Visual Journalism

(Photo/Brian Kaufman, Detroit Free Press)

Gina Damron and Brian Kaufman from the Detroit Free Press put together a wonderful video piece that looks at a year in the life of Belle Isle, Detroit’s island park. Spend the time on all three pieces, worth it.

(Thanks to Seth Gitner for the link.)

Up at My Old School, incoming grad students go through a six week boot camp that now includes a multimedia component. The students are required to produce a 60 second video or audio slide show about someone (or thing) within the neighborhood of Syracuse, New York.

I think this is brilliant. And, given the quality on some of these first-attempt pieces, they’re teaching this right.

Go Orange.

This piece, funded by Stella Artois and produced by Malcolm Murray, hits me in a couple of ways … I am fascinated by the subject matter, painted signs to me are just really cool. (And I have a desire to do a project about them … someday … myself.) And I think this is really well shot and well told. Spend the 13 minutes in it, well worth the time.

UP THERE from The Ritual Project on Vimeo.

(Thanks to Khoi Vinh at Subtraction.com for the link.)

The New York Times has a neat piece up that’s been compiled by Sam Stephenson – it’s a combination of the photos and audio that W. Eugene Smith show and recorded while living in New York City. He shot more than 1,400 rolls of film and recorded more than 1,000 hours of musicians inside that one building.

Steven Heller at the New York Times takes a neat look at the history of the Olympic event icons that have been used over the last century or so. Some are pretty weird, but some are pretty cool – and this is a great way to present them. It’s informative (as it should be) and visually interesting, creating a nice blend of technology and information.

The New York Times has a very cool and very informative page up that has before and after satellite photos from Haiti - moving a slider across the image reveals the pre and post earthquake images. Really neat use of technology to help tell the story.

Thanks to Meghan Pittman for pointing this out.