Digital Day Camp 2011

Digital Day Camp 2011: What we learned, What we loved.The teens...

edu-eyebeam — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:15:17 -0400

Digital Day Camp 2011: What we learned, What we loved.
The teens of DDC share some of their positive experiences from this summer’s program.

Thanks to DDC teen Ian Antoni for interviews and camera work, and Eyebeam Production Assistant Kyle Kessler for editing together the final cut.

Photos from DDC 2011

edu-eyebeam — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:56:23 -0400

Photos from DDC 2011:

Final Projects - Google Map

balansamba — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:22:00 -0400

Final Projects - Google Map:

Here is a Google Map MyMap that features locational links and descriptions of all the 10x10 project pages.

Each pin-point represents a 10’x10’ square of NYC that DDC students claimed as their own. Teens used their spaces as sites for collaboration, creative intervention, research and performance. Through this project, we re-mapped our city.

Check it out: http://bit.ly/qSteIX

Eyebeam’s DDC students spent a great afternoon with some...

searchpaths — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:25:19 -0400

Eyebeam’s DDC students spent a great afternoon with some alumni from NPR’s Radio Rookies program. The Rookies interviewed each of the students about their 10x10 projects, which were in process at the time. Students had the opportunity to talk about their individual work, the tools they were using to make it, and the challenges they faced. The Rookies also made footage of project work in action! Stay tuned for some snippets of audio. (All images above courtesy of Hawa Lee, NPR Radio Rookie Alum.)

You can see our Flickr photoset here.

Express Yourself!

stephddc2011 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:51:28 -0400

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. I chose graffiti because it is a very controversial topic and I thought that it would be interesting to see how people reacted to it. I put up a poster on which people were able to write whatever they wanted. I decided to leave the poster for three days, unfortunately when I went to retrieve it, it was gone. We believe it was taken down by the advertisers who had their advertisements near my poster but it is unclear who and why they did it. I also put together a slide show on this controversial issue and my opinions on it. Above are important slides from the slide show.

Kaome's Final Project:Guess That Tune?

mishkakid — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:46:00 -0400

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 20 accepted. I am a resident of East New York, Brooklyn. From my house to Eyebeam it is about a hour to a hour and a half travel time. It may sound long and bad but I spend more time in Air-Conditioned trains then I do outside in the sweltering heat.

Also I have a passion for music which inspired the 10x10 space idea. My idea was to make a mini game show. I will tell you how it is set up. First there are 4 speakers,4 chairs, 1 table, 2 ipods, 5 prizes, 4 notecards. There will be 4 chairs positioned in each corner of there 10x10 space. On top of those chairs there will be 4 speakers. Attached to every 2 speakers there will be an ipod. Coming out of each speaker will be a different song. According to the language the contestants chose there will be 4 notecards positioned on the table which they will placed on the speaker the contestant thinks matches what was played. They have to match the song or artist to the correct speaker in 1:00 minute. If the participating contestant correctly matches each song or artist with the correct speaker they will win one of the 5 prizes selected at random.

The city of talent

aracellyswaithe — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:05:00 -0400

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 great experience to watch my work be presented to many others whom i did not know. being able to share my talents such as dancing and producing was something that made me feel accomplished. What a great day!

City of Music... by Mitia and Ari

tia9994 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:02:00 -0400

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 will be able to complete our work and show it to thousands of people around the world.

CHILDHOOD INDULGENCE by TANJHID CHOUDHURY

tanjhid — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:02:00 -0400

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 to play with toys that they’d normally only play with as little kids. My target audience is children and adults alike and I’d want both to give in to their childhood desire to play. I’ve made 3 brightly colored boxes to act as containers for toys and I placed them on the bench in my 10x10 space. In front of the bench I placed a brightly colored mat for people to play with the toys on. The bright colors were to attract attention and to stand out against the earthy tones of the park. The mat is supposed to provide a playspace more comfortable than concrete and it is equally colorful. My overall goal is to help people like adults relieve stress and go back to a time in their lives where there weren’t any pressures pushing down on them and to help people like kids get used to a communal system of toys and get used to sharing.

Ian Antoni 10x10 final

ztok3n — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:33:00 -0400

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 and distract them to have some fun. My plan was to have a big box that had a a radio with a CD that had voice recordings on it and I would have a remote that had a button for each recording and when people would walk i would hit one of the buttons and it would talk to the people. But after all this I ended up using a long sounds cable connected to speackers and and mic so a can talk thought it. So I will be the real brain of the box.

Y'Hurd?: Youth In Revolt short art gallery featuring Tabby Wakes by Tabitha Wakefield

tabbywakesddc — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:51:00 -0400

Y'Hurd?: Youth In Revolt short art gallery featuring Tabby Wakes by Tabitha Wakefield:

tabbywakesddc:

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 have Graffiti on them and features my own personal tag “AMIN.” I chose this for my 10 x 10 because I have spent most of my freshman year learning the Graffiti Arts and Drawing… I like to draw when im bored and I soon realized that, that is what i wanted to do for my project DRAW. Although Graffiti is illegal, its nice to see it not on the streets or defacing anyones property… I believe that not all Graffiti is bad but, it is creative and shows many different p.o.v.’s of others. I also created many figurines in which im naming martians of vah-ding land. I created those myself… ENJOY!

