Digest 24, April 27,1999
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FIVE MESSAGES
1. Re: **Photographers**
2. Chicago Arts Study is Tool to Defeat Gambling Measure in Pennsylvania
3. Sign up for artiwu in the summer!
4. Alumni: who's going down for graduation?
5. Innovations in Lawn Typography
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Date: Sunday, April 25, 1999 4:39:07 PM
From: Matt Maldre '97(spudart@aol.com)
Subj: Re: **Photographers**
I suggest that you join the SUBMINI-L mailing list (The Subminiature
Photography Mailing List)
To join send an email to:
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
with "SET SUBMINI-L DIGEST" in the message (without the quotations)
I also suggest going to:
http://www.photorama.com
They have a listing of shows where to buy cameras for cheap.
They have shows in Chicago around once a month. The next show is:
Sunday, May 16, 1999
CHICAGO CAMERA SHOW
HOLIDAY INN-HILLSID(Eisenhower Exp)
4400 Frontage Rd., Hillside, IL.on I-290 1 mile East of I-294,
Exit Manheim North, left on Frontage Rd. From Chicago I-290 W. Exit Wolf Rd.
70-6 Ft Tables $65ea.
Admission $6/5
OPEN TO PUBLIC: Sun 10-3pm
>******PHOTOGRAPHERS******
>
>I AM LOOKING FOR INFO ON BUYING A NEW CAMERA FOR A BACKPACK TRIP THIS
>SUMMER. I WANT SOMETHING BOTH MANUAL AND AUTOMATIC AND PROB WITH A >ZOOM.
>IT NEEDS TO BE COMPACT AND DURABLE AND NOT SO EXPENSIVE THAT MY TRIP
>WOULD BE RUINED IF IT WERE LOST OR STOLEN. I HAVE FOUND A FEW OPTIONS,
>BUT I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF ANYONE COULD SEND SOME GOOD ADVICE OR WEB
>SITES TO CHECK OUT BEFORE I BOUGHT ANYTHING!
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Date: Sunday, April 25, 1999 4:39:07 PM
From: Matt Maldre '97(spudart@aol.com)
Subj: Chicago Arts Study is Tool to Defeat Gambling Measure in Pennsylvania
CHICAGO ARTS STUDY IS TOOL TO DEFEAT GAMBLING MEASURE IN PENNSYLVANIA
PHILADELPHIA, PA — A measure to introduce gambling in Pennsylvania,
which would have included slot machines, video poker and riverboat
casinos on the Delaware, was killed last month by the State Senate.
According to the PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, one of the tools used by the
Coalition of Philadelphia Neighborhood Associations, an organization
formed to fight the proposed riverboats, was a study done by the Chicago
Better Government Association which showed that tourists who came for the
arts were much more beneficial to the economy than gamblers.
“We’re trying to get the word out . . . that you get true economic
development without the horrible social ills from gambling by focusing
attention on the cultural attractions we have here right now,” the Daily
News quotes Colleen Puckett, a founder of the Coalition of Philadelphia
Neighborhood Associations as saying.
The Better Government Association (BGA) study, THE TOURISM INDUSTRY IN
CHICAGO: IT’S THE ARTS, STUPID, published in 1997, concluded that “It is
time to stop and smell the roses - admit the obvious. We should support
our core institutions and nourish the new ones from the beginning rather
than casting about for pie in the sky solutions like casinos.”
In 1994, the BGA had engaged Bill Thompson and Ricardo Gazel from the
University of Nevada to survey 785 Illinois riverboat gamblers. Gazel
and Thompson found that almost none of them spent any money on anything
but gambling — “Maybe a beer on the boat but nothing in town”. In 1997,
on behalf of the Chicago Metro Ethics Coalition, BGA commissioned
Professors Thompson and Gazel to survey the “real tourists”.
They surveyed 1194 people at the Art Institute, Navy Pier and the North
Michigan Avenue Shopping District. Free music and arts events as
motivations for coming to Chicago were ranked by 85.2% respondents as
“high” or “very high”. 83.4% ranked new museums high or very high.
As opposed to the gamblers who were mostly local or from within a 50 mile
radius, 56.9% of the Art Institute visitors came from outside the Chicago
Metropolitan area. Of the 223 Art Institute visitors who lived over 35
miles away, 72 came to Chicago especially to visit the Art Institute.
They stayed overnight, spending an average of $225.11 per person per trip
in a combination of food, lodging, shopping, transportation, sightseeing,
etc.
“Based in these findings, visitors of the Art Institute alone are
responsible for an addition of nearly $160 million to Chicago’s economy
each year,” the study states.
A spokesperson for the BGA told Arts Wire that it’s figures were similar
to those found by a similar study by Illinois Arts Alliance. “Our direct
numbers match up almost perfectly,” he noted.
“The lesson here is that supporting more museums, art and musical
entertainment has a much bigger payoff (and isn’t that what we always
talk about in Chicago?) than either amusement parks or casinos,”
the study concludes.
Sources/resources:
“Phila. Ought to be Grateful for Legislature’s Anti-gambling Vote;
Education Shouldn’t be a Crapshoot”
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS — http://www.phillynews.com
March 10, 1999
Marc Meltzer
“In Chicago, museums and music appear to more likely to draw tourism $$
Study: Arts are safer bet”
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS - http://www.phillynews.com
February 19, 1999
J. Terrence Brunner, Executive Director, Better Government Association
“Statement to the Metro ethics Coalition Project”
June 23, 1997
Ricardo C. Gazel and William Thompson
“The Tourism Industry in Chicago: It’s the Arts, Stupid”
June 20, 1997
BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION WEBSITE: http://www.bgawatchdog.org
ILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE — http://www.artswire.org/~ilartadv
this article comes from Arts Wire CURRENT April 20, 1999; Volume 8, No. 16
I highly recommend subscribing: http://www.artswire.org/
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Date: Sunday, April 25, 1999 4:39:07 PM
From: Matt Maldre '97(spudart@aol.com)
Subj: Sign up for artiwu in the summer!
Dear Creative Colleague, (students and faculty)
Please accept our invitation to receive artiwu, the world's leading email publication on the arts and design in Chicago for IWU students, alumni, and faculty.
From art and graphic design, to multimedia, photography and illustration, ARTIWU is the publication for YOU to voice your thoughts and opinions throughout the summer months.
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Just email artiwu your summer address today!
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Date: Sunday, April 25, 1999 4:39:07 PM
From: Matt Maldre '97(spudart@aol.com)
Subj: Alumni: who's going down for graduation?
Lisa and I (Matt Maldre) are going down for graduation this Sunday (May 2). Who else is going down? We should all meet up! You can email me privately at: spudart@aol.com or give me a call: 773-233-6873 (home). 630-858-6385 (work).
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Date: Sunday, April 25, 1999 4:39:07 PM
From: Matt Maldre '97(spudart@aol.com)
Subj: Innovations in Lawn Typography
Innovations in Lawn Typography
SUNNYSIDE, W.A. -- The 7-foot-tall scarlet "A" in Dixie Lyczewski's front yard will stay, but at least the flashing stobe light has been turned off.
The yard display is a result of a dispute between Mrs. Lyczewski and her husband, Tim. Their 20-year-old daughter, Tarah, built the display using plastic irrigation pipe wrapped in read garlands three months ago. It's shaped like the letter "A" as in "adultery."
She said she got the idea from Nathaniel hawthorne's book "The Scarlet Letter" after her father began dating and moved in with another woman.
Mrs. Lyczewski agreed to turn off a flashing strobe light on the display after 208 residents filed a petition to have the display removed. (AP)
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