I shot and edited this video this past Spring with Chinese student Jun "Shell" Zhu for a UNC project for the Special Olympics World Games. This video is about Todd Ornstein, a Special Olympics sailor, and his sister and Unified Partner in the Games, Stacey Perry, preparing for their upcoming competition in China.
I traveled to West Virginia with Post photographer Preston Keres to cover BASE jumping at Bridge Day 2007 for our Why We Compete series. Around 400 people parachuted off the New River Gorge Bridge during the six-hour period the state legally allows the sport. I made panoramas and gathered ambient and interview audio and later edited and produced the project when we got back to D.C.
This is an interactive audio panorama that shows the cockpit of a 757 airplane and gives explanations about what different devices do via audio clips from pilot Capt. Sidney L. Clark, Jr. It is for a Kidspost series about different jobs children are interested in pursuing when they grow up.
I made photos, gathered audio and edited this how-to audio gallery for post.com's 2007 Holiday Guide.
For the Fall Dining Guide, I went to two restaurants that were getting high ratings - MiniBar and Cityzen. The reviewer, locally famous Tom Sietsema, then recorded audio to match each piece. 
Though I was very pressed for time on this project and wish I could have spent more, it is probably one of the most interesting things I've done for washingtonpost.com. The story is about Georgia Avenue, a neighborhood in NW D.C. that is going through extreme gentrification. People gave many contrasting perspectives about the changes happening there and it gave me a much deeper understanding of how development can have such an expansive impact on a community. I took panos, photos and gathered audio for this project. Because we were visiting people during their business hours, much of the audio comes bundled with a lot of a natural sound that is not normally ideal for an interview situation. But, I think it is fitting considering everything that is going on there, offering a greater sense of place. To see the entire project, click the link above. An example of one of the panos is linked below. 
This project is about the Congressional Cemetery in D.C. This is a place where people like J. Edgar Hoover and John Phillip Sousa are buried, but the cemetery has become somewhat of an unkempt dog park. I took all of the panoramas and photographs. Click the image above to see the entire project. A sample of one of the panos is linked below.
Click the image to view the pano. You must have Quicktime.
In October 2006, through my internship at the time at Washingtonpost.com, I was asked to go to the Eddie Adams Workshop as a faculty multimedia producer. There, I produced a story by a student photographer at the workshop, Catherine Hall. One of the other faculty members, Evan Parker, went along with Catherine on her shoots to gather audio for the story. And it was my job to make editing choices and put it all together. Once you arrive to the linked Eddie Adams Workshop Multimeda site from 2006, scroll to the bottom of the list of stories and click Brown2 to watch Recon Ranger.
In the summer of 2006, I traveled to the Atacama Desert of Chile, considered the driest in the world, to document the lives of people who live there. I worked on two stories while there. One, "A Desert Dweller" is about a hippie who lives alone with no electricity nor plumbing with no neighbors for miles. The other story, "Protecting the Frontier", is actually about the hippie's nearest neighbors, a group of police officers who protect Chile's border with Bolivia. Since this site is Flash-based, there are no direct links to specific stories. Instead, you must navigate through the site. To find A Desert Dweller, click the link for portraits.
Once there, click the title of the story, A Desert Dweller. Be sure to turn your volume up, as both of these stories have crucial audio components.
To find Protecting the Frontier, back on the navigation bar, click community.
Then click Protecting the Frontier to watch the story. 
Chasing Crusoe is an interactive documentary multimedia storytelling website that I worked on in the Spring of 2006. A group of us traveled to Robinson Crusoe Island, which is situated about 400 miles west of the Chilean mainland in the Pacific Ocean, to gather documentary stories about life there. The premise of the site was to compare the true story of this place with the classic novel it is named after, "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel DeFoe. I took all of the photos for the story "Changing Times" and some in "Island Life." Since this site is Flash-based, links to each specific story are not avilable. Therefore, after arriving to the site, click the Isla Más a Tierra link in the upper right-hand side of the navigation bar. 
Then click the link Changing Times. Be sure to have your volume turned up, as these stories have crucial audio components. 
Back on the same Isla Más a Tierra page, click on Island Life to watch that story. All three of the photographers working on the project, including myself, contributed to this story.
