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I briefly did some work for a startup in Columbus called Brand Thunder. They design customized browsers. I remember I used to download and install browser themes (or skins as we called them back then) in 1999-’00. It’s an interesting business model. The Bing search engine is built into the browser. Right now they design for Internet Explorer, Firefox and soon Chrome. I’m mostly doing generic browsers and anything else little that they need done.
Cheating Politicians Software: Adobe PhotoShop Description: I created this graphic for an intro of a slideshow I had to do at MSN.com on Politicians who cheat on their…
I was contacted by WOUB about a documentary project we did for class on the DuPont C8 contamination in the Ohio River. The class was divided into teams for our final project and my team was made up of myself, Mike Burden, Lauren Malazia and Trevor Carmick. This class was actually in the T-Comm Department (Telecommunications) and all three of my teammates were T-Comm undergrad students in the film sequence. The subject was actually my idea and I did all the research and found all of the subjects for our documentary, as well as serving as the interviewer. I did not do a lot of work behind the camera for this project, but I did much of the editing in Final Cut Pro and all of the LiveType work.
This quirky news slideshow request was for MSN and ran on the site for Friday the 13th. It was about bad luck. I typically worked in vignettes, which the requesting editor liked.
This slideshow request was from MSN.com and ran on the site the day Ted Kennedy died. It was one of many requests pertaining to the Kennedy family.
This slideshow request was from MSN.com and ran on the site the day Ted Kennedy died. It was one of many requests pertaining to the Kennedy family.
This quirky news slideshow request was for MSN and ran on the site just before April 1. It was about April Fool’s Pranks and was challenging in that I had to find specific things that were a bit odd. It turned out pretty good considering, though. The editor who made the request was very happy.
This TV-related slideshow request was for MSN and ran on the site around the time Barack Obama was inaugurated the first time. There were many related sideshows around that time.
The following links are some slideshows and stories from my work at Microsoft during the year I was there. All of these projects ran on MSN.com. For some of these, I did the photo research only and for some, I did the creative photoshop work. The subjects, type of work and departments that requested the work varies. Many of my online projects were promoted on the homepage of MSN.com and gained more than 3 million hits when launched.
This entertainment slideshow request was for MSN and ran on the site in late 2008. It was about the ‘Last Girl Standing’ in horror movies and was challenging in that a lot of the photos were movie stills and not high-res quality in some cases because they were taken from older movies. This was promoted on the MSN home page and received more than 3 million hits.
This was a photo project that required a variety of images about the Top Internet Searches for 2008, broken down by month. They were mostly news stories and images from the year, but some were oddity images or things that were trending.
I came up with the idea for our final project, so I was the Director and Producer. I did all the research and found all of the subjects for our project. I had three other people on the team. Our documentary was about Dupont leaking a chemical called C8 into the Ohio River in Southeast Ohio.