Video Journalism Winner, Idar Eduin Krogstad

Idar Eduin Krogstad was last year crowned Concentra's Outstanding video Journalism winner 2008.

His film "The Nightwatch" a touching story of two nurses dealing with life and death as they work the night shift at a home for the elderly".

Idar's pedigree precedes him - a doc maker since 1997 now working for NRK in Norway who've been at the forefront of video journalism for a good while.

Igar deploys a range of techniques, but also plays with conventions.
This was my review of his film.

What I like about this film is perhaps not the obvious at first, the isolationism.

Idar's lingering shots and play on space, sound and time brings to the fore the hopelessness of a situation and those struggling to make a difference.

And whilst shooting a whole feature with two main characters in one main location could have tested the arc of film making, it's precisely this that makes the film work.

It's claustrophobic, uses muted colours and the metronome of editing is in pace with the substance of the film.

Good access into sensitive areas, for example a hospital, can often be a recipe for a strong story, but it takes a film maker empathetic with the subject and interviewees to do the rest.

Legal (release forms) aside we don't see the stricken patients and the use of wide shots apart from yielding obvious sequences illustrates a respect for their privacy.

Nice!

The New face of journalism

The greatness of the web.

An old Channel One colleague, a lost friend and talented soul pinged me.

Sacha Van Straten adds to the fray as a genuine voice, having lived and breathed the Video Journalism paradigm circa 1994.

Before that he worked at BBC Breakfast. His latest post is ahead of the curve. I chuckled and so might you.

Not because of the loss. No, that's bad plenty, but a vision that does not distinguish between so called print and electronic media journalists.

Please read on

James and Simon - clueless about the war

BBC 9 O'clock News is undertaking  a VJ type report around two boys ignorant of the war.

VJ type, is there such a thing?

Well, it's a feature driven personalised narrative, the outcome of which you could almost predict.

Two Nintendo teenagers without a clue about WWI or armistice  are dragged to a memorial to learn about their great great grandfather, Thatcher who died in the war.

Already you can see a change in their demeanor as they hover around the plaque.

Their great grandmother is herself enraged the boys are not being taught this important footnote in history.

Tomorrow the BBC takes them to France to witness some of the war zones. Worth a watch

I want to become a journalist? What do I need?

I was reminded today of a phrase I hear time and time again to define how journalism is changing aligned with technology and the web: technological determinism.

This from Wikipeedia below

Technological determinism has been defined as an approach that identifies technology, or technological advances, as the central causal element in processes of social change (Croteau and Hoynes). As a technology is stabilized, its design tends to dictate users' behaviors, consequently diminishing human agency. It ignores the social and cultural circumstances in which the technology was developed. More

At a fairly general level, the dash for all things web 2.0, and the ease at becoming one of the new journalist is creating a different standard.

It's something established traditional journalists are saying and I have been ear-wagged: "I told you so".

In the grand ol' days they might argue, it was about being on the hustings, using your guile to unearth a story and exercising a basic tenant of journalism, prioritising.

I remember joining ITN as a lunch time producer from Channel 4 for a period, and I was lucky to work under one its greats, Phil Moger.

As I recall Phil ladened me with multiple tasks on my first day. Bring in a feed, produce this, take that, get these name checked.

I panicked.

But then someone pulled me aside and told me I needed to prioritise. Do what you need to do at the right time.

Multitasking
Sounds quite anodyne, what does it mean?

I'm writing this at the moment at home, yet it would be ill conceived to have written it at Uni when I had other tasks.

Learning to prioritise is just one of many characteristics, which t-determinism muddies the water.

We're becoming so desk bound, processors of information, passers of facts ,often unattributed sources and gossip, that could we one day lose the art of news gathering for news processing?

In a survey I recently read, and I'll have to look for the link, many news managers spoke about what they required in new journalists and it may seem odd, but being technological savvy was low on their list.

• Passion
• High consumer of information
• Maturity at decision making
• Ability to work in a team or on your own - but no going rogue
• An enquiring mind
• Ability to see all sides
• Determination to keep learning.

These are qualities that often come parcelled with your candidate wishing to become a journalist.

With passion many things can be accomplished.

And its in the selection process where you're able to filter those with the kwa and those who don't have it.

Because for all that new 21st century journalists will acquire from CSS, Action scripting to data base crunching, to make good on these new skills the recidivist characteristic of journalism is still a prerequisite.

