Transom Announces New Traveling Workshops

Transom.org has announced that it will begin offering week-long Traveling Workshops as an alternative to their signature two-month-long Story Workshop. Applications are now open for the first round of Traveling Workshops, which begin this June in Catalina Island, CA. From the Organizer When we started up our eight-week-long, career-launching Transom Story Workshops, lots of people asked if we could do some introductory training in audio narrative in shorter bursts, and maybe in other locations besides Cape Cod. The answer is finally, yes. Starting this summer, we will offer Transom Traveling Workshops in various parts of the country. These are short, one-day to one-week workshops suited to the needs of our collaborative hosts. Check here for all the details. Applications are now open for a one-week introductory course for beginning radio producers to be held on Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California, June 16th-21st. The workshop will be hosted by community…

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Pierce College Hiring Tenure-Track Multimedia Professors

Pierce College is hiring for two tenure track professor positions in the Media Art Department, one in Journalism/Multimedia and one in Cinema/Multimedia. Application info below. Details available at https://laccd.peopleadmin.com/postings/search. Position Description Located on about 426 acres in the West San Fernando Valley, Pierce College combines state-of-the-art technology and learning with the picturesque beauty of its rolling hills. Founded in 1947, Pierce College is a growing two-year public institution with more than 100 disciplines being taught to more than 20,500 students each semester and enjoys one of the highest transfer performances in Southern California. Seen as a leader statewide and nationally, Pierce College is now seeking to expand its outstanding faculty by offering two (2) full-time, tenure track positions:(1) Cinema/Multimedia position and (1) Journalism/Multimedia position in the Media Arts Department starting with the Fall 2013 semester. Job Description The Media Arts Department consists of six disciplines: Broadcasting, Cinema, Journalism, Multimedia, Photography and Public…

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Innovative Interactivity Offering Interactive Design Workshop

Innovative Interactivity has announced they will be putting on an Interactive Workshop to be held in May 2013. The workshop is designed for graphic designers and storytellers who want to learn how to build interactive graphics but have not had the time or training to do so. The intensive and hands-on bootcamp is project based and students learn HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript(jQuery) in five days. This intensive, five day, project-based learning environment, taught by top professionals and University of North Carolina professors will teach both technical skills and how to design for an interactive user experience. Be inspired by the special presentations from professionals from NBC, The Washington Post and Digital First Media. Participants will be immersed in the languages, tools and concepts of interactive design all while on the beautiful campus of UNC Chapel Hill. Each day students will produce publishable work that builds on each day’s concepts culminating in a…

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Yilung Latsho Lake, at the foot of Chola (Trola Mountain range), is sacred to the Tibetans. Note the many prayer flags and mani stones. (Michael Yamashita/National Geographic)

Photographing Shangri-La with National Geographic Photographer Michael Yamashita

Photographing Shangri-La from Center on US-China Relations on Vimeo. National Geographic magazine photographer Michael Yamashita will share images and stories from his newest publication, Shangri-La: Along the Tea Road to Lhasa this Thursday Feb. 21 at the Asia Society in New York. Event Details Photographing Shangri-La with Michael Yamashita Feb. 21, 2013, 6:30pm - 8:00pm 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street New York, NY Members $7.00 | Seniors and students $9.00 | Non-members $11.00 Buy Tickets Asia Society will provide a free live webcast of the event at AsiaSociety.org/Live at 6:30 pm EST this Thursday. Online viewers are encouraged to submit questions to moderator@asiasociety.org. From the Organizer Join National Geographic magazine photographer Michael Yamashita as he shares images and stories from his newest publication, Shangri-La: Along the Tea Road to Lhasa. Yamashita, a 30-year professional documentary photographer and filmmaker, specializes in topics in Asia. Yamashita says that the inspiration for this latest…

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