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Time out Tuesdays: Burning Man
Welcome back to Time out Tuesdays, a continuing effort to share the stories that resonate with me and to keep myself constantly spelunking for the very best in photojournalism week after week, I’ve decided to start this new feature. Every week, I’ll post up a new photo story, video, picture or multimedia piece that I...
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Time out Tuesdays: The Shock Doctrine
Welcome back to Time out Tuesdays. In a continuing effort to share the stories that resonate with me and to keep myself constantly spelunking for the very best in photojournalism week after week, I’ve decided to start this new feature. Every week, I’ll post up a new photo story, video, picture or multimedia piece that...
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Our first multimedia
The University of New Mexico Lobo’s charged the field in their home opener against the New Mexico Aggies and we decided to give it the old Joe Wise college try. Click the image to check it out. Fellow ABQ intern Morgan Petroski suggested it after realizing it’s most likely the biggest game of the season...
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Mercury News Photo gets a new look
Yet another redesign over at the merc, there’s something to this whole self-taught thing that I have yet to learn. I was feeling a little something for home and decided to check out the local news, wowza, someone’s been busy! While there take a look at SF Fashion Week (there’s a really awesome shot at...
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Time out Tuesdays
Welcome to Time out Tuesdays, where we stop for a moment and take a break from our hectic daily assignments and blistering pace of deadlines, errands, reporting and trying to remember to slip a lunch in there and instead take a deep breath and remind ourselves why we do this by peeping some inspiration. It’s...
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How is news changing? Ask some experts!
I spend a lot of time talking about and thinking about new media and how it is going to change the news business and what we need to do to make sure we change with it. There’s been more than a few posts here on SLR and talks in person to anyone willing to listen....
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Woo-hoo! SJSU is (back) in the house!
Just moments ago, SJSU PJ Department head Dr. D. Michael Cheers, and this summers fellow at National Geographic, sent me an e-mail that our project, formerly under wraps, had a new national backer. National Geographic. He asked me to pass the word, so, here we go: National Geographic has joined The San Jose Mercury News...
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A little house cleaning (e.g. shameless self promtion)
Well it seems after a flurry of activity on SLR I got a little too busy and haven’t been posting. Where was I? I said I’ve been busy (and I’m OK mom), really really busy. The past month I’ve started, stopped, continued and dropped about a half dozen projects and story ideas as I continue...
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Stop motion photo + Modest Mouse = Multimedia goodness
One of my favorite bands (I’m digging the nautical theme on the new album) gets the flip book treatment for a recent contest that challenged fans to make a music video. According to the discription it’s 4133 poster images created from footage provided by the band. The video was turned into screen grabs and then...
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Cake and software and multimedia and random thoughts
There should be a software application called “Cake” and then you’re slogan could be “and you can eat it to”… and you can make T-Shirts that say “eat it!” And the program would be for letting us create Hollywood style special effects in our multimedia pieces. (Hey I said the thoughts were random, I just...
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Multimedia isn’t making the world fall apart, photojournalism is just evolving
I have a lot of random thoughts throughout the day, today I had one that I just had to write down. It was supposed to be only one sentence and part of a new series I was toying around with, but as it so often happens I got on top of the soapbox and looking...
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A serendipitous end at the Santa Cruz Sentinel
My time at the Santa Cruz Sentinel has come to an end, last Wednesday was my last. I worked Mondays, and it was kinda weird waking up and not having to drive for an hour over over the hill today. Everything has to come to an end sometime. For my last day there wasn’t much...
