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Film: Made in Mankato
Making it in the film, video and multimedia industry is tough. There are very few jobs in the market, company creative budgets are shrinking and technology is constantly changing. Some things don’t change, however. For instance, a real passionate video or film maker doesn’t stop working on projects, paid or unpaid. Just like any artist, writer or musician, the film maker is bound by creative energy and obligated to the challenge compelling them to produce great work, no matter the financial outcome. This challenge can become great inspiration for individuals like Jordan Pow-
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“We launched really fast,” he explained. “I had formerly worked at other production companies, and I really wanted to incorporate my passion and talent for photography and video production into something that I could give back to my community.” Made in Mankato was born. The launch took place September 1. Jordan and the others never anticipated such rapid growth. “We didn’t know how the community would respond,” Jordan recalls. “But they really wanted this. It was powerful for everybody.” In just a couple weeks time, the Made in Mankato Facebook page had more than 1,000 likes. This was even before any videos were posted. There’s a hunger for independent film in Mankato? Well, yes there was a film festival hosted downtown by Bethany Lutheran College some time ago. Made in Mankato offers a local business edge. They select each business for a free video production by the unique qualities of the business to the Mankato area. Sorry franchises, you’ll have to pay for your productions! The second installment was done for Mankato Brewery and work was also done most recently with Salvage Sisters. The Facebook buzz was intense during the Dork Den project and Made in Mankato posed the question, “What else would you like to see us produce?” to get ideas. There were more than 160 responses. Tonya was jubilant. “Ultimately, we all have the passion for this and want to give something back to the community, but we also just really want to see the film community in the Make the Switch to DISH Today Mankato area grow,” she said. and Save Up To 50% Tonya expressed that Made in Mankato is looking to grow and expand and l possibly seek investment for their future of film making. They are also interested Promotiona prices only ... in the idea of a film festival. starting at OVER 30 PREMIUM SAME DAY MOVIE CHANNELS INSTALLATION Premiers are held at the businesses they are about and are generally well atIN UP TO 6 ROOMS mo. tended. Ted, Tonya and Jordan work with about six others on projects. Everyone CALL TODAY For 3 months. INSTALLED TODAY! volunteers their time for these projects. Between the three of them, they all have professional experience and education in the creative capacity with design, art, Call Now and Ask How! film, video, audio and photography. Where available.
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Games: X Box 1/PS4
The hysteria is among us after the tremendous amount of buzz about the Sony Playstation 4 and Microsoft XBox One consoles released this holiday season and already sold out at many retail locations. XBox and Playstation have remained the top consoles and rivals of the market for a while now since XBox’s initial release. The Playstation series has some history to it now, with one version more than its rival at Microsoft. Nintendo is more of a family and kid’s market these days. There is an Android console on the market now, but according to many reviews, it doesn’t hold up among the competition very well yet. According to retail business research from BusinessWeek, the XBox One is a “loss leader” meaning they only make about $28 per console or less with all of the research and development costs figured into the equation. Also, according to USA Today who cited survey data (as of this writing), Playstaion 4 is on more consumers’ minds It’s not clear what this signals yet. So what are they roots of these two popular gaming systems, both developed by companies that had little to do with gaming in the near past? XBox XBox was introduced in 2001, shortly after the second Playstation effort. It began as a side project of Microsoft developers, who were convinced they would be fired for working more on a pet project at Microsoft rather than doing their jobs. Turns out Gates liked the idea and helped it along, so the story goes. The XBox 360 was released in 2005. Kinect control was introduced to compete with the Wii, then Playstation added their own version. XBox helped innovate online gaming, and that makes sense for an IT company like Microsoft. XBox live has changed much of the gaming industry since time. With the XBox One, users can record and stream gameplay, control functions using Kinect-based voice control and integrate digital television.
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Music: New Gear for 2014 Slanted Mag has provided a list of new music gear to look at either for the holidays or for upgrades in 2014. There are many options, but we only highlighted a few. We have, however, included links to product reviews, news and information from reputable sources available to link to in the digital issue of Slanted Mag. ‘Like’ us on Facebook @ facebook.com/slantedmag. See us at ReverbNation at reverbnation.com/venue/slanted. Check us out on YouTube at youtube.com/slantedmagmn. Look for us on ISSUU, too! Check out our digital issue on our website at slantedmag.com/stories.html) Synths Here is a list of some the newest software and hardware synthesizers on the market with links to reviews on the expert audiophile magazine website, Sound on Sound (see digital issue at slantedmag.com/stories.html): • Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 12 Polyphonic Synthesizer • Fatar Studiologic VMK188 88-note Piano-action Controller Keyboard • Roland Juno-D Sample-based Synthesizer • Yamaha MX49 Synthesizer • Kiwi Technics Kiwi 3P Synthesizer Upgrade Guitars The popular UK music tech review and news site, MusicRadar, provides a slideshow highlighting some of the most sci-fi axes and guitar tech coming to your garageband in 2014. Among them are the Gibson Les Paul LPX guitar, Fishman Triple Play wireless midi controller, LTD EC-1000 EverTune guitar, Peavey Vypyr VIP 3 1x12 combo amp with effects and the Line 6 POD HD500X pedal board. Mixing Harmony Central gifted its audience with a recap of the AES Convention, which featured a range of different technologies for audio engineers. Here were some of the highlighted products to come to studios in 2014: • Tascam DA-3000 Hi Definition two track mixdown/mastering deck • Genelec 1237 and 1238 DSP montiors • KRK Rockit Generation 3 two-way speakers • Oean Audio Ark mixer • API Box Mixer • AVID S6 control surface (replacing Icon and System 5 MC) • Softube Console 1 • Solid State Logic Matrix 2 workstation
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The art of music has changed through a natrual progression of shared culture and wisdom. The science and technology end of it has certainly changed. Somewhere in between, the music business has made a drastic change, or has it? Before records were even put into reproduction on vinyl for the phonograph, they were offered up as written published works (and still are, but sold in a much different way) for a parlor piano, house band, orchestra, opera or other instrument. But before this, the intellectual value had little trade value other than cultural. Live festivities were held in high regard in many societies however, and musicians held great value to communities during gatherings.