Obama effect - journalism

In the UK, the media would like to point out to the political establishment that if Obama were a Brit he wouldn't stand a rat's whisker getting into power.

It's the way our political structure is set up you see. Meritocracy exist in the English dictionary next to Machiavelli.

But I have a broader question, because invariably the press rarely does its own navel gazing.

So could the Obama effect have a knock on effect for a different form of media - one driven by the people, who rally behind someone extoling a different type of journalism?

One that's bottom up rather than trickle down. Good piece in Time Magazine this week, that hits on Obama's electoral success.

It's not that skin colour was exclusively the stealer.

We're doomed. You only have to audit the press here to hear how Obama's introed.

Vote Joseph Harker
Personally I'd vote Joseph Harker over at the Guardian managing Comment is Free.

Journalism is as corporate as Politics, big establishments dictating the show - that is until recently with the surge of blogs and independent voices.

But is that shift in journalism as seismic as Obama's politics. Could there really be a time when a new crop of super sites emerge usurping the interests in the established media?

I know we're comparing apples and pears, but it's a thought none the less.

There is something to be said about diversity and pluralism and that's for conservatives as much for liberals.

Yep the Obama effect eh... We the poeple, we the media - Dan Gillmor!

Belkin router woes

I join millions of brothers and sisters in router's arms; caught out by the sudden rash of Belkin router gone mad.

Simply put. One day it was working fine and then the next, it need three daily reboots. I'll be lucky to get away with this post.

Then I spoke to my ISP, who then reliably informed me, it was not an isolated occurrence.

But despite his good help, I couldn't make heads or tails of his advice.

"Oh you need to download a firmware"
K*&^%^$@£@))_??

So then I went online and save becoming a human chain in the growing unrest at Belkin, I empathised with a few entries, clearly saw myself and then set about Belkin's website.

No joy...

But lurking somewhere was a number and details to call, which I did.

It was duly answered and I have to say the operator at the end was very helpful taking me step by step through their protocols, until that is we hit a snag, she couldn't resolve.

"Ok sir I'm going to have to get one of my colleagues to ring you back?"
" Er would you, cuz I really need to be online.. when will that be ?"
It pays in these instances to be extra nice.
"Today!", she answered.


Scar bleu - they rang back
Twenty minutes later someone else rang who was a bit alarmed when I answered the phone immediately saying.. "are you from Belkin? "

"Noo, don't worry I spluttered, I'm not from intel or something [Chuckle].. [chuckle]".

He was also very patient and after half an hour he decided this was an interminable problem that would require a new Belkin.

So he's sent me the code for a replacement, which I'll send off tomorrow.

Only thing I'm worried about is whether the new one when it arrives, how long till it goes bonkers.

But anyway Belkin were very helpful.

Videojournalism driven programmes

Filmminute from david dunkley gyimah on Vimeo.

Their show now successfully over, I feel I can now bring you the odd insert from the filminute.com global show.

The group behind this have an awesome product, which they've planned to turn into a show.

I suppose the point with this is that video journalism goes beyond clip-cut news and can be developed into something that can create a raft of progs.

This was a 2 hour shoot on location starting cold.

We ( Sabaa, Filminute exec) and I met at 12, storyboarded and prepped by 1 pm, and then rang up Selfridges, where the event was showing in a purpose built cinema.

By 2 we were at Selfridges, one of london's premier stores.

We started filming; he presenting around 2.30

By 4.30 we'd wrapped.

Editing at home took me about 5hours with post; reason, I was playing around with tone and we also had to synch the right music.

If I were to do this again, I'd attach my new prime lens to achieve shallow depths of film ie enhance the film look

wassup - returns

Their Last word!

Transition Trauma -US elections

If you've been bemused by all the camaraderie, "we'll help you in the hand over" gestures from the Republicans to Obama go over to The World Today for a highly informative on Transition Trauma.

John Dumbrell, Professor of Government at Durnham University reveals what happens inside the White House, when its time for an elected president to move in, and the other to move out.

Change overs in British politics are harsh, the keys to 10 Downing Street swap hands at break neck speed, bu then the US have shown they're equal to t art of eviction.

Many PMs in the UK comment on how they go from the lush trappings of government to nothing in a split second, as a delivery van awaits to bring in the new No 10. occupant.

