Latest for Need to Know

Here are three of the films done this year for Need to Know, the news magazine hosted by Jon Meacham and Alison Stewart that began in May. Doing Editorial work for TV and the web is a challenge because you have to invent the form as you go. But what’s better than that? Thanks to … Read more

From The Daily Heller

Steven Heller, esteemed art director, educator and all round design guru blasted scenes from tomorrow’s film by me on “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” all over his Daily Heller this morning.  I will post that film asap. Many thanks to Mr. Heller and the guys who work on this project.  More on them soon. Sarah, Sarah, Sarah … Read more

Victor, Franz and Me

Recently Victor Juhasz, one of my very favorite artists and people, and I caught the show of the 21 heads by Franz Xavier Messerschmidt at the Neue Galerie.  These are mysterious heads.  They are all of faces in extreme discomfort or anguish of some kind. Messerschmidt was a German sculptor who was rising in prominence, … Read more

Opposite Day

In politics every day is Opposite Day.  My latest for Need to Know.  My first as writer/director.  Thanks the Refinery studio for making this transition much easier than I imagined. Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.