Writing is Dead

Yesterday I was informed that writing was a dying art and I’d better learn Final Cut if I wanted to still have a job. That statement was followed up by, “Seriously, in 2010 they are going to stop teaching kids to read in school!” The latter may be a bit of an overstatement (considering that’s 8 months away,) but there is definitely some truth to the fact that video is more powerful than writing on the Internet.

I spent the day messing with Final Cut and ended up with enough knowledge to make a video look at least as good as I can with iMovie. Mostly though, I have twitter to thank for that, since I used it as tech support when I had questions and was able to get answers within seconds. Amazing really.

But  this is all just a long winded intro to the new video series we’ve started doing on YoBeat. Jared named it “Conversations,” which admittedly makes little sense since it’s totally one-sided, but what can you do. I asked the questions while Jared filmed and edited it, and today we launched the first installment with David Benedek, snowboarder and filmmaker extraordinaire. The response so far has been great and if you are remotely interested in snowboarding, filmmaking or the current state of media, you’ll probably find it somewhat entertaining. So click on over to YoBeat and check it out.