Entries tagged with “interview” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Suprada Urval has started a series of weekly interviews with photographers on her blog. I am her third interview subject. My interview covers a wide range of topics from how I got started in photography through night photography and more. I've never been asked about my image titles before. Suprada's question made me stop and think: SU: How do you...

When I sat down with Albert Watson in New York, I knew what I wanted to talk about. I wanted to hear how the industry has changed over the course of his 250 Vogue covers. I wanted to know how he prepared for the only wedding he's ever shot: Prince Andrew's royal marriage. And I wanted to understand the difference...

One of the most popular uses of digital recording is capturing people talking. Of course, most people aren't that good at talking extemporaneously on command, and you usually need to help them along somewhat. Fundamentally, that is what most interviews are: helping someone talk about something intelligently and with some structure. Since most people who record are asked to do...

First off, a request: if you're so inclined, go straight to the comments and say whether you watch online technical interview videos, and if so, which....

Podcasting Hacks author Jack Herrington turned me on to a bunch of excellent interview podcasts that I've been following ever since. One show in particular, Morning Stories, has a lovely informal feel, and part of the secret is the clever recording technique host Tony Kahn uses. Instead of jabbing a giant mic in the interviewee's face or forcing him to...

Harris Fogel sits down with O'Reilly author Deke McClelland at NAPP Photoshop World Las Vegas to talk about Photoshop Elements, InDesign, and his new training videos. You can tune in yourself by going over to Mac Edition Radio and downloading the podcast....

You can catch Chuck Joiner interviewing digital photography pioneer Stephen Johnson on the MacVoices podcast. (O'Reilly Media recently published Stephen's latest book, On Digital Photography.) In the interview, Stephen talks about his philosophies of taking and manipulating images, the future of digital photography, why his approach to photography is to capture light and not objects and more....

By now, those of you who regularly read my blog have come to know that a big part of my work (and life) involves frequent interactions with established rock artists -- one way or another. I confess I run the risk of getting jaded about these encounters. I attended the Foreigner concert in Saratoga a couple of nights ago (comps...

I had a fascinating meeting recently with a relatively new colleague (to me) -- though apparently many in my circle have known him for years. Alan Howarth is a notable film composer, sound designer, and technologist. Perhaps best known for scoring all of the "Halloween" films, the original Star Trek film, "Hunt for Red October", and many others -- he's...

The 2nd Annual Podcast & Portable Media Expo brings together influential podcasters, media, corporate executives and device makers to cover business, marketing and legal issues for audio and video podcasts and portable media.

I just heard a fascinating podcast interview with Michael Chorost, who had a computer implanted in his skull to regain his hearing. Chorost went completely deaf shortly after he completed his Ph.D. in English, and he speaks eloquently about the experience of losing an organic sense and gaining an electronic facsimile. Bionic hearing, it seems, is impressionistic. I was...

AfterTV is a new site featuring live interviews about the state of digital media, culture, and technology. I got to sit in the hot seat recently and got some new insights about all three.

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