Legacy Multimedia Blog

Studs Terkel - National Storyteller, Gone at 96

admin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:11:28 +0000

Those of us in the personal history business feel a strong calling to help other people tell their stories. I’m not really sure where it comes from but you ask anyone who is doing this type of work and it’s a common theme. We all believe in the power of a story and the need [...]

Legacy Lists - Organizing The Family Information

admin — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:04:12 +0000

Flickr photo:neloqua I recently realized that while my two sons are grown, 25 and 22, my will lists my brother as the executor of my estate. My oldest son lives here in Houston and it has occurred to me that I need to start grooming him to be my executor, showing him where all the [...]

The Three Dynamics of Personal Histories

admin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:09:58 +0000

Flickr photo: Kingsnake Since October is Family History Month, I was already thinking about this subject for a new blog article when a Canadian writer and film producer named Robb Lucy asked that I make a contribution to his new book. Scheduled for publication in the Spring of 2009, it is tentatively titled “Legacies [...]

Putting the Pieces Together Again After Hurricane Ike

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:58:07 +0000

It’s been a little over two weeks since Hurricane Ike slammed Houston. For awhile, we were all the press could talk about, and then real life happened and the county’s financial mess engulfed our 15 minutes of fame. With power still out in many areas and some 400 people missing from Galveston, it will be [...]

Natural Disasters 101

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:10:35 +0000

Flickr photo:Kicks in New Orleans I am sitting here in Houston, waiting for Hurricane Ike to arrive. It’s 9AM and he’s not expected until around midnight but I’m nervous and not quite sure what to do. Arranging things around the house, most of it seems pointless. You never really know what’s going [...]

Creating a Storyboard for Multimedia Projects

admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:10:04 +0000

Flickr photo: Sthomas01 A storyboard is an essential tool for laying out a video or film project to communicate the look of a piece, to show how a story or plot unfolds and to organize the sequence of scenes before any time or money has been spent on studio sets, location shoots or special effects. [...]

The Generation Network’s MyFamily.com

admin — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:57:58 +0000

There are several family networking sites available online these days, competing for your business. I’ve already discussed my personal favorite, Geni.com in several posts. A friend of mine recently told me about MyFamily.com. Over the past five years or so, his extended family through a sister-in-law has maintained a family website using MyFamily.com for non-public sharing [...]

Kronomy, Another New Social Media Tool

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:36:58 +0000

I have been playing around with a new online application called Kronomy. I’m not really ready to show the world my creation on there but let me tell you a bit about it. There is a concept called collective consciousness which came out of the French social theorist Emile Durkheim’s work in the late 1800s that [...]

Legacy Multimedia Wins Crystal ICON Award

admin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:01:52 +0000

Last week Isabelle and I won our very first award. It is the Crystal ICON award and it was awarded to us by the Houston Chapter of the International Society of Event Planners. We won the award for a video piece we did for the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft on the artwork of Cindy Hickok, [...]

More News on Geni.com

admin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:40:06 +0000

I’ve mentioned Geni.com a few times in this blog. It’s one of my favorite social networking tools that enable its users to find and stay in touch with their relatives as they capture and share their family’s history. This past Thursday, Geni.com got even better. Coming out of it’s beta state, it just announced some new [...]