Monthly Archives: August 2010

Coda for Satoshi Kon

By Maria Varmazis | Published: August 26, 2010
His obituary in the New York Times, which has a great interactive feature on some of his more popular movies. Highly recommended reading if you haven’t heard of him before. Blogger Makiko Itoh has very kindly translated Satoshi Kon’s last words — a long blog post that he wrote just before he died as a [...]
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We lost 2 good people this week: Jack Horkheimer and Satoshi Kon

By Maria Varmazis | Published: August 25, 2010
Two people I greatly admired died this week and I’d like to pay them some tribute in my own limited way… Jack Horkheimer If you grew up watching PBS in the 80s or 90s, no doubt you know this man. Jack Horkheimer was the host of the always educational and shamelessly enthusiastic Star Gazer TV [...]
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Friday photo essay on a Tuesday: The best photo you’ve ever taken

By Maria Varmazis | Published: August 24, 2010
Eat Media has a post on simply posting the best photo you’ve ever taken and explaining it. I don’t want to wait until Friday to do this, so here you go — Friday on a Tuesday. Shirahige torii on the waters of Biwako in Shiga-ken, Japan. Taken on: July 1, 2004 at 1.17pm Taken with: [...]
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What the eff is my video content strategy?

By Maria Varmazis | Published: August 10, 2010
I got a cool assignment recently (no, seriously!) of writing up a video content strategy. When that assignment fell in my lap, I couldn’t wait to get started — I knew it was going to be a fun challenge in an area that’s still rather undefined. From my old journalism days, I knew that video [...]
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