Better Late Than Never Dept.
is anyone listening? Like two punch-drunk fighters in the final rounds of The Thrilla in Manhattan, Newsweek and Time Magazine have been slugging it out for years to determine who as the best news weekly magazine....
Read moreChicago Sun-Times Fires Photogs, Trains Staff on iPhone
Yesterday, the Chicago Sun-Times announced that they were firing their entire photography staff. Today, they announced that they would start training their reporters to take their own photos using an iPhone. Media writer Robert Feder surfaced this on...
Read moreTime Magazine and Instagram Today / HBO and iPhone Tomorrow?
This was how Time Magazine covered Hurricane Sandy on its cover on its Nov. 1 issue.The photo, which is pretty impressive, came from Instagram. For more details on this, see a very good piece on why this was done,...
Read moreHelp A Brother Out!
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/28363455[/vimeo] Really nicely shot Long time VJ (and NYVS contributor) PFÂ Bentley lives on the Island of Molokai in the Hawaiian chain. For those of you unfamiliar with Molokai, here’s a photo: Who want’s to trade places with PF Bentley?...
Read moreAfter The Fall – Souffle?
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/10354055[/vimeo] Take a look at this.. no kidding.. Here’s how you start a business. You get an idea. Then you go to some smart rich guys. Nick Nicholas was a smart rich guy. He was then the Chairman and...
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 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 moreA "Magnum" for Videographers?
Rwandan Refugees – Sebastao Salgado When I was a kid, my parents had a book, The Family of Man by Edward Steichen.
Read moreWho Becomes a VJ?
….Drew Carey, student…. PF Bentley… Instructor…. Risk Takers… One of our regular contributors here got in touch with one of our VJs, Karin Thayer. Following that, he did a bit of research into Thayer’s bio, and posted the following:
Read morePicture This
Videojournalist PF Bentley and Gulfstream during Drew Carey’s Sporting World shoot in Germany. (Gulftream is not Bentley’s). There is a red herring swimming about claiming that VJ is a code term for 23 year olds with no experience and...
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