PLAYGROUND DETROIT is a platform bridging the creative communities of Detroit and New York. PLAYGROUND DETROIT presents music and visual art series and their website provides artists, musicians and other visitors the opportunity to exchange ideas and dialogue about the future roles of their cities in the arts world. BRUNO provides full creative services, from identity to space planning to marketing and event co-ordination.
The “experiment without precedent”—in the words of the school’s first Annual Report, of 1903—aimed to provide “girls who must go to work” at age 14 with a few employable skills. At the time of this rare and very early promotional documentary—made in 1911 and apparently unseen for 95 years—the school still subsisted entirely on private donations, and it seems likely that the film was used in its ongoing fund-raising campaigns.
Learn more about this school and the organization that made this film available for public viewing at the National Film Preservation Foundation.
A wonderful talk with Maurice Sendak by Tate Modern....
I wrote my college application essay about this piece and I remember focusing on the conceal and reveal of the fabric. Now I find myself looking at the overpointed feet and noticing how difficult the music is to listen to. Even though I change, it's still a marvelous composition.
A little project we did, basically memorials for christmas trees thrown onto the street for trash pickup. Every year they look so sad on the sidewalks, here's one last homage to their month of service for our holiday season.
In 1891 she went on tour with a melodrama called "Quack MD," playing a character who performed a skirt dance while under hypnosis. Fuller began experimenting with the effect the gas lighting had on her silk skirt and received special notice in the press. Her next road tour, in a show called "Uncle Celestine," featured this new version of the skirt dance. By emphasizing the body was transformed by the artfully moving silk.
One reviewer described the effect as "unique, ethereal, delicious...she emerges from darkness, her airy evolutions now tinted blue and purple and crimson, and again the audience...insists upon seeing her pretty piquant face before they can believe that the lovely apparition is really a woman."
Fuller was an inventor and stage craft innovator who held many patents for stage lighting, including the first chemical mixes for gels and slides and the first use of luminescent salts to create lighting effects. She was also an early innovator in lighting design, and was the first to mix colors and explore new angles. Fuller was well respected in the French scientific community, where she was a close personal friend of Marie Curie and a member of the French Astronomical Society.
A few weeks ago, BRUNO went to a lecture by IDEO at the Bloomberg building. The lecture was a stimulating conversation about collaboration, process, egalitarian structures that make IDEO'S methodology of combining disciplines and iterative development totally successful. IDEO specifically shared how their process defines an innovative approach to cultivating, supporting, serving entrepreneurial clients.