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AMPED 3D

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Freeze time and space at a moment when a tattoo artist’s achievement is realized, the artwork is healed, and an emotional connection to it is manifest.

Life size AMPED 3D images present these moments, and the visual experience, with the same depth and tonality of reality.

So what exactly is an Amped3D image?

Amped3D images depict life size three dimensional space and do for tattoo art what simply hasn’t been possible before in a photograph—to present tattoos with all of their natural human depth, scale and topography. Amped 3D images are images you can see into.

How is an Amped3D image made?

Amped3D photography is accomplished using a unique combination of complex camera hardware (featuring an array of modified cameras equipped with hi-resolution sensors), sophisticated proprietary software, materials and painstaking manufacturing techniques.

At a photo session, the camera array captures multiple perspectives at one time instant. Those digital images are then precision aligned and processed, to be printed with a modified high-resolution printer with each perspective occupying a vertical strip 1/2000th of an inch wide.

These special prints are then aligned and bonded to custom-made cast lenticular lens material. The photos can then be mounted in custom back-lit frames for an optimal viewing experience.

The result? Amped3D images are so realistic that the brain perceives them in a similar way to seeing real life, so it’s the next best thing to actually seeing the tattoo in real life.

The result of years of work, Almont Green has developed AMPED 3D photography with the help of neuroscientists, brain research centers, vision research experts and leading technologists.

No processing, direct from camera test Amped360 fifty camera array.

Go to this link: http://amped360.com/ca/

Click and drag to rotate (or swipe with finger if phone) to see the effect!

Interesting? Visit Almont’s blog for more information

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Do you have an amazing tattoo?

Do you want the world to see it in it’s full potential?

CHECK THIS OUT: http://amped360.com/sh2/

Are you an artist, model, hairstylist?? Do you want to enhance your personal portfolio? This is an amazing chance to get your pictures done 3D and have them before anyone else!!
Come to Sacred  Tattoo in New York City to be imaged with the AMPED360 camera array and get a chance to be given a travel expense paid, $3,000 modeling contract.

IF you win, you would be posing for a best of the best tattoo collector’s edition AMPED3D exhibition image at a studio in Los Angeles, Boston or at a world-famous tattoo convention.

AMPED360 images, photographed at Sacred on March 17th and 18th, will be posted the following week on the AMPED3D Facebook page.

The person with the AMPED360 image of their tattoo to receive the most “likes” in 45 days will be awarded a career launching, modeling job contract. One contract is guaranteed to be awarded, however, Almont Studios reserves the right to award more than one contract.

To reserve a space, email@amped360.com

CONTACT ALMONT GREEN FOR INFO 978-853-0084

AMPED 360 at Sacred Tattoo in NYC 3/17-3/18

424 Broadway, 2nd Floor 12:00pm- 10:00 pm

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Interview with Photographer Tim Rice

Artist Spotlight: Perfectly Normel People

FOOTLIGHT AND PICCOLO SPOLETO 2012 PRESENT

A NEW COMEDY FROM LOCAL PLAYWRIGHTS

The Footlight Players is proud to present alongside Thomas Burke Heath &  Judy Heath the world premiere of their second play, Perfectly Normel People.

For Charlestonians and festival visitors looking to be a part of something special from the very beginning, be sure not to miss Perfectly Normel People, a comedy that asks, “Isn’t every family normal?” This is a hilarious fish-out-of-water comedy about what happens when a college freshman from Kansas moves in with a dysfunctional Italian family from Queens! This funny and poignant memory play takes place in 1981 around the loud, but loving Normellino Family. They have survived many losses in their inner circle and often deal with their pain through biting humor and arguing. When the protagonist young Hadley Smith moves in, a transformation takes place for the naïve mid-westerner, as well as for the hurting family.

Performances include May 25, May 31, and June 2 at 8 pm; May 26 and June 3 at 3 pm; and May 28 at 5 pm. Tickets are $26 for adults and $21 for seniors/students, and must be purchased through Piccolo Spoleto by visiting http://www.PiccoloSpoleto.com or by calling 1-866-811-4111

The talented cast of Perfectly Normel People includes: Sean Marino (Adult Hadley), Steven Cardinal (Adam, Stranger), Katie Holland (Brenda, Rainbow, Bernadette), Jacqueline Helmer (Mom, Clerk, Margaret), Bronson Taylor (Hadley), Scott Cason (Dad), Tripp Hamilton (Frankie), Lara Allred (Angela), Thomas Burke Heath (Johnny), Paulette Bertolami (Connie), and Ross Magoulas (Pops).

