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Monday, August 31, 2009
Has your UAB Freshman redeemed their Arts Card?
What Happens Between Events at the ASC?
Another view of life at the ASC. Thanks Dana!
It has been an exciting couple of weeks here at the Alys Stephens Center. After all of our Drama Camps wrapped up, the staff was informed that there was a movie production that wanted to rent our venues, dressing rooms, lobbies, and even the Haskell Courtyard to film their project.
The movie is called Lifted. It is about a small town guy who wins an American Idol- like contest at the Alys Stephens Center.
Work here is never the same every day. In the course of preparing for the movie, I had to research the artwork that is found in the Abrams Patron’s Lounge and the lobby. This included hunting down Frank Fleming to sign a release for his statue, The Performers, to be in the film. I also had to Google and use the online Yellow Pages to chase down Jin G. Kam, whose painting Consolation features Vladimir Horowitz at the piano.
The script and schedule is subject to change on a daily basis to make the best use of time. Performances are unpredictable in general, but we usually know they start at a specific time!
It has been an exciting couple of weeks here at the Alys Stephens Center. After all of our Drama Camps wrapped up, the staff was informed that there was a movie production that wanted to rent our venues, dressing rooms, lobbies, and even the Haskell Courtyard to film their project.
The movie is called Lifted. It is about a small town guy who wins an American Idol- like contest at the Alys Stephens Center.
Work here is never the same every day. In the course of preparing for the movie, I had to research the artwork that is found in the Abrams Patron’s Lounge and the lobby. This included hunting down Frank Fleming to sign a release for his statue, The Performers, to be in the film. I also had to Google and use the online Yellow Pages to chase down Jin G. Kam, whose painting Consolation features Vladimir Horowitz at the piano.
The script and schedule is subject to change on a daily basis to make the best use of time. Performances are unpredictable in general, but we usually know they start at a specific time!
I am coming back from a break to enter my office, and there is a guy standing near my door, who I have never seen before in my life. “Could you please not go that way right now? We’re worried that it might affect the sound.” My office was near the room they using for a scene, and I couldn’t go to my desk. Mind you, there have been other times that I had to stay in my office. (Namely President Bush was doing a Press Conference a few years back, and the Secret Service was in every nook and cranny of the ASC). So I waited until they yelled cut, and was released to go inside. Life is a little less ordinary when even your trip to the water cooler has to be rerouted to avoid causing a scene that wasn’t intended.
by Dana Pharo, ASC Performing Arts Asst.
#Jazzlives: A Twitter Campaign by Listeners of Live Jazz
Quote: #Jazzlives: A Twitter Campaign by Listeners of Live Jazz
So an informal circle of jazz activists is trying this experiment to generate new numbers: Get people at live jazz events in the next weeks--including but not only the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (NYC, Aug. 29 -30) and Labor Day weekend fests in Tanglewood, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Aspen, Vail, Philadelphia, Chapel Hill, etc.--to add #jazzlives to tweets about who has been heard, and where.
So far principals of AllAboutJazz.com, JazzCorner.com, Jazz Promo Services, the Jazz Journalists Association, the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, the Angels City Jazz Festival, the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Detroit International Jazz Festival and WBGO have signed on to promote the #jazzlives campaign. So have bloggers Larry Blumenfeld, Nate Chinen, the Jazz Police, Willard Jenkins, James Hale, Don Heckman, Peter Hum, Howard Mandel, Plastic Sax, Doug Ramsey, Hank Shteamer and A Blog Supreme (NPR), among others.
Including the “hashtag" #jazzlives will allow tweets to be searched and collated on Twitter, TweetDecks and other digital devices. A campaign widget which can be embedded in blogs and websites will exhibit the tweets as they roll out in real time.
For the widget or more information on this campaign, write tweetjazzlives@gmail.com.
For this campaign, “jazz" is defined loosely--as each listener who tweets chooses to define it. To participate, tweet about who you hear perform and where the performance was, adding the hashtag #jazzlives and whatever else fits in Twitters 140 character limit. Tell jazz- listening friends to do likewise to prove jazz lives.
Place the Jazz Lives widget on your website or blog. Click here to grab the code.
