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Jacksonville Public Library’s Zine Collection on the Show Monday

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Neither Josh or Andrew are in this picture. The recent Zine Symposium at Much Ado About Books

Josh Jubinsky and Andrew Coulon from the Main Library’s Zine collection will be on Urban Jacksonville Weekly tomorrow. I going to grill them with some hard hitting questions so tune in at 9:30 on the show page: Urban Jacksonville Weekly show page.

Question number one: Why do all zine creators where black?

3rd Modern Architecture Tour and Symposium

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The Jacksonville Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and DOCOMOMO/US Florida are sponsoring their third one-day symposium and tour highlighting the achievements of architecture from the Recent Past in Northeast Florida.

The event will be held at the Cathedral of Faith Church of God in Christ (2591 W. Beaver Street, Jacksonville, FL 32246) on March 13, 2008. A morning session with presentations by important figures from North Florida’s architectural history and others will begin at 9:00 a.m. and last until 11:30 p.m.

The lead presenter will be one of Jacksonville’s best-known architects, Robert C. Broward, who worked with Frank Lloyd Wright during the early part of his career.

An optional afternoon bus tour will visit five of Mr. Broward’s most important buildings. The tour – including lunch prepared by the Ladies of the Church – will be offered at a $60. The morning presentations will cost $5.

All attendees will receive a full-color brochure and driving map of all of Mr. Broward’s buildings in Jacksonville. All attendees will also have the opportunity to join the speakers for lunch on the church grounds after the morning presentations. For those not going on the afternoon tour, lunch will be available for an additional $10.

Content Design Group Enters Free Green Design Competition

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Duval friends Content Design Group need your help voting for them in the Free Green residential design competition.

I sure hope they do design and build this house, it’s right across the street from my house in Springfield!

VOTE HERE

FreeGreen.com is looking for talented designers who can bring progressive design ideas to mainstream America. With 400,000+ visitors per year, 36,000+ house plans distributed per year, and 20,000+ registered members FreeGreen.com is the largest source of Residential Design in the world. Now we want to use this audience to promote new Architects and designers, and increase the influence of thoughtful and sustainable Architecture in the Residential arena.

You may remember Content Design Group from their work on the Urban Facelift Project or their recent appearance on Urban Jacksonville Weekly.

Black Kids to Appear on Yo Gabba Gabba

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This is from a photo shoot Thursday promoting the JPL Zine Collection

Black Kids will appear on Yo Gabba Gabba this Monday, at 10:30 a.m. on Nickelodeon. It’s the season premiere, with Weird Al Yankovic, Sarah Silverman and us doing bits about The Circus.

Friday Is For Artists With Off The Grid And I Hope This Makes You Happy

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Off The Grid Launch Party Invite
Invitation by Jeff Harrington, Kelly Young, David Brent Lee and MOCA Jacksonville. Photo by Ingrid Damiani

I received my Off the Grid Launch Party invite in the mail Thursday. It looks tight. Jacksonville, downtown specifically, is getting a little swagger. Off the Grid is:

a partnership between artists, property owners, Downtown Vision, Inc. and the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville. Off the Grid facilitates introductions between Jacksonville artists and Downtown property owners in an effort to activate vacant spaces in the urban core with artistic energy and provide artists with much needed work and exhibition space.

This movement started here and was formerly called Creative Communities. I like the new name, a big improvement. Listen to Terry Lorince, DVI Pres talk about the program, and other things.


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I Hope This Makes You Happy

I Hope This Makes You Happy is a new project from Nick at Art Behind the Fridge. It has the potential to keep me walking up and down the streets of 5 Points on Fridays.

The idea involves me creating a 5×5 drawing that I will take and put up somewhere in Jacksonville for whoever to find it. The idea behind it is this, I believe that art makes people “happy”, or at least thats the case for me. I know that when I look at an illustration, a painting, a sculpture, street art, or even a film that I think is “cool”, it makes me “happy”.

At least I’m hoping he leaves one or two in 5 Points for us to find. Keep an eye out for free art today!

Mesh Magazine Looking for ArtWalk Photos and Events

If anyone has ArtWalk photos, send your links to Mesh Magazine so they can post them up on the site with credit for you. You can also send them events you have coming up in the next month.

I Saved the Best for Last

Each year the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville presents their Annual Arts Awards at a luncheon. The event is held on stage at the Times-Union Performing Arts Center. This year’s awards ceremony will be held on April 20th.

A new part of this celebration of the arts in Jacksonville will be using technology to feature the regions artists on a huge screen running across the back of the stage.

The Cultural Council is looking for artists to submit images for this event. If you want to be included please send or deliver up to 10 of your digital images to the address below. Digital Images must be:

  • Professionally photographed.
  • Full images, as well as, detail shots are welcomed.
  • We would like both 2D and 3D work to showcase.
  • Images must be at least 300 dpi and SGA 1024 x 768.
  • We will need the images no later than March 17th.
  • Indicate how you would like your name credited.

Send or drop off your disk of digital images
Martha McManus
(904) 358.3600
Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville
300 W Water St., Jacksonville, FL 32202

Or if you have a Flickr account, place the images in a group called “Cultural Council 2010” and send a link to martha@culturalcouncil.org

The goal is to highlight as many artists as possible. The Cultural Council cannot guarantee that your work will be included and by submitting your images you are agreeing to allow Cultural Council to use your images in the future to help promote the arts in Jacksonville.

I’m Board IV Kicks Off Urban Jacksonville Interview Series

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I’m Board 4 – Interview with Chad Landenberger from Thought & Theory on Vimeo.

I understand quite a few people have seen this video, so re-posting here is just to close the loop of people who will be interested to see it, but haven’t.

This is part of new interview series for Urban Jacksonville so keep an eye out for more. We’re taking recommendations for who to interview next if you have suggestions.

Dennis Eusebio came to me a couple months ago with an idea to shoot a series of videos for Urban Jacksonville. This aligned perfectly with my assertion that 2010 would be the year Jacksonville moved beyond text and branched out into audio and video.

We moved this trend along with the Urban Jacksonville Weekly podcast so I was excited to have Dennis work on this video interview series.

This piece stands by itself as a testament to everything that is fun and good in the city. I would love to see Downtown Vision or the Jacksonville Convention and Visitors Bureau use this video as a promotional tool for promoting city life.

Please enjoy the hi-res versions on Vimeo or Facebook and share with a friend next time they say Jacksonville is boring, lame, uninteresting, etc.

Filmed and Edited by: Dennis Eusebio and Varick Rosete. Thanks to Chad Landenberger, 229 North Hogan with music by Holy Ghost “Hold On”.

Urban Jacksonville Weekly #54 – Walk a Mile in Their Shoes

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Tom McManus and Kelly DeGance
Tom McManus and Kelly DeGance

Thanks to Tom McManus and Kelly DeGance for talking with us about Walk a Mile in Their Shoes, an event we’ll be supporting all month long at Urban Jacksonville Weekly.

4th annual Walk a Mile in Their Shoes 5K
Saturday, March 27, 2010
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Comping Up On Urban Jacksonville Weekly

On March 15th we’ll have Josh Jubinsky in the studio to talk about the Zine program at the Jacksonville Public Library. Josh, or Mr. Josh, works in the children’s at the downtown branch and was instrumental in creation one of the largest public zine collections in the United States.

Zine: A zine (an abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine; pronounced /?zi?n/ “zeen”) is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock.

Josh Talks About The Jacksonville Library's Zine Collection

video interview With Josh Jubinski (of inertia records) on jaxscene.blogspot.com for ‘zine’ program

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