Here the Blairs give the cameras one last shot, whilst Cherie Blair shows her hand literally telling the press:" I don't think we'll miss you"

But at least the legacy of changing governments is a continuity provided by civil servants .

No such luck in the US where civil servants are government/ party appointees.

But where Prof Dumbrell's article really quickens the mind is how an incumbent president can make the incoming one's life difficult by leaving absolutely nothing behind: notes, tips, computer software etc.

Elsewhere on Ireports, CNN's unfiltered news, one submission, and I can't verify the veracity of the article points to the Bush administration being the first to ensure a smooth transition to an incoming president.

The article adds Clinton's team on their exit removed all the "w" from the keyboards and are alleged to have "trashed" the place.

The trouble with rolling news - the law of stupidity

Jesse Jackson motives for crying: bitterness or joy?

Its not often I get angry.

But rolling news can do it for me. And the march of nonsensical utterings from parachute reporter pundits can be grating to say the least.

Parachute journalism, the art of dropping a reporter into a hot zone and attempting to fool viewers that the person you're listening to knows everything is both insulting and embarrassing.

The latest one I saw was from a BBC correspondent whose lack of depth was gnawing. Though she managed to speak fast enough to suggest she knew her American history from black politics.

" The weight of the whole world will be on his back and he'll develop a stoop" was how one of her deliveries maneuvered.

On Yahoo.com one poster comments on how BBC pundits witnessing Jesse Jackson crying suggested it's because Mr Jackson felt it should have been him. That may well have been and I hope therefore further qualification would have appeased someone like Kolbe who wrote:

'Yes and i was angry listening to BBC pundits saying it was because it was because he felt it should have been himself.
This man was in the real struggle that brought blacks to have a right to anything major. He was with Martin Luther King on all the marches and was right besides MLK when he was shot and killed."

There is an element of "just a minute" padding reportage. Just a minute is a BBC Radio 4 comedy show where contestants have to talk for a minute, so to pad out they turn to all sorts of gibberish.

That however is comedy.

To see professional wordsmith do it, a practice which is as outdated as it is unnecessary, is turn-for-the-remote time.

The late Charles Wheeler and a good clutch of senior journalists have warned against this. Obama's win indicates the hegemony of corporatedom, even news structures, may not be off limits. Time to seek out other news makers.

Best Election Obama Cover

My buddy, Rob Montgomery, a highly experienced press man features a palate of newspaper front covers on his site on the Obama victory.

I nicked this from there.

Sun Times, Robb's old newspaper, what a cover?

It reminds me, I've no reason why, of Ali’s poem to Harvard students.

Simply... wait for it

Me,

Whee!!

Yes that is the world's shortest poem.

Sometimes the simple things are the most powerful.

No better time to be a Video Journalist in the US - how envious

Joy Hatwood, a multiple Sony award winning producer; think the Emmy's for Radio in the UK, was leaving the BBC after so many years.

In her box she carried personal items and the odd radio piece, memorabilia, she'd produced.

At dinner, a couple of summers ago, she pointed to a place in her living room, where her audio memories of BBC days lay.

And there nestled in between the cassettes, oh yes cassettes an 18 year old is guffawing, was First Time Voters.

Joy's ensuing words touched me: "Ordinarily when we commission we assign a researcher and a presenter.

Multiskilling in the BBC I mused - not a chance.

She continued, "but when you came with the "Successor Generation", later renamed, "First Time Voters", I said to my partner, interesting...interesting!"

We exchanged more banter before I concluded: " don't worry I'll get found out one day". Brits don't do compliments well. Humility sells rather better.

" Agh Shame" my South African friends would say

But to the idea and why I believe being a VJ in the US at this moment, this time, is a time to remember.

First time voters
First Time Voters ( web site)was a simple enjoyable idea: follow four South Africans about to vote in their first ever election.

The poignancy?

Blacks for the first time were being given the right to vote and it was a forgone conclusion that Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, affectionately called Madiba, was on the crest of being the first black president.

For nine months, six months more regularly, I dipped in and out of the lives of the four people I thought would make good theatre and sent their briefs to Joy in London.

One was the country's first black stock broker, the other a feisty journalist, a comedian too who riskily could get away with poking Mandela jokes, and then there was a model, turned, conflict resoluter.

Between them they embodied and captured the spirit of South African getting ready to wake from a deep slumber.

Two young men, two young women - all from townships of sorts- now living in the city; a coloured, 2 blacks, and an Asian.

