This is a 2-part story of a family who recently moved to Santa Cruz, family, businesses, and soon to be surfing. See CatchLight.

What do you do after 7 years at MSNBC.com as the industry's first Director of Multimedia?

Or 2 years at Corbis (acquired by Getty) as VP of News, Multimedia & Assignment Services? You might be wondering. Brian Storm chose to launch MediaStorm which has received numerous honors including over 50 awards from Pictures of the Year and Best of Photojournalism, 30 Webby nominations (6 time winner), 17 Emmy Award nominations (4 time winner), 3 Online Journalism Awards, 3 World Press Photo Awards, 2 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, 2 Overseas Press Club Awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award.

And then you and your family (link to Elodie article) move to Santa Cruz. 

Brian Storm is founder and executive producer of MediaStorm. MediaStorm publishes diverse narratives, offers advanced storytelling training and collaborates with a diverse group of clients. 

Santa Cruz Works Clinic: Storytelling with the MediaStorm Platform

Join MediaStorm founder Brian Storm for a presentation about packaging video and interactive experiences online. Storm will showcase the MediaStorm Platform, a tool that enables storytellers to create and publish sophisticated digital packages using video, images, audio, maps, timelines, slideshows and other interactive components. He will detail his strategy for how independent publishers can take back control of their audience and create a sustainable publishing strategy. You won’t want to miss this clinic: October 15 Storytelling with the MediaStorm Platform

A Legacy of Visual Storytelling

Take a peek at the stunning archive of films created by Brian and his team at MediaStorm.  

Bloodline: AIDS and Family, a film by Kristen Ashburn and MediaStorm showing an intimate portrait of African mothers, fathers, and children being crushed by AIDS. Ashburn's film invites viewers to come to know these families, and see the larger implications of the disease, as it snakes through whole villages.

Heaven, Earth, Tequila by Doug Menuez and MediaStorm. For four years, photographer Douglas Menuez traveled through the state of Jalisco in Mexico, documenting the rich traditions, culture, and countryside around the blue agave plant and its products, mescal, and tequila

Love in the First Person by Matt Eich and MediaStorm. At 20 years old, photojournalist Matt Eich had maturity dropped in his lap: his world-class career took off, just as his girlfriend became pregnant. Together they documented their budding lives, as they grappled with some very grown-up choices.

Driftless by Danny Wilcox Frazier and MediaStorm. Once at the center of the U.S. economy, the family farm now drifts at its edges. In Iowa, old-time farmers try to hang on to their way of life, while their young push out to find their futures elsewhere. Driftless tells their stories.