A young boy walks to school in the morning on Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile. Until this recent school year, the island had no high school. Most children would be sent to Santiago or Valparaiso on the mainland to finish school. Some are taking advantage of having a new high school on the island but other families still choose to send their children away in hopes that their education will be better.
Clowns, who had been fundraising for the Ronald McDonald House at Lickity Split, an ice cream shop in Chapel Hill, take a break to eat ice cream. Lickity Split offered to donate a portion of its sales that day to the Ronald McDonald House, which will use the money to serve as a haven for families whose loved ones are away from home and seeking medical treatment. 
Krinsa Rojas, 4, listens to her dentist, Mónica Quevedo, explain how she is about to fill a cavity in the girl's teeth. Quevedo is the only dentist on Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile and only one of two professional women there. Though not originally from the island, Quevedo moved there with her husband, who runs a hotel and scuba diving business out of the family's home. La Posta, which is the name of the health center on the island, provides free health care to everyone there through funding from the Chilean government.
Wedding guests dance at the reception of a wedding in Falls Church, Virginia on September 2, 2006. 
Children play in the downtown square of San Pedro de Atacama in the Atacama Desert of Chile in June 2006. The Atacama is considered the driest desert in the world, as there are parts where rainfall has never been recorded. However, more than a million people live within in the 600-mile expanse of desert.
A boat heads toward Robinson Crusoe Island, formerly known as Isla Mas a Tierra, in the South Pacific Ocean. Robinson Crusoe Island is the largest of the three islands in the Juan Fernandez archipelago. 
A cook at the only pre-school on Robinson Crusoe Island in the Juan Fernandez Archipelago of Chile gazes out of the school's door to yell after someone she knows. Most of the women on the island spend a lot of time cooking, cleaning and working other domestic jobs while the men are usually fishermen.
Stacy King, center, a member of the International Socialists Organization (ISO), chants in protest of the war in Iraq while marching across the National Mall in Washington D.C. on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007. ISO's aim is to stand for social justice issues and to work toward a future socialist society. 
Michael English, a Washington D.C. resident, pulls off a t-shirt bearing an upside-down American flag at the end of the United for Peace and Justice anti-war protest at the National Mall on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007. This shirt was made by artist Delia Jurek, who set up a display at the protest to sell some of her work while she also participated in the rally. 
David Goins, drum major of Cakalak Thunder, leads his protest group in an anti-war song at the National Mall on Saturday, Jan. 27. Cakalak Thunder, which came from Greensboro, N.C., traveled to Washington D.C. to participate in the protest against the war in Iraq sponsored by United for Peace and Justice. 
North Carolina linebacker Larry Edwards (32) pops the ball loose from Utah quarterback Brian Johnson (3) in the fourth quarter Saturday, Oct. 1, for one of the Utes’ five turnovers. The Tar Heels defeated the Utes with a final score of 31 to 17. The victory put the Tar Heels back to .500 at 2-2 in the season. 
North Carolina junior Ivory Latta (12), guard, smiles at the crowd of mostly Duke fans before the matchup with the Blue Devils on Sunday, Jan. 29. Though the roaring Cameron Crazies, Duke's student peanut gallery, did their best to boo Latta and her teammates, the Tar Heels came out of the game victorious with a final score of 74-70. The two teams were the only Division 1 men's or women's basketball teams left undefeated until this game, which secured the Tar Heels the no. 1 spot in the nation.
Duke's Shelden Williams (23), forward, reaches to block North Carolina forward Tyler Hansbrough's (50) basket in the match-up between the two rivals at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham on March 7, 2006. Much to the help of Hansbrough, who was recently named as the 2006 Atlantic Coast Conference Freshman of the Year, the Tar Heels were victorious over the Blue Devils with a final score of 83-76. Hansbrough's career-high of 27-points was a key component to North Carolina's win.
North Carolina Coach Roy Williams yells at a referee after one of his players is fouled during the game against Boston College in Chapel Hill on January 25. The Tar Heels lost to the Eagles with a final score of 81-74.
Barbara Rodbell, a Holocaust survivor, tells stories on April 11, 2005 at UNC-CH, of her time in hiding in the Holland underground and how she used fake identification to outwit the Nazis.