No whites? Yes no whites. This election, in this case, was about those getting the vote for the first time. Under apartheid only whites could vote.

First Time Voters played in the UK on BBC Radio 4, then the World Service, and then on the eve of SA's historic election, SA's public radio bought the rights urging each hour its audience to stay tuned.

Joy - a fantastic producer did the heavy lifting, when I arrived back in London with 60 x 1 hour tapes for what would be a 50 minute programme.

But as I begun to assemble the radio piece in Johannesburg I took pics and even recorded some footage.

Five years on
Five years later, SA's honeymoon well and truly over, I returned to SA and sought out my First Time Voters. Two new ones had joined, two old ones had moved on somewhere, but this time video journalism would tell the story from the go.

And Channel 4 News became the repository shooting on high end digibeta- a camera costing $50,000 - The Successor Generation [an edited version of this went out].

Through four people I could measure the changes, what I believed was the pulse of the country. They still paid homage to their township roots, but wrestled with ideas of being buppies ( black upwardly mobiles).

And then in 2003 before the election I paid another visit.

By now you know where I'm going with this.

Obama's victory, the new voting citizens and their aspiration allows for the sort of private long term project to tell an anthropological story that will stand the test of time.

A 7up if you know that format, when in years to come, because that's what the idea really needs like a good wine a programme will unfold that is instructive for generations.

I'm being naive really, cuz I know of a few friends already doing this. If you haven't?

Well....

This truly would be the Successor Generation.

Successor to what you might ask?

That's what time and being a video journalist will reveal.

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Here for the Radio 4/WS broadcast of First Time Voters

Words won't do

I got up this morning from 2 hours sleep and switched on the radio and television and sat.
Words won't do.

I saw the images of young, old, white, black and one Jesse Jackson streaming with tears.
Words won't do.

I listened to the TV pundits second guessing, filling air time, attempting to sound knowledgeable.
Words won't do.

I recollected how 14 years ago I stood on soil marking a new beginning, South Africa, about to welcome in a new Messianic president.
Words won't do.

I mused how God and physics had tilted the world on a new axis, even if I sense no geometric change.
Words won't do.

The philosopher Wittgenstein defied the superfluousness of language by delivering a lecture saying nothing. He had a point.
Words won't do.

In years to come, they will ask, where were you when it happened, who did you hug,whose emotions did you share because...
Words won't do.

Then I paused for thought, surveyed the words I had just written, pondered the banality as I, you, us watched the most powerful man take the stage, a man who transcended race, culture and religion and said to myself, just capture this image, because.... because....

WORDS SIMPLY WON'T DO.

US Elections

realclearpolitics.com [simply one of the best election sites] prediction for the election is reflected in this map, while their site tracks the changes as they're happening.

Meanwhile
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Visual Editors Rob Montgomery reports from Chicago

I travelled downtown Chicago today to hand-deliver my visa application to the Indian Consulate so that I may visit Hyderabad in a couple weeks and I had a couple of hours to kill before catching the Metra train back to Naperville.

I walked around Grant Park (See my annotated map above) (and I do mean AROUND as there was no ordinary privilege to pass through as a pedestrian today) with all the cops and fencing up already for the Obama Presidential Rally. That is the official name today of this venue formerly known as Grant Park. TV satellite trucks have long queued up on Columbus Drive and the ticketed and non-ticketed patron areas are clearly defined and defended.

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SXSW Interactive, Film, Music Festival Viewmagazine Dunkley Gyimah features at shows

On SXSW site the Salon.com describes it as

"SXSW is a great place to catch movies, directors and trends way out in the depths of the indie ocean, a long time before they reach the mainstream, if they ever do." Salon.com, 3/8/08

Couple of months ago they started their intense assessment programme picking those to present from a sizeable list and so I'm thankful to those that contributed, because a couple of days ago, the organisers rang up to say my session on IM Video Journalism had been chosen .

So if you're coming along what might you expect? Truth I haven't bolted anything down quite so solidly yet, but it would be a series of how tos.

How to make a video journalism piece [david's early definition here] that has that cine feel, so we'll deconstruct a piece and I'll show how aesthetic, sound, construction and camera can turn the piece around.


Mash up intro viewmagazine.tv from david dunkley gyimah on Vimeo.

I'll situate a piece how it would have been made working for an agency e.g. WTN, the BBC way, and the Channel 4, then the VJ gonzo.

