TILE PHOTOGRAPHS NOW AVAILABLE AT SL COMPANY
Salt Lake City-based Regency Royale Inc. has been selected as the exclusive distributor for Utah, Wyoming and Idaho by Imagine Tile, a company which has developed a process whereby photographic images can be glazed into ceramic tile.
According to the Jersey City, New Jersey-based concern, the process is similar to the way a printer applies ink to a page, yet when the image is glazed into the ceramic tile at extremely high temperatures, the glaze and the tile literally fuse. Textures, photos, illustrations and three dimensional images can be reproduced on tile.
The tiles are rated for heavy commercial and can be used indoors or outdoors, on floors or walls, are frost and waterproof, unaffected by ultraviolet rays, and are abrasion and chemical resistant. Read the rest of this entry »
Solo exhibit focuses on photographs
MILLB ROOK — A show of digitally enhanced photographs by artist and graphic designer Joe Tantillo is on dis¬play at The Upstairs Gallery at Merritt Books through early July_
Tantillo, a Dutchess County resi¬dent, has been a painter whose ab¬stract expressionism earned him com¬missions and awards. Along with his wife, Maura Shaw, he founded Shawangunk Press, and together they published regionally oriented books. “Owl’s Journey,” written by Shaw and illustrated by Tantillo, covers 400 years of Dutchess County history seen through the eyes of the young people who lived in the area. And Tantillo is produced promotional material for area hospitals and earned an I Love NY award for its Dutchess Tourism guide. Today he is a Webmaster and Graphic User Interface designer for a software company. Read the rest of this entry »
Photographs, medical records damage plaintiff’s allegations
A defense attorney clearly laid out evidence for the jury and earned a verdict in her favor.
Attorney Jennifer R. Rose, whose client was responsible for a minor auto accident, presented enlarged photos and medical records that overshadowed testimony by the plaintiff’s family in Laurie D. Sirna v. Vickie E. Shelton.
“We blew up the pictures really big, poster size, for the jury to see,” Rose said. “We showed them during opening and closing. The pictures were pretty good.”
Also, during cross-examination of Sirna’s doctor, Rose displayed the plaintiff’s medical records on an overhead.
“[Farrell D. Hockmeier, the plaintiff's attorney] had a lot of her family members that concerned me,” Rose said. “But they weren’t as important as the pictures and records.” Read the rest of this entry »
Photographs inspire a fictional circus
The animals in Sara Gruen’s novels often steal the show from their human counterparts. Her first two books — Riding Lessons and Flying Changes — centered on the world of competitive show jumping. Her latest novel, Water for Elephants (Algonquin, $23.95), features a lovable, pivotal circus elephant named Rosie that only understands Polish.
It’s no surprise then that Gruen shares her home with a menagerie that rivals that of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, the fictional, Depression-era circus that boasts Rosie as its star.
“My house is filled with rescued animals of various stages of old age and decrepitude,” she says from her home outside Chicago. The current count? Two dogs, three cats, two goats and a horse. Read the rest of this entry »
Oysterponds Historical Society to open exhibit of historic Long Island photographs
The Oysterponds Historical Society will open an exhibit of historic Long Island photographs July 2, to run until Oct. 2. The exhibit will feature many photographs taken by local photographers almost a century ago. Landscapes of Orient and East Marion shores as well as pictures of the turn-of-the-century villages will be on display at the Janet T. Swanson Gallery in Orient’s Old Point School House. The exhibit will be open Thursdays through Sundays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call (631) 323-2480.