Digital design/dev @nytopinion. Guitar+vox @fruitxflowers, @habibitheband, Catty. I care about: story+design+dev+data, my bands, your bands.
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Worked on this timeline of Trump’s term for @nytopinion. I was honestly surprised by how many of the details of Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 had merged into an amorphous alarm bell in my mind. Read for a refresher on the former President’s record
The Muslim ban. Revealing classified information to Russians. “Very fine people on both sides.” Family separations. Calling U.S. soldiers “suckers” and “losers.”
Donald Trump is the G.O.P. presidential candidate, again. What does his record show? nyti.ms/4datEvD
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Worked on design/dev for this piece from Opinion video– exit interviews with departing house and senate members, shedding some light on what working in Congress is actually like:
“I thought about bringing in an exorcist.”
These 12 departing lawmakers tell us what Congress is really like.
Watch: nyti.ms/3JMbq6F
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Late to share (I was post-deadline hibernating) – contributed to the dev/digital design of this very heartbreaking piece on homelessness in America, as told by people experiencing homelessness in America.
Their stories are wrenching, eye-opening and more than worth a read:
From the tents, shelters, cars, motels and couches of America, this is what people experiencing homelessness want you to know.
Read: nyti.ms/3uO2B8Q
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Ana Asnes Becker retweeted
In Opinion
A visual meditation on time, loss, and solace, made from the work of the photographer Mary Manning and the poet Brian Turner. nyti.ms/44RtNzh
ALT Headline: How to Fall in Love With the World Again. A photo of an empty room filled with the blue light from a large window.
Without a doubt, the most wistful and beautiful interactive I've ever contributed to creating. Made some very gentle fadey-scrollies for this photo/poetry piece, up today:
nytimes.com/interactive/2023…
Learned a new word today– VEXILLOLOGY: The scientific study of the history, symbolism, and usage of flags. I love it. (I didn't work on this, just think it's fab) nytimes.com/interactive/2023…
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The upside: I got to work on this really fun piece! Made some custom players that toggle audio! The writer really gets detailed on movie music techniques– it made me think about soundtracks in a new way!
For 40 years, the maestro John Williams has written the music for Indiana Jones. But as the musicologist Frank Lehman argues, you’ve never really heard some of Williams’s greatest compositions — until now. nyti.ms/44DIAhz
It was a treat to help lovingly build this absolutely lovely piece. 💜
For years, @conniewang thought the story of her name was special. “Little did I know it was the story of a generation,” she writes. “Generation Connie.” nyti.ms/3VREJu3
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If you’d told me I was going to work on an interactive for @nytopinion that included floating toilet paper… 🤯
Which cultural highlights do you associate with the first years of the pandemic? Here are 17 we’d put in our Covid time capsule, including “Ted Lasso,” TikTok dances and Taylor Swift. Readers let us know what they would add to the list in the comments. nyti.ms/3GxaYbh
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Ana Asnes Becker retweeted
In Opinion
We asked ChatGPT to try to capture that most human of emotions: love.
Try our generator and pen a valentine for your partner or Jennifer Coolidge or your therapist, in the style of a Taylor Swift song or a Yelp review or a pirate.
nyti.ms/3K3sqH3
I made a valentine (with help from @nytopinion and ChatGPT)
This one's dedicated to NYC, my perpetual valentine.
nytimes.com/interactive/2023…
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Ana Asnes Becker retweeted
Did seeing Donald Trump back on the main stage stir up some old emotions? We created a black hole for them. Write down what’s been swirling around in your mind. nyti.ms/3UKScSQ
Ana Asnes Becker retweeted
It’s known as the troubled teen industry. Spread across the U.S., these facilities and programs are supposed to help children with mental health and behavioral issues.
In reality, it is harming many of them. nyti.ms/3fXSZk2
Worked on dev for this powerful package on mental health in America, Part I up today:
nytimes.com/interactive/2022…
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My gen-z littlest sister asked me in 100% seriousness if phones were all rotary dial when I was growing up. I cry
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"What Is Love" by Haddaway was stuck in my head at least 90% of the time I spent working on this interactive
nytimes.com/interactive/2022…
Made some fun text-editing animations for this piece, up today:
Our columnists did their research. They read, watched, talked to the experts. They formed an opinion and wrote about it.
They were wrong — and they’re telling you why. nyti.ms/3ohsmaA
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NYT readers shared their powerful stories about the choice to have – or not have – an abortion.
Often painted as a black-and-white issue, these stories reveal far more nuanced experiences.
I worked on design/dev for this piece, up today
So much of what we hear about abortion comes from people who would have us think that abortion stories conform to tidy narratives. But abortion stories aren’t tidy. Because people’s lives aren’t tidy.
We asked readers for their experiences.
nyti.ms/3QRnlT9
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