Is this the most amazing car in the world?

Long day. Currently at Kevin (Hs) houses musing over the day's work. Weekend tested this and filmed, it's a Ferrari 599 GTB. I'll post a prop blog soon. Just whacked and need to get home. The film will be up soonish as one of the last Im6 reports.
Kevin H's has started a blog. With the cars he tests, I look forward to the read ahead.
p.s we got it up to 140 mph, from around 30mph in a couple of secs. My guts need realigning. :)
This Photo and many more fabulous ones by © Warren King. email here warren@wkphotography.co.uk

IM6 3rd installment

Hopefully it's becoming a little clearer- Im6 now up. Watch out for the next installment soon and the wrap up, accompanied by an indepth article

His name is ERIK HUGGER

The BBC has a new figure in the house; the futures house, that joins together TV, Net, Mobile Ok so it has many clever people, but be afraid, be very afraid. Erik originally from Microsoft is a walking Tsunami brewing with ideas and getting things done. Really after 30 minutes talking I just heard myself repeatedly say , "Damn".

Do fries come with that shake; music with that newspaper

Hahahahaha that's er stoopid idea.

Where can I buy it? Sunday newspaper The Daily Mail rarely finds the dinning table of my house, but today for the princely sum of 1.40 ukp it came with a Prince. No not Charlie, but the one that dare not speak his name.

Throughout the week the press has been trailing the move as a revoultion in itself, purposefully grabbing aggrieved music shop owners to say the inevitable: " We're really pissed this guy's giving away his music when we've supported him for so long. Now he kicks us in the teeth".

The deal to have his whole CD carried by a newspaper could be the equivalent of buying a plane on the Net. Yep E-bay reports that's long happened as well. Difference is Prince is a commercial brand with a slew of joined up businesses behind him.

Reports of 1/4 to 1 mil have been mooted for the Purple one to have been carried straight from his paisly park to the people, and that money presumably negates overheads and shares of all manner of calculations e.g. promotion, CEO's lunch, Prince's taxis. So Mr P must be feeling peachy.

Sight unseen, without breaking a sweat tracking sales, his pockets are laden with gold. The reaction from the record shops has been amusing. No, correction! The quotes pulled out from the media for public consumption are amusing.

Music is not a church of the altruistics, so the first thing a record boss is asking when they stock an artist is :"What's the projected sales and our cut".

You sell, we take.

The idea that the record shops have been hard done has a bit of schadenfreude about it. The equivalent perhaps of saying: "I just had to turn up to Prince's exclusive gig at the Cafe de Paris, otherwise can you imagine how embarrassed that would be for him". Incidently, no ones talking about how brilliant it is for consumers.

Me, whether it came with a paper or not, I'm there. A life-long Prince fan, as an undergraduate I'd rather go hungry than forfeit buying or searching for his vinyl. OMG that word, vinyl, sounds soooo. But behind me lay a stack of albums collected within my under and post grad years as a music lover and DJ.

A precocious young man burst on he scene with this album and wow, have some of that. Then the track "Kiss", playing at a one of London's funkiest clubs in the 90's "The Cat in the Hat" made me punk-dive for the first time. At Wembley stadium for about three seconds I held onto his smallish no-label yellow jacket, before some hood wrenched it away from all our sweaty palms. I guess he wanted it more, but he did let me try it on.

No doubt they'll be ooming and umming in the music biz about Prince's dishonour, but expect many other artists to follow suit. It's simple: the net, Myspace, whatever, give an artist direct access to us and that's what every artists wants. No doubt also the music bosses will want to woo back Prince to the table for a better deal with his next release. Not a bad strategy Mr P.

In one year Prince becried how he wanted to just get his music out but his mighty label, with the law of supply and demand in mind, wasn't having none of it.

So next week a Jag with the Sunday Times, a diamond encrusted ring with my cornflakes. Welcome to the third way or as Harvard Review would write this quarter, the integrated approach. More on that on viewmagazine.tv

Meanwhile, I'm off to listen to Prince and incidently talking about amazing artists get some of this: Nancy, abs fab singer songwriter with an a generous and groing base.
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5 hours later... Ok for the mean time the ever prescient Prince has pulled another anthem. As with 1999 that got wheeled out for every occasion to mark the millennium, Planet Earth the first track will become the trademark for all that's wrong with the planet. It plays around with old Prince and something Isley Brotherish. Expect to hear this played to death, unless the planet and everyone dies first. Urggh how morbid.

