Compulsion
The author of my life… One of the truly great things about the Internet is that you can find people with whom you have lost contact over the years. Recently, I caught up with Mikael Levin, a friend from...
Read moreAddiction!
At what cost? I am reading Nial Ferguson’s excellent book Empire: The Rise and Demise of The British World Order. As the little island nation of St. Kitts & Nevis is one of my clients, I was astonished to...
Read moreA VJ’s Journey from Havana to Hilton
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7958469[/vimeo] PF Bentley was in our very first VNI VJ Bootcamp in Philadelphia in 1993. That was a long time ago! PF was then a photographer at Time Magazine. One of the best. He was the White House photographer...
Read moreA VJ Success Story
Tony Martin, on left Tony Martin. We met him at NYU. He took the Travel Channel bootcamp. He was selected to be one of the VJs on 5Takes. Then, we did not hear from him for some time. Until...
Read moreDetermined Divas
Richard Avedon’s photography translated to videography… Most video is pretty terrible. Because video cameras for so long were big and bulky, they were put on tripods and used simply to capture ‘reality’, such as it was. The merging of...
Read moreNow Everyone Is a Journalist
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/8079409[/vimeo] Interviewed on Brian Lehrer’s TV show in NY last week. Many thanks to producer Marty Goldensohn.
Read moreAOL Goes VJ
Today, we began training AOL journalists and producers to create their own online video content using small cameras and laptop edits. Sound familiar? It should. AOL is filled with bright, aggressive, creative people eager to create content for their...
Read moreGresham’s Law and The Online World
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7904954[/vimeo] Sir Thomas Gresham was the Warren Buffett of the 16th Century. Financial advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, he created the first notion of debt financing, which allowed Britain to build the largest navy in the world, and ultimately...
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