Toward 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...
Read moreWe Open in Chicago
The Travel Channel Academy starts in Chicago today. 40 new Travel Channel Journalists met this morning at the Downtown Sheraton to start their intensive 4-day bootcamp. Travel Channel VP Sue Norton was here to meet them, and explain how...
Read moreNatalie – The Liquid Muse
Natalie, the Liquid Muse blogs on her experience at the DC course last week. Good reading for those contemplating signing up!
Read moreJudy Rolfe
Professional photographer Judy Rolfe was a participant in last week’s Travel Channel Academy in Washington, DC. Here a few photos she was kind enough to send us: And here is a link to her blog, where she recounts her...
Read moreMore Than 10 Billion Served
The Revolution Will Be Televised…. The Wall Street Journal reports on Wednesday, March 5th that: “in December, Internet users watched more than 10 billion videos online, according to comScore Inc. – one of the single heaviest months for online...
Read moreGannett Stations Go VJ
This was in today’s Denver Post (with thanks to Charles Newcombe who made me aware of this posting in b-roll.net) arts and entertainment KUSA re channels workload, product The Gannett station is pushing multitasking by staffers and ad interaction...
Read moreThe Immature Medium
Chuck Close When I walk through the Museum of Modern Art in NY, some of the art does not effect me in the least. I can walk past and feel nothing. Then, there are the pieces with which I...
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