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Richard Saul Wurman delighted me when he spoke at the SenseMaker Dialogs last Tuesday in New York City. I remember picking up his book, Information Anxiety for the first time in the early 90’s, a terrified and confident young man, and loving every little bit of it, the provocative micromanifestos, the frequent sidebars, the anecdotes, […]

RSVP here for VizThink Philly 2
Topic: Get Framed….at the Storyboard-O-Rama
VizThinker Julia Pellicciaro will do a quick storyboarding demo, and then we’ll make our own and share them with each other.
Storyboards are poweful tools for planning and pitching projects. They are can also stand alone as potent communication devices.
Afterwards if you care for drinks and pierogies, […]

Kendesi Mohammed and I met at Busboys and Poets a couple of weeks ago and we have been keeping in touch since then. Kendesi is a DC based video producer and club mogul. He helps throw parties and promote up and coming spoken word, rap, music, and modeling talent. We hit on the idea of […]

Below are my rough notes from some of the PodCampNYC 2.0 sessions I participated in. I hope folks who were not able to attend these sessions find these notes helpful. Note: these were created on the fly and niceties of punctuation, grammar and spelling are not always observed.
Here are links to notes for individual sessions:
Using […]

Stowe Boyd (AKA, “The Stowe Boyd”) held forth about Twitter last night at the DC Media Makers meeting. He opined that it’s useless to explain Twitter to people. You just have to tell them to try Twitter for a few weeks. And if they aren’t willing to do that, it’s useless explaining it.
“It’s useless to […]

This has been one of my most action packed weeks ever. I’m just starting to process it all. Let me take you through it.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Worked with a team of DC Media Makers and special guests to write, rehearse, shoot, and edit an entire short film for the 48 Hour Film Project. We drew […]

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Beth Kanter helps nonprofits use the web to extend their reach. As part of that mission, she is learning the ins and outs of producing web video. To that end, she is interviewing video makers about their techniques or tricks. Her self imposed guideline is that she use only the most inexpensive equipment, […]

I loved teaching videoblogging to teens in the Bronx this last year, but since my wife is in school in DC, I need to move down there, so I can’t continue working with them. That makes me a little sad, because those students are amazing. The good news is I’m going to keep teaching videoblogging […]

A week and a half ago, I had the pleasure of showing some of the work my students been doing to graduate students at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. They were really blown away by the kind of video and audio the Bronx youth have been creating, and the way we are […]

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BX21 stands for Bronx, 21st Century. The Bronx in the 21st century is full of possibilites. This is a message I made for my crew of media making students in the Bronx who are […]