Vignette Creative is looking to fill the position of Multimedia Editor / Producer. The job is based on Bainbridge Island, Washington (a 30 minute ferry from downtown Seattle) but may involve periods of intensive travel. The company is looking for a multidisciplinary soul who is a team player and ready to contribute.
Here it is: a year-and-a-half after our big switch from Final Cut 7 to Premiere Pro, we are proud to announce the release of MediaStorm’s Post-production Workflow for Adobe Premiere Pro. In more than 150 steps, you’ll learn to organize and edit your projects with the same proven efficiency we’ve used time and again–we focus on organizing first so that creativity is not hampered once editing begins. This workflow is a complete guide to working in Premiere Pro: from importing material through final output and archiving. The underlying principal of the MediaStorm process is elimination. Whether it be pictures, interviews or b-roll, our guiding rationale is to save the good stuff and take away the rest. These steps emphasize the importance of making a copy of your work at each stage so that should you need to access previously discarded material, you have a clear and quick path back to needed material.…
An animated conversation with the late great, and thoroughly missed, Philip Seymour Hoffman. - Eric Maierson Philip Seymour Hoffman on Happiness from Blank on Blank on YouTube (via, Explore). See what else we think is Worth Watching.
A fascinating visualization of American dialects. - Eric Maierson SODA / POP / COKE from The Atlantic on Vimeo. See what else we think is Worth Watching.
In her recent TED talk, photojournalist Kitra Cahana shares the stories of the nomadic, homeless youth she roamed the United States with for months. Tracing her attraction to vagabonds to a bag she packed to run away as a child, Cahana draws parallels between the alternative lifestyle of nomads and the need we all have to escape the confines of everyday life. "Many of you might be wondering why anyone would choose a life like this," she says. "Under the thumb of discriminatory laws, eating out of trash cans, sleeping under bridges, picking up seasonal jobs here and there. The answer to such a question is as varied as the people that take to the road, but travelers often respond with a single word: freedom." Her five minute talk shares images and arguments for the validity of taking the open road less traveled. Learn more about Kitra's intimate approach to photography that…