5Takes Rio
Here’s a promo (VJ – Fleur Amesz), for this show this week. Tune in. Saturday 10pm. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUKkvOhE5ZA]
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Just in from 5Takes Latin America….. Here is the most recent vlog from ‘tj’ Erika as she and 4 others make their way across Latin America. (Glad to see you found it) We supplied them with video cameras, laptops...
Read moreHillary, your web videos suck!
…anacin…anacin….anacin…… His name was Rosser Reeves and he changed the world. You may never have heard of him, but you should have. He created, to a large, extent, the world we live in today.
Read moreThis 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 moreDetroit on the Hudson
What happened? Detroit once made the most amazing cars in the world. Truly works of art, as well as powerhouse machines. As a kid I can remember waiting for the new models to come out each year. Then, something...
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 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 moreOuija Board TV
Our new head of programming….. OK. This is not about VJs, ‘the revolution’ or my now defunct Bang and Olufsen system. This is about producing TV shows… or at least pitching them.
Read moreThe Tyranny of Technology
from state of the art to paperweight….. We are moving. We bought an apartment upstairs in the same building, and Monday is moving day. This being Manhattan, we are also doing a great deal of work on the new...
Read moreWhat’s Your Trip…..
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSaY3TSOP6c] Guy Bauer’s video submission on his trip to Ireland made it into the pilot for What’s Your Trip with Anthony Bourdain. But I also loved Bauer’s travel video to Poland. The home page for the show is finally...
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