Flashlight Project speaks

SPECIAL THANKS

2007-08-01T19:31:00.000-07:00

FLASHLIGHT PROJECT WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THE PARENTS WHO HAVE SUPPORTED AND CONTRIBUTED TO OUR PROGRAM...

AMIR BEN-ZION: WE LOVE YOU AND MISS YIP!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION OF THAT iMAC. EDUARDO AND K T HAVE EACH ALREADY MADE A FILM ON THAT MACHINE, SO YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO GOOD USE - AND WE APPRECIATE IT!!!

AND A GIANT THANK-YOU TO ANNETTE FROMM FOR ALL HER HELP AND SUPPORT OVER THE PAST 3 YEARS, AND ESPECIALLY FOR JUMPING IN AT THE LAST MINUTE TO HELP OUT DURING CELIA CRUZ FAMILY DAY!

You rock, Mama.

Azúcar!!!!

And, speaking of Celia, we've really had a lot of fun with the Celia Cruz exhibit at the Bass and the projects we did with hundreds of children during our recent Celia Cruz Family Day. Anybody who hasn't checked out the exhibit should definitely do so before it closes on August 19.

AND HUGE THANKS TO ALL THE FAMILY DAY VOLUNTEERS WHO WORKED DURING BOTH THE CELIA CRUZ AND THE JADE TREASURES FAMILY DAYS!
YOU MADE IT A GREAT SUCCESS AND WE LOVE YOU FOR IT!!!
You ALL are awesome!!!

Flashlight Project partners with Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator

2007-08-01T19:09:00.000-07:00

GET READY FOR OUR UPCOMING EXHIBITION AT DIASPORA VIBE GALLERY AS PART OF THE DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR'S OFF THE WALL EXPERIMENTAL ART SERIES. FOR NINE DAYS, BEGINNING ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2007, WE WILL BE TRANSFORMING THIS COOL GALLERY SPACE IN THE HEART OF MIAMI'S DESIGN DISTRICT WITH OUR WORK!

Big shout-out and thank-you to Rosie Gordon-Wallace at DVCAI and let's plan to attend the Artist's Talk at Diaspora Vibe on Saturday August 11 at 2pm for a chance to view cool new works and meet the visiting artists from Popop Studios in Nassau, BAHAMAS.

from Marcus Bush

2007-08-01T14:34:00.000-07:00

Great B/W Photography by Miriam

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More of Miriam's great work. i really like this one
- dinorah

The incredibly prolific Miriam Kolker

2007-08-01T14:10:00.000-07:00

Miriam is one of Flashlight's favorite regulars - we can always rely on her to show up when we need her! She knows her stuff and does incredible work. Here is just a tiny sampling of the many cool projects she has done on Photoshop.

Yay! Big shout out to Miriam and to all of her cool friends who have joined Flashlight!

Just wanted to let you know how much we appreciate you. - Michelle & Dinorah

A typical Saturday at Flashlight Project

2007-08-01T14:05:00.000-07:00

We meet from 12 to 5pm at the Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Avenue, Miami Beach. This is us in our lab. We view films and videos of experimental work, we have lunch together, and we make art using digital media - and draw, collage, etc. as well.

Influenced by Warhol

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courtesy of Julia Albertson.

Michelle's experiment -

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very basic....

Colby's Paper Clip animation

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Chelsea Brandon - "Straws"

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This was done on the scanner - using straws as contour lines.
Interesting....

Cameron - Inverted Lettering

2007-08-01T13:32:00.000-07:00

Cool!

Jordan Scans

2007-08-01T13:26:00.000-07:00

Jenny B's Cosmic Painter experience

2007-08-01T13:04:00.000-07:00

Cosmic Painter is a free download for Apple OS X users.
Go here to download - http://www.garagecube.com/opensource/cosmicpainter/index.php
It's like a spin art set on your computer - motion graphics, exportable as stills or as moving images.
At Flashlight Project, we use the moving image files in other video editing programs, such as iMovie and Final Cut Pro, and we combine them there with other animated and live action clips.
Jenny dragged small images and text into her work.

Karen takes the altered digital photo further

2007-08-01T12:57:00.000-07:00

beautiful work by Karen V!!!

Allison scan portrait

2007-08-01T12:42:00.000-07:00

Allison used a normal scanner as an image-making tool. She placed her head on the scanner bed, opened the scan in Photoshop and altered the image to create a final product.

