Zillion in the City

Lunstrum Project Part I

This is a video I made on a new art gallery in Buffalo, NY.

Day With a Journalist

This past month, I had the pleasure of spending the day with reporter and assistant news director Eileen Buckley. Buckley works for WBFO, a National Public Radio affiliate in Buffalo, NY. She both reports and produces feature length stories and hard news pieces for the radio programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. In addition to producing and reporting, Buckley has also served as a news anchor, and worked in public affairs programming and public relations.

Buckley is a graduate of Medaille College in Western NY where she was a communications major. She started her career in radio in with WBFO in 1984 under news director Mark Scott. (Journalism students, take note-internships are way important!) Buckley then went on to work for various other radio stations in Buffalo and Albany. She also worked briefly in public relations.

Buckley has won numerous awards throughout her 23 year career in radio. In 1992, she was awarded two team coverage awards from the Associated Press for her reporting work on the "I-90 Steel Coil Crash" and the "Niagara Falls Tour Helicopter Crash." In 2003, she won first place in the Arts Athens Award for General Excellence of Individual Reporting for her news coverage of the "Lackawanna Six." Buckley's "Lackawanna Six" story was also broadcast across the country on National Public Radio.

Radio journalists like Buckley usually have very exciting, intellectually-stimulating

careers. The journalism field, however, is well-known for its tough financial rewards, which may be especially hard in our fragile economy; broadcast reporters usually start out with a yearly salary of $12,000 and may eventually earn up to around $30,000-40,000 a year.

What Buckley enjoys most about her job as a journalist is getting to meet all different kinds of people; while she has met and interviewed important public figures such as Hillary Clinton, Buckley maintains that she enjoys interviewing people from all walks of life; anybody may have an interesting story to tell.

Natasha Richardson has Died

Famed British actress Natasha Richardson has died from a brain injury she sustained in a skiing accident. Richardson was taking ski lessons when she fell on a beginner slope, and began to experience severe head pains afterwards. She was declared braindead and was kept on life support so her family could pay their final respects.

For more on this story, go to:http://http//www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1162595/Natasha-Richardson-kept-alive-life-support-relatives-say-final-farewells.html

Burchfield Penney Art Museum

This is a video I made about the new Burchfield Penney Art museum, which had its grand opening in Buffalo this past winter.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_2VHi0rSSU

Rihanna and Chris Brown

I'm sure that we all know about the Rihanna/Chris Brown scandal. 19 year old R&B singer Brown is now being charged with two felony charges of assult likely to cause bodily injury and making criminal threats. He can face up to four years in jail if convicted. The photo pictured here is of Rihanna. After all this, Rihanna has decided to take Chris back. Why Rihanna? It is in my personal opinion that if someone hits you once, they WILL hit you again. I guess we'll all have to wait and see.

Check out this link for more information on the Rihanna/Chris Brown scandal: http://http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-03-09-brown-rihanna-violence_N.htm