SubscribeChina's big day, the short version
October 4, 2009 at 6:50 p.m.
China's 60th Anniversary national day - timelapse and slow motion - 7D and 5DmkII from Dan Chung on Vimeo.
There's a lot to like in this video: the shots chosen, the editing, the way it swings between time lapse and slow motion punctuated with moments of real-time. It also assumes, if you're watching this video, you probably already know the back story. It's not news. It's an exceedingly well-done illustration that shows me in three and a half minutes what China's 60th National Day parade looked like, which is exactly what I wanted to see.
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CopyCamp
June 29, 2008 at 7:06 a.m.
First, people in the video:
Quick recap of Saturday. CopyCamp was awesome. No other word for it. Anytime a newspaper opens its doors and lets its readers say what could be done better, that's a good thing, and the Mercury News reporters and editors who came can't be thanked enough. I don't know if I could have after ending the week the way they did.
Much as the discussion was haunted by the latest round of job cuts, there was, I think, still a feeling of optimism, if not from within ...
Everything and nothing
May 26, 2008 at 3:02 a.m.
Ryan Sholin asks in this month's Carnival of Journalism:
What should news organizations stop doing, today, immediately, to make more time for innovation?
A scene from the Grey's Anatomy season finale I saw last night comes to mind:
A young man is trapped in quick-dry concrete, which he jumped into because he thought it would impress a girl. While he's moaning in ER--the cement is leaching water from his body, burning his skin, crushing him slowly--the team of doctors, who are all highly gifted and well-trained, is arguing over what has to be done first.
Finally, the ...