Iziz Summer Stuff

2007-08-01T12:39:00.000-07:00

Digital Photography Workshop

2007-05-02T19:52:00.000-07:00

We met at Picturopolis, an exhibition of work by Michelle Weinberg, Elisabeth Condon and Neil Bender in the Design District. Photographer Luis Olazabal demonstrated how to light and document an artwork installation, and some basics on digital photography, use of the camera and various lenses.

See a clip - work in progress

2007-03-03T12:56:00.000-08:00

This clip was produced by students attending the Design Dimensions Institute at the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach.
Watch this space in a few weeks, and see what will happen ultimately to this little clip....

Altered picture from the Beautiful Decay magzine

2007-02-10T09:26:00.000-08:00

My first time trying to alter and post an image onto the blog, but whatever I like it.

-Cameron

New Name for Art to Work

2007-02-10T09:16:00.000-08:00

Art to Work has been renamed Flashlight Project, which better reflects the use of digital imaging. moving image, and multimedia experiments that go on here.

Keep checking here to see new work!

WOW NEW CAMERA check out shot

2006-11-25T08:08:00.000-08:00

WOW im bringing the camera tomorrow
!!!!

Some Graffiti Art by Jordan Bz.

2006-10-30T17:01:00.000-08:00

Just some old graffiti. sorry about the ones without color. "Some people become cops to make the world a better place, some people become vandals to make the world a better looking place."-Banksy

The Eko and Craze piece were done about 3 months ago. I used colored pencil to fill it in. Nice coloring, Eh?
The City Scene with the drips, is a Werk piece. Werk is my graffiti alias. The second one with the splatters is my most recent. comment it and tell me what you like. sorry no color yet.

Art to Work loves Miss Yip Chinese Cafe

2006-10-30T15:44:00.000-08:00

We had the most fabulous lunch at our last meeting, catered by Amir from his restaurant Miss Yip Chinese Cafe on Meridian by Lincoln Road. It was a lot better than our usual sandwich fare - and fueled the artistic fires. Thanks Amir!

Enden commercial

2006-10-28T20:41:00.000-07:00

The entire Art to Work group collaborated on this recycled 16mm piece donated by Dinorah. We scratched, colored and embedded messages into this commercial for a dandruff shampoo...

Wandering Face - Jenna Montero

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Jordan gets Cosmic too.

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this is a free program downloaded from apple.com

Chelsea tries Cosmic Painter

2006-10-28T13:38:00.000-07:00

Hi. My name is chelsea. I love to make pictures and i love COSMIC PAINTER..YEAH!

Comic Book

2006-10-28T13:34:00.000-07:00

These are pages of a comic book I created using this super cool comic-making program called Comic Life. They're just practice, but awesome, right? -Miriam

NitrocorpZ

2006-10-22T20:01:00.000-07:00

http://www.nitrocorpz.com/reel/ is the link to a super cool Brazilian design co that does motion graphics for MTV and other cloents. You can click and play clips from their work. Check it out!

Visit to MAC

2006-10-15T12:44:00.000-07:00

Miami Art Central's exhibition called Video: An art, a history, was pretty spectacular.
Check it out.

cool pinhole camera

2006-10-06T19:52:00.000-07:00

This is an actual pinhole camera, made of paper. You can open the back and put in a roll of 35mm film, just like a real camera. At Art to Work, we have experimented with guerrilla-style photography (mostly because we don't have fancy equipment and a darkroom), and we've gotten some cool results.

This camera is made by Lomo, low-tech Russian camera maker.

We've also worked with Holga cameras.

Fall 2006 meetings at the museum

2006-09-05T07:10:00.000-07:00

We've started our school year with new students!

This is a typical day in the Bass Museum conference room.

During lunch, the discussion topic focused on how much support we need (or not) from others, as artists. Parents, teachers, peers can provide great motivation, but we also recognized that it's possible to become more determined to succeed and grow creatively, even if the support from family is lacking. We all admitted that some amount of acknowledgement from the community - whoever that is - is really important.

an online boom box

2006-08-23T20:35:00.000-07:00

Check out this cool boombox that can play music mixed by djs, and you can buy the tunes directly.

http://www.fredflare.com/boombox/flare_player.html

Join Art to Work

2006-08-17T09:35:00.000-07:00

If you are a high school student, an ambitious middle school student, and even a college age student with too much time on your hands, please join Art to Work. It's free, held every other Saturday 12-5 pm at the Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Ave, Miami Beach. You Beach High students have no excuse. It's right across the street!

