Look at an anthill. Very regimented. Each little individual has its place in the ant universe. Find food and take it back to the hill. Feed the Queen Ant. Be a good little soldier ant. But they have no brains…they run on instinct, as do all insects. And the different species feed on each other. […]

In the 1950s something fantastical came out of the brain of an addled engineer – something strange and thin and wide. Videotape. On two inch reels. Finally…finally there was a way to preserve what until then had been live TV (let’s discount the kinoscope recordings). Well that two inch tape was whittled down to one […]

Just as summer is heating up and it is time to slow down, my life is heating up and I can’t slow down. Larry Nance, my co-author and buddy, is setting up the website for The Basics of Videojournalism while I keep hacking away at the keyboard, one chapter at a time. We’re on a […]

I’ve been to two of these in the past week with another one coming up on Thursday. For you newbies, a dog and pony show used to be a small traveling circus – but in the biz it is a show put on for the entertainment of the media or the masses (see Addendum at […]

Before the Internet…before TV…and pretty darn near alongside silent movies and radio way back in the early decades of the 20th century there was a breed of men who braved all manner of dangers from dancing beauty queens to crashing zeppelins to bring the news to theaters around the world. And now Amanda Emily has […]

So I turned up at the Lodi Library for an event that was postponed (unbeknownst to me). Instead parking was at a premium because the twice annual Lodi Street Faire had taken over downtown. Well, dangit, now that I had the camera AND a parking place it seemed to make sense to take a stroll […]