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Professor and Documentary Journalist, Kurt Lancaster is set to release his 5th book, Video Journalism for the Web: A Practical Introduction to Documentary Storytelling in August 2012 through the publisher Routledge. Mr. Lancaster is also updating his popular book DSLR Cinema: Crafting the Film Look with Video to include information on new models of large...
Concert festivals are my happy place. For new media journalists, concert festivals provide a wealth of visual treasures to explore and capture. Over the years, I have attended numerous festivals, such as Coachella, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza. As a concertgoer, I had always coveted the unfettered access provided to those who held the rarest of...
Driving home from work you swing by the local coffee shop, then the gas station, and lastly by the bank to deposit a check. Nothing out of the ordinary has happened today, but if local police authorities were tracking your days travels via your cell phone provider’s tower logs, they would know a great deal...
Music lovers from around the world flock to the Coachella valley just outside Palm Springs, California for the annual Coachella Art and Music Festival in mid April. The festival started with 2 days over 1 weekend in 1999 and has grown to 3 days over two weekends to accommodate the crowds of close to 200,000....
Content licensed for sharing and non-commercial use has a safe and friendly harbor in the sea of Creative Commons, a site and organization whose mission is to provide a supportive community for the legal sharing of artistic and educational content. [View the story "How to Use Creative Commons Content to Tell Your Story" on Storify]...
Over the past month, I have been researching and writing the thesis for my master’s degree in journalism. I chose to focus my thesis on a subject I am deeply passionate about; documentary journalism. I want to reach out to the community of DSLR filmmakers and journalists to find out what they think about the ethical implications of...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is David Fincher’s stylish new remake of the popular 2009 Swedish film by the same name. Swedish director Niels Opley, who directed the original, wants to know, “Why would they remake something when they can just go see the original?” The recent Hollywood trend of pillaging foreign films and...
Vector Artwork Image by Michelle Lanier February 12, 2012 marks the 100th year of statehood for Arizona, the 48th state to join the union. A number of events are planned in various cities throughout the rest of the year. The celebrations kick off with Arizona Best Fest, a showcase of the state’s greatest areas of...
Bringing home a new pet can be an exciting event in any household. But before introducing any new pet to the family, it is important to prepare for the new arrival. Using just a castoff doghouse and a few materials found on roadsides and desert trash heaps, anyone can build their own mobile backyard chicken-coop....
Christmas of 2011 marks the 12th year of sobriety for David Armijo, husband and father of two living in Phoenix, Arizona. Current statistics show that men are twice as likely to become alcohol dependent as women. Alcohol abuse is described as a pattern of drinking that leads to the degradation of one’s physical health, relationships...
In a coordinated effort with the group AZ Resist ALEC, Occupy Phoenix protesters moved to Scottsdale, Arizona on November 30th, 2011. A week of protests and marches are planned to expose the American Legislative Exchange Commissions connections to controversial laws like SB1070 in Arizona and the Wisconsin ACT 10. ALEC came to...