After Rodbell finished telling her stories, she challenged students to question what the Holocaust means. She stressed that people must remember the event to avoid future attacks on people of different races and cultural backgrounds. 
Tommy Wilcox's aide, Keshawna, talks with him about how one of his roommates was rude to him at the dinner table. She tells him that some people are "just that way and you have to ignore them." Wilcox is a 43-year-old man living with Autism at an assisted living community in Pittsboro, N.C. The timer that Wilcox wears around his neck is set before each task he must complete or place he must be. If Wilcox arrives on time after the timer goes off, he is rewarded with points that add up to money. At the end of the week, Wilcox often uses the money he has made to go to the movies.
Bairon Lopez, 11, kisses his mother's, Ariadne Chamorro, forehead before leaving to go back to school after his lunch break. The family lives on Robinson Crusoe Island in the Juan Fernandez archipelago of Chile. Lunch time is always family time for Chamorro, her husband and their children, who otherwise stay busy. Ariadne sells handcrafts she makes out of fish scales and goes to night school in hopes of getting her high school diploma. Most children on the island go to the mainland of Chile when it is time to begin high school. Ariadne and her husband, Luis Lopez, plan to send Bairon to a school in Valparaiso as they did with their older daughter.
Bastian Espindola, 4, poors water in a cup and throws it on the ground over and over for fun. Bastian lives in the small, ghost-like town of Toconao, in the Atcama Desert of Chile. Water is scarce there in the desert and some of the water that is available is contaminated with arsenic.
A young boy lies in the dirt after falling off of a sheep at the American Legion in King, N.C. on Feb. 26, 2006. The Legion, along with King Cowboy Church, hosts bull riding competitions on Saturday nights. During breaks from the buill riding, children are given the chance to ride sheep in a similar style.
Carlos Torres, a 50-year-old man living alone in the Atacama Desert of Chile near the Bolivian border, gathers water out of a small pond near his house. Torres will use the water to to drink, and cook and clean with, as no plumbing reaches the high altitude where he lives.
For the final project in the last Photojournalism course a photo major must take at UNC, Documentary Photojournalism, we had to make a story with photos and audio about a topic related to the Piedmont of North Carolina. This story is about the King Cowboy Church in King, NC. It is made in Flash, so there is no direct link to the specific story. After entering the site, click the fourth thumbnail from the left to start mine.
A young boy walks to school in the morning on Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile. Until this recent school year, the island had no high school. Most children would be sent to Santiago or Valparaiso on the mainland to finish school. Some are taking advantage of having a new high school on the island but other families still choose to send their children away in hopes that their education will be better.
Clowns, who had been fundraising for the Ronald McDonald House at Lickity Split, an ice cream shop in Chapel Hill, take a break to eat ice cream. Lickity Split offered to donate a portion of its sales that day to the Ronald McDonald House, which will use the money to serve as a haven for families whose loved ones are away from home and seeking medical treatment. 
Krinsa Rojas, 4, listens to her dentist, Mónica Quevedo, explain how she is about to fill a cavity in the girl's teeth. Quevedo is the only dentist on Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile and only one of two professional women there. Though not originally from the island, Quevedo moved there with her husband, who runs a hotel and scuba diving business out of the family's home. La Posta, which is the name of the health center on the island, provides free health care to everyone there through funding from the Chilean government.
Wedding guests dance at the reception of a wedding in Falls Church, Virginia on September 2, 2006. 
Children play in the downtown square of San Pedro de Atacama in the Atacama Desert of Chile in June 2006. The Atacama is considered the driest desert in the world, as there are parts where rainfall has never been recorded. However, more than a million people live within in the 600-mile expanse of desert.
A boat heads toward Robinson Crusoe Island, formerly known as Isla Mas a Tierra, in the South Pacific Ocean. Robinson Crusoe Island is the largest of the three islands in the Juan Fernandez archipelago. 
A cook at the only pre-school on Robinson Crusoe Island in the Juan Fernandez Archipelago of Chile gazes out of the school's door to yell after someone she knows. Most of the women on the island spend a lot of time cooking, cleaning and working other domestic jobs while the men are usually fishermen.
