The sound of a metal bat hitting concrete is constant on Sunday in Brooklyn’s McCarren park. On the first sunny weekend of the Greenpoint Neighborhood softball season, dozens gathered to play a little ball. Some have been coming since 1971, dressed in sweatpants and jerseys. But in recent years, some players have been showing up in formal black loafers, dress pants and white button-down shirts. They’re called the Stormers, a team of young, mostly Hasidic Jews.

I’m doing a series of stories on the team. A radio feature aired on the local NPR station, WNYC this past weekend:

It’s over - my three-month production gig at National Public Radio’s The Bryant Park Project. It came and went like a storm. I barely remember the day-to-day, but my web traces say it was productive.

Here’s a little round up of the multimedia moments:

My first week was the holiday break, when I attended a festivus party and experienced the traditional “Feats of Strength” from a 200-pound guy named Harsh. I caught the moment in photos and audio and told all on the radio show.

My favorite slideshow was about the graphic novel American Born Chinese. The multimedia piece was on the front page of NPR.org and was top three most emailed the entire weekend.

Equally as sophisticated but perhaps more cryptic was the fine art of Iranian-American Shirin Neshat. I created a sort of multimedia artist notebook while her work was on display at the Gladstone Gallery in New York.

I enjoyed collaborating with a couple of Alaskan reporters to create a slideshow about the Rebels to the Pebble, a group of native seventh graders protesting the development of one of the largest gold mines in world. The mining company executive and the rebels’ teacher hashed out some of the issues on the air for 14 minutes.

Then there were the St. Mary’s College students who stripped down to their skivies for a “Polar Bear Splash” during a national week of campus teach-ins about global warming.

Oh, and I got to exercise at least some of my flash skills when I blogged about “Yo” a new gender-neutral pronoun being used in Baltimore schools.

My video debut was about the furor that became of the 42nd street Modell’s sporting goods store the morning after the Giants won the Super Bowl.

Then, the videos about the Project Runway reject who found vindication at Fashion Week and the wake for love on Valentine’s Day eve.

Don’t forget Jake Sasseville, the 22-year old from Maine who’s producing a night show about producing a night show.

And perhaps my favorite video piece, the Brit artists who turned a sweaty nightmare into an installation at Rockefellar Center plaza.

My last slideshow at NPR was about an Anglican-priest hopeful and graphic artist who made a comic book out of the bible.

I might have missed something. But I didn’t even delve into all the radio pieces I produced at the Bryant Park Project, which was my main job. I’m most proud of the Valentine’s Day piece about an evangelical Christian woman who started a sin-free sex toy business. It was number one most emailed on NPR.org for a week straight. The blog post got over a hundred comments. Religion and sex, go figure.

One of the stories I worked on through my summer Knight-Carnegie News21 Fellowship aired October 13th.

The 8-minute Saturday Weekend Edition feature was called “American Muslim Family Chooses Polygamy,” a slightly shorter version of the piece I did this summer called “Matters of Love and Faith.”

I encourage folks to listen to the longer version - it gets more personal and has a lot more ambient sound.

There’s been some web discussion about the piece, which I’m happy about. But I didn’t always feel that way. Given the extreme sensitivity of the issue (Islam, polygamy and race, all in one!), I considered disabling online comments on the newsinitiative.org site to prevent a flame war. But so far it’s received positive feedback overall, especially from Muslims.

Special thanks to Sandy Tolan for editing, and for encouraging me to tell the story I felt most passionate about.