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Media Arts Camp
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 7:20AM Welcome to this summer's Media Arts Camp students! This is the first time we've tried a camp model for our summer program. Let us know what you think so that we can make the program even better next year. | ||
Hello to Southern Kern Youth!
Monday, June 14, 2010 at 2:54PM We are sitting here with Daisy, Diana, Karina, Sandy, and Alex and waiting for the other teens to arrive to begin the photo documentary project in Southern Kern. Check back often to see their photos as they begin to document their community! | ||
Film Students Win Multiple Awards
Wednesday, June 09, 2010 at 4:43PM In addition to the Shortie Award (see below), Sam's and Jesse's multimedia piece "South L.A. in Words and Pictures" was selected for the Echo Park Film Festival, as was Erik's film "Lincoln Hardware: A Fixture in Venice." Itzel and Jocelyn's film, "Sunny's Story," was selected for the Santa Monica Teen Film Festival. | ||
Alex & Cathy Win Shortie Award!
Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 5:46PM Congratulations to student Alex Thomas and mentor Cathy de la Cruz for winning the Shortie Award for Alex' Story, a multimedia piece featuring Alex' photos and audio, which Cathy edited. Check it out here. | ||
Venice Arts student Chris Rojas receives prestigious USC summer cinematography scholarship.
Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 4:27PM Congratulations to Christopher Rojas, a member of Venice Arts' Youth Media Crew workshop and a Youth Art Intern, who will be attending the USC School of Cinematic Arts Summer Program for Film and Digital Cinematography. | ||
Apply now! New Internship & Scholarship Opportunities--Check it out!
Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 4:51PM MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | ||
Follow Our Project in Coachella
Sunday, April 04, 2010 at 9:46PM Venice Arts is working with youth in the East Coachella Valley, teaching them to document their community, and their lives. Follow this project, here! | ||
Your Exhibit: Coming May 8th
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 6:17PM It's almost time for the Spring Exhibit featuring the best of the photography, films, multimedia pieces, and visual art that you created this year. Great food and friends, too. You'll get a flyer to give to family and friends, but tell them know to Save the Date: Saturday, May 8, 2010 from 12pm-2pm. Looking forward to seeing everyone's work! | ||
Announcing Jocelyn's MODC (Mini Online Debate Club)
Thursday, March 04, 2010 at 2:51PM Check-out the new Mini Online Debate Club (MODC) just launched by Jocelyn or, Jo–Z. Her current topic? The death penalty. | ||
Try Something New!
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 3:33PM If you are interested in visiting one of the other Venice Arts workshops to get a glimpse of what other students are working on, please contact Rosalyn by sending a Beyond My Space email. She'll contact the instructor for you to visit the class. You might enjoy it and want to enroll for next session. :) | ||
Summer School for the Arts Applications Due February 27, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010 at 5:44PM The California State Summer School for the Arts is accepting applications for this summer's programs, which are open to young musicians, writers, performers, visual artists, and filmmakers. Contact Cathy if you need assistance with your application! | ||
LACMA Muse now accepting submissions for young filmmaker showcase
Friday, December 04, 2009 at 7:55AM Ambitious young filmmakers are encouraged to check out the county museum's annual call for entries in the next cycle of the Young Directors Program run by LACMA Muse. Next deadline is January 15, 2010. | ||
Website downtime scheduled
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 6:47AM Please note the website is scheduled to be offline for maintenance and upgrades from Saturday, December 12, 2009 starting at 6 p.m. until Monday, December 14, 2009 at 10 a.m. Avoid planning any website activities during this time period, because the website may or may not be accessible, or it may be accessible intermittently. Thereafter, the website will be stocked full with new features, as if having been visited by the very Santa Claus of websites, who, by the way, lives in Silicon Valley. | ||
County features Venice Arts downtown project
Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 1:41PM Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's web site features youth photography from a partnership between Venice Arts and St. Francis Center. The photography depicts work about and by kids who live in the downtown Garment District. The project's partnership, which engages kids with photography and video, began in 2007 and is one of the continuing workshops in this year's programs. Click here to see the feature on Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's web site. | ||
Submit Your Work: Spotlight Awards
Thursday, September 03, 2009 at 8:32AM The Music Center's Spotlight Awards offer teen visual artists, including photographers, great scholarship and learning opportunities. All applicants attend master classes and museum tours, while award winners receive scholarships valued from $5,000 (1st place) to $100 (semi-finalists). All applicants who advance to the semi-final level will have their work hung in a prominent gallery. | ||
Get Ready to Show Your Stuff
Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 9:48AM Summer session ends Aug 22nd and you'll be preparing for your exhibit just like in April - except that it will be online, instead of at the Gallery. If you don't know how to create a Collection for the Public to see, check-out this simple tutorial. Looking forward to seeing what you've done this summer! | ||
How Do I? Check-out the Online Library
Friday, July 17, 2009 at 2:47PM The brilliant and ever-diligent Marita, our summer Getty Intern, has been creating great tutorials and posting them to the library. Check them out if you need help with such things as Creating a Slideshow in iMovie, Tethered Shooting, Converting .avi to .mov. Please feel free, as well, to post your own tutorials, lesson plans, or workshop exercises. | ||
Your Virtual Venice Arts
Friday, June 19, 2009 at 1:29PM This summer marks new fun with Beyond MySpace -- for mentors and students. Spend some time checking out the incredible work that Eugene has done on the site. Upload your work. Create a gallery. See your favorite quotes appear in the footer. Check out others' stuff and let them know what you think! Build your list of Favs and Interests. Blog. As new features are added to the site we'll let you know in this News column. | ||