Why aliens make rubbish journalists

**** me. Who would have thought. So according to this paper ( click to enlarge), I was versed in the codes of computer and online language to take this end of first year exam in 1986.

I'd never have guessed. Chemistry was a searing passion, actually a poor substitute if you asked my father who needed a medic in the house and since I'd been pummeling the Sciences for the last five years, this was to be my calling.

Our Head of Department and lecturer, one David West, was the stuff of chemistry legends; a dry wit, often dour and the ability to expose the imposters who rather than crack Sn2 nucleophillic pathways the night before, had their head stuck up hedonism.

"What, er really... about that much"?, was my reply, when he asked.

"Mr Gyimah, you should be spending 3-5 hours a night on your books".

That was after the 9-5, 36 hour regime of Physical, Organic, Inorganic Chemistry and Maths. "Er yes about three and a half hours that's how much I'm spending". Crock a lies.

Computer language circa 1986 was understanding conditions and the logic of mapping out a request. Type in your name here. If it matches go to... If it does match, loop and go back to the name again. Simple in principle but a test of stern logic.

The bulk of us chem students were sooooo, how do you say: SQUARE. And having three years earlier arrived fully minted from an eight year protracted holiday ( some holiday) in Ghana, I was beyond square, a polygon mess of ideas and rationale.

My A levels which were supposed to get me into medicine or another substitute Chemical Engineering had been a moronic failure, though I did spend the previous year at South Bank University for a month reading Chemical Engineering, but the class was too big and unwieldy and the lecturer's voice didn't project.

Yep what a reason to turn your back for a year on further education.

By the time I'd applied and been accepted by Royal Holloway Bedford and some other, I'd thrown a crumb of crisps onto a map to see how far I could get away from London.

Leicester it was then. Another certainty was a burning desire to break from the yoke of something I had to do against something I wanted to do.

Journalism was a strong draw. The embers of my first piece for my college mag on the Neutron Bomb some five years earlier were still smouldering. But now then, how do you become a journalist? Those I saw on the television and newspapers had pointy heads and double barrel names.

Come to think of it they were the mirror of the alchemists of the science world; the one I occupied, but the two couldn't be so far apart, electrons on different valencies.

How do you become a journalist and what do they do?

With what could be described as an African lilt to my accent, I would later discover any chance of a broadcast career was so out of the question. But the college mag became my lab and in time I was bold enough to enquire about helping out at our local BBC station, where one afternoon a junior minister literally gave me the break, and not one I'll ever forget, that would ruin any pretence of a career. Robert Jackson was a junior education minister in the Thatcher government. More famed for his quip about explosives in his luggage at the airport, he would be one of Thatcher's martryes.

Some protestor pelted him with eggs when he arrived and I was on campus to cover it, with my alleged African lilt. Trouble is I ran out of tape at the crucial period. I now know the reason why I can shoot to edit in videojournalism without waste.

Next day during lecturers I had inadvertently soared to the heights of mini celebrity amongst my closest friends. Barely out of nappies in training, a second piece reared its head. Douglas Hurd, then Home Sec was in the area.

They must have been muttering, that is the editiors, "Try not and **** up this time". So guess what I did.

"Dear boy, how long have you been doing this?" The reel to reel tape in my uher had dropped and unspun all the way across the length of the floor. By now Sir Douglas' aides bemused, perhaps almost in hysterics were waiting patiently for this Journalist ( small letters) to stop doing his impression of Hansel and Gretel.

From then on chemistry and this thing called journalism would lay side by side rarely touching each other, until one day I got the biggest shock I could recieve at such an impressionable age and stage in my career. I discovered I was black.

. . . . to be continued

( from David's scribbled mind-book: Why Aliens Make Rubbish Journalists)

IM6 2

It's only when we have nothing are we willing to learn something. Just let go. . . Not my words but for me apt nonetheless. Second installment of IM6 online

UK national newspapers racking up the anti

. . .And then there was a mini explosion. This summer sees the "Swan Syndrome" - looking elegant but pushing some hard work- for a clutch of British newspapers go into video drive.

The Guardian's appointment of former Press Association Robert Freeman to the job of head of video will now see some of their new developments take shape; namely embedded video ie inserting video within the body text.

I have met Robert several times whilst at PA, through my good friend and wonderkid Ms Asha Oberoi who snatched him from the BBC. He's a good choice given his development background formerly within the Beep.

The Guardian will also be the first to use agency feed to develop in-house material working in tandem with their very popular Guardian Films.

