Archive for the ‘Multimedia Projects’ Category

Tonight the Chicago Headline Club assembles to give out awards for the best work in local journalism. Shannon Heffernan and I are finalists in the category of Best Multimedia Presentation, for the video we produced on the Plant for WBEZ’s regional reporting initiative, Front & Center: I’m pretty excited. I was a finalist in 2007, [...]


The Plant

07Mar12

Here’s another multimedia piece I produced this fall, in collaboration with my friend and colleague, Shannon Heffernan. It’s about The Plant, a small business incubator in Chicago. We produced the story for Front & Center, WBEZ’s reporting initiative covering issues in the Great Lakes region. Shannon and I shared responsibilities evenly here, each taking part [...]


Art/Work

07Mar12

Art/Work is a monthly profile series I launched in September 2011. Each piece features a contemporary visual artist exhibiting in Chicago talking about the inspiration and perspiration behind their creative endeavors.


6:20 At the start of the Race to Mackinac I was several miles out from the shoreline, photographing competitors from the press boat. Occasionally a missive would come across the radio from the race committee. “Argo this is Breaker, we see 19 boats.” “Copy that Argo, we also see 19 boats.” Once all the starters [...]


Dear Chicago

24Jan11

I’m really pleased that after a ton of work the Dear Chicago series launched on WBEZ last week. The radio pieces will continue to air over the next month on 848, our morning news magazine program, and in a slot in either Morning Edition or All Things Considered. It’s been a really intense experience to [...]


Depending on whom you ask, the Fireside Bowl is either simply the bowling alley in Logan Square, or the best punk rock club Chicago ever knew. In its venue days it was falling apart. It was loud. It stank to high heaven, and the men’s bathroom had no doors and no seats. It was punk [...]


Hector with Ralphy and his step dad. Photo by Shauna Bittle. :37 Ah, the life of a documentary maker. It’s not all wine and roses, you know. The making Out(Spoken) had some pretty rough moments. In addition to being a gay rights activist, Hector prides himself on being an animal rights activist. He’s a vegetarian, [...]


Out (Spoken)

26May10

Hector (aka Lohan Addict) is an 18-year-old high school student who is crazy about making movies for an internet audience. He also happens to be openly gay. He uses his camera to bring attention to the difficulties and discrimination out gay teens like him face in school and the rest of the world. This video [...]


Here is a sneak peak of the finished barbershop piece! I am pleased with it, especially given it was my first foray into video/multimedia production since college. When I was in college I considered it a flaw that my “video” pieces were more like radio pieces with still shots (and poorly executed animation…never did learn [...]


Candid Shot

21Apr10

Fun shot of me shooting video of Hector in downtown Chicago.  Don’t I look glamorous?  Photo by Shauna Bittle.



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