The first episode of Health Dialogues since I’ve signed on as the web producer aired yesterday. It includes an audio slideshow I put together after a trip to Balboa High School, a public school in San Francisco that has banned junk food, sodas, etc. from campus.
I’ve also added a “my latest work” section to the right sidebar, where you’ll find links to my latest work online.
I just finished up my stint directing a reporters camp in San Rafael (see previous post for more details). Lots of fun turning kids on to multimedia reporting. Nick News — a kid-focused news show on Nickelodeon — called us yesterday. They’ll be coming out next month to film me and some of the kids for a piece they’re doing on summer camps. So if you watch Nickelodeon on a regular basis, keep an eye out for me…
A gallery of all the slideshows is in the works. As soon as that’s up, I’ll link to it. In the meantime, follow this link to watch a slideshow the kids produced last week, after we took a trip out to Infineon Raceway.
Sammy Hagar Poses with the first session of this year’s Fast Forward Adventure Reporters.
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks helping 5th - 10th graders learn to be multimedia journalists, as part of Fast Forward’s Adventure Reporters — an annual summer camp in San Rafael.
For the past several years, kids attending the camp have had the opportunity to interview a variety of famous and interesting people in the Bay Area. Their writing appears throughout the year in Fast Forward Magazine, which is distributed to schools throughout Marin County.
This is the camp’s first foray into multimedia, and I think the kids are enjoying it. Here’s a link to a slideshow created by two boys who went to Pixar studios and interviewed Andrew Stanton, director of Wall-E, before the film’s release.
The Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery is at the southern end of Big Sur, along Highway 1 on California’s coast. Elephant seals starting showing up there in the fall of 1990. There were fewer than two dozen of them at the time. The following spring brought about 400 seals to the area for molting. Now, the rookery is home to more than 16 thousand elephant seals throughout the year.
I was there in mid-February, while the new pups were weaning, and took some photos.
Use the arrows or thumbnails to navigate the images. Mouse over a photo to hear audio.
This past weekend, in celebration of my upcoming 30th birthday, my girlfriend Kate surprised me with a trip to wine country. The first thing on the itinerary was a skydiving adventure.
(In response, my family has subsequently promised Kate a wonderful waterboarding experience for the holidays…)
I put together a narration of the experience with a couple photos, below.
Enjoy.
Every year, on the final Sunday of October, San Francisco’s Bernal Hill Park is host to the Illegal Soapbox Derby. There’s nothing really illegal about it, from what I’ve read. It’s just not an officially sanctioned soapbox derby. And rightly so.
The event isn’t about winning or losing. It’s about how you’re able to survive flying down a hillside lined with barbequeing onlookers, without spilling your beer. In fact, the only rule of entry in the derby — a rule not so much enforced as encouraged — is that your ride has a mounted beer holder.
I didn’t collect any audio at yesterday’s derby, but I did run around and take a bunch of photos. Enjoy.
(Click the play/pause button on the far-right to run the slideshow, or use the navigation tools to manually select photos.)
I recently built a Flash slideshow for The Nature Conservancy, using some amazing stock photos they have of California’s landscape. The slideshow just went live on their website. It’s tied in with the Conservancy’s quarterly print newsletter that just went out this week. For the moment, the URL is only listed in the newsletter (no link provided on their website), but you can click through with the link below.
Hopefully there will be more of these to come. I’d love to produce some audio and tell some stories to go along with the Conservancy’s collection of beautiful photographs.
Enjoy
Imagining California slideshow
This past weekend, the Tour de Fat came to Golden Gate Park. It’s a free, traveling festival put on by New Belgium Brewing Company, makers of Fat Tire Beer, that celebrates bicycles, beer and sustainable living. More than 6,500 people came to show off their bikes, drink some beer and enjoy the entertainment, leaving behind only 12 pounds of trash.
All the profits from food and beer sales go to local non-profits. In this case, the recipients were the San Francisco Bike Coalition and the Bay Area Ridge Trails Council.
Here’s a photo slide show of Saturday’s events. Click the play button on the far right side to start the automated slideshow, or click on the numbers to manually select a photo.
The audio (below the slideshow) is meant to accompany the slideshow, so just hit play on both, and sit back and relax.