To SHOW OR NOT TO SHOW

Having worked for Worldwide Television News (WTN) agency before it was subsumed by AP to become APTV I have got some idea of the agency- led video approach to news.

Agencies are principally suppliers of news video rather than end users, so even when they do produce for the networks, they use, obviously, voice-overs rather than stand-up or pieces to camera.

It'll be interesting to see what format the Guardian deploys. I have been told.

Talking to my former editor at Channel 4 News, Peter Barron, whom I worked alongside at BBC Newsnight in 1991 ( I was a researcher, he a producer) we discussed the crowded news market, and that consumers will inevitably be attacted to the brand and that comprises both the personality of the product and the people behind it, on radio, and in front of it, TV.

I have something penciled in with Peter; more on that down the line.

The FT has also recently completed a round of appointments for video journalism, together with a head of video - a former agency figure.

The Guardian like the FT will now be in the position to woo news broadcast viewers to their sites and if those original stories that splash front page are anything to go by, TV News has its work cut out. No indication whether the Guardian will adopt video journalism, unlike the FT. There is, I tell clients, a world of difference, particularly also with IM6 that's being developed.

The Telegraph is also reshaping. I have two VJs I have worked with on the paper and look forward to meeting up with them for a session in their boot camp later in the year.

AND THE NEW INNOVATION IS?

I had the pleasure this week of meeting up with journalists retooling themselves into VJs. The skinny is their two former colleagues whom I trained are shooting everyday and developing very rich work.

With all this, we're likely to see some movement pass strong traditional video news in a bid to enrich users. Gripping news aside greater collaboration between multimedia teams and journalists could throw up metatagged news video.

Fancy that, the manner and news approach to your news will influence the tags and vice versa.

The manner and style of video, stripping the exposition and jettisoning impartiality whilst being objective SHOULD become a strong feature ( see 18 Doughty Street).

The whole point about pushing the news paradigm involves training up journalists to break free from present nomenclature. Why? If it's not broken why fix it. Is it broken? If it is, fix it. There's no point apping the BBC in style and policy. The BBC by dint of its public service and remit for instance must be impartial and objective.

But there's no reason for others to be - a strong point made interviewing Channel 4's Stuart Cosgrove.

My abstract for my PhD involves delving into the aformentioned, plus some of the stuff you can find on view magazine.tv

Question: how long should it take to edit a three pronged news item a point put to a number of key figures. You decide. I'll come back with who said what in a the near future.

1. 7 hours

2. 4 hours

3. 2 hours

4. 30 mins

5. 5 mins

And finally IM6 interview with Chatham House redux on view shortly

Cars cars cars

One of them is a Ferrari 599 GTB and the other is a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX. Over the weekend a friend who drives cars like this for a living has asked whether I'd like to come with him to hand in his Fer for the Mits to test at Silverstone in preparation for a 24 hour le Monde race.

Naturally I said yes. Why should some people have all the luck. Give me the chance to test a new lens and also some speed camera action

film on im6

Developing a film which also takes a look at extreme video journalism called im6. Your feedback welcome as always. The site being developed for two days will be the opening page of viewmagazine.tv

BBC Video and industry changes

ONA meeting at the BBC showed the BBC technology wing experimenting with different video forms, particularly with embeded video in the text. This is a feature that is becoming increasingly prominent. This august at least three national newspapers will be embedding video in their articles.

I must be careful I don't come across all knowing. No that's not my intention, but embed video was one of the ideas used in viewmagazine.tv for which the good people at the Batten Awards judged the site.

The BBC trials are prerry expansive and imprssive with a dedicated video producer for online part of the set up . Jemima Kiss at the Guardian wrote this of the meeting.

Kathryn Corrick, (her facebook here) delved into the world of web anayltics with some impressive new tools and I had a go at showing some of the areas I believe emerging journalists ( Masters programme) will occupy.

I shot a piece from the meeting and ordinarily would have posted by now, but I'm pretty tied up with meetings and final student projects. Yes even though it yakes me about 20-30 mins to cut a piece, it's the motivation. Sorry! But I will get round to it so you can see/ hear some of the excerpts from the meeting.

Meanwhile a couple of pages on viewmagazine.tv give some idea of my thoughts where I beleieve there's acres of innovation.

8 Days is being polished and the thing driving me at the mo is IM6 Videojournalism - a sort of extreme video journalism. It's in its incubation stage but this should give some idea.

Also talk of gatherings, this network has a lot to say for itself.