Biography:

It was less than a year ago that the Heath’s first show, The Sunset Years, sold out every performance during The Village Playhouse Summer Series. Their plan is to publish their plays and have them produced up the coast at other theatres and hopefully make it to New York. The husband and wife playwriting team originally met up in New York during a regional production of Murder on the Re-Run where they played sniping characters that hated each other and then the two would laugh off stage at the craziness of the plot.

After a year as just friends, Thomas took a chance and kissed Judy and they’ve been together ever since! They were seen on stage 14 years later with Robert Ivey in the Footlight Players’ production of London Suite, which was directed by Clarence Felder. Thomas has also appeared locally in Glengarry Glen Ross, Rounding Third, Speed-the-Plow and The Weir. He plays as the “bad” father in the film Liberating Jesse, which was shown at this year’s Charleston International Film Festival.

For their day jobs, Judy is a board certified psychotherapist and co-founder with Thomas of the Life Guidance Center in West Ashley, as well as the author of No Time for Tears: Surviving Grief in America and the children’s book, I Miss Matthew. She was recently named one of the 50 Most Progressive People in Charleston. Thomas is owner of Heatherwood Entertainment & Media and just finished directing a music video for Charleston Indie Singer/Songwriter John Thomas.

Footlight Contact:

Chrissy Oddi  Chrissy@footlightplayers.net

Playwright Contact:

Thomas Burke Heath  Thomas@HeatherwoodLtd.com

Artist Spotlight: Sadie Alexandru

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You recently made your debut as “Scarlett” on a recent episode of the four-time Emmy award-winning series MadMen on AMC. What was it like to be on set with veteran actors like Jon Hamm, Jared Harris, Christina Henricks and John Slattery?

They are all so seasoned and welcoming.  In the moments when it was time to work they were really focused and professional.  In between takes, they were very easy-going and there was lots of clowning around!  They’re a funny bunch!  It’s a pretty tight-knit crew and they’ve done some amazing things together; there is an air of pride and ease amongst them that I haven’t seen before.  It was quite amazing.  It really couldn’t have been a better experience for me.

Tell me about the auditions, how many rounds did you go through before you received the role?

In the morning I had my audition for casting, then they asked me to stick around the area to attend the call back to producers 2 hours later.  I left the studio lot, drove back to my apartment and not 30 minutes after I entered my front door I got a call from my manager’s office telling me to go back down there for my hair and make-up test for my shoot the next day.  It was a pretty crazy 24 hours!

You’ve also recently done guest appearances in the HBO/Cinemax film noir “Femme Fatales” opposite Casper Van Dien, what was that experience like?

Not only is Casper Van Dien a cool cat, but we discovered that we grew up in the same town in New Jersey so there was LOTS to talk about.  He’s really funny and easy to work with.  He’s got a humongous fan base but he’s super down-to-earth.

Did you always want to be an actress?

Yes, I have.  I was a ballerina as a kid and I always wanted to shout out during recitals…I loved dance but I always felt that I wanted to be more vocal.

Have you done theatre as well?

Yes, quite a lot.  I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and I also studied at the London Academy of Theater.  My background is ALL theater training.  I worked every department of the theater, I re-upholstered couches for set pieces, ran a light board…I’ve done it all.  The program teaches actors to be well-rounded in the theater.  I love it.  I just recently closed a long running production of an original play by the brilliant playwright Rob Mersola entitled “Love Sucks”.

 I understand you’re also a huge supporter of independent film, is there anything coming up we can see you in?

I just Co-Produced and played a supporting role in an independent film called “Act Naturally.”  We just won the audience choice award at the United Film Festival and it will be showing in that same festival in London on June 4th.

If you could work with any director, who would it be and why?

I am obsessed with the Coen Brothers.  They are like the chameleons of the film industry; you never know what they are going to put out next!  I love their writing, I love how character driven their stories are, I love how dark and funny and slice-of-life they are.  I just love everything about them and I would be over the moon to work with them.

 If you could act alongside any Actor/Actress who would it be and why?

There are so many.  Mostly I want to work with actors I truly respect and feel would raise the bar for me; push me in directions I never thought possible…to name a few that come to mind: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Don Cheadle, Catherine O’Hara, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Tom Hanks, Steve Buscemi, Forest Whittaker…oh the list goes on.

You originally hail from New Jersey, what brought you to Los Angeles?

I was working a lot commercially in New York but I was not working theatrically as much as I liked.  I was on a vacation with my Dad and brother in Bucharest, Romania; I woke up one morning, came down to breakfast and told them that I felt I wasn’t doing everything I possibly could to make my dreams come true.  I explained that the Film/Television Mecca of the US was in L.A. and if I didn’t give it a try, I’d be making a big mistake.  Three months later I was in L.A.

Will we be seeing you in future episodes of MadMen?

Now, you know I can’t tell you that! ;)  Keep watching!

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