The blue thread / one life, beautiful life… Artist Eric Anfinson to exhibit at The Studios of Key West
KEY WEST (Florida) — While perhaps invisible to the eye, there is an ethereal thread that ties our life's experiences together. For painter Eric Anfinson it is also one that runs through all the paint in his confident and solid new body of work to be presented from April 4th to April 25th at the Studios of Key West. Anfinson’s exhibition,“the blue thread—one life/beautiful life,” will feature more than twenty original oil on canvas paintings and a special installation for the opening reception on Friday evening, April 4, from 7-9 p.m.
“The blue thread is the path,” says Anfinson, “while one life/beautiful life is the intention of healing.”
Anfinson, who often weaves in dreams, myths and archetypes while at work at his canvas, also allows his subconscious to guide him. In between these two spaces of linear and non-linear process, the depth of chaos, difficulty and emotion reveal themselves through his paint.
Lizards do push-ups for it. Gelada baboons show off their passion-flushed pectorals. Bowerbirds become interior decorators. From dancing spiders to drumming monkeys, the universal urge to mate has led creatures throughout the animal kingdom to evolve elaborate courtship rituals and astonishing anatomy. This program follows passionate wildlife experts around the world and through our own backyards as they use cutting-edge technology and risky field study to discover what makes winners and losers in the animal dating game.
NATURE: What Females Want and Males Will Do, airs Sunday April 6 and 13 at 8:00 p.m. on WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami.
COMPAÑERAS, ROUSING DOCUMENTARY ABOUT AMERICA’S FIRST ALL-FEMALE MARIACHI BAND, TO HAVE ITS BROADCAST PREMIERE ON THE EMMY AWARD–WINNING PBS SERIES INDEPENDENT LENS ON TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2008, AT 11:00 PM COMPAÑERAS is a passionate profile of America’s first all-female mariachi band, Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles. Founded in 1994, the 12 members of Reyna shatter age-old stereotypes by putting a uniquely female twist on a beloved musical genre. In an arena that has traditionally been maledominated, these women are true pioneers, literally giving voice to Latinas with their fiery performances.
Directed and produced by Elizabeth Massie and Matthew Buzzell, COMPAÑERAS will air nationally on the Emmy Award–winning PBS series Independent Lens, hosted by Terrence Howard, on Tuesday, April 1, 2008, at 11:00 PM on WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami.
Well, my $40 coupons arrived on Wednesday and I could barely wait for the weekend to go and spend them. Technically, they aren't coupons, but work like credit or gift cards. My cashier had a little problem because these were the first coupons she processed, but they swiped, were verified and I was on my way.
A quick comparison of the recommended vendors revealed that, quality aside, the store cost of these boxes seem to run from $49 to $59 each, so they aren't going to be "free" regardless of where you purchase them.
My suspicion is that there is little difference in the boxes and that they all have minimal functionality, but that was just a quick impression from poking at the display models in each store. If you want full HD on a widescreen TV, this isn't going to be the solution for you. I'm not ready to replace every TV set and because I have cable for all but one of my current TV sets, my plan was to test this on the one TV that isn't connected to a cable signal. The set in question wasn't even plugged in to a power source, it was one of those hand-me-down sets you tend to pick up along the way, when friends or relatives move (or buy new TVs) so my installation was really from square one.
I had a rabbit ear antenna which came with the TV. If you don't, you will need to get an antenna at an additional cost, anywhere between $9 to $50 in the store I settled on, if you want to install an outdoor antenna it could run significantly more.
Despite the cautions I had heard about early models of these converters, the set up was very easy, even if you tend to start pushing buttons before reading directions as I do. Although not entirely intuitive it wasn't difficult to follow the on screen prompts and the set up went quickly.
In the end, I was able to receive over 50 channels, although many aren't ones I'd consider watching, the percentage seems to be about the same as it is for my cable selections. The best news of all for me is that for the first time I can now see all of WPBT's digital channels outside of my office at work.
I'm sure all experiences will be different and it is worth doing a little research in advance to make sure you end up with the experience you expect, but I'm feeling like the transition to digital, overall, has become a little less frightening for me and I think that with just a little knowledge it can be the same for you.
