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

Who are we?

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

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

like this....

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

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

Here's some more images. -Miriam

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