As this video suggests, my tenure as a hired gun on the Wall Street Journal’s Olympics video team is essentially over. Three weeks lugging a camera around Beijing by day, staring dry-eyed and drooling at a computer by night…If only I were a full employee, I’d have the health insurance to pay the team of chiropractors and opthamologists I’m going to need to turn me back into a functioning human being after I pack up my gear and drag it back home.
Having said that, the pain had its pay-offs: We managed to produce 27 videos, more by far than any other US newspaper. And I now have a much clearer sense of what a strange dance these American titans of print are doing with multimedia. I’ll try to write more on that score after I’ve had a chance to recover…
Tags: beijing, food, Fuwa, video, WSJ
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Josh Chin is a freelance journalist based in Beijing. He also once worked as a sous chef in a French restaurant in San Francisco. Neither job has been good for his health.Photos
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Congrats on a job well done!
I love foreigners!
You’ve been to Florida?
No, I’m Chinese.
Three minutes later and I’m still LOL’ing over that one :)(
According to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games gold medal total number of countries produced by the images of people.HaHa,too interesting.
Yeah, nice work. How about the guy who walks into the shot with his Slurpee or whatever and does the slow burn into the camera. Doesn’t really get old, does it.
Great job Josh!! Have loved seeing your videos on the blog. Hope you are now in recovery mode. Any coverage on the para-olympics?
Wow! Nicely done. Thanks for the perspective from an alternate parallel universe to that provided by the Japanese news.