Stacy King, center, a member of the International Socialists Organization (ISO), chants in protest of the war in Iraq while marching across the National Mall in Washington D.C. on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007. ISO's aim is to stand for social justice issues and to work toward a future socialist society. 
Michael English, a Washington D.C. resident, pulls off a t-shirt bearing an upside-down American flag at the end of the United for Peace and Justice anti-war protest at the National Mall on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007. This shirt was made by artist Delia Jurek, who set up a display at the protest to sell some of her work while she also participated in the rally. 
David Goins, drum major of Cakalak Thunder, leads his protest group in an anti-war song at the National Mall on Saturday, Jan. 27. Cakalak Thunder, which came from Greensboro, N.C., traveled to Washington D.C. to participate in the protest against the war in Iraq sponsored by United for Peace and Justice. 
North Carolina linebacker Larry Edwards (32) pops the ball loose from Utah quarterback Brian Johnson (3) in the fourth quarter Saturday, Oct. 1, for one of the Utes’ five turnovers. The Tar Heels defeated the Utes with a final score of 31 to 17. The victory put the Tar Heels back to .500 at 2-2 in the season. 
North Carolina junior Ivory Latta (12), guard, smiles at the crowd of mostly Duke fans before the matchup with the Blue Devils on Sunday, Jan. 29. Though the roaring Cameron Crazies, Duke's student peanut gallery, did their best to boo Latta and her teammates, the Tar Heels came out of the game victorious with a final score of 74-70. The two teams were the only Division 1 men's or women's basketball teams left undefeated until this game, which secured the Tar Heels the no. 1 spot in the nation.
Duke's Shelden Williams (23), forward, reaches to block North Carolina forward Tyler Hansbrough's (50) basket in the match-up between the two rivals at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham on March 7, 2006. Much to the help of Hansbrough, who was recently named as the 2006 Atlantic Coast Conference Freshman of the Year, the Tar Heels were victorious over the Blue Devils with a final score of 83-76. Hansbrough's career-high of 27-points was a key component to North Carolina's win. 
North Carolina Coach Roy Williams yells at a referee after one of his players is fouled during the game against Boston College in Chapel Hill on January 25. The Tar Heels lost to the Eagles with a final score of 81-74.
Barbara Rodbell, a Holocaust survivor, tells stories on April 11, 2005 at UNC-CH, of her time in hiding in the Holland underground and how she used fake identification to outwit the Nazis. 
Tommy Wilcox's aide, Keshawna, talks with him about how one of his roommates was rude to him at the dinner table. She tells him that some people are "just that way and you have to ignore them." Wilcox is a 43-year-old man living with Autism at an assisted living community in Pittsboro, N.C. The timer that Wilcox wears around his neck is set before each task he must complete or place he must be. If Wilcox arrives on time after the timer goes off, he is rewarded with points that add up to money. At the end of the week, Wilcox often uses the money he has made to go to the movies.
Bairon Lopez, 11, kisses his mother's, Ariadne Chamorro, forehead before leaving to go back to school after his lunch break. The family lives on Robinson Crusoe Island in the Juan Fernandez archipelago of Chile. Lunch time is always family time for Chamorro, her husband and their children, who otherwise stay busy. Ariadne sells handcrafts she makes out of fish scales and goes to night school in hopes of getting her high school diploma. Most children on the island go to the mainland of Chile when it is time to begin high school. Ariadne and her husband, Luis Lopez, plan to send Bairon to a school in Valparaiso as they did with their older daughter.
Bastian Espindola, 4, poors water in a cup and throws it on the ground over and over for fun. Bastian lives in the small, ghost-like town of Toconao, in the Atcama Desert of Chile. Water is scarce there in the desert and some of the water that is available is contaminated with arsenic.
A young boy lies in the dirt after falling off of a sheep at the American Legion in King, N.C. on Feb. 26, 2006. The Legion, along with King Cowboy Church, hosts bull riding competitions on Saturday nights. During breaks from the buill riding, children are given the chance to ride sheep in a similar style.
Carlos Torres, a 50-year-old man living alone in the Atacama Desert of Chile near the Bolivian border, gathers water out of a small pond near his house. Torres will use the water to to drink, and cook and clean with, as no plumbing reaches the high altitude where he lives.
