Mr.Needles Portrait Studio

This week students in all Mr.Needles classes will be working on the JR Inside Out project along with creating a PSA for the school.  Above are some photographs from Mr.Needles 7th period studio art and below are some images from Mr.Needles 5th period media arts class today.  The finished PSA will feature about 1000 Smithtown students and will be created by the Media Art Honor Society in conjunction with the SIT team and Mr.Needles media classes.

JR and the Inside Out project

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We recently discussed French artist JR who won the TED Prize in 2011 and his Inside Out project This week he is in NY, in Times Square taking and posting portraits of everyone who stops by the photobooth truck. The NY Times wrote a piece on him yesterday and a documentary about the project (which the Art Honor Society participated in) screened at Tribeca Film Festival recently and will be shown on HBO on May 20.

Mr. Needles class in The Matador

This semester's edition of The Matador featured an article about Mr. Needles class and their participation in the Inside Out Project from the French photographer JR. After the winter break we will be working on expanding the project outside of the art wing and into the rest of the school and larger community so if you are interested come by art room 161 in January! If you haven't seen JR's acceptance speech at TED last make sure you check it out here: TEDprize