Thushan

The portfolio of multimedia journalist Thushan Amarasiriwardena

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    Expertise

    Thushan is a multimedia journalist specializing in interactive graphics, documentary photography and video, design and writing.
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    Experience

    Thushan was a senior multimedia producer at The Boston Globe before exploring the world with LongJaunt. Recently he consulted for the social enterprise Digital Divide Data.
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    Found: Heaven on earth. Explore the world's most serene country in this gallery from the LongJaunt.
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    Catch some rays along the coast of Croatia's stunning cerulean blue waters or see Belgrade's bombed out buildings in this gallery.
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  • Portfolio

    Portfolio

    A sampling of Thushan's work in interactive graphics, documentary photography and video, design and writing.

    A sampling of Thushan's work in interactive graphics, documentary photography and video, design and writing.
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    Foreclosures in Mass.
    See and explore how the foreclosure crisis exploded in Massachusetts in this interactive graphic Thushan developed in Flash while working at The Boston Globe.
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    Digital Divide Data
    Complete design, photography and coding rebrand for social enterprise providing training and jobs for disadvantaged youth in Cambodia and Laos.
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    Going up!
    Watch two inventors as their dreams take flight by building the world's first personal blimp in this video Thushan produced while at The Boston Globe.
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    Losing their homes
    Watch how the foreclosure crisis is personally affecting a family at risk of losing their home in Lawrence, MA. Video for a multi-part story in The Boston Globe's business section.
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    One hundred smiles per gallon
    Thushan produced video for The Boston Globe Magazine on location in Maine with an inventor who built a 100-mpg car in his garage with the hope that he can get Detroit to rethink their ways.
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    N.H. Primary Tracker
    Track and examine who was on the back roads of New Hampshire before the nation's first primary for the 2008 Presidential Election in this interactive graphic Thushan developed in Flash while working at The Boston Globe.
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    At Coors Field
    Watch the video Thushan produced on deadline with sports writer Bob Ryan for The Boston Globe's sports section about the quirks of playing at Major League's highest field during the 2007 World Series.
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    2007 World Series
    On location video showing the scene on the ground in Colorado during the 2007 Red Sox vs. Rockies World Series.
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    The Personal Blimp
    Read the story Thushan wrote for The Boston Globe's business section about two inventors hoping to bring their personal blimp to market.
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    Golden Teeth
    Zooming along the back roads of Guatemala, Thushan encounters another 26-year-old with an entirely different set of life experiences. Read his reflective and informative LongJaunt post.
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    Explore Eastern Europe
    Catch some rays along the coast of Croatia's stunning cerulean blue waters or see Belgrade's bombed out buildings still standing a decade later in this wide ranging gallery from Thushan's LongJaunt galleries.
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    LongJaunt
    Take a trip around the world through more than 30 countries in eight months on an intimately documented trip that Thushan co-created. LongJaunt helped win Boston.com's Travel Section the award for "Best Travel Site of 2008" by the Society of American Travel Writers.
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    Beruit
    From tanks in the street to dancing in the street, see Lebanon's capital city transform in mere days during LongJaunt's post civil war visit.
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    Print Design portfolio
    See Thushan's portfolio of multiple award winning print designs created during his time as Editor in Chief of NC State's college paper, The Technician. PDF - 29MB
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    Article Portfolio
    Read a collection of Thushan's articles written during his stint as Editor in Chief of his college paper, The Technician. PDF - 24MB
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  • Resume

    Resume

    Thushan received a B.S. in Computer Science from N.C. State University. He was a senior multimedia producer at The Boston Globe before he started LongJaunt and traveled around the world. Most recently he was a consultant for the technology related social enterprise, Digital Divide Data in Cambodia.

    Thushan received a B.S. in Computer Science from N.C. State University. He was a senior multimedia producer at The Boston Globe.
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    • Professional ExperienceDigital Divide Data
    • LongJaunt
    • The Boston Globe
    • Technician
    • EducationN.C. State University
    • AwardsAwards
    • Professional Experience
      Digital Divide Data
      Provided technical consulting for a social enterprise with 500 employees in Cambodia and Laos helping disadvantaged people break the cycle of poverty by creating technology related jobs and college scholarships. Created training courses to teach advanced XML topics to local management so they had the skills to meet the needs of digitization projects. Helped deploy corporate intranet to get DDD's four offices communicating more effectively. Re-branded DDD with new print and web designs, a refreshed identity and corporate photography. Developed new company website from design, photography and code: digitaldividedata.org
    • Professional Experience
      LongJaunt
      Traveled around the world through 30 countries while producing an intimately documented multimedia blog for The Boston Globe's online travel section. More than 200 daily stories photographed and written on the road. From code to photos: developed custom CMS from the ground up to maintain and write for the site while internet connections were bad or non-existent. Conceptualized, pitched and secured financing for project before launch. Managed day-to-day and logistics for content coverage and publication. The LongJaunt special section helped earn The Globe's online travel section the distinction as 2008's "Best travel website" as awarded by the Society of American Travel Writers. See site: boston.com/longjaunt/
    • Professional Experience
      The Boston Globe
      Developed and designed some of the Globe's first truly interactive graphics in Flash/ActionScript using databases and XML feeds as sources. Played a major role in developing the Globe's video unit, from content, visual and technical standpoints while producing pieces that complimented print versions of the story. Regularly produced pieces in multiple mediums for the same story such as writing a piece, shooting the video and taking the photos or developing a corresponding interactive graphic. Covered wide range of topics including the New Hampshire Presidential Primary, 2007 World Series and the start of the mortgage crisis.
    • Professional Experience
      Technician
      Led a diverse staff of more than 100 writers, editors, photographers and designers as editor in chief of the daily student paper. Lived under the rigors of producing a daily publication, serving the 28,000 students at North Carolina State University. Set and managed an operating budget of nearly $400,000.
    • B.S. Computer Science from North Carolina State University
      Senior design project: Developed software video analysis program to "find" roads, vehicles and other objects to steer and control an autonomously driven vehicle as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sponsored race. Car successfully completed 28 miles of the DARPA course without any human direction using the aid of the system. Core computer science coursework included Human Computer Interaction, Data Structures, Databases, Computer Graphics and Operating Systems Design. Additional coursework in advanced news writing, copy editing, Arabic and political science courses.
    • Awards
      The Boston Globe
      Multiple awards by Globe management in recognition for work on Business, Politics and Sports coverage and systems innovation.