NATURE: Cuba: Wild Island of the Caribbean, airs Sunday, March 30 at 8:00 p.m. on WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami. Protected by its isolation, the wildlife of Cuba has remained naturally preserved, untouched and unexplored. Through a special arrangement with the Cuban government, unprecedented access was granted to film the astonishing diversity of life on the island, much of it virtually unknown until recently. For the first time, the rest of us will have the opportunity to see the iridescent Cuban jewel ant, the bee hummingbird that flies so fast it becomes invisible and the largest colony of Caribbean flamingos in the world.
GREAT PERFORMANCES: “Martina McBride: Live in Concert” airs on Monday, March 31 at 10:00 p.m. – One From the Heart: Country Superstar Delights Fans, Viewers – (Watch a preview here on uVu)
The real appeal of country music comes from just one place — the heart — and no one knows that better than Martina McBride. “You can always look at a fresh way of doing a song,” she says, “but it always has to resonate with the truth.”
A crossover success widely known for her many albums and television appearances, McBride offers a lively encore of her many hits, including “How I Feel,” “Love’s the Only House,” “This One’s for the Girls” and her 2007 Country Music Awards Song of the Year-nominated “Anyway,” the fastest-selling single of her career. Each is a small world in itself: direct, honest, immediate. “I’ll be singing ‘Independence Day’ at concerts the rest of my life,” she says of her 1993 signature song told from the point of view of a child now grown up. “I love the story. I get closer to it every time I sing it.”
A firsthand look at the upcoming PBS documentary series CARRIER, which follows a core group of film participants aboard the USS Nimitz, from the admiral of the strike group to the fighter pilots to the youngest sailors, as they navigate personal conflicts around their jobs, families, faith, patriotism, love, the rites of passage and the war on terror. PBS PREVIEWS: CARRIER includes behind-the-scenes footage and additional commentary to set the stage for a dramatic voyage for the sailors and officers aboard. CARRIER premieres Sunday, April 27-Thursday, May 1, 2008, 9:00-11:00 p.m. on WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami. See the PREVIEW video here or watch selected clips on uVu by clicking here.
WPBT/Channel 2 is sponsoring Boomers & Beyond: A Day for Health & Wellness to be held Sunday, March 30, 2008, 12 noon – 4 pm on the main campus at NOVA Southeastern University in Davie.
Many screenings will take place including balance, BMI, bone density, peripheral arterial disease and aortic aneurysm, mental health screening, vision, & stroke prevention. Lots of important health information will be provided.
An “Ask the Expert” Q & A sessions will be available all day long . Raffles, prizes and snacks will be given out as well.
For more information, you can call (866) 284-4678 or visit here
UNNATURAL CAUSES: IS INEQUALITY MAKING US SICK? Thursdays, March 27-April 17 at 11:00 p.m. each week on WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami. (Read a review from the Sun Sentinel here)
UNNATURAL CAUSES is a four-hour series that, for the first time on television, sounds the alarm about glaring socio-economic and racial inequities in health and searches for their causes.
The U.S. already spends twice per person on health care than any other industrialized nation. Yet our life expectancy ranks 30th; Costa Ricans live longer. Infant mortality? We’re tied with Hungary, Poland and Slovakia for next to last among industrialized nations. Illnesses cost American business more than a trillion dollars a year in lost productivity.
Further, research has revealed a gradient to health. At each step down the socio-economic ladder — from the rich to the middle class to the poor — people tend to be sicker and die sooner. It’s no surprise that poor Americans die eight years before the rich on average, but middle-class Americans die almost three years sooner than the rich.
UNNATURAL CAUSES looks at what’s making us sick in the first place, investigating startling new findings that suggest there is much more to poor health than bad habits, inadequate health care or unlucky genes. The series circles in on a slow killer in plain view: the social circumstances in which we are born, live and work that can affect our risk for disease as surely as germs and viruses.
“KING CORN,” ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTENING FILM ABOUT THE ODYSSEY OF ONE ACRE OF CORN FROM FARM TO FOOD SUPPLY Film to Premiere on the WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami as part of the Series Independent Lens on Tuesday, April 15 at 11 p.m.
“As relevant as Super-Size Me and as important as An Inconvenient Truth.” —The Austin Chronicle
KING CORN is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college, move to the heartland town that was once home to their great-grandfathers. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, mostsubsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find is that the fat of the land is fattening us up, and their journey raises troubling questions about how we eat— and how we farm.
Caring for Your Parents Premieres on WPBT/Channel2 in Miami on April 2, 2008 at 9 p.m.
As the population ages, many adult children are grappling with an unprecedented social, cultural, economic, and personal revolution as they transition into the primary caregiver role for their aging parents. Produced, written, and directed by award-winning filmmaker Michael Kirk, Caring for Your Parents is a moving two-hour special that draws much-needed attention to this universal reality.
The first 90-minutes of Caring for Your Parents underscores today's struggle to keep parents at home, tensions between siblings, and the complexity of shifting caregiver roles through an intimate look at five American families. In the end, the documentary contends successful caregiving requires one primary ingredient—love.
Immediately after the 90-minute broadcast, former NBC medical correspondent Dr. Art Ulene leads "A Conversation About Caring." This half-hour panel discussion offers concrete advice and guidance on how to start the conversation—often the most difficult step in caregiving.
With all the talk about the coming Digital Transition and the shut off of Analog television signals, there is one interesting option for some viewers which might make sense depending on your TV habits and that is considering an over-the-air signal instead of cable or satellite service.
Certainly this isn't a choice if you are a heavy viewer of channels which come exclusively through cable of satellite delivery, but if most of your TV viewing is of local channels, and these local channels are all multicasting (such as WPBT now does), you may find you have more than enough choices to keep you happy AND it is all for free, just like the good old days.
Consider this survey which says that 62% of rabbit-ears watchers are opting for converter boxes or new digital TVs. Of course if you can't live without HBO or ESPN, then this isn't the best solution for you, but if most of your TV time is spent watching your local channels, with more local options available through stronger digital signals, you can't beat the price.
If you have questions about all of this visit our DTV information site or give us a call at 1-800-222-WPBT during business hours.
GREAT PERFORMANCES
Peter & the Wolf (airs Wednesday, March 26 at 8 p.m.)
Sergei Prokofiev’s fanciful musical tale Peter and the Wolf is given
new life in this innovative animated interpretation. “Oldies will
remember the work from school music lessons,” wrote London’s Observer ,
“while those coming to the story for the first time will be delighted
with this darkly comic modernization.” Originally composed in 1936, the
piece famously uses personified instruments in the orchestra to tell
the story — also penned by the composer — of young Peter and his animal
friends the Duck, the Bird and even a mischievous Cat (represented by
an oboe, flute and clarinet, respectively). Peter, himself represented
by the string section, becomes an unsuspecting hero and frees his small
Russian village from the Wolf (French horns) intent on menacing the
whole town — not to mention Peter’s beloved animal friends. Conceived
and directed by award-winning animator Suzie Templeton, this modern-day
“Peter and the Wolf” uses stop-frame model animation, puppets and
digital photography to re-tell this enduring classic, and features the
Philharmonia Orchestra under the direction of Mark Stephenson
performing Prokofiev’s iconic score.
FRONTLINE: Bush's Warairs Monday March 24 (part 1) and Tuesday, March 25 (part 2) at 9:00 p.m. each night on WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami.
9/11 and Al Qaeda, Afghanistan and Iraq, WMD and the Insurgency, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Fallujah and the Surge. For six years, FRONTLINE has been revealing those stories in meticulous detail, and the political dramas played out at the highest levels — George W. Bush and Tony Blair, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, Osama Bin Laden.
On February 29th WPBT/Channel 2's KidVision along with A Place of Our Own / Los Niños en su Casa, BP, The Parent Academy and the Miami Science Museum worked together in creating a free night at the museum for families in Miami. Leap into Discovery was the theme, and as all the parents and children entered they were immediately in the world of discovery with the dinosaur exhibit all over the museum.
uVuTV episode 5 is in the can and it marks the first time that uVuTV was shot entirely on location. The uVu crew visited the beautiful city of Surfside yesterday in an effort to get out into the community and bring a more youthful look to the show. Since we have never shot a broadcast show on location, we were eager to play with the new equipment provided to us by production. Our new gadgets included a HDV camera, a lavalier microphone, a wireless lavalier microphone, and our favorite: the boom microphone. Because it was so windy by the beach (gusts of 20 mph) the production crew gave us a special wind proof boom mic, which coincidently looked a lot like a koala bear.
The Human Services Coalition (HSC) is an organization we have worked with often over the last few months. We share a common mission to connect Miami's divergent communities with educational resources and empower and inform our citizenry. The HSC has recently published a book, Punto de Partida: Stories of Truth and Hope, a passionate and poetic collection of newspaper columns by award-winning journalist Daniel Shoer Roth that seeks to spur readers to speak up and take action in their community.
Punto de Partida features 16 columns by Shoer Roth as originally published in Spanish in El Nuevo Herald and translated into English.
Paired with insightful essays from local leaders and photographs taken by Herald photographers, Shoer Roth's work illuminates South Florida's social challenges through the eyes of the under served and overlooked.
"Punto de Partida takes aim at the issues affecting how we live in South Florida and gives voice to the people overcoming all odds to build a better life," said Daniella Levine, president and CEO of HSC. "We want to inspire readers to make a difference in our community."
Recently, we had a chance to listen as Mr. Shoer Roth read an excerpt from the book and introduced us to the subject of his story, 104 year old Morris Rosen. You can see and hear Mr. Shoer Roth reading "100 years of happiness: the story of friendship" on uVu, by clicking here.
You can find out more about Punto de Partida, which is the first book published by HSC, by visiting their site
Bill Moyers interviews former talk show host Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro on the true cost of war and their documentary, Body of War, depicting the moving story of one veteran dealing with the aftermath of war. With extensive excerpts from the film, the filmmakers talk about Iraq war veteran Tomas Young who was shot and paralyzed less than a week into his tour of duty. Three years in the making, Body of War tells the poignant tale of the young man's journey from joining the service after 9/11 to fight in Afghanistan, to living with devastating wounds after being deployed to Iraq instead. You can see the program on Friday night at 9 pm on WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami. See a clip on uVu
Jonathan F. Fanton, President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation delivered the Keynote address at the IMLS - Webwise Conference, Miami, Florida, March 6, 2008.
Titled "Rights and Responsibilities Online: A Paradox for Our Times," it was a cautionary tale of potential human rights violations in cyberspace and why the time to address these concerns is long overdue. You can see all of Mr. Fanton's remarks on uVu, our video site, but here is a small sample:
Some see the activity in MySpace and Facebook as an alarming invasion of privacy; many young people see it as an essential tool of communication, learning and personal validation. Some view Wikipedia as a threat to traditional notions of credibility, authority, and expertise; others see it as an exciting new approach to sharing knowledge and authorship...
We want to know what drives So Flo residents wild! What’s your favorite food, place, hobby, etc…? We want to know!! Make a one to five minute video about your absolute favorite thing in the world, upload it to our website, uVu and if your video is chosen it will be broadcast on air and you will be invited on as a guest host for uVuTV, which is seen each week on Digital Channel 2-2 (click here for cable information).
LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER: “New York City Opera: Madama Butterfly” Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. on WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami –James Valenti Stars as Pinkerton and Shu-Ying Li as Cio-Cio-San in Puccini’s Beloved Opera –
LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER presents “New York City Opera: Madama Butterfly,” a telecast of the Puccini opera broadcast live from the New York State Theater on Thursday, March 20, at 8:00p.m. on WPBT. Among the most beloved operas of our time, Madama Butterfly premiered at the turn of the last century, yet its tragic tale of a disastrous clash of cultures resonates with audiences today. New York City Opera’s intimate production, directed by Mark Lamos, stars James Valenti as the dashing B.F. Pinkerton and Shu-Ying Li as his ill-fated lover, Cio-Cio-San. New York City Opera music director George Manahan will conduct.
Here are a couple of upcoming screenings sponsored by WPBT and open to the public.
Join us Friday at 7 p.m. for a free screening of AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: GRAND CENTRAL as part of the CINEMA 2 AT THE WOLF series.
"When Grand Central Terminal opened on February 12, 1913, the press heralded it as the greatest railway terminal in the world. By 1947, more than 65 million people - the equivalent of 40 percent of the population of the United States - had traveled through the station. Today, it remains one of New York's and America's most famous spaces and a living monument to the nation's great railway age.
The Wolfsonian-FIU is located at 1001 Washington Avenue (305-535-2644).
As many callers and writers have noted, we are having a problem with the BBC News at 5:30pm on weekdays. WPBT has been running the BBC News at 6am, 5:30pm and midnight for many years. The 6am and midnight "feeds" of the News come to us via a PBS satellite, but the 5:30pm program comes to us through a special satellite feed, we are one of only a few stations in the country that offer the BBC News at an irregular time and that required a special receiver with a code provided directly from the BBC in order to decipher the video signal. Well, our receiver took a hit and required replacement, which we have completed, but we have not been able to get a new access code from the BBC yet. We are working with the distributor and the BBC to fix this problem. Again the other two daily broadcasts are not impacted and it isn't our plan to eliminate the 5:30pm news, we hope to have the situation resolved shortly.
Yesterday I had the opportunity of sitting in on a forum
called Widget World: The ME Revolution
at the iFocos We Media conference. Jeff Nolan, VP of Business Development at
News Gator kicked off the forum by defining widgets and how they work. So what
exactly is a widget? Simply put, a widget is a self contained container of
content that is portable. Widgets contain not only text, but images and
video. Still not sure what a widget
is? Well, if you’ve ever had a Facebook
page or iGoogle page you know that you can add different applications to your
profile such as daily quotes, horoscopes, videos, local weather, etc…, these
examples of widgets.
–“Osmond-mania” Reignited on a WPBT/Channel 2 Special airing Monday, March 10 at 8pm–
The Osmonds, a legendary music family, celebrate a historic 50th anniversary in entertainment with an all-star music special. THE OSMONDS 50TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION, starring the Osmond Brothers with special guests Donny, Marie and Jimmy.
The concert special, taped before an enthusiastic audience at the Orleans Hotel Showroom in Las Vegas, features all seven siblings — Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donny, Marie and Jimmy — performing many of their chart-topping hit songs. THE OSMONDS 50TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION marks the first time in many years that the entire Osmond family performs together on the same stage. The special also includes cameo appearances by celebrity guests, including the renowned Andy Williams, video clips and photos, and a mix of musical numbers.
It’s “Osmond-mania” all over again as screaming fans from around the world celebrate this historic reunion concert. Included are some of the Osmond Brothers’ hit songs: “Lazy River,” “We’re Having a Party,” “Proud One,” “One Bad Apple,” “Double Lovin’” and “Yo-Yo.” Donny performs his hit singles “Puppy Love,” “Breeze on By” and “Soldier of Love”; sister Marie entertains with her hit single “Paper Roses” and a medley from her Broadway repertoire, including selections from The Sound of Music and The King and I.
Donny and Marie team up and perform a medley of their famous hits, including “I’m Leaving It All Up to You,” “Little Bit Country and Little Bit Rock & Roll,” “It Takes Two” and “Make the World Go Away,” while brother Jimmy performs one of his number one hit records, “Long Haired Lover From Liverpool.” Jimmy, Donny and Marie join their brothers in performing a medley of “Love Me for a Reason,” “Let Me In,” “Crazy Horses,” “He Ain’t Heavy” and “Through the Years.” They also pay tribute to their two older brothers, Virl and Tom, and to the Children’s Miracle Network (founded by their parents).
In their 50 historic years in entertainment, the Osmonds, collectively and individually, have recorded 142 albums, selling 100 million copies worldwide with 51 gold or platinum recordings. They have set concert attendance records around the world and continue their successful recording, television and performing careers, still breaking records across the globe.
TV is a pervasive and powerful medium, and it is in a period of major transition. In the "Future of Television," a featured series on Nightly Business Report, NBR New York bureau chief Scott Gurvey examined how high-definition, digital video recorders, and the Internet will change that little black box that sits in 99% of all American homes. You can watch the series on uVu (click here) or read Scott's blog here.
The Native Arts of the Northwest Coast from The Paul & Joan Gluck Collection is on display February 23, 2008, through June 1, 2008 at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.
This exhibition is the first public display of the Paul & Joan Gluck Collection of Native arts from the Northwest Coast. Over the past 20 years, the Miami-based Glucks have assembled more than 200 art pieces to create one of the finest private Northwest Coast collections in the world. Pieces range from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries and include totem poles, ritual masks, pipes, drums, rattles, jewelry, blankets, baskets, bowls and fishing hooks. Among the many prominent artists featured are Henry Hunt (Kwakwaka’wakw), Mary Ebbets Hunt (Tlingit), Dempsey Bob (Tlingit), Bill Reid (Haida), Robert Davidson (Haida), Stan Wamiss (Kwakwaka’wakw) and Terry Starr (Tsimshian).
If you'd like to get a peak at the exhibit, watch these videos segments on uVu.
This morning, I'm writing from the Miami Beach Convention Center, where WebWise 2.0, a meeting hosted by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and locally by the Wolfsonian-FIU is going on for the next few days. Look for the video on uVu soon, particularly this mornings session, which was a real primer for Web 2.0. (You can read the WebWise Blog here)
Although there is already debate on what Web 3.0 is and what it will mean, there are still many people who are just beginning to come to terms with this great experiment in social networking, information sharing and online collaborating that we have come to accept as the norm with projects like uVu (and this blog).
Obviously it goes way beyond our simple efforts but take a look at these sessions, when they get posted (I'll update the link when they do) and you'll have a chance to catch up on 2.0 before 3.0 gets here.
“RISING STARS,” NEW WORLD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS GALA EVENING CELEBRATES SOUTH FLORIDA’S FOREMOST INSTITUTION OF ARTISTIC AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, TO BRIGHTEN DOWNTOWN MIAMI, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, WITH PRE-PERFORMANCE VISUAL ARTS EXHIBIT AT NEW WORLD GALLERY FOLLOWED BY SHOWCASE MUSICAL AT GUSMAN CENTER AND GALA RECEPTION AT DUPONT BUILDING
Over twenty years of providing the Florida community with one of its most unique and internationally applauded institutions of learning, New World School of the Arts (NWSA) will step up to the occasion with “Rising Stars,” an all-out celebration, Friday, March 14. Beginning with a free 5-6:30 P.M. visual arts exhibition and reception at the New World Gallery, the merriment continues with a 7 P.M. musical extravaganza at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts; and a Gala reception at 9 P.M. immediately following the performance to be held at the Alfred I. DuPont Building.
Let the History Detectives solve your mystery! The History Detectives are looking for a few good people to tell them about an object that you think may have played a staring role, or was just along for the ride, among American history’s newsworthy people, places or events: blackouts or boycotts, inaugurations or integration, pop art or pop culture, Hollywood or the Hindenburg, Joe Frasier or Joe DiMaggio, the Golden Spike or the Golden Gate, and so on!
What kind of object can you submit? ANYTHING you can take a picture of: dentures, recipes, clothing, cameras, machinery, quilts, blueprints, baseballs, headdresses, religious artifacts, skeletons, furniture, timepieces, stamps, recordings … you name it! Here are some investigated objects from past shows that YOU have contributed: Goering's Gun, Lewis & Clark's Cane, an Anti-Slavery Flag, Jean Lafitte's Spyglass and a Revolutionary War Prison Letter. Please include the key facts you already know, and what you hope to learn from our investigation. The information you provide will be used for production research purposes only. We will contact you if we are interested in learning more about your story. For more information go to here. Watch our Submit Your Story video here.
Giant Aluminum Magic Lantern Seen in Old Town Artist Carlos Ferguson, Classic Airstream, and Moving Images to Hit the Streets This Week
Carlos Ferguson, visiting artist at The Studios of Key West, has come to town in his classic 1962 Airstream trailer. Outfitted with a mobile projection system and portable sidewalk screen, Ferguson and his magic lantern will appear at various island locations this week and present moving images to pedestrians and passers-by. The scenes are a hodge podge of found footage and classic family films from the 1940's to 60's. Locations will be unannounced, but you are invite to view tonight's twilight installation on Caroline Street, near the Tropic Cinema. Ferguson is in town as visiting instructor at The Studios of Key West, where he is currently teaching a drawing workshop at the Armory. For details, please call TSKW at 305-296-0458.
Click here to see images from last evening's trial run outside the Armory.
Yesterday, the Miami Coalition for the Homeless announced the winners of the 2008 Student Short Film Competition. The announce came at a screening held at the Tower Theater and was part of this years' Miami International Film Festival. The winning entry will be shown on March 9th at one of the closing Film Festival events, but yesterday was a day for celebrating the talents of these young filmmakers and also for drawing attention to the circumstances which cause people to become homeless. Once the Film Festival events are concluded, WPBT will be proud to showcase the good work of these students on our video site uVu.
KEY WEST (Florida) — While perhaps invisible to the eye, there is an ethereal thread that ties our life's experiences together. For painter Eric Anfinson it is also one that runs through all the paint in his confident and solid new body of work to be presented from April 4th to April 25th at the Studios of Key West. Anfinson’s exhibition,“the blue thread—one life/beautiful life,” will feature more than twenty original oil on canvas paintings and a special installation for the opening reception on Friday evening, April 4, from 7-9 p.m. 
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