How To ‘Write’ A Script without ‘Writing’
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/13038638[/vimeo] Nothing is crazier, or more destructive, to the filmmaking and video process than the idea that you acquire in video, then translate that video to ‘text’ – log notes, transcripts, timecode notes, a written script, then you translate...
Read moreLara Logan Makes The Case for Citizen Journalists
Ed Murrow does the cheesecake shot in Korea… Over the last 3 days Apple sold 1.7 million iPhone 4s. That means that, in effect, there are now 1.7 million more video camera/edit software/upload units in the world than there...
Read moreWhen Corporate Becomes Commonplace
Can you hear me now? In 1843, Samuel FB Morse transmitted his famous ‘what hath God wrought’ on a telegraph wire. In doing so, he kicked off the start of an electronics/communication revolution that we are still experiencing daily....
Read moreTaxi Gourmet TV
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Eg6d4Of3Y&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Layne Mosler – taxi driver, TV star… Layne Mosler drives a NY City taxi. She also has a good eye for where to eat. And she has a video camera. This is a good combination. Mosler understands that...
Read moreVideo and Social Media
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPWPkkeMR84&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube] Ever look for a house or an apartment online? It’s like living death. Endless lists of homes with pretty much the same photographs and information. Yet real estate is something everyone does at least once in their life,...
Read moreThe iPhone Changes Everything
touch and go… Every once in a while a piece of technology comes along that changes everything. Today’s release of the new iPhone 4G is such a game changer. By making access to iMovie editing software available for $5,...
Read moreWhy BP Is In So Much Trouble – Mediawise, at least
oops…. The Chairman of BP, Carl Henrik Svanberg announced that BP CEO Tony Hayward would be removed from his contact with the press, pretty much, following a series of gaffs over the Gulf oil leak. To the average TV...
Read moreThe 1-Man TV Station in NJ that Scares The Crap out of Teheran
Taking a break from undermining the regime in Iran… Mehdi Saharkhiz stopped by the house yesterday afternoon for a chat. I read about him in The Guardian last week and was immediately intrigued. The headline in the Guardian ran:...
Read moreCutting Out The Middle Man
It only had one ap… I am reading a very interesting book, The Battery by Henry Schlesinger. It is as much the history of electricity as it is the history of the battery, for most electricity in the early...
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