May 2009 archives
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May 20, 2009 by MattFordMedia
MediaStorm – Driftless in Iowa
MediaStorm has a new project, Driftless: Stories from Iowa, that is tied to a photography book by Danny Wilcox Frazier of the same name. The entire project and its many chapters are in black and white, a choice I assume is meant to match the black and white photography of the book that is inter-cut [...]Archive
May 19, 2009 by MattFordMedia
NY Times – Ozier Muhammad’s Harlem
The opening line to this post on, Lens, the NY Times’ new photo / video / multimedia blog is spot on in setting up this audio slideshow about Harlem. Perhaps the most meaningful assignments for photojournalists are the ones they give themselves. You can definitely tell the photographer had an intimate relationship with the neighborhood [...]Archive
May 19, 2009 by MattFordMedia
Adam Westbrook – One week in Iraq
Recently exchanged emails with radio reporter for Bauer media, Adam Westbrook, about his ambitious multimedia side-project oneweekinIraq.net. He recounts a lot of his approach at Tracy Boyer’s Innovative Interactivity. Essentially, Adam was assigned to go to Iraq for a week to do radio reports on the final days of the deployment for British forces based [...]Archive
May 18, 2009 by MattFordMedia
Us Now – Documentary on web 2.0
Great documentary from Us Now about the web 2.0 and everything it can mean for our future. Very well-produced by British doc house Banyak films which is located on the HMS president in London. (Yes, their facilities are on a former war vessel. Crazy, right?)Archive
May 15, 2009 by MattFordMedia
You can change the world
Sometimes you need a good inspirational kick in the pants, and this morning I got just that courtesy of Adam Westbrook. With all the turmoil of the current economic climate, it can be easy to forget that we are in a very exciting time for journalism. The tools for storytelling have never been more vast, [...]Archive
May 14, 2009 by MattFordMedia
TIME – The Deadly Job of Drug War Correspondent
Great video from Time.com on the struggles for journalists working to cover the violence of the Mexico drug war.Archive
May 14, 2009 by MattFordMedia
Story 4 – new multimedia shop
If like me, you are a big fan of multimedia groups like mediastorm and the Bombay Flying Club, you’ll be interested to know that another team has popped up on the web. Story4.org has a nice piece on their site about Big Sur and they are currently working on pieces for The Women’s Foundation of [...]Archive
May 13, 2009 by MattFordMedia
Mapping twitter data
Cool visualization created by scanning twitter feeds for “just arrived” or “Just landed” and then matching that up with home locations from the twitter profile. The data is obviously an estimate and there is no way to confirm a set that large, but it does give a window into how some of these social networks [...]Archive
May 12, 2009 by MattFordMedia