Painting with Light on the High Line!
NYC SALT students had the most AMAZING photo class tonight with Gabriel Biderman from B&H Photo teaching the students a night photography class in our studio and ending on NYC's most awesome new park, the High Line! In addition, Manfrotto sent Anthony Pak with a tripod and professional camera bag as a gift to each student. AND we had the best teaching staff ever with Poon Watchara-Amphaiwan, Kevin Goggin, Michael Bocchieri, Ben Norman, Alicia Hansen, and Adam Chinitz. The photo is by SALT student Andrew Morocho and the light painting is by Ashley Ventura!
SALT Radio Rookie Multimedia Stories:
NYC SALT partnered with the WNYC Radio Rookie teen radio program to create multimedia stories documenting Roosevelt Island’s Main Street. Many New Yorkers know little about Roosevelt Island besides that the tram takes you there. Over the course of a 6-week intensive workshop, the Short Wave Rookie Reporters found all kinds of fascinating stories on this island that's so close, yet so different from the rest of the city.
Their stories are part of a collaboration with the Mapping Main Street project which aims to collect stories from all of the more than 10,000 streets named Main in the United States.
We'd like to give a special thanks to Lexar Media for supplying us with SD cards and readers as well as funding for our programming!
CAT ISLAND (click link to view multimedia story)
Short Wave Radio Rookies went to Roosevelt Island's Main Street to report mutlimedia stories. On the north end of the Island they found a colony of cats and a whole community of people who love them.
Produced by: Amanda Thieroff and Adam Chinitz
Contributors: Rookie Reporter Danny Martinez and Rookie Reporter Christian Rodriguez
Living in Pain on Roosevelt Island (click on link to view multimedia video)
JR Cortez lives in chronic pain on Roosevelt Island. Short Wave Radio Rookies Maire Mendoza, Mary Lopez and Devin Osorio help him tell his story.
Produced by: Courtney Stein and Alicia Hansen
Contributors: Rookie Reporter Mary Lopez, Rookie Reporter Maire Mendoza and Rookie Reporter Devin Osorio
The Octagon (click link to view multimedia story)
Roosevelt Island's Octagon building has a long history. It started out as a "lunatic asylum" and ended up as a high-end apartment building. Short Wave Rookies wanted to learn more about the history of the place.
Produced by: Yasmeen Khan and Sari Goodfriend
Contributors: Rookie Reporter Cynthia Blanco, Rookie Reporter Ydalmi Estrella and Rookie Reporter Isora Lithgow
Noel Who?(click link to view multimedia story)
Short Wave Rookies Ailyn Perez, Kedwein Valdez and Lewis Escano heard stories about one of Roosevelt Island's known characters: Noel the Fisherman. They searched for him for weeks on the island, trying to tell his story. Wandering up and down Roosevelt Island's Main Street, they realized that the infamous Noel wasn't the only character out there.
Produced by: Sarah P. Reynolds
Contributors: Rookie Reporter Lewis Escano, Rookie Reporter Ailyn Perez and Rookie Reporter Kedwein Valdez
NYC SALT student’s win in Scholastic Arts Awards!!!!!!
I AM SO PROUD OF THESE KIDS!!!! Today I got a letter in the mail from the Scholastic Arts Awards. Whohoo! Yippee!! I am so honored to tell you that five of our students placed! Devin Osorio and Nora Molina won Gold Key awards in for their senior portfolios. The Gold key award is the highest level of achievement on the regional level. Gold Key works are forwarded to New York City for national adjudication. Lewis Escano and Danny Martinez have won Silver Key awards for their senior portfolios. Silver key awards are for works worthy of recognition on the regional level. Both Devin Osorio and Ailyn Perez won in individual photo categories! The students' work will be exhibited in an exhibition at the Casita Maria, and they are invited to an awards ceremony on April 2nd.
Blumenfeld reincarnation, by Devin
Photo and text by Devin Osorio
I am currently in the process of creating a fashion portfolio for my college application to Fashion Institute of Technology. I was trying to find a way to incorporate both my love of fashion and photography in hopes to make me stand out. With this in mind I spent a day in Kristen Somody Whalen's home (she's one of our photography teachers) studying piles of books filled with pictures from fashion photographer greats such as Louise Dahl Wolfe, Melvin Sokolsky, and Hiro. Within these books I came across Ewing Blumenfield's image of a girl under a veil. This picture blew my mind! It was exactly what I wanted for my portfolio. In my mind, I saw an image of a girl with fabric blowing from her face and one of my accessories dressed beautifully on her neck, creating a cross image between Victor and Rolf's "Flowerbomb" campaign and the outfits for the guy in "The Elephant Man".
So with Alicia's help in the photography studio, I had my model stand in front of the window creating beautiful soft lighting which worked great against my models skin and face shape. I used a black card in back of her to make the colors of the fabric and accessories stand out.
Meet our four new students!!
Let me introduce you to four new students: Isora, Cynthia, Sadie, and Ailyn! All the girls are juniors in high school. We are so happy to welcome them into our class! ~Alicia
NYC SALT interviewed on Webtalkradio.net
Last month, I was honored to be interviewed by Renee McGivern, host of NONPROFIT SPARK, a radio podcast that focuses on best practices, developing and running a volunteer force, effective governance, and many other topics pertinent to running a nonprofit organization. Her website is an amazing resource!! Here is the link to the radio podcast featuring NYC SALT! Nyc Salt | WebTalkRadio.net
One of the resources I have found to be super valuable from her site is this website on best practices in nonprofits:Free Management Library (SM)
Enjoy!! Alicia
Love+Water Designs works with SALT students to create tee shirt designs.
Love and Water Designs holds weekly t-shirt design projects. Anyone can design the shirts, you can vote for the best design, they donate up to 50% of all profits to charity. Love and Water is starting a youth division and us partnered with the NYC SALT students. The students are making tee shirt designs for Smile Train, a charity that helps children with cleft palates. Please check out NYC SALT students' work at: http://loveandwaterdesigns.com/charities/smile-train. Sign up for an account and note NYC SALT in your profile and vote on your favorite designs...and please make comments on the ones you like. The kids receive an incentive if they have between 10-20 comments on their design.
Danny's design:
The Chook + NYC SALT = the students have their own websites!
The Chook has recently donated a website to each one of the NYC SALT students. We are so thankful! Please check NYC SALT students out on The Chook, a visual directory of creative professionals. Christian, Nora and Lewis have all created their own directory listing.
http://www.thechook.com/ChristianRodriguez