Newsnight Interview

A rare interview with the editor of BBC Newsnight, Peter Barron, who counts within the BBC as one of the more progressive television 2.0 bods, and that's according to senior figures within the BBC.
I hadn't intended the interview. I was showing Peter the gear to report digital broadcast stuff and how the next generation of journalists will really be IM6VJs ( interactive multimedia video journalists)
So as we finished talking and he was in a rush to another interview, I asked him a few questions. Now that's one of the pluses of carrying a small digi-camera, the A1 in your bag.
Sadly, I didn't have my tie mic with me and so the sound is a bit ropey, but I think the piece gets by with it.
More on Viewmagazine.tv

Wembley stadium concert

Watching bits of the Diana concert I was reminded of this mind-blowing wembley gig you can hear on the front page of viewmagazine.tv
I have been given a rare collectors items gift of Bob Marley - a future post in which new pictures have been uncovered. If you can ID the concert, email me and I'll gladly post this CD collection to you.

My recollections was that it was awesome and there was considerable access backstage to the stars: Tracy Chapman, Anita Baker, Patti Labelle, the mighty Aswad et al.

This has to be one of the stronger assets of the web in retrieving and posting archive. VIVA the Net or is that Madiba - as you'll find out from the radio piece which went out on BBC Leicester and topical tapes.

8 Days and more

Thank you for the overwhelming interest in 8 days which has attracted, oh huge downloads. I know small beer for many, but a substantial feat, given the site and accompanying movies are being put together on spit and polish.

I have redesigned the page to make it easier to navigate some of the outcome from the film. One or two links are yet to be made active, but as usual critique, shred, ignore - any reaction will do.

Talking of link, since the site went off the net some months back (don't ask) you may have noticed a few broken links. I'm working as fast as possible ( in between the day job) to rectify this as I'm so aware how disruptive that can be.

Had a good meeting with BBC Newsnight last week and can probably boast the first net video interview with its editor. Frankly that's what the net is good at. The Editor was in a hurry but answers three questions I you may find interesting.

In a couple of months I hope to produce a video report like 8 days and the FT looking at how Newsnight is made. This week aI'm at the ONA ( UK branch) previewing something I'm really excited by IM6 Video journalism. The whole project won't be fully completed by the Summer, but I'll preview some behind the scenes looking at radical work flows for digital journalists.

And finally, in a later blog, I'll expand, but for the mean time if you see a royal marine, whatever you do don't ever shout "NAKED BAR".

Because if you do, wait for the most hilarious spectacle among officers and NCO that will leave you blushing or laughing until you cry

Brown bowned out

The 2001 General Election and I'll always remember it for a rather interesting incident. I was a producer on Channel 4's politics show working for the very thoroughly nice Andrew Brown, brother of the now Prime Minister of Britain.

The piece I produced, audited by BDO Stoyward suggested labour had put up taxes by stealth. Andrew ok'ed the findings and that was that. Until it emerged at anyone of the labour party election conferences, Political heaveyweight Michael Brunson who was fronting the election special, was being sidelinned, blanked.

His waving paper would stay up. Gordon Brown looked our way most likely irritated at the programme and its assertion. I wondered what kind of conversation would flow between Andrew and Gordon.

Andrew was a good laugh and had a small laugh at the incident. Before the show completed its last run we all headed off to Ascot - my first - where perhaps the Brown's knack for finance was evident. Andrew won on a number of horses making about 100 ukp.

I took along my super 8 Nizo, so whilst I have no sound on the video, it's a rather memorable and personable piece.

Oh yummy mysql

I am a journalist. . . I am a journalist. . . I am a journalist, so what am I doing figuring out mysql databases courtesy of Frederick - a genius coder. Every journalist on the web should have a friend like Fred. So I figured out with his help what the class selector was fr the css code. Fred got into the database and a few cranks, spanners dropping to the floor, and then presto. Now I'm under the bonnet.

Right that's it. I have got a piece to write on young offenders. I am a journalist. . I am a journ-acoder . . . I am an encoder.

Beats me whatever it is that works in this wierd and wonderful time

The most disruptive era in storyville

My thanks to Paul Barran, Interactive BBC for extending an invite for my Masters students and me to pay a visit to their nerve centre. Lots going on at the BBC and else where.

A snapshot: the BBC fully understands, at least from Paul's perspective, that this is new, changing, adaptable, and that no one holds the knowledge. That's a fundamental shift from how the organisation felt when I worked there many years back.
More later

What is video journalism?

