Wizard Chef video profie
Images of the chef's work and workplace enhance what would otherwise be a fairly static talking head interview. Downside: Lots of editing time is needed to intercut different bits of footage into a seamless whole.
Astro Boy image gallery
Here's an example of how text and pictures can be organized to present a behind-the-scenes look at the artist's creative process.
Robot Sculpture
The New York Times added web value to my profile of interactive designer Christian Moeller by linking to videos of the artist's wigged-out work.
Design Auteurs
This Los Angeles Times story I wrote last year is archived as text only. You could really go to town illustrating this piece with samples of the artist-designers' works.
MoMA has a state-of-the-art site focused on art and design. Right now, they've got text, images and video of Ron Arad.
The mothership for my day-to-day web journalism: wired.com. Winner of 2009 Webby Award for Outstanding Writing, the site is nominated with New York Times, Washington Post and BBC for the Online Journalism "General Excellence" Award and attracts 11.5 million unique visitors monthly.
Underwire, the Wired.com pop culture blog that I contribute to, packages text, still photos, video, audio and viewer feedback to cover movies, TV, comic books and geek culture.
Otis Legacy YouTube clip of Milford Zornes puts the camera where it belongs: on a face that's loaded with character.
Otis Legacy YouTube profile of Mario Ybarra. I interviewed Mario for the Los Angeles Times. He's a real talker who hits the ground running. In print as in video, the physical setting can be part of the story if it speaks to the artist's sensibility. Here, shooting the sidewalk outside Ybarra's studio evokes a pertinent sense of place.
TwitterMind Feeds the Beast. For my recent John Mayer video interview I used Twitter to solicit questions for the singer-sonwriter. I actually got a couple of intelligent suggestions!
My Wired.com video interview with filmmaker Jon Mostow and actress Rhada Mitchell about their movie Surrogates. I avoided questions that invited "yes" and "no" answers, so their answers come off like complete sentences that make sense as stand-alone statements. I sat off camera in this dark, closet-like room at the Four Seasons Hotel crowded with cameras, lighting gear and boom mike.
My recent Wired post combined video and text to describe how a filmmaker with no money used styrofoam to build a space ship in his apartment. He got his sci-fi short Solatrium into the Slamdance Film Festival.
Earlier Thursday, this YouTube video archive proved super-useful for a Wired.com story I wrote. It's a first-hand account of an atomic bomb blast. Although the video is not that great to look at, there's historical value because the guy bears witness with first-hand details about a resonant piece of the past
I had fun writing code for this pathway to my resume.
To the right: these websites showcase inventive design and art. You might find inspiration in their varied approaches.
