I should’ve posted this last week, but I totally forgot. Anyway, The Roanoke Times won the Pictures of the Year International’s Documentary of the Year award for our series “Age of Uncertainty.”
Winning second place was The Los Angeles Times, third place was The National Geographic and one of the finalists was The New York [...]

So I went out today to run a few errands and made a spur-of-the moment stop at Petsmart to buy a fish. Thus, I ended up with Franklin the Betta fish (named after the street I live on in Roanoke).
He lives above my television, which is a prime location given the March Madness season. [...]

In light of the spelling bee video I produced yesterday, I decided to round up some of my favorite videos that I’ve produced in my short time at The Roanoke Times.
Enjoy!

As the title implies, this week has been a good hectic. Very busy, fun and fast, this week has flown by.
Here’s a glimpse of some things I’ve been working on starting with the flower Flash graphic. After looking over it, I think it’s probably my favorite Flash graphic I’ve ever done. This [...]

Just a quick post because I’ve been a nerd the past few days, but MIT’s SIMILE project just released a new open-source site to create widgets out of a few of their graphs.
I’ve been knee-deep in SIMILE javascript the past few days, so this was slightly exciting to me when I heard it. I [...]

Though “commercial” may be pushing it since I wasn’t paid, this certainly wasn’t journalism. But hopefully it’ll open up a few doors in the freelance world.

I spent today playing in the snow in the wake of Roanoke’s largest single day snowfall in nearly three years (7 inches). I made a video of sled riders at a local elementary school (creative, I know…), but I was happy with a technique I used in lieu of shaky video.
The embedded Youtube clip [...]

I had friends visiting this weekend - which is why I should have posted this link earlier - but here’s the video of the Williamsville Post Office (a la the barking dogs underneath this post).
The video is about a group of people fighting to keep their small post office open, despite pressure from the U.S. [...]