The story, “beyond the glass”
Had a home address at a pen a roaring lion the ring was my den the devil had me wired with a tonic and gin my father early left us his double taught us to sin I used my brother's needle to get high on heroin hurt, craved, feened till I
The way you do one thing
Everybody wants to edit! Well
The Flight
Once upon a time I was sitting on a flight. It was a red eye journey we were flying all night I was waiting for the morning I was waiting with delight For I knew in the day light love will sing my lullaby In the seats right
easier than you think
In the early days, you had to exert a lot of effort to add text to a photograph. Let's take inter-titles in early films for example. Inter titles are frames with text on them to help explain the story or give
A jump cut
It was a long time ago in a little cafe in Paris. It's December 28th 1895, if you are specific about time. The Lumiere brother's are about to begin the first screening of motion pictures. But before we understand motion pictures,
Parallel universes & miracles
They say pray for a miracle. They say pray and it all turns well. It always fascinated me. The trust that people have in miracles is unfathomable to some of us. But why? How could we be made from the same soil
Man With a Movie Camera
Part documentary and part cinematic art, this film follows a city in the 1920s Soviet Union throughout the day, from morning to night. Directed by Dziga Vertov, with a variety of complex and innovative camera shots, the film depicts scenes
The New, old media
Media has existed since the day humans discovered language. It played many rolls in shaping our history and has an innate ability to rewrite it. It is the most powerful weapon known to humans. It is the main means of mass communication,
Visit the 5th dimension
Sometimes it is all just too much. Your problems, your issues, your history, your family
An unsung editing step
Editing is more than the just an assembly of footage. It is the placement of multiple pieces of information in an order that creates a bigger meaning to that information. And that meaning is the intrinsic value that comes out