Q: Is video journalism a journalist with a camera ?
Q Is video journalism TV news online produced by one person?
Q Is video journalism, none of the above.

Mostly anyone can tell a story with a video camera. You do it all the time at weddings, parties etc. You just point and shoot. In the same way mostly ( a generalisation of a fairly media literate populace) everyone knows how to take a picture. You've done in with friends, at the drunken party and so on. But you'd openely confess they're good photos for what they're worth but not ground breaking.

Then there are amateur photographers with an appreciation of light, composition, rule of thirds etc. Great photos on occasions, some have won awards. Then there are professionals. What might that mean today? In this case they earn a living from what they do.

They are professional rule breakers. Instinct and guile play along side experience and risk. Will that picture work when it breaks every convention?

As cinematography goes there's a scene in the Godfather where Al Pacino's character is about to bump his brother. It's back lit and breaks all the pro rules, but the DOP Gordon Willis knew what his eyes were telling him.

On Homicide Life on the Street, just as in 24 they regularly "cross the line", but the director relies on a hunch, instinct that is borne of practice, allowed to germinate from the years of experimenting with type and form.

The directors of Noir painted with negative light. The shadows became the primary source.

Video journalism is everything you want it to be, but when I take a class or consult for a group, I want it to be about pushing on the aesthetic of video film. It won't always work. But like the print journalist, the commentator I'm hoping to engage at a level where there is a reaction.

My own style of vjism as emphasised by ITV journalist and former press Gazette media writer Zoe Smith is how to control hand held. Can I begin to mimic the eye, even sometimes caricature it? That's the route I went down in 8 Days.

I'm looking for my first unrehearsed ( it always is) VJ shoot of 10 mins where there is no break in filming, but should push the visuals. I'm experimenting more with colour and of course sound. 40 percent and more is the sound. For that I have some wonderful people in local BBC Radio and Radio 4 to be thankful towards. Joy Haywood - Radio 4, Barbara Myers - "I want to be Normal", Fergal Keane who paints pictures with his voice, Victor Lewis Smith on Loose Ends circa 1988 with a bullet comical genius style of production

Painting with sound, designing with it remember Walter Murche's Apolocolypse Now - the fan mimicing the rotor blades of the helicopter.

So what is video journalism? Truth it's news film making dangerously placed in the hands of one person. Dangerously because News has grown up to be a collaborative factual beast, handworked into form and shape by an Editor, Sub, Director, Sound camera man., producer and some.

And now, now you're trying to tell me many of those people are redundant. With parachute journalism, you're in and you're out and your base is telling you what they want and how. Difference with VJism is you're on he ground, you know the conditions and should be able to eke out a story.

There is a scene in a Red Cross Film on Human Rights, which I was asked to provide a voice over. It was Vjed by a friend which explains this fundamental craft of film making.

The former Rwandan commander he interviewed spoke in the third person about the atrocities committed during the bloody war. Thirty minutes passed and then they wrapped up. In the car, silence until the commader just opened up. "It was me.. me.. I did those things.. I'm sorry for what I did".

By the time he'd reached the end of the sentence a camera the size of your palm was trained on him. The lighting was all wrong so my friend shifted his stance. As the commander paused, a question was thrown his way. The question was long enough for the VJ to take out his monopod. The man would start to tug his fingers. It was significant, so in one action observing that the facial expressions and interview would not be compromised, he performed a smooth pan. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1 seconds later.. enough in the can to go back to the framed interview. Wait a minute, the answers within the orginal environment have changed. So he alters the focal length and composition so you can use the reponse elsewhere in the report. Transitions alter time, move the report along. He did everything I would have done and without really thinking. In a VJ environment you're tuned to visuals, sound, mis en scene, the next shot, what questions you intend to ask....

In TV, video on line, this possibly wound not have happended. TV want's the set piece. Stop the car so we can ask the questions again and then, then lo and behold mood is lost.

Small wonder that when vjism was launched in 94, every conceivable editor I can think off shrugged their shoulders and said: "It'll compromise TV with its quality. There's no way on person could do all that".

What the editors didn't realise they were saying was there's no way I could do all that.

What is Video journalism? It is in the eyes and knowledge economy of your editor. If they've never free dived before, they'll ask you to take a snorkel, even a tank.

The construct of news is not a scared stone handed down by Moses but it is a form refinned over the years to tell stories, but that was at a time when the paradigm of news was different. In film language, it's like talking something from the 70s. Competent, good, gets the job done, but you're facing a far more televisual literate viewer, who wants the skinny, the inside of the story.

