Urban Arts Festival Photo Booth

27 May 2009, 3:51 PM by Alice

We had such an amazing time at the Urban Arts Festival: watching and performing, creating and looking at art, meeting people and sharing work.

Here are some pictures by Teaching Artist Elise Rasmussen and students from IS 230 from the photo booth.

A SELECTION OF OUR WORK

06 Mar 2009, 3:29 PM by UrbanArtsAdmin

Here are some of the well composed photographs the students and seniors have taken since our partnerships began. We are looking forward to the warmer weather so that we can continue to shoot more photos outside.  Today in class we looked at these and other photos and wrote our reactions in our journals. It was a great opportunity to see some of the work we have done so far.  ENJOY!

A photo of Ms. Piller

The Fly & The Gate

Look Up!

Three Shadows

A photo of Aysia

Photo by: Ruben

Rule of Thirds

TASS / SIROVICH Senior Center Collaboration

24 Feb 2009, 9:37 AM by Bami

PORTRAITS: Photographs the Seniors & Students have taken of each other.

ADOLF

GLORIA'S HUSBAND

AYSIA

NICOLE

Ms. Pillar (The class teacher)

AZAM

MS131-City Hall Senior Center Collaboration

10 Feb 2009, 8:17 PM by Alice

On January 22, MS131 Students took a field trip to the Brooklyn Bridge.  We photographed the bridge’s architectural details, lines and shapes, and the lights beginning to come up in the city during “golden hour”. We hope to go with the seniors to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens in the spring.

Ting Zhang, MS131

At 4:45p.m, this is a picture of Brooklyn Bridge in " Golden Hour".

It is beautiful because it is a memory of people who built up the bridge.

Ting Zhang MS131

At 4: 49p.m, it is a picture of a Brooklyn Bridge tower. 

It is cool that it shows the inside of the tower and it looks like an ancient castle. 

Ting Zhang, MS131

 At 4:50p.m, the American flag is on top of the Brooklyn Bridge tower.

it is a symbol that America is an independent nation.

Jing Li, MS131

The Manhattan bridge and the East River are beautiful looking from the Brooklyn Bridge in January, 2009. The light is beautiful when it's almost dark outside. The color of the sky is blue, a little pink, and a little bit of orange. 

Shan Shan Lin, MS131

This picture of the Brooklyn Bridge is beautiful, the  time  is  2009, January. I took the  

picture because the boat is very big.

MS131-City Hall Senior Center Collaboration

06 Feb 2009, 2:10 PM by Alice

The photo program at MS131 has been collaborating with the City Hall Senior Center, posing the question “What is your first memory of New York?” Both the seniors and the students answered, and these are some of their memories:

“My first time in NY it was noisy with a lot of people, everybody busy, The city was so dirty…But in the night NY was so enjoyable!  The Brooklyn Bridge, the cars all turned their lights on…everything just like in the movies!”  -Cheng Cheng Zhou, MS131 student
 

"When I first came to NY, everything was fresh and interesting.  Reading English was ok for me, but speaking English was so difficult.  Then I went to learn English.  Daytime, I worked.  At night I went to study English.  Every night I got home at 11pm.  Finally I got used to living in the U.S."

-Senior at City Hall Senior Center

The Night

The sun was gone,

the darkness covered the city.

The lights went on,

the day was over.

The memory of the first day

flashed in my mind:

sitting on the plane,

looking at the dark night.

It was quite beautiful.

By Denise M. (8th Grade, M.S. 131 After-School Photography Class)