Archive for the ‘Multimedia Projects’ Category
The aerial photo on the left was taken in 1925, facing south over Chicago’s lakefront. The curvy stone breakwater being built into Lake Michigan foreshadows the photo below it, taken just a few years later in 1928. By then, the breakwater had been filled with earth and Chicago had a new lakefront park. This is […]
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Tags: Chicago, Curious City, history, maps, WBEZ
New series: Kitchen Close-ups
Barbara Davis: Hyde Park lunch line veteran from WBEZ on Vimeo. Kitchen Close-ups is a new new multimedia series I’m editing for WBEZ.org. That’s right, editing! It’s one of my first times, professionally in the editor’s seat. In this context, editing means working with freelance producers Meaghan Glennan and Jason Rizzo, helping them shape the […]
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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, […]
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The Plant
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 […]
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Art/Work
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.
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Dear Chicago
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 […]
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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 […]
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Tags: Chicago, Fireside Bowl, Logan Square, music, punk rock
In Which I Get Bitten by a Dog
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, […]
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Out (Spoken)
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 […]
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Tags: gay, LGBTQ, multimedia, Vocalo.org