      Associated College Press Design Award
      First place, illustration (2005), First place, infographic (2004)

      College Media Advisors
      Placed in three different categories in print design (2004)

      Macworld Magazine
      Software "Icon-It" published in David Pogue's "Macworld Performa/Power Macintosh Secrets" included with every consumer Macintosh produced by Apple Computer that year and two news stand magazine issues, 150,000 copies distributed (1993, 96)
  • Vitals
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    • Stats
      Age: 32
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      Birthday: 1.18.1982
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      Full Name: Thushan Suramyajith Amarasiriwardena
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      Hair: Black, graying in some parts
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      Musical talents: absolutely none
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      Once ran: 72 miles in 24 hours
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      Countries visited: 42
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      Birthplace: Sri Lanka
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      Flight: Has flown by plane, hot air balloon, helicopter, and blimp - life goal is to add rocket ship. He's not kidding.
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      Drives: a Honda Civic (really wants a motorcycle again like in Cambodia)
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      Wishes: he was a secret agent
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    • Endorsements: The things Thushan loves. Thushan received no monetary payments for these endorsements, except from the Prune Growers of America and Hebrew National Hotdogs.
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      Thushan received no monetary payments for these endorsements, except in the cases of Prune Growers of America and Hebrew National Hotdogs where he is a spokesman.
      MacBook Kenna The Lonely Island Beruit Dexter Coen Brothers Russ Juskalian Kurt Vonnegut Willie Nelson Children of Men Mangoes Americone Dream Parks and Recreation Slumdog Millionaire The Dark Knight Wheaties Mike Shinoda The Departed Amherst The Goonies Stroopwafel Deftones Outkast Christopher Nolan The Hurt Locker Scott LaPierre Pan's Labyrinth Northface Terra 30 Steve Jablonsky Apple Antonio's pizza Masman curry Hulu Rio De Janiero Captain Crunch Acai Do The Right Thing 30 Rock Alice in Chains Hunter S. Thompson Tintin Mitch Hedberg Ben Franklin Hans Zimmer Buenos Aires White Sands Norman Rockwell Gym Class Heroes Roti canai Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Ocean's 11 Crater Lake The Big Dig Damascus Sri Lanka Alicia Conway Cambridge Transformers Laos Seven Ace of Base Human Space Flight Belgrade Newfoundland Big Fish Grand Canyon 135 f/2.8 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy David Fincher Rene Magritte 1984 Michael D. Kurtz Inglorious Basterds Mika Mt. Khatadin Brad Pitt NASA Digital Divide Data Wikipedia Michael Clayton Hancock Tower Canon Tool The Daily Show Vipassana Meditation Slaughterhouse Five Queens of the Stone Age 3D Movies Saucony Originals A. R. Rahman Mochi Hebrew National Hotdogs John Williams The Wire Being John Malkovich Hubble Deep Field New England Boston David O' Russell Ghostbusters II Lego Fight Club Pushing Daises Going to Mars Johnny Cash Groundhog Day MythBusters Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Reichstag Building Seoul LOST Sam Rockwell Sleepy Hollow Tim Lytvinenko Bill Bryson Chicken Korma Mexico City Curb Your Enthusiasm Monsters Inc. Prunes Live The Monkey Temple Shipping Containers Michael Lewis Syriana Gorillaz James Bond Three Kings 50mm f/1.4 Returning to the Moon George Clooney Sriracha Chili Sauce American History X Arthur C. Clarke Pixar Liar's Poker Honda Civic iPhone Rendezvous with Rama Spike Lee Berlin London Trader Joes UP Phnom Penh Infrastructure Monk Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom O' Brother Where Art Thou? Chrysler Building Lyrics Born Yosemite Moon Eminem House No Country for Old Men Botero Tina Fey
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    Contact Details
    Thushan Amarasiriwardena
    Email
    thushan@thushan.net
    Phone
    413.230.4773
    Skype / GTalk
    thushan.a
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    San Francisco, ca, usa, earth
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    thushan.net
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