Commisioner on Refugees. That’s the branch of the UN that deals with refugee crises all...
Read moreThis Is Why Magazines Are Going Broke
Lewis Dvorkin Forbes Magazine, which used to bill itself ‘Capitalist Tool’ now moves boldly and bravely headlong into 2003. Unfortunately for Forbes this is 2010. Nearly 11. But Lewis Dvorkin’s recent column in Forbes this week, lays out in...
Read moreTrainspotting
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJmbxs2DeqY[/youtube] Nice work by Clifford Gow Videographer Clifford Gow took the video bootcamp filmmaking course in Northern Ireland. This is the short film he shot during the trainsing session. As you can see, he’s found 3 great characters in...
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