Vernetta Cockerham-Ellerbee peeled back the curtain of her bedroom window and saw the man she once loved enough to marry. Hunched over in a field across the street, Richard Ellerbee toiled, shoveling clumps of dirt over his shoulder. She glanced past him to the nearby police station in this rural Piedmont town of 2,000. She [...]

Not really, keep it up! But you guys over there are keeping me busy and inspired. Thank you. In Their Own Words Seven families across Illinois with incomes below the federal poverty line opened their lives to the Tribune this year. They are emblematic of groups traditionally at risk for hardship, but their stories are [...]

Have you been working on a project for some time now? Getting tired or bored with it? Then this injection of photographic inspiration is for you. Thirteen years ago Chicago Tribune Photographer Scott Strazzante began visiting the Cagwin family farm. I’ll say no more, because you have to see the results of this diptych series. [...]

The Collage Tool that I blogged about and used is now open for early beta use. VUVOX is eager to get feedback from photojournalists and multimedia designers – it’s a fantastic tool. Enjoy. visit: www.vuvox.com/collage/home to begin to create your own.

Registration is now open, check it out.

Rape of a Nation by Marcus Bleasdale The Democratic Republic of Congo is home to the deadliest war in the world today. An estimated 5.4 million people have died since 1998. These deaths are byproducts of a collapsed healthcare system and a devastated economy. See the project at http://mediastorm.org/0022.htm [ratings]

MMS member Kim Komenich put together some interesting notes from his visit to MacWorld last week. Gear heads will love it.

Raleigh News and Observer’s resident bad asses Jason Arthurs, Shawn Rocco, Ethan Hyman and Travis Long all had a little something to do with the promo for their most ambitious multimedia project yet: 8 bands, 12 videos and a multimedia interface light years beyond anything they’ve ever tried to pull off. According to Arthurs, if [...]

More than 70, photographers, multimedia journalists and picture editors, joined a faculty and staff from around the country in Danville, Ky to make the 2007 Mountain Workshop the largest in its 32-year history. And the results are fantastic, check it out. enjoy, -r

I’ve blogged these before, but I was recently reminded of their power, by a very del.icio.us friend who goes by the name cophotog, who said, His four part series is the most important video about storytelling that you’ll watch in 2008. So true! Here is part one, and here’s a link to the rest on [...]

I have a new hero, Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk! I’m speechless and i think you’ll be too! Twenty days. Twenty thousand still images. A single message. Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk captures the issue of global warming in a video created entirely by using still images. [ratings]

I came across this very important site that offers grants to working photographers worldwide covering the aftermath of conflict. The Aftermath Project is a non-profit organization committed to telling the other half of the story of conflict — the story of what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives [...]

More props to Sean and Katy, who now work at the LATIMES, LAT is lucky to have these two passionate journalists and what a project! -r

I wish i could name the rest of the crew at the Sun that are responsible in anyway for the new website, because I love it, especially the multimedia section, way to go Zach! It’s a must see. -r

Multimedia Journal will show you how to tap into your creativity by guiding you through a variety of activities that will prod your imagination so you can capture new ideas for multimedia storytelling. The exercises are intended to jump-start your creative energy. This book is for Multimedia Journalists. Square 7×7 inches (18×18 cm) 60 pages [...]