Philly-raised photographer Lisa Kereszi’s new book, “Joe’s Junk Yard,” is “a personal narrative photo book, spanning more than fifty years and three generations, that explores one family’s achievement and subsequent demise of the American Dream.”
Are cloud services more reliable than self hosted services? Allied Pixel’s Pete Bretz put that question to the test during Hurricane Sandy. See whether it makes sense for your organization to rely on the cloud for its core communication services.
www.alliedpixel.com/2012/11/cloud-services-how-reliable-is-reliable/
Allied Pixel is a Philadelphia-based creative production studio that helps organizations build a complete digital media portfolio, including web, interactive, video, mobile and social media. Find out more about them at www.alliedpixel.com.
The Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau (PHLCVB) has launched PHL Partners, an open-source messaging and imaging platform that provides “all the tools you need to tell Philadelphia’s story to everyone with whom you do business.”
PHL Partners provides photos, stats and more to tell Philly’s story through a series of narratives, such as “Creative Spirit” and “Innovation + Education.”
Check it out at http://www.phlpartners.com/
The PCVB competes with its counterparts worldwide for convention and tourism business. The organization has departments dedicated to the multicultural, sports, and life sciences markets. Find out more about them at http://www.philadelphiausa.travel/about-us.
This fall, members of the public can record 30 second messages and see them play out abstractly on the Philadelphia sky. “Open Air”, an “interactive light experience” above the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, aims to use technology to transform the sky over Philadelphia. Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer designed the installation on commission by the Association for Public Art.
Every night from September 20 to October 14 the project will make huge light formations, visible from 10 miles away, that are automatically controlled by your voice.
Visit http://www.openairphilly.net/ to record a voice message and listen and rate other entries. The higher rated messages are played back over the using 24 powerful robotic searchlights that react, both in brightness and position, to your voice’s frequency and volume. There’s also an Open Air iPhone app you can download free.
The Philadelphia Film Festival opens Oct. 18 with a gala screening and promises about 100 features and 20 shorts playing on screens all around town, and ends 10 days later, leaving the city sated from a huge cinema feast.
The opening night film is David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, straight from its Audience Award for best picture at the Toronto International Film Festival, and shot in and around town (Ridley Park, Upper Darby, Lansdowne, Center City) and starring native son Cooper.
Get the scoop in Steven Rea’s Inquirer column:
http://articles.philly.com/2012-09-23/news/34041743_1_jennifer-lawrence-cloud-atlas-bradley-cooper
For all you marketing mavens out there, the Philly Ad Club is launching a series of workshops with leading Chief Marketing Officers. First up is Marke Dickinson, CMA and senior executive for AAA Mid-Atlantic. Dickinson is steward of the AAA brand, with accountability for focusing marketing efforts to communicate member value and grow revenues. He oversees all elements of the marketing mix, including advertising, database marketing, online, social media and the membership publication AAA World.
Dickinson will speak on:
The workshop is on October 18 at the News Journal offices in Wilmington. To register or get more information, visit http://www.phillyadclub.com/special-cmo-series-inaugural-event-featuring-marke-d-dickinson.html&type=all.
Brian Dwyer holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of pizza memorabilia; he has a caricature of himself, eating pizza, tattooed on his back with the phrase “Totally saucesome!”; and he is the driving force behind Pizza Brain, which he describes as the nation’s first pizza museum.
“We thought it was a funny idea, and we started doing some research,” Dwyer said. “And when we discovered that nowhere on earth was there a physical place, a monument built to pizza, we said, ‘This is going to be huge.'”
Pizza Brain opened on September 7 in Fishtown.
If you go …
PIZZA MUSEUM AND RESTAURANT
2313-2311 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia
http://www.pizzabrain.org
215-291-2965.
Open Tuesday-Wednesday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Thursday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-midnight.
The Barnes Foundation houses one of the finest collections of 19th and 20th French painting in the entire world, and now it’s located right here in Philadelphia on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Take an insider tour with the Philadelphia Center for Architecture.
Every last Monday of the month the Philadelphia Center for Architecture and the Barnes Foundation are hosting presentations and guided tours for those interested in seeing what went into planning and executing the design of Philly’s newest world-class museum.
Get the details from www.uwishunu.com:
Patrick Fyock is an online media analyst at Harmelin Media. In this PhIMA interview, find out the first place he goes for information in the morning, the next big step for digital media, and how he feels about working in Philly.
Read the interview at http://phillyinteractive.org/top-phive.
Thanks to our friends at PhIMA, the Philadelphia Interactive Marketing Association, for this interview. Find out more about PhIMA at http://phillyinteractive.org/about.
AIGA Philadelphia’s Mentorship Program engages professionals in a short-term, one-on-one mentoring relationship with a design student or recent graduate in our area. It’s a tremendous opportunity to learn and share. Applications are due by September 14.
Visit http://aigaphilly.org/events/2012/aiga-philadelphia-mentorship-program-now-accepting-applications-20122013-term for details.
AIGA Philly is the local chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Find out more about them at http://aigaphilly.org/about.
