Michael on Media

Michael Rosenblum has been writing about the media since 1988. His work and ideas have appeared in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Ilkeston Life and many other publications.

He has been blogging regularly for the past 35 years on this subject. Having taught media studies at Columbia University, NYU and now the University of Oxford, he is considered an expert on this subject.

iPhone 4 vs. Canon 5D MKII – a side by side comparison

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj576OUF8YQ[/youtube] Can you tell which is which? This is from Robino Films Here’s a “fair” test between the iPhone 4S and the Canon 5D MK II. I made a little rig that allowed me to shoot both cameras at...

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My First Computer

NEC APC 1 – Advanced Personal Computer Yesterday, old friend and long time professional NBC camerman Jim Long posted a challenge on Facebook: “What was your first computer”. This brought back a raft of memories. Mine was the NEC (Nippon...

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Irony On Wall Street

the price of progress Normally, I don’t go near political issues here, but today I will make an exception And I am not getting political. I am only making an observation about technology. The protests on Wall Street #OWS...

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Picture Perfect – The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP9cfQx2OZY[/youtube] The Good, The Bad and the Ugly… but mostly pretty good… Yesterday, in our live webcast (which you can see here probably by the end of today), Josemarie asked me what I meant when I said ‘the shooting...

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How To Make A Music Video

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0[/youtube] Annoying? You bet! But there’s gold in those inane lyrics! OK. Rebecca Black Yes, I know. But let’s move beyond that. What’s most interesting here is the story behind Rebecca Black’s success. I’ll just lift the next graph...

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A Pilot’s Pilot

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1BbzrGq1ik[/youtube] It’s a LOT better than much of what I see on OWN at the moment Captain John Roberts is a professional airline pilot He’s also a member of NYVS.com While his passion is flying, his dream is to...

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Roger Ebert, Steve Jobs & The National Enquirer

Roger Ebert is the film critic at The Chicago Sun He’s also one of the most popular bloggers/tweeters around, with a massive following Today, on Facebook, he posted a comment: “Not Every Steve Jobs Idea Was Brilliant” He then posted...

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No News Is Bad News

Romney v. Obama….. The Royal Mail in Britain used to be one of the most dependable institutions in the world. They would deliver the mail to your house twice a day, like clockwork, six days a week. As the...

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Newspaper Video That Works – A Lesson from New Jersey

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH6C3KpO9bA[/youtube] Brian Donahue – He isn’t Brian Williams – thank God! All this week I have been participating in Dave Cohn’s Carnival of Journalism discussion on The Role of Video in the Newspaper Newsroom. (Carnival of Journalism is not, as...

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Learn To Shoot, Learn Final Cut Pro, Learn to Make A Living in Video

A Year of film school compressed into four days If you are learning a lot at NYVS, (and we certainly hope you are) the best way to take this to the ‘next step’ is to take one of our...

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