A grass roots group of jazz journalists and broadcasters, websites, bloggers, and presenters have launched a #jazzlives campaign on Twitter, using the social networking platform to demonstrate that recent reports of jazz's demise are, in the words of Mark Twain, greatly exaggerated.According to data from a 2008 survey of audience participation in the arts released by the National Endowment for the Arts and featured in recent articles in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, fewer people are hearing jazz live, and fewer of them are young, that at any time since World War II. Yet on the basis of "anecdotal evidence" and observation at jazz events, the survey may have overlooked significant segments of the jazz-enjoying populace.
So an informal circle of jazz activists is trying this experiment to generate new numbers: Get people at live jazz events in the next weeks--including but not only the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (NYC, Aug. 29 -30) and Labor Day weekend fests in Tanglewood, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Aspen, Vail, Philadelphia, Chapel Hill, etc.--to add #jazzlives to tweets about who has been heard, and where.
So far principals of AllAboutJazz.com, JazzCorner.com, Jazz Promo Services, the Jazz Journalists Association, the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, the Angels City Jazz Festival, the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Detroit International Jazz Festival and WBGO have signed on to promote the #jazzlives campaign. So have bloggers Larry Blumenfeld, Nate Chinen, the Jazz Police, Willard Jenkins, James Hale, Don Heckman, Peter Hum, Howard Mandel, Plastic Sax, Doug Ramsey, Hank Shteamer and A Blog Supreme (NPR), among others.
Including the “hashtag" #jazzlives will allow tweets to be searched and collated on Twitter, TweetDecks and other digital devices. A campaign widget which can be embedded in blogs and websites will exhibit the tweets as they roll out in real time.
For the widget or more information on this campaign, write tweetjazzlives@gmail.com.
For this campaign, “jazz" is defined loosely--as each listener who tweets chooses to define it. To participate, tweet about who you hear perform and where the performance was, adding the hashtag #jazzlives and whatever else fits in Twitters 140 character limit. Tell jazz- listening friends to do likewise to prove jazz lives.
Place the Jazz Lives widget on your website or blog. Click here to grab the code.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Medjet’s new free iPhone app, iMedjet
Quote: Stung by a Bee? There is an App for That
Whether exploring deep in the wilderness or traveling abroad, having comprehensive first aid information at your fingertips is always a good thing. It’s especially good when all of the content is stored on the phone and you aren’t dependent on a data connection! This is where iMedjet, Medjet’s new free iPhone app, comes in handy.
Whether exploring deep in the wilderness or traveling abroad, having comprehensive first aid information at your fingertips is always a good thing. It’s especially good when all of the content is stored on the phone and you aren’t dependent on a data connection! This is where iMedjet, Medjet’s new free iPhone app, comes in handy.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Alan Hunter gives exclusive interview on film production
Quote: Exclusive interview with Alan Hunter about ongoing production
August 26, 1:48 PM
Birmingham Indie Movie Examiner
Angela Burchett
This independent film is about a young boy seeking a musical career. Encouraged by his father, who leaves for a war zone, the young singer faces difficulties in his absence.
August 26, 1:48 PM
Birmingham Indie Movie Examiner
Angela Burchett
This independent film is about a young boy seeking a musical career. Encouraged by his father, who leaves for a war zone, the young singer faces difficulties in his absence.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Tickets are on sale TODAY for JEWEL, Oct. 30. Win VIP Tickets to Buddy Guy, Sept. 26.
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An update on filmmaking in Birmingham
Quote: Birmingham-area film puts spotlight on state incentives
Alabama's new film industry incentives are getting screen-tested with the production of a movie in and around Birmingham.
Mark Stricklin, director of the Birmingham-Jefferson Film Office, said he worked with state officials to help line up the incentives for the independent movie "Lifted."
"We decided to make this a test case and go with it," he said. "We're excited to be the first area in the state to do this."
http://www.al.com/business/birminghamnews/news.ssf?/base/business/125075611628450.xml&coll=2
Thursday, August 20, 2009
MICHAEL TOMBERLIN
News staff writer
Alabama's new film industry incentives are getting screen-tested with the production of a movie in and around Birmingham.
Mark Stricklin, director of the Birmingham-Jefferson Film Office, said he worked with state officials to help line up the incentives for the independent movie "Lifted."
"We decided to make this a test case and go with it," he said. "We're excited to be the first area in the state to do this."
http://www.al.com/business/birminghamnews/news.ssf?/base/business/125075611628450.xml&coll=2
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