We're looking for a group of people interested in learning experimental techniques in:
- digital imaging and digital video (shooting, editing)
- hand-altered 16mm film
- writing and blogging, publishing your work to the internet
- viewing vintage and experimental films and documentaries

Please come to out first Fall 2006 session
Saturday, August 26th, 12-5pm
Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Ave
Miami Beach

you can email us at bassmuseum@yahoo.com

lunch

2006-08-14T20:31:00.000-07:00

Lunch is an important part of Art to Work meetings. We can discuss whatever is going on in our lives and refuel ourselves!
By the way, whoever wants to join this group, please comment here and leave your email, or write to us at bassmuseum@yahoo.com

Our meetings are mostly every other Saturday at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, 12-5pm
Lunch included!

Field Trip

2006-08-14T20:12:00.000-07:00

We visited MOCA at the Goldman Warehouse in Wynwood, and had a VERY interactive experience with the work of collective Friends With You.

Work process

2006-08-14T20:10:00.000-07:00

These photos show our group infiltrating Design Dimensions program at the Wolfsonian Museum-FIU, another great free program for teens. For more information about Design Dimensions, call Mark at 305-535-2625.

Thomas Draschan

2006-08-14T18:37:00.000-07:00

Thomas Draschan is a filmmaker/video artist we admire. Check out the link to his website. A teeny clip collaging 16mm film together is shown.

http://www.draschan.com/gallery/yes-oui-ja_film.mov

visiting artists

2006-08-14T18:34:00.000-07:00

We invite artists who have expertise in different areas to visit and teach our group. One of our all time favorites is Dimitry Chamy, awesome genius web and graphic designer. He showed us how to do some basic things using Flash, and also to create our own type fonts.

This is our conference room/lab at the Bass Museum.

This is how it's done

2006-08-14T18:33:00.000-07:00

camera-less photography

2006-08-14T16:59:00.000-07:00

One of the things we have done in Art to Work workshops is create portrait imagery without using a camera. Instead, we place faces, hands, feet and our favorite props directly on the surface of a scanner. Once we scan the image into the computer, we can manipulate it with all kinds of effects. These are some of the examples made by kids we visited.

The Chronicles of Deming, Lily, and Miriam

2006-08-09T13:02:00.000-07:00

We randomly filmed this while we out at the Botanical Gardens. It makes no sense, but it's very funny. Just watch the whole thing, it gets better at the end. If you can't watch it frm this, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoWNU3AqXrM. Yay! -Miriam

Who are we?

2006-07-28T10:06:00.000-07:00

Phanta Ex Speaks on behalf of students who work with Bass Museum artists-in-residence Michelle Weinberg and Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez doing video and web-based multimedia projects. Please check in every so often to see what the group is up to.

Here we are visiting the e-flux video rental store at The Moore Space in the Design District last year.

Micro-Mini Film Festival

2006-07-28T10:01:00.000-07:00

I think the girls should produce a super Micro Mini Abbreviated Short SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

like this....

2006-07-26T11:52:00.000-07:00

So, Phanta eX took a short break last week, but we are back and rolling. The movie is being edited, and pictures are being digitally enhanced. Fun! -Miriam

New Images

2006-07-12T12:39:00.000-07:00

These images were taken from a part of our video project and played around with on photoshop. They define the "Experimenta" work which will progress. -Miriam

2006-07-10T14:04:00.000-07:00

Here's some more images. -Miriam

2006-07-10T13:26:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of our group working on our first project. We went t the Botanical Gardens to shoot a small film. Well, actually, we didn't g t the gardens at first because it is closed on Mondays. So in the beginning we were working on the side of a dirty canal. Luckily my mm (being a former president f the Garden Club) got us into the park t work. It was a long, hot day, but we still got a lot done. I'm excited to start working and editing n the project, and I really hope that it turned out well. As a special treat we got my sister, Lily, to be part of the filming process. However, she refuses to participate in any other part of the movie. Art, as she puts it, isn't her 'thing'. But it’s all right; I'm even surprised she came at all. Anyways, we’ll be posting much of our art and photos, so be on the lookout for Phanta eX!
-Deming