It Isn’t News To Me
Francisco is one of my favorite VJs. Uniquely talented as shooter, editor, writer and producer, he almost defines the term. I met him entirely by accident. I was producing the first season of 5Takes and we have about a...
Read moreLedger Live – Starts Monday
Beyond empowering the photogs and reporters at The Star Ledger with video cameras so that they can embed their videos on the website, we are also going to do a daily ‘live from the newsroom’ report. The newsroom seems...
Read moreThe News From China
Time to start the coverage….. The summer deluge of coverage of the Beijing Olympics is scheduled to start soon, and the networks are poised to spend tens of millions, if not more, on getting the China story into our...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – Texas!
“The eyes of Texas are upon you… all the live long day!” OK. It’s July in Austin, so it’s hot. Really hot. But San Antonio is providing us with tons of material to shoot. At the invitation of Texas...
Read moreFrom The Mailbag
Ryan Van Duzer – Travel Channel Academy alum at work Today we are in San Antonio, Texas (home of the Alamo), where we are starting our first Texas based Travel Channel Academy. Â Ironically, I also received an email...
Read moreThat’s The Power of Video
OK. you can stay for dinner. Just don’t trash the place…. Our favorite hard rockers stopped by yesterday. Bjorn and Nitzan (he’s Bjorn and she’s Nitzan), are the lead singer and guitarist in the European rock band Drive Like...
Read moreCongratulations Matt Gould
Is this all you have to eat? Matt Gould, our old pal, stopped by for dinner. He and his family have left Silver Spring (home of Discovery Networks), and moved to New York, as he starts his new job...
Read moreBikini Car Wash
Not too long ago, one of our less than supportive friends (hard to believe but true), was asking ‘what happened to all the VJs from 5Takes? Are they working’. Well, strangely enough, yesterday, I ran in to Francisco Aliwalas,...
Read moreIt really IS the end of the world….
And the winner is……. “Are we living in the last century of our civilization? Is it possible that all of our technology, knowledge and wealth cannot save us from ourselves? Could our society actually be heading towards collapse? -From...
Read moreMeanwhile, back on earth….
200 years in the future, and the only black woman on board is STILL the receptionist. Not to demonstrate my age, nor my geek childhood, but when I was a kid, Star Trek was my favorite show. The plots...
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