I'll play around with the film arc and exposition to demonstrate the difference between narrative timeline and video driven pieces and show how you can turn a piece's momentum up using tagging and aggressive editing as well as posit interactive nodes at these points.


CAMP VIDEOJOURNALISM from david dunkley gyimah on Vimeo.


News people talk about neutrality in news making, however visual language [ non verbal grammar] can make subtle, but significant differences to your perception of the issues.

Then how I might attack any piece from a multimedia - video journalism perspective. That's the integrated multimedia video journalism way. A sort of 3rd way in my mind between video, cinema and motion graphics
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BBC Reportage from david dunkley gyimah on Vimeo.

The BBC's cutting edge network current affairs programme of the early 90s reporting youth matters. The style has much in common with Current.tv. This was one of the BBC's jewels in the crown for a younger audience. The report I have included is me reporting on the UK's expanding youth crime.

Web Promos and the faultlines of TV Commissioning

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Coming away from failing to secure a commission for Lewis Hamilton, [see last post] the young teen go-kart racer destined for great things, I was introduced to another would be champ.

In this case, one who already had a pedigree and a few world titles underneath his belt, Lennox Lewis.

Meanwhile, I'd begun to meet a few new TV Commissioning Editors interested in the potential of future work. I also had an agent Jacque Evans who was carting off my portfolio of what I did.

To no avail.

TV Commissioning is the black art of the media industry. It's the interstice of common sense and bloody mindedness, where everyone fights for the attention of a few powerful people whom control what goes on TV.

They are the gatekeepers, whose apparent broad tastes and peripetetic lifestyle enables them to see through programmes on race to scientific discoveries.

Sometimes commissioners, like fashion trend setters make up the rules about what they're looking for.

"This year is about identity and the conflict about the self. We're looking for bold ideas that challenge our notion of being"... and so on would be their pronouncements.

Trouble is when you decrypted the commission wins, there was always a familiarity to the names, former TV employers, big name TV production companies, and then the odd flurry of new talent.

Frustration then. And it wasn't just me. You won't meet a single independent producer satisfied with the status quo. My good friend, Claudio Von Planta, a major TV producer talent would sit with me and lament.

So whilst I sought and failed to sell a sports idea, only to be met with the feedback, "sports doesn't sell", Team Lennox was a different proposition.

Owning your media
Lennox owned his media including rights to his own fights, and it wasn't TV he had his eyes set on but DVD and other routes beyond TV e.g. Cinema.

So working for Lennox took any pressures of me. I shot and Vjed what I needed and made my own video diaries.

And it was an incredible journey, to the Pocono mountains and then Memphis blagging to get into Tyson's camp.

But some of the best times involved working across different media, from vjing to writing for his site and then producing a set of net promos.

Lennox team understood the new media economy. His archive alone of best of best fights will serve on day, when nostalgia bites of a show that can be delivered nth ways.

For commissioners, they're still needed; there's no other system to determine broad taste.

Yet, crowd sourcing, wisdom of crowds and social networking is yielding ideas, that may come to shape how programmes, or a doc on the young daring Lewis Hamilton could, and should have been made.

Youngest Formula 1 winner Lewis Hamilton - Drama

Damon Hill - the last Brit to win Formula 1 championship. That was in 1996

OMG you had to be watching F1, because it was heart in your mouth. Lewis Hamilton becomes the world Champion and the youngest ever.

The last lap was awesome. Winning and losing the title with 18 seconds to spare.

I have a few mates who will recall the fortunes of the last Brit winner, Damon Hill. For my own little story.

In 1999 working at Channel 4 News, Super Car tester Kevin Haggarthy [ here we're testing the Ferrari 599 GTB] wanted to introduce me to a young boy and his dad- a daring go kart racer.

I shopped the idea around as much as I could about the boy racer, but no TV commissioner would listen.

That young lad was Lewis Hamilton. Ah well some you win, some you lose.

Two years later, I wouldn't and in fact couldn't make the same mistake. Team Lennox Lewis asked if I'd join their camp for Lennox' fight with Tyson.

I was the only journalist let into the circle to witness and document the build up and fight up close and personal. I know that might not mean much by today's standards but at the time, and I'll talk about this is my next post it was awesome. Truly magnificent!

