Her job threatened, a reporter from Chicago’s Gold Coast must write a series on public housing, gentrification, and the prison industry. But when she moves into the infamous Cabrini Green projects, she tries to help with the legal problems of a young man willing to get out by any means necessary. In the end, they both find themselves lost in the tunnels that seem to connect everything Under America. The world premiere of Under America will be presented by Mortar Theatre Company in Chicago, IL, September 2010. by Jacob Juntunen directed by Rachel Edwards Harvith The Athenaeum Theatre 2936 N. Southport Sept. 3 — 26, 2010 MortarTheatreCompany.org Photo Lapse by Ryan Flynn http Edited & Mixed by Michelle Underwood
A standard day at Chicago Opera Theater for Teens as they prepare for the upcoming Scenes program, December 8, 2008. Staging, music rehearsals, and warm-ups. Stage Director and Vocal Coach: AJ Wester; Music Director: Francesco Milioto
www.coreybarksdale.com Atlanta artist Corey Barksdale creates a step by step vector graphic of president Obama in Adobe Illustrator. Google Images is utilized to search for images of president Obama and Uncle Sam. The Google images are imported into Adobe Photoshop and merged together from various layers. The merged version is then opened in Adobe Illustrator where the final vector graphic is created. Hope for positive change and peace is the focus. The final vector graphic can be enlarged to what ever size imaginable without losing any resolution. I would like to see this image on the side of a building. Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. The latest version, Illustrator CS4, is the fourteenth generation in the product line. Numerous new features include multiple artboards in a single document, a “blob brush” that is similar to the brush in Adobe Flash, and support for transparency in gradients among other features. Versions CSCS4 Illustrator CS was the first version to include 3-dimensional capabilities allowing users to extrude or revolve shapes to create simple 3D objects. To reflect its integration with the Adobe Creative Suite, Illustrator CS2 (version 12) was available for both the Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was the last version for the Mac which did not run natively on both Intel and PowerPC processors. Among the new features included in Illustrator CS2 were Live Trace, Live Paint, a …
