Your Ears Are Stupid: My Top Ten Tips When Writing for the Ear
Writing for videos and podcasts has taught me an important lesson: Compared to your eyes, your ears aren’t the brightest sensory organs in the room. I’m no neuroscientist, but if you look at the amount of grey matter dedicated to making sense of what we see versus what we hear, it’s apparent that we’ve evolved […]
Point and Shoot at the Bronx Zoo
I work with big cameras. Big honkin’ cameras with a multitude of inputs, buttons and switches; professional audio inputs and often interchangeable lenses. But sometimes it’s nice to bring things back down to manageable proportions. So this past weekend I grabbed our household’s trusty point-and-shoot camera and headed for the Bronx Zoo to see what […]
New Track for Web Series
I’m currently in the process of developing a new science series for YouTube. Rather than buy a stock track for the intro, I decided to create the music myself. It will ultimately take longer than going the stock route, but I think it’s worth the effort because a) I won’t have to worry about rights […]