Shot with two still cameras and two video cameras with the help of my co-worker Jenna Cho. I conceived this idea thinking back to last years event where the photographer stood on a balcony across the street. I arrived to find he would be shooting from a ladder on the plaza, which essentially relegated Jenna to standing with a HV-30 in one hand and using her other hand to steady an overextended tripod.
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I guess living in a suburban neighborhood makes me naive. Before reading some stories in our paper, I have no idea that convenience stores could sell synthetic marijuana substitutes and the glass pipes and bongs for smoking them. It was cool to find out that some local high school students cared enough to take some […]
Read more "NL students and police take on K2 and Spice"One of my favorite responses ever to an interview question: Reporter Rick Koster asked the bassist if the tone and content of the songwriter’s lyrics affected the way he played the song, to which he responded “I still don’t know what the lyrics are.”
Read more "Song Spinner: Gone for Good"Assembling highlights for one player from four years of game tape was not an easy task, but I managed to pull this video off in two days of work.
Read more "Kris Dunn career highlights"A little fun with a GoPro camera stuck on the front of the backboard – a location it never could have been during a game.
Read more "Lancers cut down the net"Whenever I can, I volunteer for early morning assignments. I love shooting as the sun is coming up, or in this case as it stays behind the clouds.
Read more "Westerly Morris Men welcome spring atop Lantern Hill"
Not being a songwriter or musician, I’m always intrigued to hear the story of how a song was written. I especially enjoyed the story behind this one. The Can Kickers took two traditional songs, mashed them together, threw in a jaw harp, and added lyrics about a modern obsession with terrorism.
Read more "Song Spinner: The Can Kickers"‘nobody’ is a new single panel comic by Brian Grabell launched this month in The Day. We did a feature about Brian and his character, and I was assigned to do a video. I thought it might be a weird mix of journalism and promotion, but Brian’s development of the character was a great story, and he was willing to whip off a few sketches with little notice.
Read more "nobody wants you to watch this"Glenn Gordinier, 64, of Stonington, has written a book called “Surfing Cold Water,” chronicling his experiences catching waves during the off-season in New England.
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