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Object-Oriented Storytelling

On March 10, 2011 · View Comments

One of the major challenges we wanted to tackle with the PBS News project is how we syndicate rich stories. Not multimedia packages, not playlists, and certainly not ‘rich’ articles, but visually compelling, narrative-true structures of content.

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Nuclear Free World?

On October 24, 2009 · View Comments

In telling a story on the state of nuclear proliferation, I wanted to approach the subject from several different angles. First, I wanted to address the international rhetoric supporting arms control and nuclear weapons abolition. This was well suited to a map projection, which provides snapshot of how many regions, countries, and leaders [...]

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The Uptake: Inception, Breakthroughs, and Uncertainty

On March 2, 2009 · View Comments

The news industry is suffering one of its worst years in modern history, including a splintering audience, plummeting revenue and the inevitable layoffs that follow. But even in this in environment some have found ways to find success in the fault lines of the media landscape.

The Uptake, a left-leaning Minneapolis-based journalism [...]

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Happening: A Video Convention

On May 20, 2006 · View Comments

In the Spring of 2006 I co-developed a happening funded by the Art & Art History Department of Carleton College along with the Carleton Administration. Combining inexpensive and readily available building materials with live video and lighting, we created an indoor video landscape for an estimated 500 participants.

Encouraged to adopt the guise of [...]

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Radio Best Practices Project

On September 10, 2005 · View Comments

In the Fall of 2005 the staff at KRLX-FM in Northfield, Minnesota began an overhaul of the then skimpy training materials used to educate upcoming on-air staff. Previously training had been primarily ad-hoc and informal, relyintg mostly on the immediate memory of staff at hand.

We decided to change this by writing a comprehensive [...]

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Telepresence and VR Independent Study

On March 24, 2005 · View Comments

In preparation for my senior thesis project entitled Illusion, Immersion and the Myth of Total Reality, partly based on the work of Oliver Grau in his book Virual Art (2003 MIT Press), I prepared several written and visual overviews on the history of digital and virtual art.

This project examined salient topics [...]

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Tyr Energy Corporate Website

On April 1, 2004 · View Comments

During the summer of 2003 I worked as interim IT director and web and print producer for Tyr Energy, Inc, an upstart energy management firm in the suburbs of Kansas City. As a rapidly growing company with very large growth potential, it proved to be a challenging, fun, exciting and engaging position.

This site [...]

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KRLX-FM Convergence Platform

On February 13, 2004 · View Comments

After assuming the position of Producer at KRLX-FM in Northfield, MN, I went straight to work building it’s web presence, then non-existent. By 2003 it was painfully clear that the station needed to incorporate digital content into its repertoire in order to remain relevant in a student sea of early adopters. [...]

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Social Reform Photography Analysis

On October 6, 2003 · View Comments

In the History of Photography Course taught at Carleton College in the Fall of 2003, the class was assigned various topics to discuss and to produce these discussions on a web-based platform. Social Reform Photography was our topic and I launched into creating a multimedia html website for kiosk hardware that we were [...]

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Art After New Media: Interfaces

On September 13, 2003 · View Comments

For the Art After New Media course I spent much of our time examining the link between information and interface. My first project examined the map as an interface for the actions of our daily lives. I project my movements throughout the day in a breadcrumb fashion throughout the campus and also lay the communications [...]

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