an online boom box

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

camera-less photography

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

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