The Cameraman Speaks
The quandry for professional cameramen – Jim Long contemplates the future Alex Lucas was a VJ that I trained in Nashville at WKRN. He was a cameraman making the transition to VJ. He was very good at it. About...
Read moreVJ and The Election
If the first place new technologies find their ‘home’ is pornography, the second is generally politics. (Not that the two are that closely related). An article in yesterday’s NY Times brought this point into sharp focus. The demands of...
Read moreNBC Network News Goes VJ
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Read moreA VJ Story
[Youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HblwE0Opgfc&rel=1]] Foot Patrol by Raul Gallego Abellan. On March 3-4 we will conduct what I hope will be the world’s largest global VJ conference, DNA2008 in Brussels. As part of that conference, we will award our annual VJ Prize...
Read moreUnstoppable
Get out of the way!!!! In 1821, George Stephenson, the ‘father of railways’ build the world’s first commercially viable steam railway between Darlington and Stockton-on-Tees, a distance of 14 miles. The train was not fast, It took nearly two...
Read moreA Question from the newspaper folks
“That is so true. I just had a reporter say to me: “I used to know what I was doing when I left the newsroom. I had a pen behind my ear and a notebook in my pocket. But...
Read moreWhy VJs are Inevitable
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Read moreKRON goes on the Block
Young Broadcasting announced today that is putting KRON, its San Francisco station up for sale. KRON was one of three stations we took into the full-blown VJ model in 2004/5. The people at KRON undertook an enormous amount of...
Read moreWhat I Learned from Charles Kuralt
On The Road to making better video…. When we train VJs now, we train them to work in very different ways. One of the ways we differ is that we teach them to lay in all the pictures first...
Read moreW Eugene Smith and the Video Essay
Welsh Coal Miners by W Eugene Smith 1950 I spent this afternoon at a major New Jersey newspaper with Jeff Jarvis . The paper, like many print publications in this country, is moving into video. This is inevitable. As...
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