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Central Coast surfboard creations
I hand-coded and created all the content for a website about surfboard shapers on the Central Coast — from students in Cal Poly's surfboard shaping class, to renowned shapers with their own shops, to DIY makers recycling wood from the Pismo Beach pier
Beyond boots & cats: How beatboxers make music
A feature article with a custom web page created using Wordpress Bakery. It features parallax photos, a video on how to beatbox, and embedded audio clips.
Nearly 1 million PG&E customers across California have lost power. Here's what would happen if SLO Goes Dark
An explainer piece with a custom web page created using Wordpress Bakery. It features infographics, polls, and a feature video.
Mustang News Poly Picks 2020
Mustang News readers put their favorite local businesses to a vote, and I created a webpage featuring the winners.
COVID-19 Diaries
Cal Poly journalism seniors were tasked with writing the first draft of the history of a global pandemic. Here are the stories they wrote. (I led the project and designed the page.)
To the Class of 2020, from CLA
You are not a class defined by a pandemic. You are defined by your full experience at Cal Poly.
Journalism student places first at the CSU Media Arts Festival
Shanti Herzog won first place for her original screenplay, "Rosie." The film was made in ISLA 341: Cinematic Process.
Learn how to beatbox with Lukas
“Sometimes people just stare at me in fascination because they don’t know what’s happening,” student beatboxer Lukas Wegmüller said.
The Morph Project offers haircuts, clothes & support for women in crisis
A short documentary film. Hillary and Hilary rose from their own hardships to form a nonprofit organization that supports and uplifts struggling women.
Meet the Cal Poly Drag Club
Come backstage to with the founder of the Cal Poly Drag Club — Jordan Collins, better known as Regina Flores onstage — hours before their Halloween show.
The Father: A Short Film
In order to fit in with the cool kids at school, a headstrong teenage boy must trick the tough, gritty bouncer into letting him into the local bar.
Two years after they lost their home in the Nuns Fire, this Sonoma family shared their thoughts on the PG&E power shutoffs
Nearly 1 million California homes were left without power in November 2019 due to public safety power shutoffs. Here's a look at the impact — and what would happen if San Luis Obispo went dark.
Meet the Brew Crew, Cal Poly's beer club
After food science professor created the class Brewing Science (FSN 342), the students decided to form a brewing club.
I'll Hide — Isolde Pierce
A studio performance of an original song. Directed and edited by me.
Trans students couldn’t get hormone replacement therapy on campus. Now they can
At the beginning of Fall 2019, the Health Center formed a gender-affirming care team. Read more and see the photo story by me at the link above.
Students launch project to make Cal Poly a Fair Trade Campus
To a student, “fair trade” may mean glancing at another garbled label on a chocolate bar. But to Naseem Ji, it means sustaining his village’s livelihood. That's why the campus club Net Impact is working to make Cal Poly a fair trade certified campus. But what does that mean?
Engineering for people: Engineers Without Borders and the people of Pa Kloi
Deep in the hills of Northern Thailand, the people of Pa Kloi transformed a group of five Cal Poly students. In December 2017, an Engineers Without Borders team installed a project years in the making: afiltration system to provide a clean, sufficient water source to a rural community in Thailand.
The Central Coast through the lens of landscape photographers
It's not every day you that you interview renowned landscape and surf photographer Chris Burkard. Although traveling was essential to his development as a photographer, Burkard, who boasts an Instagram following of 3.5 million, often found himself yearning for landscapes that reminded him of home: San Luis Obispo.
The ever-changing art of skateboarding in San Luis Obispo
What was once perceived as a hobby run by rebels on wheels in abandoned pools will debut as an event at the Summer Olympics for the first time in 2020. I talked with curators at the Morro Bay Skateboard Museum to learn how this generation moves the sport forward.
Inspired by their coastal road trips, these film photographers created a brand
“The day you get your film back is like Christmas day,” Paul Studer said.
That feeling — waiting months to get a developed film roll back, capturing 36 favorite moments from a road trip along the coast — was the catalyst for PΛCIFIC.
Record Store Day celebrates the vinyl revival
For generations, music lovers have cherished the experience of sifting through vinyls in record bins. It is a ceremonial experience worth celebrating and it’s making a comeback, according to Boo Boo Records Manager Mike White.
Armstrong announces Opportunity Fee to assist low-income students
The Cal Poly Opportunity Fee will increase the amount of financial aid allocated to low-income and first-generation students in California, University President Jeffrey Armstrong said in an interview.
Meet five Art & Design seniors from This Must Be the Place
Lauren Goldenberg collages. She saves dried-up leftover “scabs” of paint from her palettes and pastes them onto her other paintings. She paints abstract figures on cardboard cutouts and pastes them onto her canvas. Her art looks nothing like real life, and that that is how she likes it.
Yoga instructor teaches "Human Being Training" to college students
Amanda Parker Lambert begins each weekly Human Being Training yoga class at the Recreation Center by writing an idea or mantra on the small whiteboard behind her. This week’s mantra was based on a student’s suggestion: “I don’t know, and that’s okay.”
Student publishes a cookbook with recipes from his viral pop-up restaurant
Food science alumnus Jimmy Wong became a viral sensation when he created a high-class pop-up restaurant, DENCH., in his studio apartment — and he just released a cookbook designed by graphic communication senior Carly Lamera.
The Show Must Go On: More than 100 students create virtual dance concert
When the COVID-19 pandemic began to intensify in the U.S., students had put their minds together to find a new way to move forward with the annual Spring Dance Concert. “Vitalis,” Cal Poly’s first virtual dance concert, was a choreographed dance film edited by student directors.
History alumnus recognized on The Ellen Show for his work as a teacher
In just five years of teaching in Baltimore, Maryland, this middle school teacher has already left his mark on the city.
Professor and his former student travel to Easter Island to record famous historical sites
In 2010, anthropology and geography professor Terry Jones took a group of students to northeastern Nevada, where they had the opportunity to work as archaeologists for the first time. Ten years later, one of those students took him to Easter Island to help record some of the island’s famous statues.
Music student produces videos featuring Mustang Band for SLO Transit
It’s not often that music junior Brian Mendez produces something without sound — especially when it’s a video of a band. But when SLO Transit asked the Mustang Band to produce a promotional video for the buses, he was up for the challenge.
With more than 30 workshops, “Inclusion Starts with Me” Teach In sparks conversations about diversity and inclusivity
Nearly 3,000 attendees participated in more than 30 workshops and talks across campus for the teach-in, which covered covered a wide range of topics — from environmentalism and health, to inclusive design and race relations, to prison reform and feminist media.
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