Media Sandbox Booklet

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Bob Albers

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Bob Albers Senior Video Specialist Telecommunications, Information Studies & Media

Bob Albers is a documentary filmmaker with extensive experience as a producer, director, cameraperson, writer, editor, and executive producer and teaches film and video production at MSU. He has produced and directed many documentaries, directed multi-camera orchestra programs, and has worked extensively in public affairs television programming.

Programs created and supervised by Bob Albers have ranged from governmental affairs to sports to the arts, with many programs receiving awards and widespread distribution, both national and international. He is also active as a consultant and independent producer and director.

Prior to his involvement in television, Mr. Albers was a classical guitarist, and was active as a performer, teacher, radio producer, and arts administrator.

Bob is currently working on In the Moment. In the Moment is a feature length documentary about peak experiences in music, dance sports, combat‌really everything including everyday life.

When in the moment, an individual’s performance is at its most focused, effortless, effective, and beautiful, whether it is in art or music or sports, combat, or even everyday tasks like cooking or cleaning. Everyone has these experiences, but, for most of us, being in the moment is a rare and fleeting experience.

Current work also includes Elderly Instruments: All Things Strings is a documentary about Lansing’s world famous music store. Musicians from Elvis Costello, Vince Gill, REM, and REO to the local beginner seek out the Washington Street store either online or in person.

Henry Brimmer Assistant Professor Advertising + Public Relations Henry Brimmer, a graphic designer who often doubles as photographer and educator, joined the Department of Advertising + Public Relations as part of the colleges Design Initiative via the MSU Quality Fund. With almost 30 years of industry and teaching experience, Henry was most recently Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he also designed and co-curated Designing Experiences, an exhibit of work by graphic and industrial design alumni presented at the Krannert Museum of Art in Urbana from April through July 2006.

From 2000 through 2005, Brimmer was associate professor at Southern Utah University, where he was hired to establish a graphic design program through the Department of Art. Before that he had his own design studio in San Francisco and was the publisher/editor/designer of Photo Metro magazine, a San Francisco-based award-winning magazine on photography Brimmer received his Master of Fine Arts degree in graphic design from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, a bachelors degree in fine arts from Sonoma State University in California, and a bachelors degree in economics from the University of California-Berkeley. He resides in East Lansing with wife Therese, the rambunctious duo of Matias and Andreas and Cocoa the cat.

Arriving at MSU in 2006, as part of a group hired to “bring back the arts to Communication Arts,� and whose dedicated work has resulted in the creation of the Media Sandbox.

Karl Gude

Graphics Editor in Residence Journalism Karl Gude is the former Director of Information Graphics at Newsweek magazine and The Associated Press. Karl left Newsweek after a decade to spearhead the first informationgraphics program at Michigan State University’s School of Journalism. Karl also teaches a challenging and fun class on the creative process. Prior to coming a short time ago, Karl spent almost 30 years creating information graphics for various news organizations including Newsweek magazine and the Associated Press, where he served as their Director of Information Graphics.

Karl is a visual storyteller, artist and writer who consults with corporations, scientific institutions and government agencies, including the NSF and the CIA, to help them create understandable graphics.

He also writes a regular column for the Huffington Post. From middle school kids to professionals, Karl motivates and inspires people to tell stories visually. He has presented at three TED-x talks, including Detroit, and was a panelist on the “Power of Visual Storytelling” at the 2012 South-by-Southwest (SXSW) technology conference in Austin, Texas.

In 2009, she earned a Master’s of Divinity at the General Theological Seminary in New York City and was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church. Carter is presently studying for a Doctor of Ministry at Seabury Seminary in Evanston, Ill.

Sue Carter Professor Journalism

Sue Carter is a professor in the School of Journalism at Michigan State University. She joined the faculty in 1991 after a 17-year career as a news broadcaster and talk show host at radio and television stations in Michigan, Connecticut, and Ontario, Canada. Before coming to MSU, she taught journalism at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Her broadcasting has been recognized in Michigan and nationally. In 1990 she was named UPI Sports Broadcaster of the Year for reporting on the Detroit Free Press International Marathon while running.

As executive producer of “The Great Experiment,” a documentary on the history of the first land-grant

college in America, she won an Emmy. In April 2007 she was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. Her documentary on children and malaria, “Malawi and Malaria: Fighting to Sav the Children,” received two Emmys.

In 2001, she led the first all-women ski expedition to the North Pole from the Russian side of the planet. Her team was met by a group from NASA and together they conducted the first student-directed web cast from the top of the world.

Darcy Greene

Associate Professor Journalism

Darcy Drew Greene is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism. She has worked as a graphic designer and documentary photographer. She is interested in multimedia storytelling and the many ways in which information can be shared over the web.

In 2011 she received a HARP grant to do research in Brazil on the work of French photojournalist, Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger(1902-1996). Based on the research, she will travel to Benin, West Africa, to re-photograph the places, people and events found in Verger’s photographs. An exhibition is expected in 2013.

During the summers she co-directs Photo Communication in the Europe, a Journalism course offered through MSU’s Study Abroad Program.

Since 1995 she has been a co-advisor to the MSU affiliate of the International Society for News Design (SND). She is a past board member of the organization. She was an initiator of the Design Specialization and is a founding member of Intersect, a group dedicated to creative inquiry.

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