You too can learn to be a modern artist.
Everyone is getting into the online video business, and more specifically, everyone is getting into the online education by online video business (me too).
Now, the Musuem of Modern Art is doing the same thing.
They’re offering online learn about Modern Art courses.
And the videos are pretty good.
There are two lessons to be learnt here.
1. Everyone is getting into the niche learn online for a fee by video business. It’s just starting but it appears to be the way to go. If you have a niche to teach people, make a few videos and charge for em.
2. This stuff could have been terrible. Ever been to an art lecture at The Met for example. Ever taken Art 101 in college. A professor drones on as a slide show goes on behind him – ‘undulating lines’. Snore.
Here, the folks at MoMA have made some really compelling videos.  First, they have gotten some very entertaining and compelling lecturers. Entertaining is important. Second, they break away and do a hands-on, how did they do that, which is great. That, after all, is what video is all about.
Here’s another one about Ad Renihardt – talk about impenetrable.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSGGHmTXA3o[/youtube]I have seen these paintings a hundred times (I live on top of the MoMA), but I never looked at them in this way.
Great job MoMA – I learned a lot.. about both art and video.
Michael Rosenblum
For more than 30 years, Michael Rosenblum has been on the cutting edge of the digital video journalism revolution. During this time, he has lead a drive for video literacy, and the complete rethinking of how television is made and controlled. His work has included: The complete transitioning of The BBC's national network (UK) to a VJ-driven model, starting in 2002. The complete conversion of The Voice of America, the United State's Government's broadcasting agency, (and the largest broadcaster in the world), from short wave radio to television broadcasting and webcasting using the VJ paradigm (1998-present). The construction of NYT Television, a New York Times Company, and the largest producer of non-fiction television in the US. Rosenblum was both the founder and President of NYT TV, (all based on this paradigm (1996-1998). The President and Founder of Video News International, a global VJ-driven newsgathering company, with more than 100 journalists around the world. (1993-1996). Other clients include Spectrum News, Verizon and CBS News.