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Archives for September 2011

Netflix Should Take a Queue from Apple

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Today Netflix CEO Reed Hastings sent an email to Netflix customers and posted this blog post explaining the reasoning behind the company’s recent price hike and apologizing for not communicating this earlier. In a nutshell, they are breaking off the DVD business to a whole separate company called…are you ready for this…Qwikster (for which they don’t even […]

How Do I Find the Time to Blog So Much?

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I am often asked by people how I find the time to do as much blogging as I do. They want to know when do I ever have time to actually edit. Well, today you find out the answer to that question. (photo © cambodia4kidsorg on Flickr).

Free Live Seminar This Tuesday with In[Focus]

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This coming Tuesday, September 20, I will be presenting during the In[Focus] LiveStream teaching event. Every week leading up to their conference in January they are having some of the top event and corporate filmmakers in the industry give insight into their business. Somehow I was invited to participate. I’m thinking it must be a […]

Why This Stoop Sitting Video Bothers Me

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Film is a powerful medium that can either progress a people, or perpetuate stereotypes. Here’s a beautifully crafted film that kinda bothers me. I’d love your take on “stoop sittin’ “.

“Disaster Porn” or Important Journalistic Art?

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When photographers go to locations hit by terrible disasters to photograph the people and the rubble, is it disaster porn? Or does it fulfill a legitimate need and provide legitimate aid. Here’s one photographer’s take.

The Importance of Making a Focused Video

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One of the most challenging jobs of a film or video editor is to cut a project down to the meat of the message. In today’s post I share a video example of how I made such a decision on my recent personal project.

Remembering 9-11 Ten Years Later

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We all have stories about that fateful day. In my tribute to its memory, I offer stories from two NY photographers (one in video, one in audio) that will move you.