Michael on Media
Michael Rosenblum has been writing about the media since 1988. His work and ideas have appeared in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Ilkeston Life and many other publications.
He has been blogging regularly for the past 35 years on this subject. Having taught media studies at Columbia University, NYU and now the University of Oxford, he is considered an expert on this subject.
The Bottom of the Barrel
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vg4BTPIqbI&hl=en] If there were an Emmy for dumbness, this one would win. While newspapers embrace video and we debate whether the revolution that Leica brought to photojournalism can be translated to small video cameras, there is another revolution going...
Read moreWhen Photographers Go To Video
David Hume Kennerly In 1990, on the heels of NY1, I was approached by a Wall Street guy who suggested that I should raise some money and start my own company based on the VJ concept. He took me...
Read moreWe Take The Newark Star Ledger to Video
The morning meeting – now its print, online and video This morning we began a project we have been awaiting with great anticipation- taking The Newark Star Ledger into the world of video. The Star Ledger is the 15th...
Read moreA Guy at a Desk with a Box Over His Shoulder
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz……… Same old… same old….. I travel all the time, and whenever I get to a new city, I go to the hotel and turn on the TV set. No matter what country I am in, I always know...
Read moreThe Machine is Us/ing Us.
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&hl=en]] Check out this video from Prof. Michael Wesch.
Read moreVideo Like Heroin
THE MOST ADDICTIVE DRUG …what’s on Fox? For the past 60 years, we have all been participating in a massive sociological experiment, the results of which are just now becoming clear. Today, the average American watches 4.5 hours of...
Read moreA Man and A Woman
Anouk Aimee Watching Claude Lelouch’s A Man and A Woman (Un Homme et Une Femme) last night, I was taken at the utter simplicity yet power of the film. Made in 1966, and winner of the Academy Award for...
Read moreToward a New Grammar for Video
Photography in the 1860s was expensive, complex and heavy There is a direct correlation between technology and grammar – that is a direct relationship between the way something is made, and the way it looks. This is particularly true...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – Chicago
We are in the third day of the Academy, our first one in Chicago. Despite yesterday’s snowstorm, we’re having a great result:
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