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Why our Job Search Success Team works
I wake up early in the morning to run. I put my sneakers by the bed so if I happen to forget it’s a running day, I trip over the shoes when I get up. For a long time I ran past a man sitting on a bench downtown, waiting for his shift to start at the local market. He’d always give me a wave and a happy “Hello.” I could make him out from blocks away and started to look forward to seeing him. Over the months and years, whenever I had an urge to skip the run, I’d [...]
The Unlikely Pioneers of Video Art
This post is written by former BAVC Media Presevationist Kelly Haydon Video cameras arrived on the consumer market at the same time women’s liberation entered mainstream consciousness, a dual-nascency that would beautifully intersect in the form of video art. In the 1960s and early 1970s, women artists were still largely excluded from the film and fine arts factions that offered high-profile openings, exhibits, and funding. Video was different. Free from the trappings of social construct, video provided a safe space for women to experiment and explore a novel medium while achieving levels of notoriety comparable to their male counterparts. A [...]
BAVC Media Youth Partner with The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
Since the beginning of the school year, four afternoons a week, the labs here at BAVC Media have been humming with the sounds of Next Gen students at work: editing together interviews recorded for their podcasts, adding green screen effects to their personal documentaries and coding interactive features for their websites. Even though graduation is quickly approaching, we’re so excited to announce that the hum we’ve all become so accustomed to won’t be quieting for the summer. Instead, students have the opportunity to put their industry-standard production skills and understanding of social justice frameworks, honed through our project-based curriculum, to [...]
WHY ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL VIDEO PRESERVATION, WHY NOW.
How I Learned (Almost) Everything I Know About ½” Video from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr by Moriah Ulinskas, Former Director of Preservation Originally published October 5th, 2011 Early this year I received a call from the librarian of Manchester University, a small, faith-based university, regarding a video recording they wanted to have preserved and transferred to an archival digital file. The video was a ½” video reel which had been in the school library for 40 years and had been unplayable for almost as long. I work in the video preservation program at BAVC Media, one of the only not-for-profit video preservation programs [...]
QCSchool: Mean Square Error and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio Filters
Our second installment of QCSchool salutes the launch of QCTools 0.7.1 and the continued support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. This post is written by former BAVC Media Presevationist Kelly Haydon If you have spent any time canoodling with QCTools playback filters, you may have noticed that the phrase “field difference” pops up a lot. The term “field” in videotape technology is something of a misnomer, but it refers simply to the odd or even number of scan lines that form a single frame of video. Imagine, if you will, a picture. Any picture will do – but [...]
Change is good.
Technology workers are making their own rules in the workplace. They involve much more flexibility, mobility and autonomy than ever before. If you work in the technology industry, chances are that you are either looking for work or soon will be. Whether you’ve just landed a new job or been with your company for ten years, a move to another position is undoubtedly in your future. According to PayScale's 2015 employee turnover report, the employee turnover rate among Fortune 500 companies in the tech industry is the highest among all industries surveyed with the average employee tenure being estimated at [...]
Employers and the Informational Interview
There are countless articles out there touting the benefits to job-seekers of conducting informational interviews to advance their career. For the job-seeker, informational interviews can be a great research tool to learn more about a profession, or a company in which they might be interested. They can build their networks. They might even get a lead on a job prospect. There are surely lots of potential benefits for the person seeking the interview, but employers, or the people giving the interview, might think – what's in it for me? Can I get 30 minutes of your time? When one of [...]
BAVC Media Announces 2016 National MediaMaker Fellows
San Francisco, CA: BAVC Media is thrilled to announce the multiplatform documentary makers and projects that will receive the 2016 National MediaMaker Fellows award. The Fellows will receive professional support for their social issue media projects and meet for three immersive workshops in the Bay Area, at the Full Frame film festival in Durham, North Carolina, and at International Documentary Association’s Getting Real summit. A full list of recipients is below. The 2016 MediaMaker Fellows are Bridgette Auger (Clark, CO), We Are Not Princesses; Erika Cohn (Salt Lake City, UT), Belly of the Beast; Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz (Allentown, PA), And [...]
Want a tech job? Stop looking!
So you’ve heard it before, when it comes to scoring a new job in tech, “It’s not what you know but who you know”. Good advice. In fact you’ve probably already come to realize that the online job-hunting routine is just not cutting it. The reality is that if you are looking at tech jobs that are posted right now, it’s already too late. Most jobs get filled by a qualified person who has benefited from the right introduction at the right time, namely before the position became vacant. Trolling job boards will never do that for you. It is [...]
The Future of Work with BAVC Media
Reviewing the requisite buzzwords of the moment in the world of work in the US, you’d think we’re at an inflection point: gig economy, portable benefits, diversity, and fissured workplace. It's easy to conclude that the pundits have something brilliant up their sleeves, and that the way we earn a living is about to be revolutionized. At BAVC Media we listen to the people who walk through our doors, a broad range of people from teen-aged, emerging media makers to septuagenarian journalists learning tech for the first time, to thirty-something hiring managers from some of the most innovative tech companies in [...]
