Please Touch Museum More than 30 years after starting life in a small corner of another museum, and after a difficult decade toddling around Philadelphia in search of bigger digs, the Please Touch Museum is home. The folks at Philly.com produced a compelling and very interactive feature for the opening of their new museum. Long [...]

Hard Times Travis Fox, ROAD TRIP! With this in mind, I’m setting out on 3000-mile road trip, from California to Washington, D.C., to see up close how the economic woes are beginning to affect regular people and how it’s going to affect their vote in November. As a photojournalist myself I know how hard what [...]

Fellowship applications being accepted for: Technology Tools Training for Journalists Workshop December 16-19, 2008; and February 17-20, 2009 The Knight Digital Media Center at the University of California, Berkeley is accepting applications for 20 fellowships per workshop for editors and reporters to attend these training sessions that combine practical instruction in current and emerging technologies [...]

Fellowship applications are now being accepted for: Multimedia Reporting and Convergence Workshop January 11-16, 2009 and March 22-27, 2009 The Knight Digital Media Center at the University of California, Berkeley is now accepting applications for week-long training sessions for mid-career journalists wishing to advance their multimedia skills. The workshops combine instruction in multimedia storytelling and [...]

Van Mon: The Forgotten Existence Ehrin Macksey presents an 8 month project from Vietnam. Once you arrive at the site, click the ‘Films’ navagation tab and choose the ‘Bop’ story, by far the best piece, stunning visuals and great ambient throughtout this piece. [ratings]

Sole Man For almost 50 years, David Comeger has provided the polishing touch for New Orleanians’ footwear. By Jennifer Zdon/NOLA

Canon 40D hacked to record movies Canon 40D hacked to record movies – Hack a Day.

BBC Good Shooting Guide Do you need to shoot a sequence and are not quite sure where to start? Have you shot unusable material and are not sure why? Learn from experienced journalists and use tools & guides to help you on your next shoot.

A great new site worth your time! From their About page: We’re impudent, we’re plugged-in, and we’re staying anonymous. We’re three photographers who believe in creating a greater corporate news demand for online photojournalism. Currently, news sites often give lousy play to multimedia projects. Lousy play means fewer web clicks. And fewer clicks means that [...]

And it feels oh so good! I know you have all been following the crazyness at Laforet’s Blog over this new camera, well let me tell you, it’s ALL TRUE! We have just turned a HUGE corner in visual story telling tools!

Oh, come on, it’s my blog, and I won an Emmy! Riding the coat tails of the best visual journalist in the world, Dai Sugano and the best editor around, Geri Migielicz, that’s me on the left.   News and Documentary Emmy Award Winners were announced September 22, 2008 in New York. Here’s a link [...]

For almost a decade, the multimedia bootcamp workshops at the University of North Carolina provided one of the main training sites for hundreds of professional journalists seeking to understand new storytelling tools and techniques and to gain hands-on training. 

You won’t see a better documentary that proves the idea that it’s about the story and characters, not about what camera you use or where you hold the microphone. That said, you also won’t see a more poorly filmed documentary in your life. It’s bad, very bad. You can see the filmmaker holding the mic [...]

Yes, I am in the process of pumping out some new, fresh mms tuts and podcasts, but in the meantime, have a look at some introductory tuts from KDMC, some of the best I’ve seen on the web for journalists pondering this ‘multimedia’ stuff. From map mash ups to Flash templates. Have a look around [...]

A reputable French magazine, Chasseur d’images, that brought you an ad leak on Leica 50mm F0.95 Noctilux has an interesting post on their website involving the year most anticipated digital camera – Canon EOS 5D mark II. Just a few more days and we’ll see. I have my fingers crossed! Stay tuned for more details…Link [...]