July 2011
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Express Yourself!
My name is Estephanie Balbuena and I’m from Sunset Park Brooklyn, New York. I am interested in visual arts and open to exploring new things.
The name of my project is “Express Yourself”. I was inspired by the ten by ten space that I selected, located on the corner of W 21St and 11th avenue. The objective of my project was to allow people to express themselves through graffiti....
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Kaome's Final Project:Guess That Tune?
Kaome’s Final Project: Guess That Tune Gameshow
Hello my name is Kaome O’Faire. Pronounced Kay-Oh-Me easy right! I am a 17 year old high school student at Benjamin Banneker Academy. I am a very unique person I enjoy and partake in things most people don’t get a chance to. Such as the Eyebeam program I am in. I was told out of 100 applicants I was chosen out of the...
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The city of talent
The project was based on Music. It was being screened, showing all the different footage of what we got. people playing instruments, dancing and singing. Being that my project is based around music and performing arts, I collaborated along with Mitia. We went around interviewing and asking different people why Music was important to them. Today, It was presented in the eye-beam gallery. It was a...
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City of Music... by Mitia and Ari
The final project was finally finished today with Ari and I completing it at the last moment. With our video showing how a single persons enjoyment of whatever form of music they do. Such as dancing, singing, art work or anything they put their minds to. Working with Ari was such a joyful experience because she is full of ideas and wonder and full of amazing talent. I hope that in the future we...
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CHILDHOOD INDULGENCE by TANJHID CHOUDHURY
My name is Tanjhid Choudhury and I come from Astoria in northern Queens. I’m adamant about animation and design and go out of my way to engage in both when I can. I like to learn about things and try to take a D.I.Y. approach to things. I enjoy cooking. sewing, skating, and any activities that result in the creation of something.
My project is titled Childhood Indulgence and it encourages people...
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Ian Antoni 10x10 final
10x10 BY IAN ANTONI
I am for the lower east side of Manhattan
My name is Ian Antoni and I like video games and graffiti
My box was inspired by an episode of chowder when one of the characters gets in to a fight with a giant box. So inspired but the show I wanted to make a box that would interact with people as they walk by the box. The point of the box is to get people minds off of somthing...
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Y'Hurd?: Youth In Revolt short art gallery... →
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My name is Tabitha Wakefield, I am from Brooklyn, NY but currently reside in Midtown Manhattan. I attend the NYC LAB SCHOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE STUDIES in the Chelsea area. I am an incoming 10th grader. I enjoy building and creating things. Overall i like trying new things and exposing myself to new things.
My project is a short art gallery consisting of 2 pieces. The pieces...
Dendroidal Diction
My name is Molly Donovan, and I’ve lived on the Upper West Side my whole life. I like tic tacs and ice cream and writing because I’m too messy for Monet, too shy for Shakespeare, and too tall for Tchaikovsky.
My project is called Dendroidal Diction. It’s stationed in an empty flowerbed, right on top of a cut-down tree. It serves as a sort of a replacement for the tree, and as a tower of...
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The inCOMPLETE art project by: Toni Koval
THE inCOMPLETE ART GALLERY by TONI KOVAL
Hi my name is Toni Koval.
I live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I love all the interesting people and things that there are to do.
My projects name is The inCOMPLETE Art Gallery. It was done on a piece of wood that I painted white to make it look like a piece of wall was taken out of an actual art gallery. I created 12 frames that would have...
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Tasmin Rahman: Dream Catcher
My name is Tasmin Rahman and I am fifteen years old. I was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. I am a Sophomore at the Academy of Medical Technology. I am really interested in photography and video editing.
My project “Dream Catcher” gave people an opportunity to write down their dream and get a cupcake in exchange. I wanted people to have an opportunity to write a wish...
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Brooklyn Finest,Jaira Mckinney
My project is base on Brooklyn!Taking away negative thoughts from people minds. In addtion i want people to base their ideas on Brooklyn by not the Radio, tv,internet.The photoshop pictures show how i see people is seen in my eyes.Next the video show people thought of Brooklyn in their eyes.The whole point of my project is to let people be more open minded.Just to accept may things that may come...
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A little piece of paradise! by Troy Saunders
My name is Troy Saunders, Photographer, dancer and swimmer.
My project is about people who live in the city getting a couple of seconds to relax in a semi jungle area.
My project consist of having jungle like animals and sounds etc.
I constructed a leopard out of cardboard and a bird out of stick and feathers.
They will have microphones in them to make them make noise.
I will have the...
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WatchTHE MISADVENTURES OF MR. SKIPS by GIULIA GIRGENTI
My name is Giulia Girgenti, and I live in Brooklyn. For my project I chose a site at the Chelsea Waterside Park to shoot a stop motion film. However, due to time constraints and some technical difficulties, I was unable to film there and had to make the movie at home.
My film is about a tennis ball named Mr. Skips, whose true love is captured by...
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From the Ground Up by Victoria Freeman
Hello, my name is Victoria Freeman and I have lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan my whole life. I am very interested in photography and I tried to incorporate my skills of photography in my final project for Digital Day Camp.
