Visual Effects Course Development
Saturday, April 7th, 2012 Posted in Digital Video, LaGuardia, New Media, Technology | No Comments »On April 3, the New York City Investment Fund invited a group of educators and business people from the visual effects industry to a conference on changes within the entertainment sector. Over the past year the LaGuardia Media and Technology programs ...
Attention Filmmakers: HDSLR Video & Audio workshop
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 Posted in Digital Video, LaGuardia, New Media, Tech Training | No Comments »This past weekend I had the pleasure of taking a workshop on capturing video and audio with HDSLR cameras at Student Filmmakers. The workshop was a two day event led by Patrick Reis, an independent filmmaker and cinematographer. Patrick is ...
HTML5 Cheat Sheets
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 Posted in Digital Video, New Media, Tech Training, Technology | No Comments »Some of you might remember that I took an HTML5 and CSS3 training class at Noble Desktop a few months back. The class made me acutely aware of how important the newest version of HTML will be terms of web ...
RIP Macho Man!
Friday, May 20th, 2011 Posted in Digital Video, Entertainment, Hip Hop, Sports and Fitness | No Comments »I just heard that Randy "Macho Man" Savage, one of my favorite entertainment personalities, past away today and thus capping and already bad week. This news seriously brought tears to my eyes because my 10 year old son ...
Judge ye not….
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 Posted in Digital Video, Entertainment, LaGuardia, New Media | No Comments »Today I was one of the judges for the movie trailer competition to promote Tom Seymour's new film, Mark of the Beast. The competition featured a number of students from the Media and Technology programs at LaGuardia. The students were ...
Affordable Mini HD Camera setup
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 Posted in Digital Video, Krav Maga, LaGuardia, Martial Arts, New Media, Technology | No Comments »I frequently get a good deal of questions from students and educators on what type of video camera should they buy if they have limited money and they still want great quality. In order to answer these questions I have ...
My new article on student motivation – HETS Online Journal
Friday, March 25th, 2011 Posted in Digital Video, ePortfolio, Gaming, LaGuardia, New Media, Publications & Presentations, Tech Job Scene, Technology | No Comments »I wanted to share with you a recently published article on the topic of the student motivation that I authored. The title of the piece is "Motivating at Risk African Americans and Hispanics Through the Study of ...
iPad 2…..ehh!
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 Posted in Digital Video, Entertainment, Gaming, New Media, Technology | No Comments »Overall, I was very disappointed at what Apple announced today concerning their much anticipated update to the iPad. Let me state for the record that I absolutely love my 1st generation iPad. I love it so much that I touched ...
Old LaGuardia New Media Student Videos
Friday, February 11th, 2011 Posted in Digital Video, LaGuardia, New Media, Tech Job Scene, Technology | No Comments »I was backing up a few of my old hard drives and came across some old student work that I had forgotten. The following video was shot by some of my New Media Technology students back in 2008. The students ...
They are not dolls! They are action figures damnit!!!
Thursday, October 14th, 2010 Posted in Comics and Sci-Fi, Digital Video, Entertainment, Lifestyle, New Media | No Comments »My wife continues to give me grief over the only things that I bought for myself at the 2010 NYC Comic Con. Contrary to her assessment, correct name for these items are "collectible action figures" and not "man dolls". I ...
