I’ve seen a couple of very interesting Time Lapse movies and I have been investigating the best techniques for shooting and putting one together. I found one pretty good tutorial on the equipment needed and technique and decided to try one out. In this video I collapsed 16 minutes down [...]

I just read Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables an autobiography by VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer this weekend. The writing is a little quirky and the pacing dragged a little bit in the early chapters, but as the book picked up his stories [...]

I think we are seeing the advent of a new form media on the Internet right now with the emergence of the serialized mini-film. The first popular example of this was LonelyGirl15 which turned out to be highly scripted and directed. Now I have found similarly formatted film in 39 [...]

The Washington Post launched On Being this week. Is this the new product that Rob Curley was talking about last week when discussed the Naples Daily News Studio 55? Howard Owens has some questions about it, too. And I guess that I don’t completely get it, either. Even though the [...]

This year CBS is using 42 High Definition Cameras at the Superbowl and over 500 staffers. Broadcasting and Cable reports “CBS will have 21 hard (or wired) cameras, three cabled handheld cameras, two wireless handheld cameras, one wireless Steadycam camera, one CableCam camera, two robotic goalpost cameras, two robotic coaches [...]

Online media guru Rob Curley is sharing the details that went into the Naples Daily News Studio 55 Vodcast. He covers where the idea came from,how they implemented and why it worked. It’s the way newspapers should try convergence.

The same day as I am working up my streaming video comparison post, Chris Pirillo runs his YouTube vs. Google Video vs. Revver review. It’s a much better take on it than mine because he embeds three videos from all three services. In the videos he is arguing with himself [...]

So, the next common big thing on the web will be for the average user to share their own videos. Not really the next big thing, but the now big thing. I decided to shoot a video using the video recorder on my old point and shoot digital camera (a [...]

In the issue of Digital Content Producer that I received yesterday there is a great article about newspaper newsroom convergence with many photographers producing multimedia slideshows and video. Of particular interest to me was Dallas Morning News Photographer David Leeson exclusively shooting high definition video and then pulling frames for [...]

Google has bought YouTube for 1.65 Billion dollars (that is $1,065,000,000 if you need to see all the zeros to realize how much it is) in a stock to stock transition. I wonder how many of YouTube’s 67 employees will be instant millionaires when the deal goes through? That’s right [...]