YBCA needs you vote!

Chase Community Giving is sponsoring a contest on their Facebook page for nonprofits around the country with grants awarded by popular vote. 100 organizations who receive the most votes by December 11th will receive $25,000 and a chance to go on to the second round. Five runners up selected in the second round of voting vote will receive $100,000—and the winner will get a $1 million grant!

Your vote will help to ensure that YBCA can continue to present the most current and cutting edge visual art, performances and films from the Bay Area and around the world. Your vote will also help us to continue providing a home venue, under our subsidized rental program, for dozens of local non-profit arts organizations to present themselves in a first rate, professional setting.

Watch our very special appeal for your help:

HOW TO VOTE:

1. GO TO http://bit.ly/chaseybca

2. Click on the search banner.

3. Type in “Yerba Buena Center for the Arts”
(Select “Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens”)

You can also help by posting a message on your Facebook page and urging all your friends to vote for YBCA.

VOTE FOR YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS TODAY!

ALL VOTES MUST BE IN BY DECEMBER 11TH

Thank you for your support!

Howdy

Hey there YBCAsters!

Hows it going? What are you all up to? Hope your all enjoying yourselves. As for me I am happy and I am free! Haha. For a week, a week that is almost over. Last week I had finals and now I am on my break that is soon to be over. Then just one quarter to go and I graduate!! :] Since classes have been out I’ve been soaking up the warm sunshine of ocean beach, saw an awesome dance performance by the Other Suns at our vary own YBCA, been getting lots of little things done and have by parents coming down this weekend to visit my sisters and I. So lots going on.

Tonight though I got to come on down to YBCA and document the Xu Tan’s “Keywords School”. As usual it was a dual experience. I get to be behind the camera and at the same time observe what is going on. Always a wonderful thing to be a part of. Oh, something interesting about it was that I filmed with the camera turned sideways. It is how Xu Tan likes to have his work documented. I had never filmed like that before so it was different and fun.

Well that is it for now. You all have a great weekend!

Oct 1st. 5-8pm

Point & Shoot

Hi YBCAsters,
Had a great meeting with the YBCA staff about the upcoming point & shoot series. I went over some basic shooting techniques with them, which was a good exercise for all of us.

Hours:
Week of the 31st: 10 hours
Week of the 7th: 8 hours
Week of the 14th: 10 hours

YBCA Point ‘n’ Shoot (beta test)

This week will be the first media training meeting with the voluntary YBCA staff. The plan is to teach them basic video production, storytelling techniques, and have them shoot their perspective to be included in the YBCA Inside Out series. The selected stories would be documented by that staff member and edited by me. I’m curious to see what develops, we have 10 people who have RSVP for the first meeting and I didn’t even offer any snacks or drinks, wow!

Goals of the Project

Inside:

• Get staff trained in video production.
• Connect the various departments at YBCA.
• Offer all staff a chance to participate in telling their story.
• Organize a multimedia staff across all departments.

Outside

• Offer our audience a new insight into the world of YBCA.
• Share stories that define who YBCA is.
• Be transparent, connect with our audience and engage with them through our new innovated initiatives.
• Connect with people through viral social networking.
• Add to the YBCA Inside Out series.

Can’t you here me?

Hello there my friends!

Hows it? September is here and I am loving it! How about you? Sorry it has been a while but I am back to say hello. Interning has been a bit mellow the last two weeks but we are just warming up for more. We will be working on our Point ‘N’ Shoot series, part of our Inside Out series these next few weeks. We’ll let you know when we start putting them up!

As for me I’ve been working on my branding and portfolio website for my Portfolio class at Ai. The other day I looked at tuns of fonts on dafont.com and color pallets at colourlovers.com. I always want to see all my options and with so many it can be exciting and overwhelming. I’m getting there though. So hopefully I will have my site up and going before too long. Then I can share it with you all.

Here is a color pallet that I really liked.

Hours:

Thu 10, 12-3pm

What’s Up?

Hey there everybody! Hows it going?

Here’s what’s been up. This last week I have been working on the Crystal edit for our upcoming YBCA Inside Out Series. In the process of working on it I am continusly amazed by the way a big chunk of informating is broken down into someting smaller, the essence.

Thats it for now. More to come. Fun, fun.

Hours:

Sun 23, 2:30-6:30 editing
Wed 26, 6-7:30 editing
Thu 27, 12-2 ybca
Sat 29, 12-4 editing
Sun 30, 4-6 editing

Body and Mind

I was amazed! Perhaps you will be too.

It is fascinating to see what can be accomplished with the body and the mind. They are both amazing tools but together even more so. When I first saw this bicyclist video I  was astounded. It starts off slow but builds up to some great feats.

Smoke Bombs

[found by nicksy]

Tools for Twitter, interesting…

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/technology/personaltech/27pogue-email.html

Editing

Hello YBCAsters,
I’m currently in the process of editing together the first set of staff profiles for the YBCA Inside/Out series. Going swimmingly so far.

hours:
wednesday
4 hours
thursday
7 hours
friday
3 hours
monday
2 hours
tuesday 4 hours