A few days ago, the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation handed over $1,000 in cash to local filmmaker Donald Harrison, who had applied for a grant in order to launch a new local film series. After our meeting, I took the opportunity to ask ask Donald a few questions about the local film scene, and his […]
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Donald Harrison to launch FUSE: Mobile Microcinema series with A2Awesome grant
Posted in A2Awesome, Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, entrepreneurism, Uncategorized Also tagged Ann Arbor Film Festival, art film, Awesome Foundation, business models, Donald Harrison, Film, film making, Forest Juziuk, FUSE: Mobile Microcinema, George Manupelli, HOTT LAVA, independent film, John Roos, Leslie Raymond, microcinema, MOCAD, Roos Roast, Shadow Art Fair, Shadowbox Cinema, underground film 23 Comments
Milwaukee part two… fish fries, public art and swooning tweens
A week or so ago, when I told you about my recent trip to Milwaukee, I promised that there would be a follow-up post, in which I’d talk about fish fries, public art, and the like. Well, I’m afraid that I’ve put it off so long now that I can’t quite remember what it was […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged alewife, Calvin Black, door-to-door eel salesman, Dorothy Avery, eels, fish, fish fry, folk art, folk art environments, Frank Sinatra, fried fish, Galesburg, Howard Finster, Illinois, invasive species, kids today, Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Mimi Dorothy, native species, perch, pollution, Possum Trot, public art, salmon, sculpture, street lights, Sweden, Water Street, Water Street Commons, wheatpasting, Wisconsin, zebra mussels 10 Comments
The Ullage Group Film Festival in Brooklyn on August 19
Later this month, my friend Doug Skinner will be screening “brief, rare, and unusual” films at a theater in Brooklyn. The event, entitled The Ullage Group Film Festival, Volume One, will take place the afternoon of Sunday, August 19, and will feature, among other things, seldom-seen animated shorts by the late Fortean researcher John Keel, […]
Posted in Art and Culture Also tagged 1972, Anne Shapiro, Anthony Matt, art films, Brooklyn, Charles Bowers, Doug Skinner, Earle Doud, Film, Fink Flats, Flann O'Brien, Fortean, Garbage Pail Kids, George Kuchar, Jalopy, Jen Duffy, John Keel, Le Voyage dans la lune, Lisa Hirschfield, Mad magazine, Mark Newgarden, Metropolitan Motion Picture Club, Michael Smith, Mike Kuchar, Morgan Miller, Murder of an Anatomy, New York City, petroglyphs, Richard Shaver, Russ Johnson, The Mothman Prophecies, The Whimper, Three On a Match, Ullage Group, underground film, View Master 12 Comments