Left Brain, Right Brain and Video
Whose side are you on? My old friend, the late Dr. Leonard Shlain was both a highly accomplished surgeon and an author. He wrote a book that had a lasting influence on my life , The Alphabet vs. The...
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Start the clock… This morning, The New York Times ran a sweetheart profile of H. Rodgin Cohen, the ‘trauma surgeon’ of Wall Street. Cohen is actually the Chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the most powerful law firms...
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6 foot tall Mrs. Rosenblum, former model and on-air anchor for The BBC addresses the 40 students at the NY TCA as we start our third day. Many people think my wife and I are actually twins. Â Among them:...
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A different kind of melting… A few years ago, I owned a video bar/cafe in the East Village called DV Dojo. Â It was across the street from CBGB and it was like an Internet cafe, except I gave out...
Read moreTen Years After
Alvin Lee, Going home….. As a child of Woodstock I have always believed in living the dream. The last two days I had the unique experience of seeing both sides of the dream. On Tuesday, I went to SUNY...
Read moreWhere The Jobs Are… and aren’t
Read all about it A curious juxtaposition of two news stories today: NPR Reports that even though the stock market is up 50% unemployment is also 10.2% USA Today reports that small businesses will have to use video in...
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Listen to Deep Throat… Yesterday I got an email from Thomas Loudon, one of the co-founders of vjmovement.com. VJmovement.com is a new website, just launched yesterday, which presents the work of more than 100 VJs around the world. They...
Read moreNow We Are All Citizen Journalists
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbVeN13wGFc[/youtube] One way of looking at it…. After Ft. Hood, Paul Carr has written a rather interesting piece for Tech Crunch noting that ‘Citizen Journalists can’t handle the truth’. For all the sound and fury, citizen journalism once again...
Read moreMasters Of The Information Universe!
Arise! You ink stained wretches!! We live in the ‘Information Era”. That, at least, is what everyone says. And it is true. What we do almost all day long is process information, of one kind or another. In another...
Read moreAnd Yet It Moves….
Google… ca. 1609 The Nobel Museum in Stockholm is exhibiting Galileo’s telescope. In 1609 Galileo turned his new instrument to the skies and changed the world forever. Â What he saw – mountains and valleys on the moon, moons...
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