Saturday — day 1 of the PETA weekend — saw us shooting out on the sands of Key Biscayne with tattoo artist and “reality” star, Ami James. In the past he’s done an “Ink Not Mink” pitch for PETA. This…
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Using Social Media to Revive an Old Campaign
ProNica: Nicaragua Beauty School Project from Carl Hersh on Vimeo. Social Media hasn’t just changed the message, but its effectiveness, as well. We produced this video 5 years ago about a program that helps Nicaragua’s poorest. Initially well received, the…
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Memoirs Project Exhibit Opens
A year in the making, the Miami Beach Visual Memoirs project opens its exhibit at the Welcome Center at 10th and Ocean, this week. The exhibit is a series of information panels that highlight the history and people that tell the…
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Developing New Cable Program Concept
We’ve created a tease for a new television show that aims to inform and help homeowners deal with the housing crisis. How do you qualify for a new home? Should you should keep an “underwater” property — or cut and…
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Expanding Personal Documentations
Kathy joins the Association of Personal Historians as we take our commitment to oral history and story telling to the next level. The Association of Personal Historians is a national organization that has codified the oral history tradition. Bringing our technical expertise…
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Visual Memoirs Project — Personalizing History
The other big name in Miami Beach art deco architecture, L. Murray Dixon L. Murray Dixon was the other big name in Miami Beach’s Art Deco architecture (Henry Hohauser being the first), credited with designing more than three hundred hotels,…
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It’s All About the People
On a shoot for the BBC to the West Coast of Florida, met up with Paul Easton, a record producer with a studio in Bonita Springs. His father had been the agent for a long-dead performer of the 60s, and…
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Betsy Hotel Backdrop for Celebration
We celebrated finishing our first set of interviews for the Miami Beach Visual Memoirs Project at the Betsy Hotel last week. The Betsy let us use this great venue to show off some of the interviews on Hi-def screens in…
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Which is the Real “W”
On the job you run into anomalies. Several months apart, I find myself covering the real “43,”former president “W” Bush — later the poseur, who also comes complete with “secret service” protection.
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Selection from our Visual Memoirs Interview with Russell Galbut
Russell Galbut talks about working as a teenager at the Fountainbleu, an experience which lead him to a career in hotel restoration and residential conversion. He is the Managing Principal of Crescent Heights real estate investment firm and the third…
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