Special 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...
Read moreOne Day Shooting Course At Guardian Media Academy
You will be leaving the building in a few minutes… This week we start our partnership with The Guardian, what is, in my opinion, the best newspaper in the world. They also employ my good friend Gary Younge as...
Read moreRocco and Me
Sir Rocco Forte My old friend and mentor Carl Spielvogel told me ‘always go to the CEO. Anything else is a waste of time”. Last week we were in Manchester, England, working with The BBC. We booked into the...
Read moreWearable Video Camera
Lots of promise….. Kelly Doe, who is a graphic designer at The New York Times sent me a link to this. Looxcie, a wearable video camera. It could be an interesting step in video production. What looks like a...
Read moreNew York Magazine Video Academy
Live at midnight last night… Last night we launched The New York Magazine Video Academy. The website went up at midnight and by 12:05 we already had three people enrolled! New York is the undisputed media and television capital...
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