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PandaDate.com Launches

May 1, 2007 – 2:46 pm

On the Web: PandaDate.com Skills: Flash 8, ActionScript 2, XML Because of renewed interest in panda breeding surrounding the artificial insemination of our female giant panda, the web team at the National Zoo asked me to take the “PandaDate.com” game I built in the Science Station kiosks and turn it into a real Web site. [...]

By Josh | Posted in All, Asia Trail, Flash, Web / Multimedia Development | Also tagged National Zoo, Smithsonian | Comments (0)

“Acting On What You Know” Video

March 26, 2007 – 7:48 pm

Skills: Videography, Final Cut Pro, Flash 8 I shot, edited and co-wrote the “Acting On What You Know” video for the Think Tank exhibit at the National Zoo. I did the simple animations in Flash with illustrations done by a National Zoo designer. Think Tank is an exhibit about cognition in primates. A major feature [...]

By Josh | Posted in All, Main Page, Video | Also tagged National Zoo, Primates, Video | Comments (0)

Capital City Market Interactive

March 22, 2007 – 7:36 pm

On the Web: Capital City Market Skills: Flash 8, ActionScript 2, XML, Final Cut Pro, Videography Also known as the Florida Avenue Market, Capital City Market has been the wholesale center of the city for over 75 years. Between grimy warehouses, retail stores hide and thrive. I made this Flash/XML-based interactive for a graduate journalism [...]

By Josh | Posted in All, Audio, Flash, Main Page, Video, Web / Multimedia Development | Also tagged American University, Capital City Market, Urban, Washington D.C. | Comments (0)

Science Station Kiosks

October 15, 2006 – 2:01 pm

Skills: Flash 8, ActionScript 2, XML, Final Cut Pro, Project Management, Multimedia Storytelling Total Number of Kiosks: 2 The Science Stations are two 32” touch screen kiosks adjacent to the indoor Giant Panda viewing at the National Zoo. The huge, vertically mounted screens invite visitors behind the scenes with three Giant Panda-based stories of Zoo [...]

By Josh | Posted in All, Asia Trail, Flash, Main Page, Video | Also tagged National Zoo, Pandas, Smithsonian, Video | Comments (0)

The End Is Mir

May 23, 2001 – 9:56 am

By Josh | Posted in All, Flash, MySQL, PHP, Web / Multimedia Development | Also tagged MySQL, PHP, UNC | Comments (0)

Favorite projects

Decision Stations

The two banks of "Decision Station" kiosks on the Asia Trail exhibit at the Smithsonian National Zoo illustrate a very import message: conservation is hard. More

Flight Delay Calculator

Want to know the best times to fly in and out of Las Vegas? How about which airlines and cities tend to have the fewest delays? Conceived on a Friday, a geek, a designer and a computer-assisted reporter visualized FAA data for Sunday publication. View interactive

CityLab

CityLab is a proof-of-concept data exploration site I built in Django that allows users to compare 65 Bay Area cities using a mix of demographic and esoteric data. Visit site

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