Tag: 4k

  • iBeacons in the darkness and why museums mean so much to this storyteller

    I don’t know how it happened. In my transition from TV journalist to independent media maker, to now educator and public convener I became a museum guy. After all, aren’t museums those quaint, high maintenance, heavy infrastructure monoliths of centuries gone by? Why look up from our screens when all in creation is available at…

  • A need to pivot. My four lessons

    To pivot: a change in direction, sometimes despite great present-day success. Breathless future-facing magazines laud this move. Indeed, Fast Company’s “The Pivot” series does so as it: …explores those destiny-altering decisions made by companies that have gone on to great success. Read more about their course corrections–and alternate endings. I’ve recently experienced four occasions of “pivoting”,…

  • New screens for old: is 4K OK for storytelling?

    Media industry folks used to joke that you could choose a winning new video platform if you just followed the porn industry’s lead — from VHS to DVD’s to 1080p. But if you really want to follow the big money, you only need to look to the (somewhat) more respectable professional sports media machine. My…

  • On cameras, resolution and hobbits

    I’m playing around with the very highly rated, perennially back-ordered Olympus OM-D EM-5 micro 4/3 camera, shooting photos of my kids today on a hike on Whidbey Island. It’s an amazing piece of equipment (and very small compared to an SLR), best known for its very fast auto-focus and excellent “5-axis” image stabilization system. This means…