I just reconnected with an old friend, Mark Feinknopf… a wonderful man and stellar architect who is passionate about sustainability and bringing human scale to cities. And I was so excited that he sent me to this link. It’s a video I produced for him to be shown at his presentation when his firm was…
Steve Jobs sells the landing of the Mother Ship
Thanks to the Twitterverse for alerting me to this presentation by Steve Jobs to the Cupertino city council. It’s classic Steve Jobs. “I’m going to tell you a story … and your life will never be the same. It’s really cool, really different. We go from 20% parkland to 80% parkland; and reducing asphalt parking…
Kurt Vonnegut on the shapes of stories
Thanks to Roger Ebert’s twitter feed and blog for introducing this great little humorous lesson. And remember: audiences like “off-scale happiness” endings, even if it takes a stretch to achieve them.
Best Mac vs PC spot ever…
Thanks to @brand_BIG for distracting me this morning with a compilation of all 66 commercials in Apple’s 4-year Mac vs PC campaign. I got to see a lot of the ones I had missed. Here’s my favorite: WIth this one exception, these spots are amazing to me in how effectively they communicate a story economically…
A little music to quench the madness
Sometimes stupidity has a wardrobe malfunction, and we see evil behind it. Time to stop laughing and start expressing indignation. But first, maybe we can just sing. For such a time as that, here’s a little reggae for the soul.
Thanks to Josh Kaufman: The Craftsman’s Creed
Here is Josh Kaufman’s Craftsman’s Creed. It certainly describes how I feel in the many roles I continue to play in life: a filmmaker, web designer, writer, photographer, debate coach, speaker, pastor, counselor, carpenter, shepherd, environmentalist, gardener, and parent. All honest work is profitable. I am a craftsman. I am dedicated to perfecting the art…
What happens if your video producer has an attitude?
Maybe something like this: Thanks to Scott Adams for telling it like it is!
The camera I’ve been waiting for has arrived…
Sony has just announced the camera I’ve been waiting for. I sold my last broadcast camera over a year ago, and waved goodbye to tape, HDV, big cameras with relatively small sensors and huge zoom lenses, and all the other things that make video look like video, not film. It’s not easy to be a…
The Alberta Oil Sands: Who gives a duck? I do.
Thanks to Climate Change Crock of the Week for posting this brief diversion from my editing: It’s time to say no to stupidity.
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