Archive for the 'art' Category

Jan 11 2008

Democratization of media - secret knowledge

Published by peter under art

With new small cameras, laptops and wireless communication one talented digital producer can do the work of a 4 or 5 person TV production crew. What might have taken a large crew and a truck full of equipment ten years ago can now be attempted by a couple of students with a few thousand […]

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Dec 19 2007

The secret to success 3

Published by peter under art, photojournalism, videojournalists

As mentioned before: “The secret to success is not being committed to success. The secret to success is being committed to preparing for success” - Tony Robbins.
Annie Leibowitz and her 11 assistants spent 3 weeks preparing for her 30 minute photo shoot with H.M Queen Elizabeth II. Despite the controversy the results confirmed […]

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Jul 30 2007

Breaking Rules

Published by peter under art, photojournalism

Rule One - Don’t suggest to a ruling monarch that they appear in ceremonial robes but lose the crown because “its too dressy”.

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Jun 14 2007

Shoot like an Egyptian

Published by peter under cinematography, art

Artists in ancient Egypt represented motion by having subjects arms mimic the neck and and tail of some exotic bird. Somehow I guess they figured that the one arm pointing and the other trailing represented forward motion without ambiguity.
Today videographers strive to create narrow depth of field in order to focus our viewer’s […]

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Jun 13 2007

Elliot Erwitt

Published by peter under art, photojournalism

ERWITT: ‘The exchange between Nixon and Khrushchev was really quite silly. Nixon was saying “We are rich and you are poor, we eat meat and you eat cabbage”. Khrushchev replied “Go screw my grandmother”‘.

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Jun 04 2007

The Big Picture

Seadragon - an incredible visual viewing/modelling/networking app - from Microsoft. Very classy of BMW to leave their ad until after the presentation.

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May 25 2007

New ways to communicate

Published by admin under communication, art

# 21 - say it with grass. They could have printed a brochure, written a blog, or hired Bono - but to promote the global village gestalt Visit London decided to cover Trafalgar Square with turf.
Saturday the turf gets moved to London Parks, and millions of Londoners join the millions of New Yorkers who […]

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