“I like to think I have cyborg upgrades.” She’s a biohacker with three microchip implants. I meet up with Amie Dansby as she gets a new one installed and learn more about why she has microchip implants.
Seattle
VICE: Inside the CHAZ/CHOP Zone
Meet the Activists Inside Seattle’s Police-Free Zone In the early morning on June 9th, Seattle activists took over about 6 blocks surrounding the recently abandoned East Precinct of the Seattle Police Department — and they haven’t left. Full story here. Role Cinematographer Full Credits Producer: Kristin Fraser Cinematography: Jessey Dearing, Lance Bangs This…
Vice: This App Lets You Give Money to People Experiencing Homelessness
This App Lets You Give Money to Homeless People From Your Phone What if you combined the functionality of Venmo and GoFundMe with the user interface of a dating app to fight homelessness? “Samaritan” is a new startup out of Seattle that provides homeless people with small “beacons” (a key fob that functions as a…
Starbucks: Courtney Block Competes in Special Olympics
Courtney Block is deaf due to a rare condition called pontine tegmental cap dysplasia. She was born with neurological problems, deafness, seizures and progressive vision loss. Less than 50 people in the world are known to have the disorder which causes both physical and cognitive issues, said her father, Ken Block. At 37, she may also be…
Great Big Story: Believe Us, You’ve Never Seen a Clam Like This
Believe Us, You’ve Never Seen a Clam Like This A geoduck is the world’s largest burrowing clam. That’s pronounced “gooey duck.” And it looks like a… um… (well, you have eyes.) This saltwater clam is unique to the Pacific Northwest and is challenging to harvest. But the crew at Taylor Shellfish Farms in Bow, Washington,…
Politico: My Generation Is Never Going to Have That
On a brisk Saturday morning in March, a 27-year-old programmer named Zach Lubarsky, bundled in a fatigue jacket and knit cap, took a ReachNow rental car to the north end of Seattle and spent an hour or so scouting one of city’s most desirable neighborhoods. Wallingford, as it’s known, offers house hunters some of the…
Amazon Stories: Danielle Skysdottir
“The world told me I was a boy. They wrapped me in a blue blanket and I thought that was what I was. And it didn’t fit.” Danielle Skysdottir thought she had her life figured out. Growing up, she always loved computer programming. She graduated from college with a degree in computer science and was…
Starbucks: Hot Java Cool Jazz
Every year, five Seattle high school jazz bands are selected to compete at The Paramount. The event is hosted by Starbucks and 100% of all ticket sales from the concert go to the performing school music programs. Since 1995, Hot Java Cool Jazz has raised more than $625,000 for local school music programs. In 2018, I…
VICE: This instrument turns brain waves into music
Most people play a musical instrument with their hands or mouth. But Dr. Thomas Deuel, a musician and neurologist based in Seattle, has built one that you can play with your mind. He calls it the encephalophone, which more or less translates to “brain instrument.” The thing looks like an electrode-studded swimmers cap with wires…
Great Big Story: Rescuing Cats from Super Tall Trees
As professional arborists, brothers-in-law Tom Otto and Shaun Sears are quite adept at climbing trees. The cats that they rescue are not. And with a plethora of trees—and cats—around Seattle, they decided to put their off hours to good use and return scared, stuck kitties to their worried owners. Working completely off donations, these two…
Not My President
This is an observational film of the peaceful protest of more than a thousand Seattleites who marched through the city the day after Donald Trump won the presidential election. Thousands of people in cities across the nation took to the streets, a sign to Trump and to the world, that the next administration will have…
Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion
A conversation between a recovering addict, a Seattle police officer, and a case manager on their experience as some of the first participants in an innovative harm reduction program. The Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a harm reduction program started in Seattle. Instead of incarcerating low level, repeat drug offenders, LEAD is a pre-booking…
NYTimes: A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared
Dan Price, chief of Gravity Payments, raised the annual salary floor for his employees to $70,000. Most responses were positive, but Mr. Price says that even the negative letters were valuable. When I found out I’d have just over an hour and a half for this shoot, I knew I wanted to bring Tim Matsui…