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MediaStorm Welcomes Fall Intern Julia Wall

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:August 5, 2013

MediaStorm is excited to welcome Julia Wall to our team as our Fall 2013 production intern. Julia Wall is a visual journalist from Wilmington, North Carolina. She recently graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree in photojournalism. Julia has been exploring visual journalism and documentary storytelling for the past 3 years. During her time at UNC Chapel Hill she worked on award winning projects such as Living Galapagos and Port City Stories. She won second place in the 2013 Hearst Multimedia National Championship in San Francisco. In the summer of 2012 she was a photography intern at The Durham Herald-Sun, and she is currently a video intern at the Los Angeles Times. Her videos and photographs can be viewed at www.juliawallphoto.com.

MediaStorm Welcomes Fall Intern Alessandra Villaamil

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:August 5, 2013

MediaStorm is excited to welcome Alessandra Villaamil to our team as our Fall 2013 development intern. Alessandra Villaamil is an interaction designer and journalist. She holds a Master's degree in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University and a Bachelor of Science in Visual Journalism and French Literature from the University of Miami. Alessandra uses emerging technology to leverage multimedia and create new platforms to engage with content. As a journalist, she has documented green technology and sustainability in the Czech Republic, the plight of undocumented Haitian migrant women in the Dominican Republic and intellectually disabled athletes at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Greece and the Special Olympics Global Congress in Morocco. Her work has brought her to the SXSW Interactive Awards (2013), Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition (2013), the NYC Resistor Interactive Show (2012), the United Nations Association Film Festival (2010) and the Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival (2010).

AI-AP Motion Art Awards Opens Call for Entries

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:August 5, 2013

American Illustration-American Photography (AI-AP), the leading juried annuals in North America, presents the second International Motion Art Awards (IMAA) celebrating photographers, illustrators and designers who make their work move in all media.

Entries of the year’s best photography, illustration, animation and design in motion can be submitted for award consideration through August 30, 2013.

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Worth Clicking: MediaStorm Links Roundup

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:August 2, 2013

All links are hand-picked by the MediaStorm staff for your enjoyment this weekend. Cheers! The best free fonts, from vintage-inspired typefaces to slap-you-in-the-face slab serifs. [Creative Bloq] Every semester on the first day of class, Spike Lee, accomplished director and NYU professor, distributes a list of essential movies he considers "the greatest films ever made. " [Gawker] Here are my 20 things 20-Year-Olds don’t get. [Forbes] A short film in paper by Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas. [Vimeo] December marks the centennial of the first flight, but don't expect a celebration here, or anywhere else in Brazil, for that matter. [New York Times] Watching online video once meant staring passively at a screen, but now that audience engagement is the goal, interactive video is gaining popularity and newsrooms are responding. [IJNet] Hal Lasko, better known as Grandpa, worked as a graphic artist back when everything was done by hand. Now, Grandpa spends…

Worth Watching #124: What is neorealism?

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:August 2, 2013

Two visions of the same movie. One by the director of The Bicycle Thieves. One by the producer of Gone With the Wind. - Eric Maierson What is neorealism? from kogonada on Vimeo. Also see the accompanying essays: Video essay: What is neorealism? Indiscretion of an American Wife & Terminal Station "Every cut is a form of judgment, whether it takes place on the set or in the editing room. A cut reveals what matters and what doesn’t. It delineates the essential from the non-essential. To examine the cuts of a filmmaker is to uncover an approach to cinema." See what else we think is Worth Watching.