Multimedia journalism: The true cost of gas

Yet another example of systems-oriented storytelling combining the power of investigative reporting with animation. This comes from the Center of Investigative Reporting, a fantastic cauldron of muckraking. Back in the old days when print was king, I interned there while I was in college. They work hard trying to protect the public interest, so your support is greatly needed.

Imagine, it’s his 70th b-day

You’ll probably see this cross-posted everywhere, but in honor of John Lennon’s 70th b-day I’d like share my favorite video about a specific moment of his life. The audio is from an interview conducted in 1969 by 14-year-old Beatle fanatic Jerry Levitan, who snuck into Lennon’s hotel room to chat with him. This animation, “I Met the Walrus,” beautifully captures the conversation.

Ecomedia that I can believe in



Circular Painting from Fly on the Wall on Vimeo.

I’m super excited about this new kind of “grafimation” (hmm, I just made that up)– animated graf art. This piece in particular demonstrates a new kind of ecological art paradigm because as a hybrid of human technology and the natural process of eco-insired creativity, we discover insights about our human-nature relations that a static painting could not reveal. The video does something only technology can do (stop-frame animation) to reveal creative patterning by an artistic community of practice to highlight the evolving and ephemeral-like dynamic of human-nature relations (OK, I know.. too many words in a sentence but I’m too tired to rewrite it). Plus it’s just really cool. It was done for the Discovery Channel (South Africa), a media entity I’m less than enthralled with because a lot of their programming is in many ways anti-nature (despite the eco-friendly brand they have built–more on that later if time permits).

Via Wooster.