Wow, what a year it has been.

I can’t believe that I’m now a 3rd year “pre-junior” at Drexel, I’m now Managing Editor and an Editorial Board Member of Drexel’s independent student newspaper, The Triangle, and starting my second co-op internship at a digital marketing agency in Center City Philadelphia.

Let’s jump back to my last blog post, where I was on assignment for The Triangle at the opening of the Philadelphia Apple Store in September. I probably should have written a few blog posts between then and now, but the gist of my life is this (after the jump):

• Headed to Atlantic City with the Drexel University Photography Club and took a ton of pictures. (Check out flickr)
• Forced my twin brother to come down to Philly for the Red Bull Flugtag, and got a ton of pictures of idiots jumping into the Delaware River. (flickr)
• Started working at Digitas Health, a digital marketing agency that specializes in the pharmaceutical industry, as an associate interaction designer intern/co-op.
• Went down to the Schuylkill River Banks for the Light Drift event, and also got a lot of pictures from the trails of the river bank. (Light Drift needs to be uploaded, pics along the river bank here.)
• Finally got a smartphone to help me keep up with my digital life while on the go.
• Headed up to Boylston, MA for Halloween with my extended family for pumpkin carving and apple picking. (Check out the flickr pics)
• I also visited a bonsai tree farm near Boylston and got a lot of great pictures. (Still need to be uploaded flickr)
• Went to New York City for a photo walk though Central Park with the Drexel Photo Club. (Which I still need to upload on flickr)
• Spent Thanksgiving in Gloucester, MA via a quick flight up to Boston (and got back-scattered on my way home)
• Got the last issue of The Triangle for the term out complete with a Cellphone Holiday Gift Guide (See the blog post)
• Went back home to North Jersey for my Mom’s extra-large retirement party; she worked at Kraft Foods for 42 years (and managed to forget my camera for the party).
• Went back home (again) to go see the Trans Siberian Orchestra with my friends. The concert was awesome, and I really wish I could have brought my camera into the venue.
• Finally got back to North Jersey for longer than a weekend, just in time for the holidays. I even got to work from home for the week between Christmas and New Year’s, so I didn’t have to run back to Philly for three days.

…all while working 40 hours a week at DH and another 20 at The Triangle. And that catches us up to now.

I’m still quite amazed at how much I managed to fit into just three months. Now I finally have a bit of time to sit back, relax, spend time with my family, and do things like write this blog post (and maybe get the rest of my photos uploaded… eventually)

I hope that you have had a happy holiday season and a happy new year.

See you in 2011!

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1. Summers over, and I’m excited.

Last Friday, I got a chance to go to the grand opening of the Philadelphia Apple store. And by chance, I mean wait in line for and hour and a half and get a free t-shirt. Sure I’ve done  similar crazy things in the past, but this one didn’t even have much of a point to it. I didn’t even buy anything. Sure, I did get an extra-large t-shirt that says “Walnut Street”, but that’s it. Five minutes after I entered the store, I was ready to leave. I did however, stay longer.

And to a greater point, I did write an article about the entire event for The Triangle, as well as take a ton of photos.

Take a look at my article here:

New Apple store opens in Philly

Take a look at my Flickr set here:

Apple Store Philadelphia

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What happens when you take the 7 story expanse of concrete above the entrance to Nesbitt Hall, and a large projector? You get the Social Graffiti Project. The project was created by six digital media students here at Drexel for their senior thesis project.

Tweets displayed on wall as ‘Social Graffiti’

Take a look at the story behind the article, after the jump.

This article was a lot of fun to work on for a bunch of reason. First, the project itself was really cool. I really wish that the project had stayed up for more than a week, and that I could have gone into the projection room. What also made this article fun, was that I go to write the story, shoot the photos, and layout the page. I even got a tease in the “In This Paper” bar on the front page!

Overall, I’m just glad that I get to have such a large hand in the production of The Triangle. From writing articles, to shooting photos, and even designing house ads, it’s just fun. This territory may come with the fact that I am now the production manager for the summer!

Even more interesting, I’m actually pictured in the paper this week, along with our Entertainment editor, Jess Herbine:

It’s never a dull moment at The Triangle!

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A large part of my time has been in class and working at The Triangle, but whenever I get a chance I bust out my camera and take some pictures. Take a look at what I’ve been up to, in photos, after the jump!

Click any of the titles or photos to view the full set at Flickr.

Drexel University

Drexel has been my home away from home for the past two years. I recently updated my Drexel set with some new photos, including some that feature Drexel’s new wayfinding signs, and closeups of architecture of Drexel Buildings.

Lupe Fiasco @ WPI

I went up to visit my brother at his college, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Worcester, MA. While I was there, WPI had their annual spring  jam concert. With these shot, I tried to focus on the dramatic lighting created by WPI’s student technical crew, Lens and Lights, which my brother is the technical director. Lupe Fiasco was the headline performer of the concert.

A Street Corner in Newark

While waiting to be picked up from Newark’s Penn Station, I took out my camera and got creative, documenting what you could find on a typical downtown street corner.

Sunrise

Sunrises are always beautiful, even more so when they silhouette a city skyline. After pulling an all-nighter, I was actually awake to document it, so I decided to take advantage of my lack of sleep and get some great photos.

That’s it for now. Expect another one of these Multi-Photo Mashups soon, because I still have a bunch more photos that I need to upload to Flickr.

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Hmm.. What to do when your holed up inside during the biggest snow fall of he year? Whip out the camera, and take pictures of course!

And then eventually bundle up, and trek outside to take some more!

Click on the above photo to view more photos from my “Snow Time 2010″ Set.

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1. Nikon D5000

I finally got a Nikon D5000, and I’m really excited to take it for a spin. Go to my Flickr page, and check out my first photo walk with the D5000. Just click the above photo to visit the set of photos I took.

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Hot off the presses (ok, so it came out on Friday), it’s my latest Triangle article:

New Apple Store awaits Arts Commission approval

Or, what I think it should be called “Apple Store coming to Philadelphia”, but they chose the title based on how wide the column is and the fact that half the article is about how Apple is getting approval from the Philadelphia Arts commission because I needed to make the article longer…

Oh, and you can expect that I’m going to the store opening (whenever that is)

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