Memorial Day, Storm King Mountain
By Michael Kodas This Memorial Day, Carolyn and I climbed the Storm King 14 trail, on Storm King Mountain, overlooking Interstate 70 near Glenwood Springs, CO. The trail leads to the sites where 14 of America’s elite wildland firefighters – smokejumpers, hotshots and helitac crewmen – were overrun by an exploding wildfire on July 6, [...]
Bike Tube
Today, as I was walking across the University of Colorado campus with a friend who was visiting from New York for her nephew’s graduation, I came across a trio of students headed out to cool off in Boulder Creek. One of them wore a personal flotation device in case she sank her bicycle. The costumes [...]
My Documentary – The Resurrection of Christchurch – Plays Tues Night on HDnet WorldReport
By Carolyn Moreau My hometown – Christchurch, NZ – has endured more than 10,000 earthquakes since September, 2010. Earlier this year, I packed my video gear and went back to see what has become of the city I grew up in. I had to get special permission from the authorities to tour the devastated downtown [...]
I scheduled a shoot and a bear showed up.
Story and Video by Carolyn Moreau Photo by Michael Kodas Sometimes, the coolest things happen on assignment. My job this morning involved an early shoot on a student bus at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A short time after I climbed aboard, around 7 am, the driver’s radio crackled. All drivers were warned that [...]
Fotoshopped
By Michael Kodas “You don’t have to rely on a healthy body image or self respect anymore. Now that’s the power of Fotoshop.” So states filmmaker Jesse Rosten’s terrific parody of digital beauty, and the computer programming on which it relies. It’s a fabulous sendup of a topic that’s been scrutinized for years – the [...]
Diving into 2012
It’s the time of year when the clock rewinds. A fresh beginning; a new outlook. Anything is possible if you are willing to try. Here at Narrative Light, I’m packing for a month in Christchurch, New Zealand where I will produce a series of video stories on the earthquakes, which sadly have started again. Michael [...]
Seven Billion Zombies
We spent Halloween photographing zombies on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. It struck Michael as more than a coincidence that the hordes emerged on the very day the world was to welcome its seventh billion occupant. His story below: By Michael Kodas So what’s brought all these walking dead to Colorado? Last night in Durango, CO, [...]
