Playing with gifs: Now that’s a great way to start the day
I recently acquired my first smart phone and started playing with mobile video and making gifs. Click on the picture above to see what I’ve been up to. As a storyteller I think it’s important to look at alternative forms. The idea of introducing time to still images fascinates me. Beyond fodder for Reddit or...
Geo-tagged videos reveal a mosaic of stories
The folks down at MyBlockNYC.com seem to have come up with a novel idea for organizing an overflow of video stories by narrowing it down to geo-data points on a very nicely designed interactive map. They aren’t focused on journalism, but that doesn’t mean it can’t inspire us. I think it’s worth checking out, and...
Multimedia that made me go f’yea! in 2011
It’s the end of the year and that usually means two things, left overs and best of lists. This year saw a lot of newsworthy events from the Arab Spring to OWS, Obama got Osama to Rick Perry trying to remember three things, it was a year packed with news events and continued debate about what journalism’s of...
Converge
What happens when you reach a path divided? After nearly 30 years as a successful neurologist in Europe, Luis Perez-Bayas couldn’t fill the void that was left when he pursued medicine at age 18. Now he’s foraging back to an unexplored path for a new kind of life that combines his knowledge of the brain...
The Million Dollar Road Show
My latest endeavor, a show about finding homegrown entrepreneurs along America’s roadways, kicked off nearly a month ago in Chicago. For the last couple weeks I’ve been traveling cross country in an Airstream with a pair of brothers and producing a documentary travel show about finding homegrown heroes along America’s roadways. Right now we have...
Butterfly Migration
Turns out there’s a family of the monarch butterflies which migrate through south Texas and today I had the opportunity to make a two hour drive to spend the day in a sea of them fluttering all around me. For a day, I feel like I’m back in California 🙂 There’s more pictures if you’re...
Sinkhole recharge
A series of caves in Stone Oak City Park are part of the recharge zone for the aquifer.
body/percussion
The Third Coast Rhythm Project visits the youth program at San Juan Community Center to teach kids to make music using their bodies as instruments.
To the moon: The flagmaker
Some days you just have to stand back and realize it. There’s no money in it, all your friends are looking for jobs, the doomsayers are becoming prophets, it’s long hours with sometimes little thank you, and most days it seems like no one even sees your hard work unless Michael Jackson or Britney Spears...
A glimpse of my latest project
One of my latest projects has been a documentary on a local band and it just so happens I have the opportunity to provide a sneak peek into the work I’m producing. The final product is still in flux and I’m still in the process of capturing footage, but here’s a trailer video I edited...
So this is where I’ve been for three days this summer
During the last weekend of July, myself, Daniel Esch and Neal Water convened on the second annual San Jose Grand Prix with our cameras in tow. We were there to create a multimedia package compleate with slideshows and video for The Spartan Daily website. Our goal was to hit the ground running with the so-called...
Moving pictures and I don’t mean flip-books
For months I’ve been looking for the perfect means for uploading my video work onto the blog. I’d been putting it off, constantly moving the task to the back burner whenever other things came along. But now the time has come. Last Friday I helped a friend edit together a teaser trailer for his band....
