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I made this video for my Digital Newsgatherig class! It was filmed at the Hotsy Totsy bar in Albany, CA and features the shuffleboard talents of Levi Sheats.

Chris Yoder is in his third year at UC Berkeley, and reports for the student newspaper, The Daily Californian. On September 30, 2013, he was at school to report on a power outage. There was an explosion on campus, and his story changed drastically.

I found Chris through Twitter, and he told me his story of what happened that night.

Victor Silvestri is a 25 year-old student at the Academy of Art, studying film editing. He is originally from New Jersey, and has been in living in West Portal for the last three years. 

I met Victor when we were roommates two years ago. Strange things tend to happen to him, and on one night when we were going to meet for a drink, he called and said he was going to be late because "something crazy had just happened."

As an aspiring journalist, I read a lot of news. One of the most interesting articles I've come across lately is this, a man who rigged some rafts to his bike and pedaled from Oakland to San Francisco across the bay. (I lack the engineering skills to do the same thing, but if there's another BART strike next month I might resort to swimming.)

Also, as someone who's recently started to use and appreciate Twitter, I found this article interesting, because it shows what tweets can potentially reveal about a place or how data collected from Twitter can be wrong or taken out of context. 

One of the coolest things I've heard this week is a stream of my favorite band's new album, Dr. Dog's "B-Room."

And finally, this is a "self portrait" I took for a photojournalism class this summer: