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Utah short film ‘Boomtown’ by Torben Bernhard, Travis Low to premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

0 Comments Published by les January 23rd, 2012 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Film, Salt Lake City, SLC, Tourism.

At its peak in the early 1880s, the Horn Silver Mine in Frisco, Utah was cited in the U.S. Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger as ‘unquestionably the richest silver mine in the world now being worked.’ Miriam B. Murphy, who has written frequently about Utah’s early history, described the town’s story as the perfect [...]

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Pure art passion shines in ‘Herb and Dorothy’ as part of Utah Film Center’s Creativity in Focus Series

0 Comments Published by les December 5th, 2011 in Art, Communication, Community Dialogue, Film, Salt Lake City, SLC.

‘Vissi d’arte’ – Giacomo Puccini, Tosca, 1900. (translates to ‘I lived for art.’) From the perspective of those in the business of marketing the arts or managing large cultural enterprises, how does one approach the purest and most passionate aesthetic sense when it cannot be neatly categorized in numbers or demographics? One of the many [...]

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Creative kinship among youth propels a magnificent slate of Spy Hop’s PitchNic films

0 Comments Published by les November 13th, 2011 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Film, Salt Lake City, SLC.

One of the most endearing features of Spy Hop Productions’ PitchNic program is how the kinship among the young filmmakers is so plainly observable and emotional. After a year in a program that culminates in the premieres of their work, the students share a wonderfully refreshing collegial sense of confidence in each other’s creativity. It [...]

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Utah short film ‘Boomtown’ by Torben Bernhard, Travis Low to premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ---
At its peak in the early 1880s, the Horn Silver Mine in Frisco, Utah was cited in the U.S. Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger as ‘unquestionably the richest silver mine in the world now being worked.’ Miriam B. Murphy, who has written frequently about Utah’s early history, described the town’s story as the perfect [...]
Pipilotti Rist documentary is good-mood entry for Creativity in Focus Series ---
Pipilotti Rist is a refreshingly gregarious artist as comfortable in her own eccentricities as she is in dealing with museum curators and security personnel who anxiously wonder about the logistical challenges her video art installations impose. However, the Swiss-born artist should not be underestimated because of her easy propensity for whimsy touches and occasional silliness. [...]
A New Year’s treat with Creminelli’s cotechino and lentils ---
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) There’s a wholesome earthiness about the New Year’s food traditions in virtually every culture. A particular personal favorite is lentils, of which [...]
Caputo’s chocolate collection celebrates the artisan maker’s capacity for disruptive innovation ---
‘The cacao you start the process with is the single most important factor in great quality, artisan chocolate, after that you rely on the skill of the chocolate maker to do the rest.’ – Martin Christy Look no further than the impressively diverse chocolate collection at Tony Caputo’s Market and Deli for the definitive example [...]
University of Utah’s Book Arts Program energizes a culture celebrating the printed word’s lasting value ---
‘Print is not dead. It is not even dying, at least not yet. Think of print like an overweight beast, shedding excess weight. The result is a leaner, more defined, more beautiful experience.’ – Kassia Krozser, 2010 Ingenuity never is scarce when it comes to the final student projects at the Book Arts Studio at [...]