Work Samples

As indicated elsewhere on this site, I am currently very happy in my full-time gig at Sirius Satellite Radio. Although I'm not looking for work, I continue to leave samples of my past and current work on this page 1) so you can get a better picture of my career and how it has progressed; 2) to give you an idea of my approach as a writer/producer; and 3) because I'm very proud of it — at least the stuff on this page.  Plus, you never know. Maybe someone out there has a job to offer that's even dreamier than my current dream job.

After years displaying only postage-stamp sized Real video clips, I've finally upgraded to the kind of streaming flash video available everywhere else on the web. Enjoy!

And if you need to see a full quality version of these clips, please and I'll send you a DVD or VHS of my reel.

Radio, Radio

Newscast Now: Sirius OutQ News

Here's what I do for a living these days: 5 minute, top-of-the-hour newscasts for a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender audience. This is a sample newscast from January 2008, which I edited, produced, and anchored.  I do six such newscasts each day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year.

Clips and Scripts

Award-Winning Documentary Special: Rain of Ruin

This clip from my documentary on the development of the Atomic Bomb features a recreation we shot at the Air Force museum in Dayton, seamlessly integrated with archival footage. (Note the lovely hand close-ups — they're mine.) 

The script excerpt describes the wild contrast between the two leaders of the Manhattan Project. The company I produced this for got bought by Discovery, and it now airs on its channels quite often.
Rain of Ruin clip   Script Excerpt

Smokin': Fire Island

Britain's Channel Four commissioned a four-part verité-style documentary on the lives and loves of two households — one lesbian, another gay male — in the world-famous gay resort community of Fire Island Pines, New York. I directed and produced in the gay men's household — and also served as camera operator, DP, story editor, and a few other uncredited positions. The show earned a 1.1 rating/10 share during its Summer '99 run in England, narrated by Stephen Fry. It aired in the U.S. on the Bravo Channel in the Summer of 2000, without the Fry narration.
Fire Island clip

I Got Yer MTV: Real World L.A. (Season 2)

My big break into long-form television was getting hired to edit an episode from season two of The Real World (aka, the lost Los Angeles season that no one seems to have seen). Still it was a great gig, and opened my eyes to whole new worlds of story-telling techniques, which I'd previously known almost nothing about.
Real World clip

Reality Rules: Road Rules Pilot

This may be the world's only opportunity to see any of the pilot that sold Road Rules to MTV, post-produced (or "predited," in Hollywood parlance) by yours truly. The network recast the show before the first season began, and thus the pilot never aired.
Road Rules pilot

True Crime of Passion: Sweetheart Swindlers

For Discovery Channel, I wrote, produced and directed an hour-long true crime special on romance con artists. Our tag line was, "First they steal your heart, then they steal your wallet." In this short clip, one of our victims explains how she pried a rental car away from the charmer who suckered her for thousands.
Sweetheart Swindlers clip

Humorous History: Oliver Cromwell's Head

A brief clip from my episode of History's Lost & Found, on the History Channel, concerning the long and convoluted tale of the head of England's head of state. Narrated with dry humor by Edward Herrmann. The three animations in this clip were all created by me in After Effects.
History's Lost & Found: Cromwell clip

Hosts in the World's Coolest Studio: Speedvision Aviation Preview Show

When Speedvision, the car-boat-plane channel, intially launched in 1996, they wanted a hosted half-hour show that would introduce their line-up of aviation programming. I wrote, produced, and directed the program, which was shot at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. 
Speedvision Preview clip      Script Excerpt 

Doc, Straight Up, with a Twist: Wings Over Europe

This one-hour show covering allof WWII European Aviation (whew!) was originally developed as a companion home video for a CD-ROM project. But it came out so well that Discovery still runs it frequently on their flagship cable channel. 
Wings Over Europe clip    Script Excerpt 

Eureka! Historic Traveler: Gold Rush Country

I wrote 14 episodes of this travelog cum history series Historic Traveler for the Travel Channel. In this brief clip, we journey to Sutter's Mill on the Sacramento River for the earth-shaking discovery in 1849 of (gasp) GOLD!
Historic Traveler-Gold Rush Country clip

Eureka (again): Old Homes Restored

For the HGTV series Old Homes Restored, I traveled to the incredibly picturesque town of Eureka, on California's far northern coast. There I wrote an produced this segment on the incredible lengths a married couple went to for a perfectly authentic restoration of their old Victorian.
Old Homes Restored clip

On Camera: Millennium March on Washington

This is a clip from an 11-minute segment I produced and reported for the public television gay-interest show In the Life, on the massive Millennium March on Washington in (duh) 2000, and all the related behind-the-scenes mischief.
In the Life-Millennium March clip

Broadcast Design Samples

Whatever Happened to the Flying Boats?

I created this thirty-second multi-layer animated show title in Adobe After Effects 3.0 for the Wingspan Network (now Discovery Wings).
Flying Boat show open       Still frame (164K GIF File) 

Straight Up!

This show open is a one minute 3D animation that features a drafting table strewn with drafting tools (modeled by me) and 'magazine clippings' that display rolling video, executed in Infini-D back in the dark ages (1996)
StraightUpOpen     Still frame (151K GIF File)