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PHOTO GALLERY: 75 years of the Florentine Opera
PHOTO GALLERY

75 years of the Florentine Opera

The Florentine Opera, Wisconsin's oldest fully professional performing arts organization, hosts a special one-night-only Diamond Anniversary concert in celebration of their 75th year in the business. In tribute, enjoy this fabulous photo history from the Company's expansive archive.

PHOTO GALLERY: Racine
PHOTO GALLERY

Racine

Photos from our trip to Racine: organic brunch at Blueberries Cafe, meerkats and peacocks at the Zoo, jellyfish at RAM, quirky thrift-store finds, the shanty charm of the Yardarm and more.

Carousel: What Goes Around Comes Around 3rd Annual Milwaukee Invitational 35mm Slideshow  Fri 4/24
Carousel

What Goes Around Comes Around 3rd Annual Milwaukee Invitational 35mm Slideshow Fri 4/24

If this isnt the most heart warming thing you’ve read all day, I demand that you unplug your typewriter from your TV and never log onto the interweb again. xo, REEL Milw @ TCD Carousel: What Goes Around Comes Around 3rd Annual Milwaukee Invitational 35mm Slideshow Friday, April 24, 7pm $4 Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E Locust St. 414 263 5001 /  http://www.woodlandpattern.org Presented by the UWM Film Department and Woodland Pattern Book Center “Carousel” unspools like this: Carousel sends a roll of slide film out to invited artists who work in a variety of media, but not slideshows. They in turn make their first slideshow – of their own design. No rules regarding quantity of slides (or of projectors, or of screens) or regarding accompanying sound. The slideshows are debuted in live performance the night of the show. Past multimedia extravaganzas have featured “audience chant-a-longs; slides advancing at high speed so as to achieve animation; acting performances; overlapping imagery; slides projected side-by-side; confessionals (something along the lines of a catalogue of former boyfriends); one banjo; and something bordering on witchcraft.” [excerpted from attached Press Release.] Organized, in part, as a tribute to this mechanism the slide projector, which is now no longer manufactured, but also as testimony to its ongoing potential and possibility. While PowerPoint is widespread – even uncorked in a popular series of local barroom events – 35mm slide projectors offer a singular combination of artistry and of the homespun, of the evanescently beautiful and of the reliably mechanical. As the Carousel artists testify, reports of the slide projector’s death is premature. And Woodland Pattern’s gallery space is a perfect venue to unfurl these creations. A most intimate setting for this unique relationship between advancing image and rapt audience. It is also the best venue to enjoy the comforting purr and clunky click of the slide projector in action. (At last weekend’s Edible Book Art show, Woodland Pattern offered pages to eat; on April 24th it will eschew the digital.) This year’s invited slide show artists include: Brian Perkins (Milwaukee); Kimberly Miller (Milwaukee); Warehouse Cinema (Milwaukee): Patrick Gulke & Drew Kunz (Bainbridge Island, Washington); Jennifer Kelly (Brooklyn); John Orth & Alan Calpe (Gainesville / Brooklyn); Angela Deane (New York City); and more!

Photo Gallery: What’s Your Font
Photo Gallery

What’s Your Font

We are constantly bombarded with typed word. Are you as tired of looking at billboards and computer generated fonts as I am? Well this gallery is aimed at showing YOUR personal hand written or painted font around Your city.

Photo Gallery: Random Exposure 2006
Photo Gallery

Random Exposure 2006

Pictures from VITAL's Random Exposure show August 10, 2006 at the Eisner Museum of Advertising and Design, exhibiting the top 50 entries. Diamonds laid down hot jams like butter on breakfast toast, Vucciria put out a spread almost too beautiful to eat and Point Brewing Co. kept everyone well-libated with beer and fine sodas. Wow. Thanks to the over 250 fine VITAL readers that came down and shared the evening with us. We love you.

Photo Gallery: VITAL’s Smashing Halloween 2006
Photo Gallery

VITAL’s Smashing Halloween 2006

The VITAL crew parties hard on Halloween with a costume party at Bremen Cafe.

Photo Gallery: PrideFest 2007
Photo Gallery

PrideFest 2007

Milwaukeeans flock to the lakefront to show their pride!

Photo Gallery: VITAL’s 5th Birthday
Photo Gallery

VITAL’s 5th Birthday

VITAL held a massive 5th Birthday Carnival and Karaoke Ball at Turner Hall on March 10. It was a blast. Photos by Lacy, Kurt Johnson and Jason Groschopf.

Photo Gallery: Bay View Bocce Fest 2007
Photo Gallery

Bay View Bocce Fest 2007

Team VITAL rocked Bay View's Bocce Fest. We passed the semi-finals but somehow missed the cue that we'd made the finals and disbanded the team before the showdown, possibly walking away from the title without even knowing it.

Photo Gallery: The Big Dig, October 2007
Photo Gallery

The Big Dig, October 2007

Aaron Soma and Amy Elliott document a dig through the inventories of Flipville, Bullseye, Musical Memories and LotusLand and visit the site of now-defunct Audie's Records.

Photo Gallery: VITAL’s 6th Birthday Funhouse
Photo Gallery

VITAL’s 6th Birthday Funhouse

We celebrated our 6th birthday at MOCT Bar, 240 E. Pittsburgh. Our staff was joined by several hundred of our closest friends. Hope you were, and if you weren't we wish you had been!

Photo Gallery: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks @ The Pabst
Photo Gallery

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks @ The Pabst

March 20th, 2008. Photos by Erin Landry