Is China Inevitable?
Inevitable…yet moral and complying with the will of God Last week, in Venice, we went past the home of Marco Polo. Marco Polo, for those who went to public school in the US in the past 30 years and...
Read morePrada: 70% off!
The Prada Store in Tuscany Among inveterate travelers to Italy, there is a tale of the mythological Prada Outlet, where you can get Prada clothing direclty from the factory at up to 70% off. This is no myth. It...
Read moreEnvisioning The Future
Apparently we have not made a lot of progress…. The late 19th Century was one very much like our own in many ways. It was an era which saw an explosion of new technologies that were rapidly changing the...
Read moreA Week in Venice
Breakfast at the Gritti Palace I had not been back to Venice for more than a decade. The first time I went it was when I was a kid with a backpack. The second time I went, it was...
Read morePowerful Video
96 simultaneous videos of faces from Hungary Yesterday we spent the day at the Venice Biennale, the great modern art exhibition. Even for someone who lives over the MoMA, it was an overwhelming show. Building after building, pavilion after...
Read moreAny Idiot Can Do This
Which way to the unemployment line? Yesterday, I was quoted in an interview with Randy Dotinga of The Voice of San Diego talking about video saying “any idiot can shoot good basic video”. Over at b-roll.net, ‘chestfever’ responded by...
Read moreInto The Newsroom
All yours for only $39.95 About a million years ago, or so, I was a PhD candidate in Islamic History. I got out of that business because a) I have a hell of time learning Arabic, and b) with...
Read moreLearn Baby, Learn
The world’s largest sailing ship, the Thomas W. Lawson, built in 1902, long after steam power dominate shipping. Mary Tripsas, a professor at Harvard Business School wrote a fascinating piece for The New York Times this morning about technological change...
Read moreVideojournalism Comes to Beirut
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWygB5r0Ycw[/youtube] A few days ago I got an email from Channel 1 VJ Marcel Theroux, who was shooting video for The Guardian. Now, a posting from another Channel 1 VJ, David Dunkley Gyimah who has been in Beirut teaching...
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