Cleveland Stories Opening Event - 2011.04.19

Cleveland Stories: True until proven otherwise

April 1 – 30, 2011 @ the Cleveland Institute of Art

Reinberger Galleries | Opening Event April 19, 6:30 - 9 p.m.

The Cleveland Stories exhibition features historic fragments, semi-fictional narratives, and outright fabrications about Cleveland. These stories provide the raw material for new ways of understanding and intervening in the city.

Cleveland Stories is a reminder that we write and (re)write the history of Cleveland every day. We invite you to be part of this work. Do you have a Cleveland Story to tell? You can add your drawings, text, or diorama to the show throughout the month of April. Then in the following months, we will be bringing some of these stories to life through installations in city neighborhoods. Visitwww.clevelandstorybook.com for updates and information on these projects.

Cleveland Stories is a joint program of the Kent State Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cleveland State Center for Public History + Digital Humanities, andThe LIT. With support from the George Gund Foundation and Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.

For more information on Cleveland Stories, please visit: www.ClevelandStoryBook.com

Record Store Day (4th annual!)

Record Store Day

Saturday, April 16th, 2011

Music Saves + Blue Arrow

Waterloo in Collinwood Neighborhood of Cleveland

RECORD STORE DAY at MUSIC SAVES!

Here is the long-awaited list of releases we have ordered!

(LAST UPDATED APRIL 12)

Download it! EXCEL

(use this option if ya want FULL info, and to get sorty!)

Download it! PDF

(use this option if ya want GENERAL info, and to get printy!)

GET DOWN!

Please note that we did our best to place orders to meet anticipated demand, but what we receive in the end is up to the Record Store Day gods!

We open at NOON on Saturday!

*Get in line early if you want any of the LIMITED RSD releases!*

*We will let a certain number of people into the store initially,

then will let 1 in for every 1 out!*

*All RSD releases will be limited to 1 copy of each title per person!*

The first group of folks through the door will get a bag filled with tons of cool goodies!

AND

Did you know we signed the pledge?

On RSD, please only visit stores who did! They are on your side!

A list of stores who signed is here!

Read the pledge here!

We'll be Tweeting the madness all day!

Follow us on Twitter!

Also in the store:

4-4:30pm Dan Friel (of Parts & Labor) solo in-store performance!

4:30-7:30pm Watch the debut of the Deerhunter 3D Pitchfork Session w/ 3D glasses!

This kick-ass poster is by Cleveland's own Jake Kelly!

*The MUSIC SAVES stage will be in the Beachland parking lot!

In the event of rain, bands will play in the Beachland Tavern!

***the whole bunch of this was stolen from the Music Saves website, sorry Melanie, my paraphrasing skills are not so strong this morning!

Cleveland Earth Fest April 17th

Earth Day 2011

Sunday, April 17th, 2011

10am - 5pm

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo

Official EarthFest 2011 Art. Illustration by Ralph Solonitz.

T-Shirts and Posters available.

Regular admission includes all Zoo exhibits and EarthFest activities

FREE Admission if you:

1. *Walk for the Earth (9am Kick-off). Registered participants only.

-or-

2. Ride the FREE RTA Clean-Air Bus

from Cleveland Public Square to the Zoo

*All Walk for the Earth proceeds will benefit Earth Day Coalition's

Student Environmental Leadership programs in Greater Cleveland.

Unintended Consequences - Camera Obscura

This Saturday I was perusing the site of an installation (pre-installation of course) with Adam Rosekelly of f i e l d s. We were exploring some smaller commercial bays of a building currently under renovation when we stumbled upon the following in the last bay. The image was created by a suspended plastic sheet about 15' from the boarded up storefront.

(the lower image was created by adjusting the f-stop on the camera, it was much darker inside than shown)

It took a while to figure out what we were looking at but when we realized that the movement at the top of the plastic sheet was passing cars it dawned on us that a small knothole in the sheathing was creating the effect of a camera obscura. For clarity I have rotated the image (see below).

...and adjusted the f-stop a touch more (after stacking some things to hold the camera steady) which allows one to really pick out the shapes and colors. I obviously couldn't catch any of the cars on "film" since the exposure was set so long. However you could see the projection of the cars on the walls before and after they "drove" across the plastic.

We spent quite a bit of time watching the effect. I don't know if this is interesting to anyone else but the awe of discovering something like this was really exciting to me.