yesterday at sunset. it is an amazing park.

it’s a weird thing losing. it makes my stomach feel bad even though i play absolutely no role in the outcome. i want it so bad, but i can do nothing to influence it. it’s fucking excruciating.

i imagine it’s not necessary to remind all my friends what time of year it is again. except my friends who aren’t into sports. in which case it’s not really pertinent to remind them whatsoever. but i digress.

i’m sure down in the sweet country known as carolina, the sun has been shining bright and the birds have been singing beautifully. all this while tyler hansbrough rains down dunks on doods skulls. aka the sickness. aka the sikness.

have to admit. i’m a little disappointed. couldn’t find an audio slideshow – or even any photos for that matter – on the unc newspaper website dailytarheel.com. lizame. i didn’t find anything i wanted on google images either. in the end i went to newsandobserver.com. so way to go rob.

i’m really looking forward to the game against gonzaga tonight. especially cuz i have a friend who really likes gonzaga. i mean, he really really likes gonzaga. everybody knows what i’m saying. like he sits home and watches gonzaga in his own house instead of going to a bar because he’ll be in a bad mood if they lose. i don’t even know if he went to gonzaga. it doesn’t even matter. /rant

yesterday i was spent some time checking out the latest student work from the eddie adams workshop. there are some really nice pieces here, and i’m always happy to see different takes on the audio slideshow.

for those of you who are unfamiliar with eddie adams:

The Eddie Adams Workshop is an intense four-day gathering of the top professionals in photojournalism, along with 100 carefully selected students. The Workshop’s purpose is to create a forum in which an exchange of ideas, techniques, and philosophies can be shared between both established members and newcomers of the profession of picture journalism. The Workshop is tuition-free, and the 100 students are chosen based on the merit of their portfolios. 2006 will mark the 19th year of the Eddie Adams Workshop.

while there are some shortcomings apparent in the pieces, please keep in mind that these projects were put together over the course of a weekend. for the most part they’re full of good photographs, nice audio and coherent stories. with these kinds of time restraints, this kind of final product should be applauded.

congratulations are in order for several of my friends who attended this most recent eddie adams including colin hicks, jay heinz, whitney shefte, rich beckman, tom kennedy, leah latella and brandon smith. rock out to multimedia students.

the pictures are clickable, too. just a little F Y for ur I.

so i realize that it must seem like i’m an inconsistent blogger…

i am.

but i try not to be. it’s just that i’ve been busy as a mo lately working on these elections. they were exciting. it’s always exciting as a journo when there is big news. and this was the best kind. live big news. and i got to cover it. it was the sweetness.

this is the graphic that i developed during this period. i’m happy with how it turned out. it’s an interesting tool to use. the comparisons are really quite startling in some instances (as the image above shows). you can compare the 2006 Senate election outcomes side-by-side with other demographics such as median income as well as previous election results. all states that held a senate election are available.