Final

Ray Lowenstein
Period 8
Journalism 1
A&E
Final Draft

Movie Review On “KNOWING”

As the film begins, Nicolas Cage starts running to his sons elementary school hoping that he will be on time to see his son sing in the elementary school chorus, for the opening of a time capsule placed there fifty years ago.Children run to the capsule hoping to receive a letter containing a picture of what kids fifty years ago believed the future to be. However, Chandler Canterbury, playing Caleb (Nicolas Cage’s son), receives a letter full of numbers and is intrigued with its contents believing that it is some sort of code. What he doesn’t know is, that letter will change his life. KNOWING is the story of these numbers and how they relate to the present day.

Starring Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, and Rose Byrne, KNOWING has an average rating of seven out of ten stars. The overall plot of the movie is a college professor deciphers an encrypted message from a time capsule that has been dug up at his son’s elementary school from 1958. He finds a connection from each of the numbers to all of the disasters that have happened in the past fifty years. However, three events have not happened…yet.

The movie KNOWING was a suspenseful, dramatic, exciting and action packed film. In fact, the theatre was so packed, that people were sitting on the floor and steps. The beginning of the movie hooked the viewers and led them through the whole movie. However, in the last twenty or so minutes the movie took a turn for the worst.

Phrases such as “is that it?”, and “are you serious?”, were heard throughout the theatre as the credits started to play.
Even though the ending did not suit the movie well, overall it was very exciting and fun to watch.

 

Final Draft

Ray Lowenstein
Period 8
Journalism 1
A&E
Final Draft

Movie Review On “KNOWING”

The lights dim, the audience quiets  down and noises begin to fill the room. Nicolas Cage starts running to his sons elementary school hoping that he will be on time to see his son sing in the elementary school chorus, for the opening of a time capsule placed there fifty years ago. Children run to the capsule hoping to receive a letter containing a picture of what kids fifty years ago believed the future to be. However, Chandler Canterbury, playing Caleb (Nicolas Cage’s son), receives a letter full of numbers and is intrigued with its contents believing that it is some sort of code. What he doesn’t know is, that letter will change his life. KNOWING is the story of these numbers and how they relate to the present day.

Starring Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, and Rose Byrne, KNOWING has an average rating of seven out of ten stars. The overall plot of the movie is a college professor deciphers an encrypted message from a time capsule that has been dug up at his son’s elementary school from 1958. He finds a connection from each of the numbers to all of the disasters that have happened in the past fifty years. However, three events have not happened…yet.

The movie KNOWING was a suspenseful, dramatic, exciting and action packed film. In fact, the theatre was so packed, that people were sitting on the floor and steps. The beginning of the movie hooked the viewers and led them through the whole movie. However, in the last twenty or so minutes the movie took a turn for the worst.

Phrases such as “is that it?”, and “are you serious?”, were heard throughout the theatre as the credits started to play.
Even though the ending did not suit the movie well, overall this was a good movie because the beginning and middle parts of the movie were very entertaining, exciting and fun to watch.

 

Second Draft

Ray Lowenstein
Period 8
Journalism 1
A&E
Second Draft

Movie Review On “KNOWING”

The lights dim, noises begin to fill the room, you see Nicolas Cage running to his sons elementary school hoping that he will be on time to see his son sing in the elementary school chorus. It is a special day, because the opening of a time capsule placed in the elementary school fifty years ago is going to be opened. Children run to the capsule hoping to receive a letter containing a picture of what kids fifty years ago believed the future to be. However, Chandler Canterbury, playing Caleb (Nicolas Cage’s son), receives a letter full of numbers and is intrigued with its contents believing that it is a code. What he doesn’t know, is that letter will change his life. KNOWING is the story of these numbers and how they relate to the present day.

Starring Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, and Rose Byrne, KNOWING has an average rating of seven out of ten stars. The overall plot of the movie is a college professor deciphers an encrypted message from a time capsule that has been dug up at his son’s elementary school from 1958. He finds a connection from each of the numbers to all of the disasters that have happened in the past fifty years. However, three events have not happened…yet.

The movie KNOWING was a suspenseful, dramatic, exciting and action packed film. In fact, the theatre was so packed; people were sitting on the floor and steps. The beginning of the movie hooked the viewers and led them through the whole movie. However, in the last twenty or so minutes the movie took a turn for the worst.

Phrases such as “is that it?”, and “are you serious?”, were heard throughout the theatre as the credits started to play.
Even though the ending did not suit the movie well, overall this was a good movie because the beginning and middle parts of the movie were very entertaining, exciting and fun to watch.

