A Roadmap for Video for the 21st Century
When photography moved from craft to art… Sometimes change appears right before your eyes… or in this case, under your feet. The Museum of Modern Art in NY (MoMA) is opening an exhibition of the photographic work of Henri...
Read moreFathers and Sons
My father, Robert Rosenblum, in 1952 I spent the years 1977-79 traveling around the world with a camera. I once thought I would be a photojournalist, and this seemed the best way to start. My father was deeply disappointed...
Read moreUSA Today Outsources Content to Demand Media
The future has to start somewhere…. OK So here’s the situation: You have newspapers, magazines and TV stations that need more and more content as the web and iPhones continue to consume stuff all the time. At the same...
Read moreWiFi at the Monastery
6 bedrooms, 3 baths, built in 1274. Good condition. This week we are living at Renscombe Farm in the village of Worth Matravers on the south coast of England. The house was once a monastery, built in the 13th...
Read moreWhy I Won’t Fly American Airlines
Look out, she’s got a ruler! OK Today’s blog was going to be about the ‘grammar of video’. But not after yesterday’s experience with American Airlines. We were flying from St. Kitts to Miami, and then on to NY,...
Read moreJanet Street Porter Does Not Get It
Who? For Americans, the name Janet Street Porter does not mean a thing. But in the UK she has been very well known as one of those people perpetually on the cutting edge of the media revolution. Which is...
Read moreOut Of The Picture
Definitely don’t move… Margaret Bourke-White was on the cutting edge of a lot of change. She was a woman photographer when there were almost none. She was a war correspondent, photog for Life Magazine, member of Magnum. She traveled...
Read moreWhy Women Will Dominate The Media Future
Books that re-wire your brain In yesterday’s New York Times, columnist Nick Kristof ran a piece, “The Boys Have Fallen Behind“. The focus of Krisofs’ piece was that across the boards, with the exception of math, there is an...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy Sunday
We’re all here at Travel Channel HQ in Chevy Chase, Md. for the final day of our 4-day intensive bootcamp. We’ll be screening at 3pm. The usual public praise/public humiliation! 🙂 Meanwhile, everyone hard at work
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