Archive for December, 2009

LIVE TRUCK!!!!!!! Help!

It’s 15 degrees and the mast will not stay up!! I’m at shore power and running the heater on through out the whole truck. Any thoughts??

editing the project of a lifetime

literally.
Man am I blessed. My Dad purcahsed a Quazar VHS camcorder in ‘84 and I totally bogarted it. I still have it. Since that day, I have rolled more video than anyone I know and today I find myself sifting through hundreds of hours of golden memories.
I always wanted to make a movie of the [...]

"Telling stories without words for 30 years"

Very nice piece from KUSA in Denver. I would HIGHLY recommend everyone watch this!!
http://www.9news.com/news/article.as…9852&catid=188

Email Safety, Childish Forum Users, and You!

A word of warning for those of you who keep your professional email addresses easily accessible through public forums:
Yesterday, I was the victim of a mailing list spoofing attack. During the attack, the mailing list that was used in the spoof detected what was happening and sent me this warning:

Quote:

Due to the protocols used on [...]

these are always fun

Being in St. Louis, one of my biggest clients has always been Anheuser-Busch. I produce, host, shoot, and edit a show for their satellite network, edit lots of various content for them, and every now and then, get to make a behind the scenes web piece for their commercials. I like these. Laid back, fun, [...]

b-roll.net AWARDS Entry Begins on New Year’s Day

b-roll.net AWARDS Entry Begins on New Year’s Day

The champagne and confetti may still be on the floor from New Year’s Eve, but New Year’s Day marks the beginning of the  2010 b-roll.net AWARDS.
Many responses last year asked for more time to enter and judge the contest, so this year we’re extending the contest schedule. Don’t look at the extension as a chance [...]

Newark’s Star-Ledger Gets New Publisher

Star-Ledger may have survived just long enough with their money-saving tactics to get a new publisher a year later:

Quote:

Originally Posted by editorandpublisher.com
The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. has named Richard Vezza, president of Penn Jersey Advance, as its new publisher, the paper reported on its Web site Tuesday.

The article is remarkably vague, as it cites Vezza’s [...]

Miami Based Lensmith Has “Crappy” Day

Miami Based Lensmith Has “Crappy” Day

This was one of those days.

Shooting dog crap in downtown Miami…literally!
A story about the city starting to hand out hefty fines to those who don’t clean up after their dogs, led to me doing my best to be creative with a less than pleasant subject matter.
A smart aleck reporter, who always carries his still camera, [...]

Any good New Year resolutions?

Not that I’m a negative guy…but I think I’m going to make an effort to be a little more positive at work. Even if there are a couple of grumps I can’t avoid!

Hope everyone has a great New Year!!!;)

What journalists wanted to know in 2009

From: Advancing the Story
OK, I may be taking a little poetic license with the headline, but I thought while every news organization in the country was doing “year in review” stories, Advancing the Story should, too.  So, in case you missed any of them, here are the most trafficked posts for our blog this year.
1.  [...]