First Draft (Very Rough)

Ray Lowenstein

Period 8

Journalism 1

A&E

First Draft

Movie Review On KNOWING

KNOWING begins with the uncovering of an elementary school time capsule from 1958. Returning to the present day, one of the letters in the time capsule is an encoded message of all of the disasters that has happened in the last fifty years. However, three events have not happened…yet.

Starring Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, and Rose Byrne, KNOWING has an average rating of  seven out of ten stars. The overall plot of the movies is a collage professor deciphers an encrypted message from a time capsule that has been dug up at his son’s elementary school. He finds a connection from the numbers to a natural disaster. The only problem is that three events have not yet happened.

I found the movie KNOWING to be a suspenseful, dramatic, exciting and action film. There were no seats available at the showing I went to, and people were sitting on the floor and steps of the theatre. The beginning of the movie hooked the viewers and led them through the whole movie. However, in the last twenty or so minutes the movie took a turn for the worse.

The audience seemed to agree with me by staring blankly at the credits and saying “is that it?”, and “are you serious?”.

Even though I thought that the ending did not suit the movie, I would recommend this movie because the beginning and middle parts of the movie were very entertaining and fun to watch.

 

Planner

Name: Ray Lowenstein

 

Story: The Movie “Knowing”

 

Section: A and E

 

Deadline: unknown

 

People I need to talk to for quotes / information                   When?

 

1.         Viewers                                                                                   1.

2.                                                                                             2.

3.                                                                                             3.

4.                                                                                             4.

 

Angle:  What unique information will the reader get from this story that he or she wouldn’t get from a straight news story?

 

They will get a preview of the movie and if they decide they like it they can go see it. It will also give them information about the movie so that they don’t have to waste their time going to a movie that they really don’t want to see.

 

 

Six initial questions I’ll ask:

 

Who are the actors in it?

 

 

What is it about?

 

 

When does it play?

 

 

Where will it play?

 

 

How long is the movie?

 

 

Other questions I’ll need to ask:

What type of people want to see this?

What is my opinion?

(there are more questions that I would ask, however I want to get this in on time)

Final?

Subtropics Music Festival

The Subtropics Music festival is a music festival like no other. Typically, people believe music comes only from certain instruments like the guitar, piano, saxophone or even a voice. However, the Subtropics music festival included the normal instruments like saxophones and guitars, while having unusual assortments of instruments like a piano with its keys nailed down, a saw, antique sewing machines on top of differently shaped wooden sound boxes connected to pedals laid along the floor, and several others.

 “The festival focuses on exploiting the unique and experimental sounds of new, creative musicians,” explained Gustavo Matamoros, founder of the Subtropics Music Festival, “I consider myself an experimental music composer,”.

“This is the first time we have had the festival at Miami Beach Senior High,” said Matamoros, “and I would like to thank the Knight Foundation, the Bass Museum of Art and everyone who has helped with the show.”  

Miami Beach Senior High hosted this  rare, unique festival from February 27 through March 1^st along with the Bass Museum. It is fifteen dollars for regular admission, however students were discounted admission from five to ten dollars.

 However, when reporting at Miami Beach Senior High I found nothing. There was nothing except a couple of signs talking about the festival. There were no evidence that there was a festival at Miami Beach Senior High and there was no one there that could help point people in the proper direction.

Two exhibits at the Bass Museum featured a Sew Organ, and a Sanitas No 151 Fluxariation Piano. The Sew Organ is an instrument that has vintage sewing machines on top of oddly-shaped wooden sound boxes connected to foot pedals laid along the floor. When the pedals are stepped on, one of the antique sewing machines turns on, creating a rumbling hum in a pitch modulated by the box under it.   Each machine has its own distinct sound, which is somewhere between industrial music and a low pitched scream of a cat having its tail stepped on. The Sanitas No 151 Fluxariation Piano has the keys nailed down so that they cannot move.  A video next to it shows how the public participated by helping to nail down the keys.  In order to get a sound out of the instrument you simply throw darts at the wood back of the piano and each spot the dart hits makes a different sound as the open strings of the soundboard resonate.  

“The purpose of this festival is to not only allow experimental musicians to come together, but to be able to expose their music to the world and to hopefully sell some recordings,” said Matamoros.

This festival features performances by American composers from all over the world and is the only experimental music festival of its size. However, because of the unpopularity of experimental music “We get around sixty people throughout the festival, but it [the size of the crowd] has been growing throughout the years.”

 

 In 1992, the MIAMI NEW TIMES named Subtropics, Miami’s “Best Public Event”. This Year Subtropics Music Festival will celebrate a milestone of 20 years of experimental music and sound art in Miami Beach.

