Sunrise around 6 a.m. at Brackett's Landing in Edmonds, WA.
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Frank Warren's PostSecret Live inside the University of Washington's Meany Hall. Photo taken with my HTC Droid Incredible.
1. @ScottBourne (national) Scott Bourne – Great photography related tweets (publisher of photofocus.com).
2. @RoshSillars (national) Rosh Sillars – Lots of journalism tweets, co-author of “Linked Photography.”
3. @BillFrakes (national) Bill Frakes – Dude has shot more than 200 Sports Illustrated covers. Respect.
4. @jeremycowart (national) Jeremy Cowart – Celebrity photographer, founder of two websites including one where photographers give back to community.
5. @monophotography (global) Donald Cameron – Creative director of photography at SlashThree, an online community for photographers.
For my first full audio story, I used audio I collected while working on a story for The Daily. In the two and a half minute clip (below), you’ll hear both Frank Warren, the creator of PostSecret, and Katie McCorkell, a junior at the UW and president of the student group Active Minds.
The only disappointment I really had in making this was that I was unable to use any ambient sound. Luckily, I think the topic is extremely relevant (the event is tonight!) and PostSecret is an extremely popular website/event/book(s) — especially among college students.
My only real problem in putting this project together was uploading the .mp3 to SoundCloud. At first it would make a bunch of annoying noise that wasn’t in the original file. After a few minutes I realized I had forgotten to set the track to 44.1 kHz in Audacity. Once I fixed that, it was good to go! So without further ado…
File size: 2.37 MB / Time: 2:35 / Download
Looking over I-5 at the Seattle skyline. Photo taken near Capitol Hill.
The smoke stacks in Red Square on an overcast day at the University of Washington in Seattle. Photo taken from a Kane Hall balcony.
Creepy bust of Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907) -- a Norwegian composer and pianist -- located in Grieg Garden at the University of Washington.
I’m planning on doing my “proof of concept” audio assignment about the website PostSecret (an example of a sent in secret is above). The creator is coming to campus on Friday night at Meany Hall, but in previewing the event for The Daily, I have lots of audio to play around with. I’m looking forward to it. Not as much as this 10 day photo project thing, though.
Unfortunately for the audio assignment, I won’t have much room for ambient sound, but hopefully the interviews will still be compelling enough. Plus, the story is timely. So it should work out well.
This photo from The Seattle Times was taken for a recent story about a man that’s living under the 520 bridge. I find it intriguing because the viewer gets a sense of the man’s living conditions, as well as a really interesting view of being underneath the bridge.
Next up, a story from The New York Times about a Baltimore politician that recently died. The photo drew me to the story in the first place. It’s such a great perspective.
Monica Lopossay/The New York Times
A third great news story photo is this shot from Lucas Anderson, a photographer at The Daily, taken for a story about the annual American Indian Student Commission’s powwow. It probably gave us our best front page of last quarter. I love the lighting.
Lucas Anderson/The Daily of the University of Washington
And last is this photo from the Western Washington University student newspaper, The Western Front, involving their student government presidential candidate debate. Yuck, I just can’t find anything appealing about it at all.
Michelle Naranjo/The Western Front
1. @iraglass (national) Ira Glass – This American Life host on NPR.
2. @despeaux (local) Cliff DesPeaux – Popular local photojournalist.
3. @ElaineMThompson (local) Elaine Thompson – Local AP photographer. Awesome person.
4. @notmarcocollins (local) Marco Collins – Former KNDD DJ in the 90s, now working at KEXP.
5. @GregR1077 (local) GregR – DJ at KNDD.
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