James Sims

James Sims

  • Meet the Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History

    Meet the Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History

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    James Sims

    After more than a year of scheduling shoots, interviewing, and meticulous editing, I was able to produce 35 profiles, each featuring a different curator or assistant curator at AMNH. These videos were held back from public viewing until after the museum was able to launch its newest website design—a version of that new site launched…

  • Winning a Webby Award

    Winning a Webby Award

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    James Sims

    This year marked an interesting turn of events for my career, beginning with a transition from working as the senior new media specialist at the American Museum of Natural History to a new role at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. Two major non-profit institutions in New York City, each with a unique cultural…

  • TEDxBroadway: Just a Dream Away

    TEDxBroadway: Just a Dream Away

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    James Sims

    While there often tends to be a sense of skepticism when speaking of Broadway’s future, TEDxBroadway was more about thinking positive, and brainstorming for the sake of live theater. Bazadona rattled off a list of needs for the viability of Broadway: incredible original productions, full theaters with diverse audiences, a wider platform to share our…

  • Lincoln Center on Broadcastr

    Lincoln Center on Broadcastr

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    James Sims

    Shortly after starting at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, I pitched an idea to create an mobile audio experience for the campus. My idea was to give visitors a chance to hear from artists as they stood in front of a particular venue, like Alan Gilbert discussing his role as the leader of the…

  • The Voice’s Chris Mann Teaches Broadway’s Kids

    The Voice’s Chris Mann Teaches Broadway’s Kids

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    James Sims

    Chris Mann had been a guest teaching artist at Rosie’s Broadway Kids, an organization in New York City geared towards helping kids receive an arts education.

  • Our Guest Appearance on the Rachael Ray Show

    Our Guest Appearance on the Rachael Ray Show

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    James Sims

    My wife and I ended up making a guest appearance on the Rachael Ray Show on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 for an episode focusing on newlyweds.

  • My Picks: 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards

    My Picks: 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards

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    James Sims

    A lot of quality films hit the big screen this past year, and many of them are captured in my Globe picks. We’ll see how these compare to the actual results on Sunday, January 15, 2012. How do your picks compare?

  • Glee Teaches Bob Geldof a Lesson in Charity Work

    Glee Teaches Bob Geldof a Lesson in Charity Work

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    James Sims

    The next time a charity or cause wants throw out originality and recycle a campaign, look to “Glee.” It will have a much greater chance of topping an iTunes download list, a milestone all the cool kids should aspire to.

  • Decorating Broadway with Bright Stars for the Holidays

    Decorating Broadway with Bright Stars for the Holidays

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    James Sims

    Not a Broadway season goes by without a soap star dipping their toe in the Chicago pool at the Ambassador Theatre—so well oiled is that bare-bones revival that it was able to survive the placement of Ashlee Simpson. It’s become a petri dish for stunt casting experiments.

  • Museum Scientists & Imaging Technologies

    Museum Scientists & Imaging Technologies

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    James Sims

    Whether Museum scientists are studying parasites, people, or planets in other solar systems, cutting-edge imaging technologies such as infrared photography, scanning electron microscopes, and CT scanners now make it possible to examine details that were previously unobservable.