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At the tone the time will be… an arm and a leg
For thousands of years man has been waking up and going to sleep and in between he has always asked the same question, a question that has pluaged every society, destroyed nations and united strangers, a question that will never die and had no birth. It is the question that defines us: “when do we...
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TV News is a bussiness, here’s some funny that proves it
As I reflect on today’s events, from Fox News’ treatment of Kurt Vonnegut’s death to the endless Anna Nicole Smith updates to the stories that never go beyond the ink of newspapers to today’s events at Virginia Tech University I find myself once again comparing TV News to Newspapers. Those that know me will tell...
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Multimedia Shooter contest winners
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but someone cruel once decided that humans need sleep. If you’re like me you’re always looking for inspiration and one of the places I’ve found it was in looking over the winners of Multimedia Shooter’s first anything-goes contest held last March. There’s a couple of really...
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Light bent on itself?!
According to a report by Scientific America, researchers have developed a method of refracting light back on itself in the opposite direction than how it wants to natural bounce off a surface. What’s this mean, it’s means there’s some crazy stuff going on with the study of light and adjusant to that is the way...
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Imus Firing May Create a Slippery Slope
Today Don Imus, who unless you’ve been under a rock, you know has been at the center of a media storm involving the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers basketball team and some comments he made to his producer at “Imus in the Morning,” was fired. Imus made the statements before Easter weekend and there was a...
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Kurt
I ran across a blurb that author Kurt Vonnegut had died. I don’t often feel moved enough to feel I have to write about someone, I did it when Ted Koppel left ABC and I did it when Gordan Parks died, but not that often. Kurt holds a special place on my bookshelf. I’ve often...
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A cold case never goes cold for a family
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"Not just a number" interview
A quasi-update on an earlier post I made about the Not Just a Number series now appearing on the Oakland Tribune… as I do from time to time, I headed over to Ryan Sholin’s blog to check out what nuggets of reflection he’s got in store for me to ponder when lo and behold I...
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Cuban Streets and Latin Beats
When Mediastorm launched a little over a year ago one of the centerpieces was “1976” a project that fused the beats of DJ RJD2 with a street photography aesthetic and an amazing flair for style and visuals. It’s more music video than journalism, but it’s just to good to ignore. I recently came across it...
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It’s Tricky!!!
Not everything has to be serious, here’s a fun video that showcases the power of editing and sound and pays homage to one of my favs. The video is deceptively simple, but there’s a lot of thought going on behind the edits, musical cues, variations in signage and acting, yes acting. Plus some of those...
The Obama campaign goes pop culture
In a (not so) odd (if you really think about it) nod to Americana, Obama goes for the techie vote with this clever (plagiarized?) champaign ad. I can’t imagine what Apple would say, I guess it’s nice that she’s paying homage to Apple by wearing an iPod… but wow. If this takes off, and I...
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The real way how three months salery is made to last forever
I just saw “Blood Diamond” last night, a great film by the way. It’s Edward Zwick return to the elegant simplicity of “Glory” and departure from the boisterous frivolity of “The Last Samurai.” I’d always hoped Zwick would recapture his talent, a mature director with a steady hand and a pure understanding of the fundamentals,...
