old friend

Been taking off earlier the last couple days

just got my second wind.

Old Friend



back to the grind

C/S
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Sweet 16

so MSU was knocked out by memphis in the sweet 16

and there was a couch fire right outside of my apartment

Not the best frame by a long shot but still sort of liked it



Lt. Pete McClain of the East Lansing Fire Department looks onto the ashes of a couch fire on Woodmere street in East Lansing. McClain said that this was already the second fire they had put out so far on Friday night. He figured there would be a bunch more. Later that night i heard of 3 other couch and dumpster fires.

Dance and Baseball

So I've spent most of my time working on this piece about the emotional connection that dancers of different genres have with their art.

The project consists of three stop motion-esk videos or audio slideshows complied of only still images and audio

Our Faces and Places reporter Laura Leebove wrote the inside front to go with my multi-media piece. It was for sure one of the most daunting tasks I've made for myself at the State News but I'm glad I did it.

The project raised a bit of discussion in the photo room about what is journalism. I don't think this could stand on its own because of the non traditional style of the slideshows but i think combined with the front about it where you get the background of each dancer and a bigger look at who they are it works very well together

but you can be the judge of that.






Next up.

Yesterday was a beautiful day for a ball game. To bad the Spartans didn't take advantage of it. They suffered a 10-3 loss to Eastern Michigan. MSU head caoch David Grewe noted after the game how disappointed he was in the effort the players put forth and said it was "a bad day for baseball at MSU."



please comment
curious to your thoughts.

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Different soundslides

Spelling Bee

Found this soundslides on APAD from Julia Robinson of the Columbia Daily Tribune.



I thought it was a great example of what we were talking about at the office a couple days ago in terms of taking different looks at doing multimedia story telling

Not your traditional story telling but if you watch it brings you through the event

all the audio seems to be taken from the mics on stage and is all ambient.

Not A-roll audio.

I think it works really well and is a refreshing look at a something so seemingly mundane: A Spelling Bee.

It might have been cool to get audio of the kid telling why he enters spelling bee's she might have though.

working on a package about dance ill post it in a week.

Tennis

Had a feature assignment the other day found mysefl at the MSU Tennis Center and got this.



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MSU tennis head coach Gene Orlando watches a tennis ball pass by as team members Adam Monich and Scott Rasmussen scrimmage Monday at the MSU tennis center at 3571 E. Mount Hope in Lansing. The team has a meet against No. 8 Michigan on Wednesday. "The pressure is all on them (Michigan)," Orlando said. " And we really need the win." MSU is No. 66 nationally and there record is 11-5.

I liked it

Big men, young women

Sorry for the lack of posts lately.

I've been really busy

Saturday I shot the 2008 Girls Competitive Cheer Finals at the DeltaPlex in Grand Rapids for the Free Press and then I shot the First MMA, mixed martial arts, fight of its kind in Lansing, so basically ultimate fighting. It was quite the ends of the spectrum.



Ultimate



Dr. Nekatarios Demetriou, left, and Dr. Jerry Bell, right, tend to Ryan Kestner's head after Allen Grays, background, delivered a fight-ending blow, which drew blood from Kestner's head. This was Kestner's first mixed martial arts fight and he plans to fight again. The MMA fight promoted by Ron DeLeon Premotions was the first MMA fight of its kind in Lansing.

working on a map of my recent trip to the chi

post that later