This Is What Journalism Has Become….
June 8, 1972. Nick Ut, (Huynh Cong Ut), captures this Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Phan Thị Kim Phúc. The 9 year old girl running toward the camera to flee a South Vietnamese napalm attack on the Trang Bang village...
Read moreAnd now… the ‘news’….
News you can use…… We have lived in the Soviet Union of television journalism for so long that we have actually come to believe that the ‘controlled’ system is ‘better’ than a messy system where anyone can produce anything...
Read moreThe Empire Strikes Back
“….gimme a sec Vader, and I’ll be right with you…..” A few days ago we wrote about the rise of the ‘peasants’ as they took control of the media. As in the 15th Century, the nobility is pissed off....
Read moreThe Case for Video Literacy
…..psst… on final cut pro how do you set the dissolve times again?…. The average American now watches more than 4.2 hours of television a day.
Read moreWhere Are We Going?
“….are we there yet?…..” In the first half of the 20th Century, we had an economy that was based on manufacturing stuff. That is, the bulk of the economy was based on making physical, tangible things, like bricks, or...
Read moreGeorge Lucas Speaks
I didn’t say it, George Lucas did: Moving Beyond Moving Pictures: Spring 2007 By George Lucas ’66 When Johannes Gutenberg set out to build a printing press in the mid-15th century,the last thing on his mind was starting a...
Read moreThe Peasants Are Revolting!
…. storming the CBS Building….. The printing press unleashed a revolution unforseen by Gutenberg. The ‘people’ were suddenly in control of information. And those who had until then complete power over information did not like this at all. The...
Read morePlugged Into The Future
A trillion dollars in a wire…. if you can see it… As we pointed out on last week, technologically driven change can be traumatic and disruptive. It can cause formerly stable jobs and industries to disappear almost overnight. But...
Read moreLike a Rocket(t)
I think you’re going to like this picture….. Aaron Rockett. What kind of person takes off for Afghanistan on his own with a video camera and a laptop and spends a year shooting their own stories?
Read morePutting The Future on Hold?
hello… hello…. do you hear me now? When we did the Bootcamp last week in Miami, we offered three kinds of cameras for the students to use: Sony Z1, Panasonic DVX100 and Canon HV-20A. The first two are fairly...
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