The Subtropics Music festival began February 26^th, 2009 and ends March 29^th, 2009. Afterward, the festival will travel to several places including: Fairchild Tropical Garden, Centro Cultural Espanol, 12 Nights II Harol Golden Gallery, Progressive Punk Jazz, and FIU-Wertheim Concert Hall.

Lukas Foss, an experimental music composer, explained “Safeness lurks wherever we turn. SHOW ME DANGEROUS MUSIC!”

Final Draft…sort of

Ray Lowenstein

Subtropics Music Festival

The Subtropics Music festival is a music festival like no other. Typically, people believe music comes only from certain instruments like the guitar, piano, saxophone or even a voice. However, the Subtropics music festival included the normal instruments like saxophones and guitars, while having unusual assortments of instruments like a piano with its keys nailed down, a saw, antique sewing machines on top of differently shaped wooden sound boxes connected to pedals laid along the floor, and several others.

 “The festival focuses on exploiting the unique and experimental sounds of new, creative musicians,” explained Gustavo Matamoros, founder of the Subtropics Music Festival, “I consider myself an experimental music composer,”.

“This is the first time we have had the festival at Miami Beach Senior High,” said Matamoros, “and I would like to thank the Knight Foundation, the Bass Museum of Art and everyone who has helped with the show.”  

Miami Beach Senior High hosted this  rare, unique festival from February 27 through March 1^st along with the Bass Museum. It is fifteen dollars for regular admission, however students were discounted admission from five to ten dollars.

 

(Turnout, Kristeen Pawly, how looked, organization (pamphlets))

 

Two exhibits at the Bass Museum featured a Sew Organ, and a Sanitas No 151 Fluxariation Piano. The Sew Organ is an instrument that has vintage sewing machines on top of oddly-shaped wooden sound boxes connected to foot pedals laid along the floor. When the pedals are stepped on, one of the antique sewing machines turns on, creating a rumbling hum in a pitch modulated by the box under it.   Each machine has its own distinct sound, which is somewhere between industrial music and a low pitched scream of a cat having its tail stepped on. The Sanitas No 151 Fluxariation Piano has the keys nailed down so that they cannot move.  A video next to it shows how the public participated by helping to nail down the keys.  In order to get a sound out of the instrument you simply throw darts at the wood back of the piano and each spot the dart hits makes a different sound as the open strings of the soundboard resonate.  

“The purpose of this festival is to not only allow experimental musicians to come together, but to be able to expose their music to the world and to hopefully sell some recordings,” said Matamoros.

This festival features performances by American composers from all over the world and is the only experimental music festival of its size. However, because of the unpopularity of experimental music “We get around sixty people throughout the festival, but it [the size of the crowd] has been growing throughout the years.”

 

 In 1992, the MIAMI NEW TIMES named Subtropics, Miami’s “Best Public Event”. This Year Subtropics Music Festival will celebrate a milestone of 20 years of experimental music and sound art in Miami Beach.

The Subtropics Music festival began February 26^th, 2009 and ends March 29^th, 2009. Afterward, the festival will travel to several places including: Fairchild Tropical Garden, Centro Cultural Espanol, 12 Nights II Harol Golden Gallery, Progressive Punk Jazz, and FIU-Wertheim Concert Hall.

Lukas Foss, an experimental music composer, explained “Safeness lurks wherever we turn. SHOW ME DANGEROUS MUSIC!”

 

Final Draft

Ray Lowenstein

Period 8

Journalism 1

Final Draft

Subtropics Music Festival

The Subtropics Music festival is a music festival like no other. Typically, people believe music comes only from certain instruments like the guitar, piano, saxophone or even a voice. However, at the Subtropics music festival, you won’t find any of that, unless you consider a piano with all its keys nailed down which uses its soundboard as a dartboard.

 “The festival focuses on exploiting the unique and experimental sounds of new, creative musicians,” explained Gustavo Matamoros, the founder of the Subtropics Music Festival, “I consider myself an experimental music composer,”.

 In 1992, the MIAMI NEW TIMES named Subtropics, Miami’s “Best Public Event”. This Year  Subtropics Music Festival will celebrate a milestone of 20 years of experimental music and sound art in Miami Beach.

At the Bass Museum there are several exhibits. However, there were two exhibits that caught my attention.  One was a Sew Organ and the other was a Sanitas No 151 Fluxariation Piano. The Sew Organ is an instrument that has vintage sewing machines on top of oddly-shaped wooden sound boxes connected to foot pedals laid along the floor. When the pedals are stepped on, one of the antique sewing machines turns on, creating a rumbling hum in a pitch modulated by the box under it.   Each machine has its own distinct sound, which is somewhere between industrial music and somewhat annoying. The Sanitas No 151 Fluxariation Piano has the keys nailed down so that they cannot move.  A video next to it shows how the public participated by helping to nail down the keys.  In order to get a sound out of the instrument you simply throw darts at the wood back of the piano and each spot the dart hits makes a different sound as the open strings of the soundboard resonate.  Again, the definition of music is stretched to its illogical conclusion as a microphone set next to the piano creates a sound that would have caused a reprimand in most of our homes.

