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Independence Day Pow Wow

By Matt Zimmerman | Published: July 7, 2009

On Saturday Americans from all backgrounds celebrated their independence. Planned into the weekend full of barbecues and fireworks, Wildhorse Resort and Casino in Pendleton, Oregon hosted their 15th annual Pow Wow. Other Fourth of July celebrations nearer to Walla Walla took precedence in Sunday’s print edition but I came back with several additional images I like [...]

Also posted in Feature Art, News, Pendleton, Scenic, Sports, Un-Published, walla walla | Tagged Arizona, California, casino, Cayuse, Chinle, contest, dance, Darrel Abrahamson, drum, fancy dancer, feathers, fourth of july, Gary Olney, golden age, history, holiday, independence, Independence Day, Lame Deer, Lee Sorrelhorse, Montana, Native American, Pendleton, Perry Thompson, Peter Joe Olney, Pow Wow, resort, Sacramento, sovereignty, traditional, Umatilla, Washington, White Swan, Wildhorse | 4 Comments

The Joy of Photography

By Matt Zimmerman | Published: June 4, 2009

I like their style! That’s the first thing I thought when I saw these two. Jeff and I are kept busy enough that most of the random feature art we find are passing moments, usually spotted from our cars. Such was the case yesterday en route to the airport after a call came across the scanner [...]

Also posted in Feature Art, Scenic, Un-Published, random, walla walla | Tagged airport, angle, bench, camera, en-route, perspective, photo class, photographer, photography, Rose Street, Second Avenue, traffic light, twin-engine airplane, wall | 1 Comment

Breaking News: Semi-Exposed Living Room

By Matt Zimmerman | Published: May 27, 2009

Remodeling isn’t Jerry LeGrand’s thing. After a semi-truck and rock truck collided on the highway outside his home this morning he isn’t left with much of a choice. LeGrand had just finished repairing his white picket fence from an accident months earlier after a passenger car crashed through the fence and into his yard and porch. [...]

Also posted in News, Spot News, walla walla | Tagged accident, breaking news, crash, fire department, firefighter, highway 12, house, Inc., injury, Konen Rock Products, living room, officer, police, rock truck, semi-truck, sheriff, Spot News, Sudbury Road, Washington State Patrol | 4 Comments

Twitterpated

By Matt Zimmerman | Published: April 16, 2009

In this next installment from the multimedia exploration super highway comes a short audio clip recorded in the Union-Bulletin newsroom one afternoon. I then added some drawings to turn it into a short, silly, waste of time slideshow. After picking up audio gathering and editing techniques at the Knight Digital Media Center’s week-long Multimedia Workshop at [...]

Also posted in Walla Walla Valley Life, audio | Tagged audio, bird, computer, KDMC, Knight Digital Media Center, marker drawing, mp3, newsroom, sarcastic, slideshow, Soundslides, tweet, Twitter, twitterverse, UC Berkeley | 1 Comment

Multimedia Storytelling

By Matt Zimmerman | Published: March 31, 2009

Sorry for the long delay in posts to the blog. I’ve been working on adding multimedia content and spent the last week at UC Berkeley as a Knight Digital Media Fellow learning about new ways to produce and display journalism and storytelling. It was time extremely well spent and I will be posting more about [...]

Also posted in Feature Art, News, Scenic, Sports, Un-Published, Walla Walla Valley Life, walla walla | Tagged aerial, agriculture, American flag, asphalt, barn, baseball, basketball, Buet, chalk art, child, Christmas, dog climbs tree, election, fair, farm, fellowship, fire, fireball, flags, gang, garden, hair, holiday, horse racing, hot air balloon, Iraq, journalism, kiss, Knight Digital Media Center, lightning, lights, marijuana, multimedia, National Guard, Obama, photos, playground, race, restraint, ride, slideshow, snow, soccer, Soundslides, storytelling, street, stretch armstrong, tire, UC Berkeley, UCB, Union-Bulletin, walla walla, water, wheat | 1 Comment