We Take The Newark Star Ledger to Video
The morning meeting – now its print, online and video This morning we began a project we have been awaiting with great anticipation- taking The Newark Star Ledger into the world of video. The Star Ledger is the 15th...
Read moreA Guy at a Desk with a Box Over His Shoulder
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz……… Same old… same old….. I travel all the time, and whenever I get to a new city, I go to the hotel and turn on the TV set. No matter what country I am in, I always know...
Read moreThe Machine is Us/ing Us.
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&hl=en]] Check out this video from Prof. Michael Wesch.
Read moreVideo Like Heroin
THE MOST ADDICTIVE DRUG …what’s on Fox? For the past 60 years, we have all been participating in a massive sociological experiment, the results of which are just now becoming clear. Today, the average American watches 4.5 hours of...
Read moreA Man and A Woman
Anouk Aimee Watching Claude Lelouch’s A Man and A Woman (Un Homme et Une Femme) last night, I was taken at the utter simplicity yet power of the film. Made in 1966, and winner of the Academy Award for...
Read moreToward a New Grammar for Video
Photography in the 1860s was expensive, complex and heavy There is a direct correlation between technology and grammar – that is a direct relationship between the way something is made, and the way it looks. This is particularly true...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – Chicago
We are in the third day of the Academy, our first one in Chicago. Despite yesterday’s snowstorm, we’re having a great result:
Read moreWhen Professions Die
In 1940, linotype operators were the highest paid union workers in the country. A generation later, they were gone. Technology rendered their once irreplaceable task utterly worthless. Linotype, for those who are too young to remember, was a method...
Read moreVerizon is 1 Year Old
Our partnership with Verizon to build and run a VJ-driven hyperlocal tv station is now one year old, and The Wall Street Journal has written a very nice piece about us: Kids, Thugs, Dogs, Cats Drafted Into TV Battle...
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