Happy May Day
Friday, May 01, 2009 at 9:22PM Beyond MySpace upgrades are complete in time to welcome May. Enjoy the experience of logging in, finding (most of) your stuff, and playing with an entirely new suite of storytelling Tools. | ||
Upgrades to version 3.0 are under way
Monday, April 27, 2009 at 10:45AM Beyond MySpace is receiving major upgrades this week. Some of your work may not appear on your studio page during this time. Don't fret! Your stuff is safe, and will be accessible to you once we're done setting up all of the website's new features. | ||
Unseen changes
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 4:00AM News from behind the scenes: The website has been moved to a setup that does what it does in a much faster way. How's that for being non-technical?Everything should work faster. Faster is better. Not always, but in this case, yeah. | ||
Dress up your profile page
Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 8:49AM A few new things for Beyond MySpace: folks can now wallpaper their home pages with any image out there on the Internet. This one goes out to Alex. How to do this? Easy. There is a new option on everyone's Edit Profile page. Type or paste the address in the textbox labeled Background Image URL. And I cleaned up the way homepage options are summarized on that edit profile page. Should be even easier to use now. Hmm ... oh also ... I updated the gallery page so that it's easier to sequence the photos. Just add and delete photos to the gallery. The order that you add them is the order that they will appear. | ||
Create your own photo gallery
Saturday, August 12, 2006 at 8:58AM Another amazing new feature on Beyond MySpace: Curate your own photo gallery! Yes, that's right. You take photos. You publish photos. You critique photos. Now you can organize and present photo sets based on any theme you want. First thing you want to do is go to your profile and set up your a name and description for your photo gallery. Then, after that, adding photos to your gallery is easy. Any time you are viewing anyone's photo in full size, you can click on the the link that says something like 'Add photo to my gallery' to add photos. One click and it is added to your gallery. You can remove photos from your gallery just as easily. Just go to your gallery, spot the photo you want to remove, and click on the remove link (it's a minus sign). Have fun! | ||
Website maintenance
Friday, August 04, 2006 at 6:51AM Some minor acts of tidying up: Fixed some homepage settings problems for some of the newer members of Beyond MySpace (sorry about that Eden and Ursula!) ... and I went through the database and found every blog entry (only about six of them) that was purely a note for me to do something, and I changed them from blog entries into messages to me. They were created before we had the messaging feature. Now that we have the messaging feature, that's what they will be. It's like they've finally come home. | ||
Website updates
Friday, August 04, 2006 at 6:34AM Update time. Some recent website improvements include: class homepages; delete your blog entry function; delete your photo entry function; preview photo comments feature; message everyone feature. Enjoy! | ||
More website updates
Saturday, July 29, 2006 at 7:58AM OK, here's the latest, in one big long blog breath: You can now leave messages for other people. Just go to their homepage and leave a message. You can edit your blog entries. Just click on the edit link next to the blog entry you want to update. You can edit your photo information (the title and caption). Just click on the edit link next to your photo. The homepage layout has been updated to include photo titles for each photo displayed, and now there's a whole new section that shows your incoming messages. Also, your homepage now shows the five latest blog entries, photos, and messages by default, instead of showing everything. Somebody asked for this. You can view more than the latest five by clicking on the number link at the tops of your lists. This number is the total count of how many items you have in that list. | ||
Website updates!
Monday, July 24, 2006 at 6:24AM A few updates. The home page browsing dropdown box has been moved to the top of the page. Seems to make more sense there, especially with class home pages on the way. Also, I fixed a little bug with the photo uploading tool to prevent people from uploading new pictures over existing pictures with the same filename. | ||
Comment all you want
Saturday, July 22, 2006 at 7:53AM The big update this week is students can now comment on photos! Here's how: While logged in to the website, just click on someone's photo to view that photo full size. Under the photo, is a place to assign a smiley and make a comment. Have fun with this! | ||
Website updates
Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 6:28AM A few scattered updates, some virtually unnoticable to the naked eye: You can now update your username, password, and e-mail address ... Added more color options for fonts and page backgrounds ... Set up a formal stylesheet ... Added a few new icons ... A new procedure has been defined for setting up new students ... Added an easter egg showing a person's website statistics ... Worked on the behind-the-scenes structure to organize sessions, classes, enrollment, and attendance ... Worked on, but did not completely resolve, some logic issues on the entry page. | ||
Website updates
Friday, July 14, 2006 at 7:48AM Something else I added to the website yesterday: a function that lets you upload a personal photo. Access this tool via the 'Edit Profile' link. Your personal photo appears above your name on your home page. | ||
New features
Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 6:56AM The following features were added this morning to the Beyond MySpace main page: A mini gallery showing the most recent student photo submissions ... Links to full-size versions of those photos on a photo view page that also has links to the photographer's home page ... A quote from the most recent student blog entry ... Link in to that student's home page. These updates make it easy for parents and friends to enter the site and see student work, without having to log in. | ||
Website updates
Monday, July 10, 2006 at 6:49AM Over the weekend, the following features were added to Beyond MySpace: A header bar displays special links and messages for a visitor who is logged in ... A drop down allows visitors to navigate homepages ... Blog entries can have icons ... Photos can have both titles and captions ... Font styles, font colors, and page colors on homepages are customizable ... You can log out ... You don't have to log in to view homepages |