The same is becoming true today of the modern music business. Outside sponsors and promoters are becoming the backbone of a local music business that uses the Internet and mobile web to promote their music in hopes to sell out gigs and tour, then go for sponsors, then endorsements, merchandising, then maybe sell some digital content. One can draw parallels between other media industries as well, but the strategies for video, comedy, news, animation, design and photography are all quite different. For music, the following websites and apps are used by musicians to promote:
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www.dishdoctorsmn.com tion room where they could set parameters for what scenario, setting and environment they were in, kind of like the Sims? In fact, one theory among a former NASA scientist is that the entire universe could very well be our future selves programming code to create the world we live in. Interestingly, matter, when broke down small enough, act quite like pixels do on your computer. The exponential computer processing power capability growth actually confirms this possibility. WIth enough data, you could create an entire simulated universe or multiverse. Well, augmented reality is like that. Scientists are using data to create virtual worlds with simulated sights, smells and feel and wonders. Contour Crafting Contour crafting, a process that came out of the University of Southern California School of Engineering, is a robotic construction system. It’s also a disruptive technology that make some wonder how many jobs may be lost in the construction industry. It’s probably true that this may happen, but it may also fuel many other types of jobs as well. The process takes 3D printing to a whole new level, actually to the level of constructing structures like houses, warehouses, shops, even whole neighborhoods or complexes. It looks to be more efficient, cheaper and actually safer. It’s definitely faster. A whole structure of a few thousand square feet can be put up in a day’s time. It works with nozzles that lay a precise amount of concrete and other arms that perform tasks in construction. They are multi-configurable. The idea was take manufacturing processes and apply them to the very costly and dangerous field of construction. Contour crafting is what we are left with.
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City Center Partnership Announces People’s Choice Winner CityArt Adds Tenth New Public Sculpture and Over $1.1 million Displayed MANKATO, Minn.— The City Center Partnership announced the 2013 CityArt Walking Sculpture Tour award winners at the November 20th Greater Mankato Business Awards and Hall of Fame event. Over 700 votes were cast for the People’s Choice sculpture making it the sculpDirecTV - Over 140 channels only $29.99 ture that received the most popular votes from the public. All of the sculpa month. Triple savings! $636.00 in Sav- tures received votes, which was a testament to the high quality and wide ings, Free upgrade to Genie & 2013 NFL variety of sculptures presented. The People’s Choice was awarded to Lee Sunday ticket free for New Customers. Leuning and Sherri Treeby of South Dakota for their sculpture “Saturday Start saving today! 1-800-396-6952 Distractions”. This sculpture will be purchased by the City Center Partnership and permanently installed in City Center Mankato. DONATE YOUR CAR - FAST FREE Another annual recognition is the Best of Show. Sculptures were juried TOWING and selected by an esteemed group of judges including: Donald Myers 24 hr. Response - Tax Deduction Director, Hillstrom Museum of Art and Instructor at Gustavus Adolphus UNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDA- College in the Department of Art and Art History, Andrew Overn- AsTION sociate Professor of Studio Art and Media Arts at Bethany Lutheran ColProviding Free Mammograms & Breast lege, and Liz Miller – Professor in the College of Arts and Humanities, Cancer Info Minnesota State University, Mankato. 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Since 2011, CityArt has facilitated the addition of 10 permanent sculptures in City Center Mankato and throughout our community adding beauty and dimension to the downtown core. Eric Harriman of the City Center Partnership states, “Over the last 3 years, CityArt has displayed $1.1million in professional public art sculptures resulting in this year’s People’s Choice being the 10th new addition to the permanent public art collection. These efforts are supporting the mission of the Partnership, which is to support economic and community vibrancy in City Center Mankato making it a more attractive and dynamic place to live, shop, work and play.” Plans are well underway for the 2014 tour which will include 34 sculptures, with several spots reserved for artists from the Greater Mankato area. 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