“The purpose of this festival is to not only allow experimental musicians to come together, but to be able to expose their music to the world and to hopefully sell some recordings,” said Matamoros.  There were no recordings readily available at the Bass Museum’s exhibit, though the patience to sit in a dark room in the Bass Museum for two hours will allow you to eventually hear the sound that ping pong balls make when a subwoofer vibrates them on the surface of a base drum.

This festival will feature performances by American composers from all over the world and is the only experimental music festival of its size. This unique exhibition will include music like Alvin Lucier’s Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums, an architectural sound piece, and many more unique sounds.

 

Subtropics 20 opened Thursday, February 26, with a reception for
SOUND, a sound art exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art.

 

The Subtropics Music festival began February 26^th, 2009 and ends March 29^th, 2009. The Bass Museum exhibition and  show at the Miami Beach Senior High auditorium will continue  through  March 1^st.  Afterward, the festival will travel to several places including: Fairchild Tropical Garden, Centro Cultural Espanol, 12 Nights II Harol Golden Gallery, Progressive Punk Jazz, and FIU-Wertheim Concert Hall. It is fifteen dollars for regular admission, but students pay between five to eight dollars.

“This is the first time we have had the festival at Miami Beach Senior High,” said Matamoros, “and I would like to thank the Knight Foundation, the Bass Museum of Art and everyone who has helped with the show.”

Lukas Foss, an experimental music composer, explained “Safeness lurks wherever we turn. SHOW ME DANGEROUS MUSIC!”

 

Second Draft

Ray Lowenstein

Period 8

Journalism 1

Second Draft

Subtropics Music Festival

The Subtropics Music festival is a music festival like no other. Typically, people believe music comes only from certain instruments like the guitar, piano, saxophone or even a voice. However, at the Subtropics music festival, you won’t find the typical sound you hear on the radio.  The festival focuses on exploiting the unique and experimental sounds of new, creative musicians. In fact, there are several bizarre instruments and ensembles at the Subtropics Music festival, one of which is a fish tank ensemble.

According to their website, this upcoming festival will feature performances by American pioneer composers from all over the world and is the only experimental music festival of its size. This unique exhibition will include music like Alvin Lucier’s Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums, an architectural sound piece, and many more unique sounds.

 

In 1992, the MIAMI NEW TIMES named Subtropics, Miami’s “Best Public Event”. This Year  Subtropics Music Festival will celebrate a milestone of 20 years of experimental music and sound art in Miami Beach.

Subtropics 20 will begin, Thursday, February 26, with an opening reception for
SOUND, a sound art exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art.

 

The Subtropics Music festival began February 26^th, 2009 and ends March 29^th, 2009. The Subtropics will be at the Bass Museum on February 26^th and will then move to the Miami Beach Senior High auditorium until March 1^st. Where it will then travel to Fairchild Tropical Garden, Centro Cultural Espanol, 12 Nights 2 Harold Golden Gallery, Progressive Punk Jazz, and FIU-Wertheim Concert Hall. Its fifteen dollars for regular admission, but students get in for a mere five dollars.

Lukas Foss, an experimental music composer, explained “Safeness lurks wherever we turn. SHOW ME DANGEROUS MUSIC!”

 

 

 

 

Subtropic Music Festival (FIRST DRAFT)

Ray Lowenstein

Period 8

Journalism 1

First Draft

Subtropics Music Festival

The Subtropics Music festival is a music festival like no other. Typically, people believe music comes only from certain instruments like the guitar, piano and saxophone. However, at the Subtropics music festival, you won’t find the typical sound you hear on the radio.  The Subtropics Music festival  focuses on exploiting the unique and experimental sounds of new, creative musicians. In fact, there is a fish tank on ensemble that performs at the festival.

The Subtropics Music festival began February 26^th, 2009 and ends March 29^th, 2009. There will be several shows and the schedule is on http://www.subtropics.org/. This unique music festival’s purpose is to exploit the experimental music of new musicians.   

As stated in the Subtropics Music website “In 1992, the MIAMI NEW TIMES named Subtropics, Miami’s “Best Public Event” and “Best Festival” in 2001. In 2009 Subtropics celebrates a milestone 20 years of experimental music and sound art in Miami
produced and presented by South Florida Composers”

For twenty years the Subtropics music festival has exploited the unique experimental music in Miami Beach Florida, and new musicians will be able to exploit their talents there.