December 2008
1 post
Here's the final →
November 2008
3 posts
Our video assignment →
Take a look at our final skeleton. →
We’re going to spruce it up and make it look more interesting once we start adding the photos, audio and video.
News and New Media midterm →
This is my midterm project for News and New Media, about the variety of coffee shops available to Evanston residents. See my Depot account for a source list.
October 2008
11 posts
Flash homework -- rollover graphic →
I adapted this graphic from a magazine article I wrote this summer for Page Six Magazine. The piece was about Lucky Strike Lanes, a luxury bowling alley that recently opened in New York City. Originally there were talks of annotating the picture that we were going to use with the article, but in the end we just went with the picture and the piece. Here, I annotated one of the pictures with some...
Flash homework -- midterm skeleton →
Even though I don’t have to put in pictures or text yet, I did have to put in a lot more frames. But it was SO much easier! It only took about an hour and a half (as opposed to, ahem, five last Saturday). Hooray!
Flash homework -- photo gallery →
Flash homework -- adorable picture! →
Um, fine with me!
An email my friend forwarded me today. Simply brilliant:
MESSAGE FROM QUEEN ELIZABETH To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective...
And this one. →
It *almost* made me want to run out and have babies! Then I remembered the getting fat part, and the giving birth part, and the being up all night part, and the hormones going haywire part. And then I changed my mind.
I'm newly obsessed with blogs based on pictures.... →
A handy guide for job-hunting. →
This will surely renew the “Sweetie, why didn’t you go to law school?” talks with my parents.
My first Flash assignment →
Yeah, I know it’s completely lame, but learning the Internet is hard, guys! Especially for technology-challenged, print-oriented people like myself.
I almost forgot How to Lose Friends and Alienate...
That totally and completely makes up for being stuck on the El this morning for 40 minutes between Armitage and Sedgwick!
September 2008
8 posts
I just got an invitation from a PR person to have...
scuttledotcom (12:58:27 AM): hahah you got a tumblr you are such a hipster
Bowling alleys! →
My last party reporting clip for a while →
“I mean, cut into the news! Don’t cut into Gossip Girl!”
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Miriam, tonight, bemoaning the White Sox game that caused Gossip Girl to start late.
Jumping on the bandwagon
In journalism, the term “TK” means “to come” (why we use a K instead of a C, I’ll never know). The TK refers to anything that is unknown — facts and details that need to be filled in, quotes that need to be added, what have you. I’ve become so enamored of this phrase that I, journalism nerd that I am, have taken it up in my everyday language: “Happy...
This weather perfectly fits my mood.