XAVIER MASCAREÑAS' BLOG — Photos and multimedia I’m working on or have already finished. Recent work is from The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News,The (Farmington, N.M.) Daily Times. Older work is from the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman and the (University of) New Mexico Daily Lobo. I'll also try and keep notes on stuff I work on from time to time. Thanks for stopping by, and please say hi. Xavier
here’s what one of the widgets from that site looks like. it’s easy to adjust the code to make it bigger, but when i did that it made the ‘newer’ link on the left drop a letter. can’t have a typo on my blog (tongue in cheek — there are probably several here i haven’t even seen). i ended up putting the video separately embedded on my portfolio page (xmphotos.com/Portfolio.html). let me know which presentation you like better.
i just saw a post where someone recommended Vimeo.com to post HD videos…and it works! no frame rate issues, or overly-compressed YouTube looking clips. seems like a home version brightcove (more or less). let’s just see if it stays free. updates on week two from F-town to come. update: here’s links to my new Vimeo account, where i will be embedding from: http://www.vimeo.com/xm
it’s been a lot different working in a smaller paper for an internship. i see why people in journalism recommend working in smaller papers at the beginning of your career — it teaches you a lot about the process from budget to print, since you need to participate more in it. i have gained a lot of respect for Lindsay and Lucas, and the job they do. they pretty much, between two people, keep the paper filled with great images.
okay. here’s some work from the first week.
Tanja Pine exits Something Special Bakery and Tea Room on Wednesday as construction crews work on a water line on Auburn Avenue. Pine, a regular patron of the Something Special, said the road work made it difficult to access the parking lot of the business.
Callan Warren, 16 months old, helps his mother Cheromee Warren, 20, water the flowers in front of their house on 18th Street on Sunday. She stays home with him, and said he always follows her when she does chores around the house.
GloJean Todacheene, who serves on the Navajo Tribal Council and the San Juan County Commission, celebrates the ground breaking of the Navajo Nation Municipal Pipeline on Thursday with N.M. Interstate Stream Comission Chairman Jim Dunlap.
John Bautista, 41, watches as his cousin Aurelio Marquez, 36, helps him change the front-brakes on his Jeep Wagoneer on Sunday in front of Bautista’s home on 18th Street. Bautista called the Jeep his “rig truck,” because he uses it to pick up drilling crew members and drive out to well-sites for his job as an assistant driller with Aztec Wells.
Pilot Greg Shelton moves his plane to a hangar at the Four Corners Regional Airport on Friday after a fligh with wingwalker Ashley Battles.
Two Nanchang airplanes from the Formation Flying Team, led by Scott A. Andrews, fly over Farmington on Friday during a pre-show session.
Rob Le Gal, 22, talks with a friend after listening to Ashley Battles, 25, talk about how she got started as a wingwalker.
Wingwalker Ashley Battles.rests on pilot Greg Shelton’s plane at the Four Corners Regional Airport on Friday after a flight where she rehearsed her performance for the following day.
Piedra Vista’s Shane Woodsen, left, tries to make contact with the ball over Rehoboth’s Isaiah Baca and David Hekman during Piedra Vista’s 3-2 loss Thursday at home. Piedra Vista’s Pablo Quintana is behind them.
Piedra Vista’s goalkeeper Andre Romero reacts after Rehoboth midfielder Jeremy Rich scored the winning penalty kick to beat them 3-2 on Thursday at Piedra Vista.
i was going to embed the video player here, but it was bogging down the page a bit too much. soooo, Please check it out here (found a site called Vimeo.com that lets you do much better quality than YouTube !)
never had a chess pie before, but damn they’re good.
the multimedia training with Val Hoeppner through the Chips Quinn Scholar’s program was intense — one week of working and learning 8 a.m. to 10 to 11 p.m., but it was well worth it.
thanks to Meredith Rodriguez, my teammate and co-videoer, who kept her cool while we had to ingest video twice while on deadline due to a timecode flub.
also to Rachelle Gines and Charles Pulliam, my teammates from the day before who worked on this video: CLICK HERE, and go to the sixth video in player, which was about photos from Hurricane Katrina at the Parthenon in Nashville. a challenging place to film, and a little rough ending, but a great effort from everybody.
if there’s time to check out all the videos, do it. the first video in the first link’s player, ‘The River,’ is especially touching. it’s all really impressive, especially considering most everyone came in with no video experience. Val does an amazing job in the classroom.
much thanks to everyone else involved with the instruction too, Quincy and Ann, and the Freedom Forum staff coordinating everything with the Diversity Institute. enjoy
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GloJean Todacheene, who serves on the Navajo Tribal Council and the San Juan County Commission, celebrates the ground breaking of the Navajo Nation Municipal Pipeline on Thursday with N.M. Interstate Stream Comission Chairman Jim Dunlap.
John Bautista, 41, watches as his cousin Aurelio Marquez, 36, helps him change the front-brakes on his Jeep Wagoneer on Sunday in front of Bautista’s home on 18th Street. Bautista called the Jeep his “rig truck,” because he uses it to pick up drilling crew members and drive out to well-sites for his job as an assistant driller with Aztec Wells.
Two Nanchang airplanes from the Formation Flying Team, led by Scott A. Andrews, fly over Farmington on Friday during a pre-show session.
Rob Le Gal, 22, talks with a friend after listening to Ashley Battles, 25, talk about how she got started as a wingwalker.
Wingwalker Ashley Battles.rests on pilot Greg Shelton’s plane at the Four Corners Regional Airport on Friday after a flight where she rehearsed her performance for the following day.
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