One of the least debates we've had with news has been its mode, and where we take it. Invariably when the subject of news and its outmodishness comes up, it's the studio and its graphics which recieves most of the attention.

What is video journalism? It's one of the most powerful and underused forms of story telling in contemporary times.

What is it again? It's a style which is only now beginning to mature and that it will until its critical mass makes it one of the obvious choices for the way we'd like to inform and interact with you

More here on what is video journalism

Egyptian journos look to the future

Viewers of BBC Newsnight will recall an item on bloggers from Egypt the previous week. New Media meets the old guard - quite literally in a report by the BBC's world affairs analyst, Magdi Abdelhadi, that gave a perspective of press/ judiciary freedom and how the authorities handle bloggers.

So with the currency of that and my own career interest in ME (though I fess I have been thin on the ground as late) I was fascinated to meet with a group of senior Egyptian Journalists in the UK on a fact-finding tour.

They were journalists of all hues with a few bloggers and twitters as well. The exchange was encouraging and Masters Journalism student Tamer Almisshal whom I invited along gave a wonderful account of new and emerging media and its signficance to the region.

Summed up, Tamer, a former BBC producer from Gaza, who will likely resume his role once he completes the remaining few months of his masters said: "We have the stories and they ( the west) have the technology", adding more or less that learning everything one needed to know about journalism in the UK would stand Egyptian journalists in good stead.

No this wasn't a commercial punt and neither was my lecture peeling back web2.0 plus and video journalism. Any web cum video journalism savvy region could positively contribute to the reportage and understanding of a region whose problems need no elaboration.
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I remember years back at WTN glued to Sat 41 pictures on the night shift. Back then as now, many pundits will likely comment journalism is healthy and gotten more transparent (not a point I want to argue here) but undoubtedly Newish Media, youtube, digital journalism one could ARGUE has a far more penetrating value ( basket for basket) than how we take it for granted here in the UK.

I have said the same for reportage in Ghana and various African regions. Tarek Atia's site is an interesting case. The tools, the assets - all about improving commuications. It may not be your idea of cutting edge but ranks a healthy 100,000 in google ranking.

He's a busy man, but video, pods etc would definately improve his waistline and those who regularly pay him a visit for the portal news he distributes.

The journalists I met have expressed a deep desire to understand more about the ways of the web 2. journalist; the Tamer's and his class mates who shoot video, pictures, make web sites, blog, index with google rich tags, produce promos and heavens knows what else in these unfolding times.

If it can help us better understand the matrix of ME politics then we're better for it.

p.s here's the book I reccommended Blog by Hugh Hewitt. If you've any other additions do post/email me and I'll pass it on

Facebook

My isn't facebook becoming obsessive. I first heard about its addictiveness from Clyde Bentley, Associate Professor of Journalism at Missouri School of Journalism at Trust in the Media, San Antonio... oh a couple of years ago now. But then the BBC's all present media -techonology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones did a piece on it an by all accounts people are going around poking each other. Suits me, I like poking, so go ahead and poke.

Interesting day with senior Egyptian journalists here in the UK to learn some of our ways: hour and half of bloggs and video jour alism. Egypt less you've been in Guantanamo is pretty hard on bloggers, but the newspaper industry sees change and the use of technology.. so lets watch this space

100 days of Alan Johnston's incanceration. Share a monent to pray, meditate, look positively to the future. No one deserves this.

Things just fall in place

This from Rob of theronin.co.uk who I'm a big fan.
This is Graphic motion design of a quality you'll rarely see anywhere else. If you're a film buff, graphics student, video journalist enthusiast, an arm chair TV addict, or hairy monster, enjoy and spread the good visuals. The narrator is his little 4 year old. Pure pure Genius.

*Things Fall Apart*

devoidofyesterday.com
Says Rob
"Motion collective Devoid of Yesterday (consisting of directors Rob
Chiu of The Ronin and Chris Hewitt of Dstrukt) team up alongside
audio designer Ben Boysen (Hecq) for a new short narrative led piece
that explores a child's pent up anger and frustration that erupt in a
force that marks the end of innocence. Sometimes... things just fall
apart.

Created over a three week period and previewed at the ICA in London
the 2 minute piece has been picked up for distribution by Autour
DeMinuit and is to be featured on the BBC Film Network website.
Hope you all enjoy and feedback much appreciated!"