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New homicides map

We just launched this interactive map with details about 2,294 homicides that occurred in D.C. between 2000 and 2011. You can find the killings in your neighborhood, follow the trends over time, and learn how the victims died and what happened to their cases.

Key findings featured in the graphic:
Click the headline to jump straight to that view in the map.

Homicides in D.C. are down 55 percent since 2000
The number of homicides in the District fell last year to 108, a 49-year low. Despite the decline, homicide continues to be a tough crime to solve and prosecute in the city.

30 percent of homicides in D.C. led to convictions for murder or manslaughter
Of the 2,294 homicides that occurred in the District of Columbia between 2000 and 2011, 694 led to convictions for murder or manslaughter. At least 189 cases ended with administrative closures.

Motives: Drug killings down 84 percent
The most common motives for homicide in D.C. are arguments, drugs and retaliation. About 2 percent are classified as gang-related. Homicides involving drugs have decreased about 84 percent since 2000. Drug-related homicides accounted for eight of the city’s killings last year, compared with 49 in 2000.

Most dangerous age: 24 percent of those killed were in their early 20s
More than half of the District’s homicide victims between 2000 and 2011 were between the ages of 15 and 29. About 93 percent of those victims were male, and 94 percent were African American.

October 15, 2012 Maps, , , , , , , , , Read more >

Catching up on 2012

I’ve been completely delinquent about posting here. I will try to do better, and in the meantime, here is a selection of work from the first part of the year (am going to follow this up with some breakout posts on specific projects).

What’s at stake on Super Tuesday?
Going way back to Super Tuesday, we published this really fun motion graphic featuring Chris Cillizza and the delegate mountain that Todd Lindeman and Sisi Wei built. I worked on storyboarding it with the team, a well as helping in the studio (led by AJ Chavar and Sohail Al-Jamea) and with building out the page. The project was really fun and newsy, and a great job especially by animator Sohail, and of course Chris Cillizza.

super tuesday

Rescue and Recovery
This is a really powerful piece looking at Virginia Tech five years after the massacre, through the lens of an iconic image of survivor Kevin Sterne. I did design, development, audio and wrote one of the segments of the piece. I love the simplicity and amazing story. Again, an awesome team effort with work from Ben de la Cruz, Bill O’Leary, Josh du Lac and others:

VA tech five years later

Repairing the Washington Monument
This piece about the damage to the national icon just came out last week — featuring a 3-D model by Alberto Cuadra, and reporting by Cristina Rivero. Kathryn Faulkner, the summer intern in graphics, did most of the heavy lifting on the interactive side, with me in an editing role and pitching in to help with some of the tricky parts, like the rotating model. The piece turned out beautifully:

washington monument damage

August 26, 2012 Multimedia, Work, , , , , , , , , , , , , Read more >

First Shot At Engagement Photography

A few weeks ago I shot my first real set of engagement photos for some friends of mine, Caitlin and Alex, who are getting married in November. We decided to shoot around the Capitol and Supreme Court (2nd St. NE) first and try to get some good shots with some classic DC backgrounds. It rained the whole day but started to clear up right before we went out — about 5:30. We ended up with some really beautiful evening light. They looked great and we had a lot of fun. I mostly used a 50mm lens with an aperture of 1.8 and an off-camera flash when it was needed. It was a really positive experience and I’m looking forward to doing more of it in the future.



October 19, 2009 Photography and multimedia, Read more >

Darfur & FFI

Two fun items on the agenda: Darfur: Who Will Survive Now? and FFI

The Holocaust Memorial Museum had a special display of photographs on the outside of their building last week to raise awareness about the situation in Darfur. They projected enormous photographs onto the three walls on the outside of the building, which were accompanied by music. The images, which were taken by several photojournalists, were hauntingly beautiful. The multimedia presentation was incredibly effective. If you check out the links above, you can see a simulation of the presentation.

NPR had a story last week about a new book coming out, The Family That Couldn’t Sleep, by D.T. Max, which focuses on a family with Fatal Familial Insomnia, a rare hereditary disease related to Mad Cow that kicks in in a person’s late 50s, and makes it impossible to sleep. After about 9 months, the patient dies, basically from having been awake for nine months. There are only 2 families in the U.S. with this disorder, and 20 that are known in the world.

November 28, 2006 Multimedia, , , , Read more >

The Maize

These pictures are a sum-up of a quintessential fall day, spent in four stages:
a) kickball tournament (i got a single)
b) cornfield maze (i’ve achieved a life-long dream)
c) scouring the city for apple cider (we know it’s in that box!) and a fall favorite, tough-guy (excuse me, dirty) chai
d) one bottle of wine + political debate = eating granola on the subway on the way to a house party in clarendon


Me, Kelly, and Jenny at a Cornfield Maze and Pumpkin Patch in Maryland, on a perfect fall day


A brownflower


Survivor: The Cornfield (excuse Kelly’s GiantArm, it’s a 14mm, I couldn’t help myself


Loving fall, loving kids chasing hayrides


Jenny, Jumping


Absolutely Wonderful.

October 16, 2006 Photography and multimedia, , Read more >