The 85 Year Old VJs
John Erickson…. Ted Turner of the retirement set. About three years ago, I gave a speech at the Cable Conference in Chicago. A few days later, I got a call from someone who had seen me speak. He said...
Read moreHow To Make A Living With A Video Camera – Pt1
…”we’re waiting for the cameras before we can evac you…” In 1994, my now ex-wife (who shall mercifully remain nameless) and I wandered into the waiting room of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) with a small,...
Read more5Takes – Season 4
No time for photos… we’re on a very tight schedule… A REVOLUTION IN A LAPTOP Two years ago, we engaged in a small experiment in television production. We wanted to send 5 young Americans to Europe for the summer...
Read moreOne Small Step
“what else is on?” On July 21, 1969, man landed on the moon. It was an incredible achivement in human history. And the moment was televised for the entire planet to see. A short three years later, man left...
Read moreIF PBS RAN THE ART WORLD
Can you make it more like South Park? Television, despite all the billions of human labor hours that have been spent making stuff (and that is what TV is all about, making stuff..just like painting or sculpture), has produced...
Read moreVJ Academy with Travel Channel
For almost 20 years we have been running our VJ Bootcamps all over the world. We have trained more than 5,000 people to work in this way, from London to Japan. But now, with the web going to video,...
Read moreBreaking News
About 10 years ago, when The New York Times was first starting NYTimes.com, most of the newspaper’s senior staff were nervous about the web. They did not feel anything should appear on the website until it had already been...
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