THE NACC: Stitched
Stitched Panoramic Portraits
by James Neiss
neissj@gnnewspaper.com
- Click on Images Below for Virtual Tour -
| LISA SURACE |
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Lisa Surace of the Bravo Studio with students Cullen Ball, 12 and Gabrielle Markle, 19, has a thriving business giving voice and music lessons. Surace said, she enjoys the diversity of tenants at the Niagara Arts Cultural Center and an important part of the surrounding community.
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| MIKE KUDELA |
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Mike Kudela is a prolific painter with a huge body of work, though only painting for about three years. As many of the tenants at the NACC do, Kudela generously volunteers his time helping with the upkeep of the building. He also shares his technical skills working on the NACC website and working with youth in the computer lab.
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Stitched together like these portraits, the Niagara Arts Cultural Center in Niagara Falls, NY, housed in the former Niagara Falls High School, is a patchwork of artistic people gathered together in a community of studios, offices and classrooms that combined, make something more beautiful than it's individual parts.
Greater Niagara Newspapers Chief Photographer James Neiss, an accomplished panoramic virtual tour photographer, stitched 12 exposures
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to create each of these portraits that splay open the 4 walled rooms for a unique portrait. Software is then used to warp the images into an interactive environment that you can explore and listen to audio commentary from the subjects.
Clicking on these images begins your virtual tour, to look around just click and drag your mouse on the already rotating image. Be sure to check out the FULLSCREEN QuickTime versions also.
For more information on the NACC you can visit their website at www.thenacc.org. If you wish to learn more about Virtual Tour Photography, visit the International VR Photography Association website.
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| ALLAN JAMIESON |
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Allan Jamieson, director of the Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe, is a busy man in this 12 image portrait where he appears 3 times. When old school panoramic photographers used slit film, or rotating cameras, a person at one end, after have been scanned, had time to run to the other end and be in the image twice. Neto Hatinakwe Onkwehowe in the Cayuga language translates to "Here Lives the people" (pronounced nan-toe ha-dee-naw-qway-own-gway-hown-way) The group is a Native arts and cultural non-for profit organization formed in 1992 out of Buffalo New York that promotes Native arts, education, cultural programs and initiatives. |
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| KAY MIRABELLA |
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Kay Mirabella, left, started an American Sign Language class at the NACC now that her daughter, who is deaf, is attending public schools. From left are, Kay Mirabella, Amy Ciskiewic, Deion Brown, 10, Jessica Mirabella-Rupert, 10, Jena Mirabella-Rupert, 12, Keonna Brown, 8, Mary Alston, Lou DiMeo, Roseanna Granata, of Lewiston, Charlene Bush, Sophia Bush, 13, Tamaica Brewer, Robert Brewer, 9 and Shantine Brewer, 11. |
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| BONNIE SOLEY |
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Bonnie Soley of Kaleidoscope Designs Original Glass Art, specializes in original stained glass panels, is a painter and offers classes on stained glass making most Saturday's. |
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| JAY CARRIER |
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Nationally known Native American Artist Jay Carrier describes his style of painting as expressionist pop art and creates visions of Niagara Falls, the city he grew up in and his Native American culture. |
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| STUDIO 300 |
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The former Studio 300 was an amazing space created by artists Mark Heidt and Domingo Adkins who collaborated in the making of salt art. |
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| VICTOR MARWIN |
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Victor Marwin of Against the Grain Woodworking and Design, is a master craftsman, learning the trade at the former kittinger Furniture in Buffalo, NY. |
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