In terms of today's drama, the other F1s that rate up there:

• 1986 Nigel Mansell's tyre burst in Adelaide.
• Schumacer's shunt on Damon Hill
• Mika Hakkinen's tears at Imola in 1999

Pic of Damon Hill is by Charlie Amponsah - a friend and VJ/Director , and F1 Nut, then there's Ken Walker, who's taken a fair few pics for me at Viewmagazine.tv and for a period in his life followed the F1 bandwagon around the world from race tracks in the US to Japan. What a great life!
Great stuff!

Sunday's Digital Chill Zone

Sundays will never be the same again....

The last time I said that in that very same way was... er 1995 presenting a broadcast package from a colleague Mark Vjying about this thing called the Internet.

The papers had just got hold. It's definitely worth a look: What the papers says, just to give some contemporary historical to where we are now.

Among the pundits, The Guardian's Bill Thompson, now a lecturer at City University and pundit appearing on BBC pages talking about the future of newspapers.

Sundays have transformed from a desk strewn with various Sunday papers to a permanent glow of light and rattle of keys from my mac.

Today I detoured to Search Engine News - an online publication that I used to subscribe to, which this month is giving free access to its stray clients.

Everything you wanted to know about SEO and link building and the rest. e.g claiming your Namyz, Yahoo's Web Analytics -in answer to google- and managing your search engine reputation.

It's conceivable, quite conceivable that at some point we'll cross some digital Rubicon, in which the quality of your article, its witticism, erudition, quality of prose will be usurped by bots determining inbound links, viewer popularity and how many social sites feed it juice.

The inhuman face of article writing becomes the dominant form - heaven help us eh!

Darwinian Futures
In Darwin amongst the Machines, a passage reads:

Three centuries after Hobbes [a philosopher] automatia are multiplying with an agility that no vision formed in the 17th century could have foretold. Artificial intelligence flickers on he desktop and artificial life has become a respectable pursuit.

Not an endorsement for androids over humans, but worth a read.

So to round of the week, what organisation or individual this week did not submit to the Knight News Challenge.

Dan Gillmor twitters on the site: "We've had a huge response this year, please be patient"

Yes I too fell for the long odds and will post my scribbles here this week, a sort of ethnographic study of inter community news flows.

Do I hold out any hope? As much as having Sarah Palin become UN Secretary General.

I wonder what the odds would be for submitting a, " I want to set up regional video journalism in every neighbourhood?".

Sorry! BBC's already looking to do something in that guise.

So then to the biggest story this week: the US election. And on the front page of viewmagazine, I asked a question partly prompted by watching BBC news analysis show Newsnight.

Is this election [US] the most important one globally in years? What about those of Roosevel's ,Reagan or even this 1994 South Africa's first all race election, which I have posted the audio on viewmagazine.tv.

A day before the election which would signify the legal abolishing of racial segregation [ Apartheid] right wing forces detonate a bomb in down town Joberg.

Here I'm doing a 2-way live with the BBC World Service.

When David met Jayz

Well the truth is I did and I didn't.

I was reflecting on seeing Jay-z in full stride in the arts programme Imagination on BBC TV.

David meets Prince Charles

Two years ago at the University of Westminster, Jay-z, Run and Russel Simmons gathered. I was standing next to Jay-z for a considerable time and I couldn't think of a single question to ask him.

Actually I turned to one of the students and told her what she could ask, after she said" "Er what's he done, music wise". Yep I fell apart laughing. LOL

I dd kick myself afterwards cuz I remembered my niece would have even loved a "hello'.

Ah well. Happens doesn't it.

David filming Moby in Washinton DC

But I have had a few gem moments with other artists.

There was Grace Jones in South Africa. I'm watching her now on Jools Hollands later as I post this. She was scary then. She's scary now. Cuz she's not afraid to tell you off.

She was pretty sharp with me. Woops she's just called modeling prostitution and stood up gyrating her body. This is a car crash. Luckily Jooz Holland has an anti-ruffle gene.

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Quincy Jones also in South Africa.
Cameo, Larry Blackman in Leicester
Fela Kuti, Roy Ayers Ertha Kitt and London and a few more.
I'll see if I can find some of the recordings and post, but if you skirt to viewmagazine.tv and enter say Maceo Parker or Roy Ayers into the search you should find a recording.

If not I'm a numpty and should post.

Follow David on Twitter- who has recently been appointed an Artist in Residence at the renowned London South Bank Centre.

David working for ABC News in South Africa in 1994 was one an associate producer with Danny Glover