KRON/4, The VJ & Time Has Caught Up, finally
Here’s a total reprint from today’s SF Public Press When we did KRON/4 we were called everything from a pig to a dog. But we were right then. And we are right now. Here’s my favorite quote: This model...
Read moreIt’s Graduation Week
Thank God… This week we are at my nephew’s graduation from Washington University in St. Louis. It’s graduation time all over the country, and thousands of parents and families now have the rare priviledge of sitting in a big...
Read moreHigh Flier in the DSLR Niche
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oif7wrrLZBI[/youtube] [youtube]http://youtu.be/oif7wrrLZBI[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oif7wrrLZBI&feature=email[/youtube] Do you like this? buckle up Like video above? Me too. It was done with a DSLR camera. Note the nice shallow depth of field! Destinationluxury. A video company that has decided to focus on the...
Read moreBetter Late Than Never Dept.
All screens are pretty much the same. In 1994, The New York Times bought a videojournalism business IÂ had founded called VNI, Video News International. I had equipped 100 journalists around the world with Hi-8 (this was a long timea...
Read moreCuration vs. Creation
Down the drain…. Yesterday, I got sucked into a twitter discussion (if such a think is possible) with Shira Lazar, the new host of CBS’s What’s Trending, Steve Rosenbaum, author of Curation Nation and a few others after I...
Read moreLet’s Talk About What We’re Already Talking About….
[youtube]http://youtu.be/GSunqVN84vQ[/youtube] And now.. even more of the same…. The web is the place where you never have to meet an opinion you don’t agree with…. One of the great things about a book or a newspaper is that you...
Read moreHow To Write A Script Without Any Paper
It’s in here.. somewhere. If you are like most people, you go out and shoot the elements of your film or video. Then you come back and sit down for the tedious task of video editing or film editing....
Read moreWe Are Getting Dumber and Dumber (are you still with me?)
still famous… In the future, Andy Warhol said in the 60s, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Truer words were never spoken. But now, 15 minutes of fame is a lifetime. It’s more like 15 seconds. Are you...
Read moreHow To Interview People In The Digital Age
That’s a mighty big camera you got there Mr. TV Reporter! Television is an industry wracked by anxiety. (This could possibly explain WEtv’s decision to commission a season of Cupcake Sisters, but more on that another time) Today, we’re...
Read moreParade Magazine Bootcamp with iMovie11
The staff at Parade Magazine start their lessons in iMovie A few days ago I wrote ‘will iMovie replace Final Cut’? It was something of a specious question, but there is no question that iMovie 11 is a remarkably...
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