Time Lapse: The Making of Darkness Visible Afghanistan

In 2011, along with Leandro Badalotti and Brian Storm, I produced Seamus Murphy’s A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan. It remains the largest, most complex project I’ve ever tackled. Seamus began work in Afghanistan in 1994. By 2010, he had made 14 trips to the country, producing more than 35,000 images and recording 25-plus hours of video interviews. Leandro and I spent the better part of 4 months organizing the vast amount of material. To document our editing progress, I wrote a Python script that generated a jpeg screen grab every five minutes. The result is a time lapse that begins on June 6 and ends November 8, 111 weekdays later. There are approximately 4,300 images in total: one frame for every five minutes of work. You’ll see the entire project take shape, from radio cuts to final output. And if you’d like to learn more about our editing methodology, please join Tim McLaughlin…

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MediaStorm Welcomes Fall Intern Julia Wall

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.

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MediaStorm Welcomes Fall Intern Alessandra Villaamil

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).

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AI-AP Motion Art Awards Opens Call for Entries

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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