Reflections on The First Amendment, Cairo and Wikileaks
I copied this one directly from The Tea Party of Georgia’s Website One of the things that makes America a truly unique country is the First Amendment. Enshrined as the very first and most important Amendment in the Bill...
Read moreBritish Amateur Launches Paper Planes Into Space – Video
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_a4j8h7MMg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] God speed, John Glenn In 1962, John Glenn, strapped atop a Mercury Redstone rocket, was the first American shot into space. Two prior astronauts had ridden the Redstone, but only on sub-orbital flights. Up and down. I am...
Read moreVideo + Social Media Lead A Revolution in Cairo Streets
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_emuOVvlbU&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Here is a video, shot today in Cairo, and posted on Bryce.vc Now, here is what is interesting (as Bryce notes). Take a look at the video. First, I don’t know about you, but I have not seen...
Read moreNow Enrolling – New York Magazine Video Academy
Sign up now! Like many other magazines, New York Magazine is moving online and onto platforms like iPads and iPhones. With a circulation of nearly half a million people, that makes it one of the most important reads in...
Read moreMy Four Days at The ICP
Mapplethorp II I just finished an intensive 4-day course in advanced portrait lighting at the International Center for Photography in NY. The course was taught by Harvey Stein, an accomplished photographer in his own right. Personally, I was most...
Read more20% Off for Guardian Media Academy in London in Feb
Sign up now! Last year we launcyhed out intensive, in-London hands-on video training bootcamp. The Guardian Media Academy. Now, we’re running it again – February 21-24. In London At the offices of The Guardian, one of the most prestigious...
Read moreMajek Pictures Shoots Feature on iPhone
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymqZfkuwmw[/youtube] Unbelievable First, many thanks to our unflailing Cape Town correspondant Dominque Vandenhoudt who tipped us off to this one. Majek Pictures, a production company set up by Michael Korbel and Anna Elizabeth James, two graduate students at USC Film...
Read moreAl Jazeera and NYVS.com
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/11648023[/vimeo] Award winning Rhodri Davies, a videojournalist with Al Jazeera submitted a video on Mexico City’s water crisis yesterday on NYVS. I was delighted to see a story from an Al Jaz VJ. Every year, we give a $15,000...
Read moreMartin Luther King Jr and The Power of Television Images
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZLvSnr6s50&feature=related[/youtube] For many years I taught at NYU’s Journalism School, and one of the classes I taught was about television and the Civil Rights Movement Racism in America, instutional racism – the kind of racism that was enforced by...
Read morePitching a Killer Show
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPuni2FtKAY[/youtube] Here‘s the pitch A few months ago, Kevin Curl, friend and TCA grad came to us with a question – could we train a woman he found in NYÂ who might contribute to his fledgling webcast network, Future Dog....
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