Thanks to David Walker and the crew at PDN, there is a great write up about us and our work for the Miss Universe Organization. Click here to read the full article. “They were self-starters, who would come with their own ideas,” says Shugart, who didn’t want to do any hand-holding. “They would be able [...]
It’s a land of 11,842 lakes, home to food on a stick, SPAM in a can, the Jucy Lucy, one mega mall, and Wally the Beerman. Now it’s also home to Jenn and I. We are beyond ecstatic to be calling Minneapolis home and the past few weeks have been filled with unpacking boxes and [...]
I had an opportunity to go to Eddie Adams this year and it was amazing. I heard going to the workshop is one of those things that as a photojournalist you have to do. But it wasn’t until we were walking up the driveway to the barn, that I knew what all of the hype [...]
“Sometimes greatness comes from not having resources.” – Doug Liman As always a great idea/story will always trump the tools we use. To illustrate his point, he recalled a commercial he was shooting for Nike in the late 1990s starring golfer Tiger Woods. Liman noticed Woods bouncing a ball on the edge of a club [...]
Anyone doing multimedia needs to be thinking in this same manner as they approach and edit their stories. Saul Bass states: My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film’s story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title [...]
Thank you all for your support, emails and comments. I have had received a lot of emails about my project, Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons, with similar questions so I decided to answer them here. Today, I am going to answer the questions about the project but I have also received a lot of [...]
My girlfriend, Jenn, posted her stunning magazine project that deals with mental illness in prison. Jenn’s work is one of the strongest multimedia pieces I’ve seen in recent memory. From the featured project to the raw inmate interviews the pieces will leave you feeling for these men. Of the project Jenn wrote on her blog: [...]
Here is my latest project – Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons. What started out as an assignment for school has produced a piece that has changed my life and hopefully will do the same for the people that view it. That was my hope when producing it at least. Ten weeks ago, we (my [...]
My magazine project is complete. (This is when I’m told it’s safe to breathe again.) One main multimedia piece. One photo gallery. One embedded map. One time-lapse. One website. All in the blur of one quarter. It was the class of ones for me. One step at a time, I wore the many hats that [...]
Since returning from Arizona I’ve lost what little tan I had, narrowed a boatload of images down to a “tighter” edit of 60, designed a mock layout to only trash it for a WordPress theme, ingested a lot of bad video and pushed off editing audio and video until tonight. As I type this my [...]