Since the first post in December of 2006, there have been many ups and downs. Who could forget the hack and resurrection of 2008?

 

Certainly not me.

In recent months, I took time to reimagine the blog. I’m happy to report that I’ll be launching a new design with the help of the best WordPress theme developers around, GraphPaperPress. I’m also happy to announce a return to helpful tutorials, storyteller interviews and more curated multimedia goodness. Enjoy this latest round of inspirational stories and stay tuned for more updates.

Enjoy,

-koci

 

KLYNT

From the amazing folks who brought us Journey to the End of Coal, comes Klynt

About Klynt

Klynt is a new editing & publishing app dedicated to interactive storytellers. It was designed to help authors create immersive online content using the internet both as a distribution & creative space. With Klynt, authors can connect to today’s most popular media platforms and social networks to explore new narrative formats without writing a single line of code.

 

CNN PHOTOS

In the same vien as the venerable  Lens Blog and The Picture Show comes CNN Photos 

 

COWBIRD

From one of the most innovative multimedia storytellers of our time, Jonathan Harris and the creator of  We Feel Fine (One of my favorite interactives of all time) comes, COWBIRD

What is Cowbird?

Cowbird is a small community of storytellers, focused on a deeper, longer-lasting, more personal kind of storytelling than you’re likely to find anywhere else on the Web.

Cowbird allows you to keep a beautiful audio-visual diary of your life, and to collaborate with others in documenting the overarching “sagas” that shape our world today. Sagas are themes and events that touch millions of lives and shape the human story.

Our short-term goal is to pioneer a new form of participatory journalism, grounded in the simple human stories behind major news events. Our long-term goal is to build a public library of human experience, so the knowledge and wisdom we accumulate as individuals may live on as part of the the commons, available for this and future generations to look to for guidance.

 

 

ONCE

Once is a magazine of photo stories exclusively for iPad. It’s an intuitive, surprising, and sharable magazine of the world’s best photography. Once publishes both long-form stories and freshly reported news, often timely, always in depth. It’s a classic format reimagined for the tablet age.

Along with the British Journal of Photography, ONCE has become a welcomed addition to my iPad homescreen. It’s simple and straight forward and puts the images at the forefront, not the bells and whistles of the iPad, beautiful!

 

CAMERABAG.TV

‎’To Celebrate Image-Makers and to Highlight The Beauty and Style of the Camera’ to raise the profile of emerging photographers, while also providing an intimate glimpse of the workspaces and trade tools of the masters

The still photographer in me, loved the photographic vignettes of Camerabag.tv

 

HANDMADE PORTRAITS

These often beautifully produced video stories from the ETSY blog entitled Handmade Portraits are ‘undiscovered gems’ I’m sure you’ll enjoy.

 

 CAPITALISM MEETS COMMUNISM

From the incomparable Dai Sugano, a Visual Essay Capitalism meets Communism not to be missed IMHO from my former employeer the San Jose Mercury News.

 

OPED-DOCS

Who’d have thunk it? Stellar video storytelling in the OPINION section of the NYTIMES, some good stuff, a bit uneven, but some real gems like El Wingador from filmaker Errol Morris.

 

UWHARRIES

 

In the eighth annual Carolina Photojournalism Workshop, UNC students found fascinating characters with wonderful tales to tell. Stories of survival and of death, of caring and family. And of fun — in fishing and four wheeling, movies and cliff jumping. Settle in and enjoy Finding the Uwharries.

The Uwharrie Mountains in south central North Carolina are old — very old. They are really more like hills, worn down by passing millennia. But cradled within these ancient hills is a land of forests and lakes, with people whose lives are as rich as the soil they live on. These are their stories.

 

 

AMERICAN DREAM X

In 2011, as the country reawakens from the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression, University of North Carolina photojournalism students searched their communities for signs of dreams deferred. They tried to define a concept ingrained in every American but unobtainable for most. They came back with photographic essays exploring everything from re-imagined gender roles to resegregation of public schools, videos investigating crack addiction, immigration and the impacts of Obama-Care, and a non-traditional documentary project exploring the newest American Dream – immortality.

 

 

PRIMARY MOMENTS

A series of video snapshots from the campaign trail, The Boston Globe.

 

 NURU PROJECT

In October2011,Nuru Project launched the first online photography store of its kind,allowing customers to
buy photojournalism prints online while supporting non-profits and storytellers.

 

MEDIASTORM

I’ve been enjoying the great depth provided in the MediaStorm Online Training, especially the Making of A Thousand More. Almost 2 hours of learning, in just this Making of  piece, brilliant stuff.