Visual Journalism – Page 244 – Notes from aside the camera

December 10, 2009

Internship Opp.: Gawker Media

Unpaid but course credit available … Do your current obsessions include television, pop-culture, viral video, or social media? Then we want you to be a Gawker Media Video intern.

At Work/Business & Industry

December 10, 2009

Time’s Top 10 Magazine Covers

Here they come – everyone’s got a top 10 list this time of the year. Time magazine has posted what they think are the top magazine covers of the year … and not one of them is their own. (Personally, I love the elegant simplicity of their number three choice. But I am a monochromatic kind of guy.)

Business & Industry/Good Work/Graphic Design

December 10, 2009

Tablets at the Table

The debate over how “content” will be delivered in the future has been going now for, um … 100 years? Maybe more? There are huge rumors about an Apple tablet computer. There’s the recent implosion of the CrunchPad. And now there’s this video about a Sports Illustrated tablet … The iPhone and BlackBerry are neat tools, but they’re not a...

Tech Talk

December 9, 2009

Photo T-shirts, For Fun

Can’t tell you how many of these photo-themed t-shirts I want … just can’t tell you.

Thoughts & Theory

December 9, 2009

Opportunity Costs and the Lazy Young Journalist

FAIL FASTER. There, now everyone knows my teaching philosophy. It’s how I structure every class, it’s how I lived the early part of my life. Why? Because the costs of failing are low and the possibility of massive successes are high. Ninety percent sure something won’t work? Why not try it and be 100 percent sure? And why am I...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

December 9, 2009

Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding Competition

Disclosure – I have worked with the Alexia Foundation in the past and I have a great deal of admiration for this program, there is absolutely no reason why you shouldn’t enter. See me and I’ll help. Study photojournalism in London Alexia Scholarship pays all tuition for fall semester at Syracuse University London Program in England Cash grants, equipment and...

Advice & Learning/Competitions

December 8, 2009

What’s In Jack’s Box?

(Yes, that was a terrible headline.) A while back I put together a giant gear post and some people scoffed at it. No one needs that much stuff. (Yes, you do.) No one would carry that much stuff. (Yes, they do.) How the heck am I supposed to carry all of that around? (You’ll figure it out.) So while you’re...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry

December 7, 2009

Top Trends for `10 Predicted

CNN.com has a column by Pete Cashmore, founder and CEO of Mashable.com, where he predicts the top technology trends for 2010. It’s an interesting list, two of which I’ll make a few notes on … Content Curation – This is a huge one for me. I am, to be honest, overloaded with information every single day. (My RSS reader of...

Tech Talk

December 7, 2009

The U.K.’s Best Handheld News Device

This is brilliant – I think everybody should get one. (Thanks to Michael Posey for the link.)

Business & Industry/Tech Talk

December 6, 2009

Think Your Lens is the Sharpest Ever? Or is it Junk?

This has to be the clearest explanation I’ve ever read about why some lenses are awesome and some are just miserable. I’ve seen this myself – I had a 35-70 mm f/2.8 lens that was soft on every camera I owned at the time. I hated it, told numerous people to avoid it like the plague. But everyone else who...

Tech Talk