Orlando Scene TV

Our beloved Amway Arena will soon be replaced by the… Amway Events Center, down near the intersection of I-4 and 408. This means the current Arena and that huge parking lot will become mostly useless. The Bob Carr will remain in operation – possibly indefinitely – until the new Performing Arts Center is built. As for the rest of the land, well, let’s just say that Mayor Buddy has big dreams!

There are lots of watercolor drawings and slideshows with maps available on the City of Orlando’s website. They have a page with a few downloadable documents created that outline the gentrification of Parramore, creating lots of “party curb” streets (so drunk people don’t trip?), and making greater use of parks and public spaces. They also want to make sure the venues and other city buildings are “good neighbors”, whatever that means.

If you want to hear this BS in person, they’re having an event on Monday at City Hall. It seems to be open invite, so if you care about the future of downtown, make some time in your schedule for this.

Creative Village event March 22nd

If I’m allowed to videotape, the meeting will show up on our Watch Live page.

Orlando, FL – Mark Baratelli of the Daily City shows us the art show in a U-Haul Truck.

Every month, downtown Orlando galleries open their doors for a new art exhibition called Third Thursdays. Mark parks the Mobile Art Show in front of CityArts Factory on the corner of Pine Street and Orange Avenue.

Tomorrow morning at 8AM, people in 60 cities all over the world will get together for coffee and conversation, continuing a 3-year tradition that started with 2 trendsetters in New York who decided to have good coffee and conversation in real life instead of online. In Orlando, we hold Likemind at the Drunken Monkey, one of the best coffee shops in town, every third Friday of the month. Watch the twitters about likemind scroll by today and tomorrow to see all the other people and places that get involved in this international affair.

To get email updates about future Likemind events in Orlando, check out the Likemind.orl group on FloridaCreatives.com, or use the direct registration link.

Local performance artist Brian Feldman organized the second-annual Pillowlando on April 4th this year in front of the SunTrust building.

I was walking downtown last week and captured this on my phone. Meets last Friday of every month at Loch Haven Park / Science Center, then rides through downtown. I love the pedestrian who was pissed at them for “blocking traffic” and the hipsters who grumbled back at him.

@ The Office Art Gallery, Friday Oct 10th

A word from Frankie Messina:

www.apartmente.com got all the info you need.

hope to see you all my friends.. come kick off this incredible evening and be able to say you were there the first night…..

bring a friend and they get in half price.

then they can help you donate to the cause..
that cause being local ART and MUSIC and LOVING the two..

thank you for all the support, and I can’t wait to meet you all………..and give you all a big o’le country hug..,Frankie

This came across my desk at work today:

Does anyone know of an animation school in the Orlando area? A friend’s 16-year-old son is interested in pursuing animation as a career and is looking into classes he can take now as well as college programs for the future. If you have any insight, please pass it along.

Just doing a google search returned a bunch of crap, so I wanted to help this person out with information you could snack on:

UCF’s Visual Language program is top-notch. In Orlando, I wouldn’t recommend anything above the UCF School of Film and Digital Media. They also have a graduate program at the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA).

The Valencia Graphics program has some animation stuff as well. I blogged some students’ motion graphics projects at Orlando Video. I think high school students can take VCC classes before they graduate.

They offer some stuff like that at the Orlando Tech Center – it’s run by the Orange County Public Schools – right near the Amway Arena. They have a Computer Animation lab, a 3D printer, a motion capture stage, an Audio Recording studio and a TV studio. There are also several tech or vocational schools in Orlando (besides the OCPS), but I don’t have any information about one over the other.

Has anyone mentioned the DAVE School to you yet? They are/used to be located on the backlot of Universal Studios, but that has nothing to do with what they teach there, it’s just the space that they use. They are focused only on animation, and I think they take students of all ages.

And then there’s FullSail, of course (the school, not the beer). Little-known fact: most FullSail teachers were students from last year’s graduating class – the law of diminishing returns will have to catch up with them sometime. I’m not saying it’s impossible to get a good education there, but from what I understand, there are lots of folks at the school looking to get somewhere without really trying. If one works hard, a good education can be obtained despite the reputation an institution garners for itself.

If you in the blogosphere can think of any other programs of note, please leave them in the comments.

Becky reminisces about a dirtier Downtown Fringe of days past.

May 24th on Park Ave at 3, around Lake Eola at 5
www.richweirdos.com/zombie