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Last week a reporter working on a story about the past and future of Spokane’s downtown YMCA building wandered over to my desk. He wanted to do an online timeline to accompany it. I said sure. (Short attention span? Check out my new Showroom page to see the finished product.)
I had planned to use Dipity, [...]

Last week I found the time and inspiration to produce a new video. The National Veterans Wheelchair Games were coming to Spokane, and I decided I’d find an angle.
Here’s where media relations people are your friends. At the official games site, somebody had helpfully prepared bios of Spokane-area athletes who would be competing.
A lot of [...]

I guess it was the itch to shoot something fun that made me volunteer to work Saturday. In exchange I got a chance to cover the demolition of a duplex that had been cramping the style of a historic mansion in my neighborhood.
The video is below. Here’s a link to Shawn Vestal’s story on the [...]

Last week I worked with reporter Mike Prager to put together a slideshow on Spokane’s Abraham Lincoln Statue. The news peg was Lincoln’s bicentennial, which Spokane will be observing with gusto this week.
We had a number of historical photos, and photographer Jesse Tinsley had recently shot the statue from several angles for a graphic.
I’ve made [...]

I grabbed my video gear and headed out to cover breaking news for the first time in ages today. Here’s the result.

For the story, go here.
This was fun. As the footage shows, I was able to get close into the fire initially — just outside the parking lot gate. Officials then booted us back 500 [...]