SND.ies Multimedia Competition
Last chance for you enter this year's SND.ies competition ... deadline is July 1st.

Multimedia | Make the convention center fall down!
"After months of careful preparation, crews from DH Griffin Wrecking Co. and Demolition Dynamics watched their handiwork bring down the old convention center at Trade and College Streets in uptown Charlotte."
by The Charlotte Observer's Gary O'Brien.

Yards From RFK, Miles From the Big Leagues

Photos by Preston Keres; Produced by SK and J.C. Crandall

An unlikely refuge
The first of a three part series from The Roanoke Times. Featuring audio, stills and video from Josh Meltzer.

Marantz PMD660 - Portable Compact Flash Recorder: "The Marantz PMD660 is a moderately priced, 2-channel, professional portable digital audio recorder, serving the broadcast and journalism markets, that uses inexpensive, and readily available, Compact Flash memory cards or Microdrives as the storage media of choice. It is powered by 4 'AA' batteries.

There are two major advantages to the PMD660 recording technology. First, it is basically shock resistant - there are no moving parts in the recording medium. Second, the computer integration process of data transfer, editing, and assemblage has been greatly simplified - the card may be removed and inserted directly into a computer with a like card reader, or the onboard USB port may be connected."

Does anyone have one of these yet? I'm looking for a hands-on review.

UPDATE: Thanks for all the opinions ... I got my hands on one at the paper today.

Boston.com - Emily's Story - News
Produced by Scott LaPierre, Boston.com

Adderley Brothers Shook Up the World of Jazz | theledger.com
Audio slide show (scoll down) from the The Ledger (Lakeland, FL). Produced by Grant Swertfeger.

Arduous 'Slog' for Afghan Girls
washingtonpost.com Video by: J.C. Crandall and Hunter Wilson
"On May 31, Brian Armstrong and a team of nine set off from Frostburg, Md., on a 10-day, 200-mile trek along the C&O Canal. The team hiked the distance without food or shelter to raise money for National Geographic's Afghan Girls Fund, a charity providing young women in Afghanistan with access to education."

The 12th Van Cliburn
Very deep site from Jen Friedberg of the Star-Telegram.

newsobserver.com | 2005 U.S. Open

I'm having fun again.

MediaStorm: Gathering Audio
Brian Storm's "Gathering Audio" was the starting point for my journey into multimedia.
There have been various incarnations of this document since 1997, here's the most recent.