Here’s a video I produced when I was at Journalism School. It’s a 2-minute feature I shot, reported and narrated as part of our newscast, which I also co-anchored. If you get bored of watching me and Larry Santana talk, you can scroll through to the middle of the newscast.

The piece is about Wendy-O-Matik, a writer and “radical love” activist in Berkeley. By profiling the polyamory workshops she gives in the San Francisco Bay area, it explores whether “being open” is a sexual orientation.

Before I embarked on months of Flash programming for my masters project on Colombian Landmine victims, I thought I would practice using the program with a topic a lighter topic. For a while, I was playing with the idea of doing my thesis on “polyamorous” people in the San Francisco Bay area, or people who take non-monagamy as a lifestyle and/or sexual orientation. For my research, I found profiled several different species, from the Dungfly to the Bonobo, about their non-monogamous tendencies. Apparently, being “sexually open” isn’t as unusual as you may think. Please, forgive the utter ridiculousness of this project. I promise, it was just for Flash practice.