…time for the annual(?) blog update. What I’ve been doing: claremajor.com feastandsacrifice.com And some of this.

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(I finished my thesis film, I graduated, I am now available for all your freelance video shooting and editing needs.) My favorite project from this past year—brought to you by Maggie Fazeli Fard: (I shot it—while managing not to puke over the side of the boat.)

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I’ve never been a print journalist, so I haven’t known the thrill of an A1 byline. But in the past week I’ve had two videos on the New York Times homepage, and I’m pretty sure I took enough screenshots to make up for all those missed years of newspaper clippings. Reporter Trymaine Lee and I [...]

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The first video I edited at the Times is now online on the NYT site here—and also on Nicholas Kristof’s YouTube channel (and, at the moment, highlighted on the YouTube homepage as part of the Reporters’ Center!): Also, I was an assistant editor on this piece.

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Per Leslie’s request, here’s some blog CPR. I’m in New York, interning here for the summer: End Times www.thedailyshow.com On my first day I and another intern went out to shoot footage of gyro cones (the big rotating things of meat that chawarma innards are shaved off of), then I burned some DVDs. The next [...]

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At Alba’s parents’ very lovely house in Girona: (explanation: I’m here on a J-school travel grant shooting a story on Senegalese immigrants in Spain—I met up with a guy and two kids from my Peace Corps host village. My Pulaar is being stretched to new limits!)

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Shot 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 [...]

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