Dendroidal Diction

honestnotebook — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:48:00 -0400

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 books it almost represents the full cycle of the paper enclosed in the book covers. It also represents all of the fused together elements of a neighborhood, as it’s a rather odd amalgamation of authors, genres, and titles. The book tower stands victorious even though the tree no longer flourishes in a traditional sense.

The wooden planks lining the flowerbed emphasize the words trapped in the now glue-bound pages of the centripetal tower. They also bring out the most important ideas of the project, as the quotes celebrate the words and dreams embodied by the books. The planks, too, are wooden, and also attempt to recall to life the once-standing tree. In this small city square, I’ve tried to emphasize the full transgression of a tree and plant another seed in the concrete jungle.

The inCOMPLETE art project by: Toni Koval

toni-the-tyger — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:44:37 -0400

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 polaroid pictures placed inside them. I then took my “wall” outside and asked people who were walking by my tenbyten space to take a picture of anything they found interesting, after they took the picture they filled out an info card that you normally see next to an art piece in a gallery, they also had their own business card to sign and keep. My incomplete wall then became complete once all the pictures were taken :)

Tasmin Rahman: Dream Catcher

tasmin318 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:22:00 -0400

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 and have some hope that it will come true. I chose cupcakes because it’s a delicious, happy treat that everyone loves. My first spot was by the Carousel in the Hudson River Park. However, the day I chose to do my project was too hot. The weather was really warm, therefore not many people came to the park. I decided to move my dream catcher stand to a more populated place. At first, things were going really slow. A few minutes later, summer day programs started ending at Chelsea Piers, so a lot of kids walked by. I got a couple of wishes from people of all ages. Out of the 36 cupcakes I baked, I had about 7 left.

After a long day of collecting wishes and distributing cupcakes, I finally finished. I had about 25 dreams. I rounded up all of the wishes and made a collage of the dreams.

Brooklyn Finest,Jaira Mckinney

jaira1 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:39:00 -0400

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 their way.

A little piece of paradise! by Troy Saunders

odeemadmuch — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:57:00 -0400

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 music playing from a different speaker.

Eyebeam is an amazing program and the teachers are sooo sooo helpful.

THE WONDER BOX PROJECT by ARIANA MARINI My name is Ariana Marini...

heyhiihellothere-deactivated201 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:52:00 -0400

THE WONDER BOX PROJECT by ARIANA MARINI

My name is Ariana Marini and I live in the Bronx. I’m a thinker, a believer, and maybe even sometimes a dreamer. I like films and fish and bright nail polish. I hum too loud, talk too fast, and sing too horribly. I have little to offer anyone aside from my own confusion. My project, “The Wonder Box Project” is meant to show the importance of every single person in our lives, whether we know them personally or not, as well as express the importance of gift giving. ”The Wonder Box Project” contains boxes of different sizes with different items within them. A person comes by the exhibit and takes one item inside of one of the boxes and leaves another in its place. Gifts are then changing hands between strangers. A gift can be anything and it can mean something to someone that one might never have imagined. I also created a short documentary that tells the vision for my project through the voices of other people, which is shown here. Enjoy!

Photos of my project can be found at the following links:

http://tinypic.com/r/34grkmb/7

http://tinypic.com/r/281g6f7/7

THE MISADVENTURES OF MR. SKIPS by GIULIA GIRGENTI My name is...

giulia-ddc2011 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:17:00 -0400

THE 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 evil power ranger toys, and guarded by evil minions such as malicious scissors and a man-eating handbag. The only way to save his love is to employ his ninja skills against the minions, but will he make it out alive?

Concept, editing, production and direction by Giulia Girgenti.
Music: Demon Days by Gorillaz

From the Ground Up by Victoria Freeman

vfreeman2012 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:08:00 -0400

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 benches in the Chelsea Park. These items can be garbage, water bottle, a person sitting next to you, or an occasional person walking by. It also shows different views that you can see when your sitting on the end of the bench. These include birds, leaves, and trees.  

This is all shown in a collage of photos that were taken by me. The whole idea is to make people look down and look at the ground and the photos. This is to take advantage of space that people walk by without even thinking about what it can be used for.

Change New York by Jarius Pierre-Toussaint

teenagefunk — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:09:00 -0400

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 you wish could change.
Name one thing about New York you wish would stay the same.

I found the idea of this project very intriguing because normally in a big city like this we are presented with things that will forever be here, and that we can never change. Like excessive cars, crowded subways, and lack of trees. The most unfortunate thing about this is, that New Yorkers have grown used to it. Many of them have come to believe that this is the way they will live, and its the only way.

Allowing someone to share their thoughts about their home (New York) , and then being able to see all the other things people think about it. Allows them to feel like they arent the only ones who feel the way they do.

By the end of my project presentation I hope that all the people who participated in this project see that their thoughts or wishes aren’t solo in this city, and might actually have a whole army besides it!