My final project is called From the Ground Up because my intention is to show people through photos, of what they take advantage of seeing while walking by...
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Change New York by Jarius Pierre-Toussaint
Hello, my name is Jarius Pierre-Toussaint. A child by nature, and a New Yorker By heart. I’m from Bushwick which is located in (Boogie Down Brooklyn) or Brooklyn for short.
My project is called Change New York. Its a project that focuses around a drop box that allows anyone to walk by and drop in a note answering the two questions displayed on the project.
Name one thing about New York...
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WatchKaome: This is my commute to Eyebeam from East New York Brooklyn. I walk a lot just to get to my train station at Grant Ave. Then I take the A train to 14th street to transfer to the local E or C train to 23rd street. Next I walk to the M23 bus and take it to 10th ave. Next I walk over to 21st street and walk down to Eyebeam.
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HIGH LINE CANVAS by RUTH LI
I live in Staten Island and it is pretty quiet around my neighborhood. Not many cars pass by, so the children feel free to play in the streets most of the time. Teenagers around the block usually come outside to hang out during the night time (including me). I am a high school student in LaGuardia High School moving to my senior year.
Title: High Line Canvas
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Let's play a game by Emily Motter
My name is Emily and I live in Inwood, near the Cloisters. I love making things for others to enjoy, and although I don’t consider myself an artist, I do consider myself creative.
My project name is “Let’s Play a Game.” My project is a life-size game where instead of game pieces representing you, you are the game piece. To complete the game you must go around the...
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The World Explored: Eastside Exploration-... →
tia9994:
Today my group and I explored the closest four blocks east from the Eyebeam building.Noticing some fairly important (well, to us) statistics that we thought others should know: 1) On about every block, there was a taxi cab either going back and forth
2) There were no empty parking spaces for all…
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Daily Blog Day 8 by Estephanie
Yesterday at DDC we shared each others’ projects and our ideas about how we will be presenting them. We received feedback and made changes that were needed, if needed. We also used Sketch Up and made a model of our ten by ten space.
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Daily Blog: Day 10
Today, after discussing what we should do on the day of our presentation, everybody set to work to finish their projects. It’s amazing how many different projects can be going on and nothing turns into utter chaos. People were filming, painting, gluing, drawing, and using computer graphics. For snack, as a happy birthday treat, we had ice cream with whip cream and chocolate syrup. I...
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Tuesday the 12th - DDC Recap
Today we went back to our 10x10 sites to get video documentation. We each shot two minutes of footage to edit down to 30 seconds, as an overview our sites.
Here a quick raw video of a space:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyebeam-sandbox/5932309173/in/set-72157627060463363
When we got back, after snacks, we broke up into two groups. One group worked on editing the videos, while the other groups...
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City Streets' Stats; Data Dominated Days.
If viewed by a purely scientific eye, the world around us is merely a set of statistics. We are each a number, and the world spins on a carefully calculated axis of facts and figures. Today at DDC, we were sent into the world on an expedition of analysis, seeking to measure the myriad variables around our ten by ten corners of the universe. We then journeyed back to Eyebeam in order to organize...
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WatchToni Crit on tenbyten space
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Kaome: This is a chopped up version of my space. It is near a carousel by the pier. The idea is to put my space somewhere it is shady area so that people will be more likely to stop by and interact with my space.
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NORTH TEAM. Statistics of the Highline
tasmin318:
1. AGE group.
40% Adults
35% Senior Citizens
20% Kids (12 and under)
05% Teenagers
2. 40% tourists on the highline
60% New York City Residents
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West Group Statistics (Day 2)
kaome:
1 Unicyclist
100 tires on Toyota Vehicles
336 Chelsea Pier Brocures
1 Lamborghini Murcielago
1 Pier
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Going South
ztok3n:
Statistics for south of DDC
1. about half of chelsi’s population is gay
2.Very few park violations happen on the highline
3. about 10% of chelsi’s goes on the highline in a day
4.Crazy street venders dont make very much money
5.Parkrangers think they are all that and a bag of chips
these statisics are not 2 use 4 anything inportant u will get fired or worse
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Ruth's Blog: HOW FAR WEST?! →
ruthli277:
Everyone on the team was undecided. We didn’t know how far West we could go in the Chelsea Piers and how much more we could explore on our adventure. Some asked “Is there more West? Beyond Chelsea Piers?”, ” Is our limit the end of the Light House?”, and more questions were asked about our…
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Estephanie's Crit
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Teenage Funk: Day 2 , East Group Exploration.... →
teenagefunk:
After venturing a few blocks east from Eye Beam. We kept our eyes out for things that can be used to describe Chelsea, but during the exploration, I decided to look for the small things. The unsung pieces of Chelsea, East Chelsea.
Window Above ( A story by Jarius Pierre-Toussaint , of the DDC…
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Starting Plan Of The Guess That Tune Public...
Kaome: Here I am presenting my planned project. My idea consists of playing music simultaneously in a period of time. The person in the game will have to guess which artist the song belongs to. The speakers that the music will be played through will be placed in each corner of the 10x10 space. There also will be a table placed in the middle of the space which will have the artists of the songs...
