Justifying my continuing neglect of this website:
Posted by Clare on February 15th, 2009My two TV News class projects so far… from December’s end-of-semester show:
and from my class’s February 6th show:
Goodbye to Two-Thousand-Great
Posted by Clare on December 31st, 2008
November
Posted by Clare on November 30th, 2008Shot video:
* at a design/fabrication studio and at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco
* at a prison in Ione
* from a zeppelin over the South Bay
Felt like a slobbering news hyena:
* at a suspended-driver’s-license police sting in Oakland
Ran:
* after a crowd of Cal students parading through Berkeley and chanting “O-BA-MA!” and “U-S-A!” on election night
Turned:
* 27 years old
Embalming fluid, doll parts, and toilet paper rolls
Posted by Clare on October 24th, 2008A recent story of mine, currently featured on the Oakland North homepage: City’s oddest supplies shop facing hard times too
Don’t miss the audio slide show down at the bottom. Multimedia, yeah!
Two years out
Posted by Clare on October 23rd, 2008I think I’m finally hitting the end of Peace Corps related anniversaries that I can legitimately use as excuses for blog posts. So here it is: Today marks two years since I returned to the U.S. after two years in Senegal.
The volunteer who replaced me is back in America (welcome home, Donna!), I haven’t even tried to call the village in almost a year… I wonder if Bandi’s still alive.
I was on a Peace Corps panel the other night. Four RPCVs talked about their environmental work. One guy showed horrific pictures of sea turtle slaughter, another had that edge in her voice that maybe only other volunteers recognize—a strained quality that comes from long periods of trying to deal constructively with rampant inefficiency, absurdity, and frustration. Or maybe I’m just projecting.
Though standing in front of an audience, giving my Peace Corps PowerPoint presentation, it was fun to feel kinda special again—and not in the J-school short bus way I’ve been feeling lately.
Which reminds me, the crazy-reporting-class website went live: Oakland North, which along with the other J200 class news sites has the entire faculty tickled pink. The students are more likely to be loudly cursing various computer programs.
I’m incredibly impressed by my classmates’ prolific, quality article output. And photos. And videos. And audio slide shows. Multimedia, baby.
Speaking of multimedia, here are the things which I have photographed but not uploaded yet:
- The August road trip to Colorado. Many hundreds of photos.
- Cory and Josh’s baby shower in Oregon at the start of October… for Gabriel Vyrle Owens, who was born Tuesday night! :)
- My recent move. Andrew and I moved into a house in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland—a great area, within stumbling distance of restaurants, stores, BART, and Leslie & Bryan.
- Various J-school photos and frame grabs.
And now to continue procrastination elsewhere.
From the Field: Close-up with the Sisters
Posted by Clare on October 6th, 2008One of the many hazards/perks of turning the Folsom Street Fair into a reporting assignment: preparing for an interview with two Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.