Comments on: Video Killed the Photo Sharing Star http://thedigitalsanctuary.org/2008/05/05/video-killed-the-photo-sharing-star/ Church technology news. Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:29:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Brent Harshbarger http://thedigitalsanctuary.org/2008/05/05/video-killed-the-photo-sharing-star/#comment-2901 Brent Harshbarger Tue, 06 May 2008 04:55:09 +0000 http://thedigitalsanctuary.org/?p=628#comment-2901 Ah the “purist” come out against any new technology. If you go back to the nineteen-twenties there were many “purist” who felt that the “talkies” ruined the art of film making. Radio would wipeout the need books and newspapers. Television would erode the value of motion pictures and kill the need for radio. Analog sounds better than digital. Looking around my house I still use all of them. Yes, I still watch silent movies (Sunday Night on TCM). You can “say” something with a still photo that you can’t with video and vise versa. One should use the tool that works best for you and what you want to communicate; however, you can't really create with a a single medium in mind to communicate effectively in this multimedia-multimedium world. istockphoto.com has saved me money and hours in pre-production because it is a single source for stills, animations, and video. Ah the “purist” come out against any new technology. If you go back to the nineteen-twenties there were many “purist” who felt that the “talkies” ruined the art of film making. Radio would wipeout the need books and newspapers. Television would erode the value of motion pictures and kill the need for radio. Analog sounds better than digital. Looking around my house I still use all of them. Yes, I still watch silent movies (Sunday Night on TCM).

You can “say” something with a still photo that you can’t with video and vise versa. One should use the tool that works best for you and what you want to communicate; however, you can’t really create with a a single medium in mind to communicate effectively in this multimedia-multimedium world.

istockphoto.com has saved me money and hours in pre-production because it is a single source for stills, animations, and video.

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