Fri, Jun 01, 2007
June 1 - 3, 2007
NOW TAKING REGISTRATIONS
IS Sponsors Digital Imaging Summer Camp
Digital Imaging Summer Camp, sponsored by Information Services offers a variety of classes during June to sharpen your graphics skills. Learn to take better digital photos. Bring photos back from the dead by applying layering and photo retouching techniques in PhotoShop. Dust off those great old slides and scan them into a digital format.
Classes are offered at several convenient times and repeated throughout June. All classes are held in the New Media Center Classroom in Architecture Hall. Registered class members will also have a chance to win a free copy of Adobe Photoshop CS 3 from the UNL Computer Store. Take five classes and receive a Digital Imaging Summer Camp Certificate. For times and registration, visit the Digital Image Summer Camp site.
MUELLER PLANETARIUM
Mueller Planetarium Enters New Era With Fulldome Digital Shows
"It's the biggest advance -- or change -- in the Planetarium's capabilities since the theater opened 49 years ago." So said Mueller Planetarium coordinator Jack Dunn about the planetarium's new projection system in the digital fulldome format. Starting June 1, audiences will experience immersive high-tech adventures in Mueller Planetarium. Dunn said the closest other fulldome digital theaters with such features are in Denver, Chicago and Wichita.
eVisitors can fall through a black hole, witness the beginnings of the universe, fly through Saturn's rings and much more. Dunn said it's very difficult to describe the experience in words: "You really have to see it to understand how powerful a medium fulldome is." The purchase of the fulldome equipment was made possible by a gift through the Friends of the University of Nebraska State Museum. The actual projection design, known as "Sphemir," was invented by Paul Bourke at the University of Western Australia in Perth. Dunn is Bourke's U.S. collaborator to spread information about the spherical mirror design. more...
MUELLER PLANETARIUM
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
After The Wedding, Black Book Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents After The Wedding and Black Book. Both films will play through June 7.
Acclaimed director Susanne Bier returns with her most powerful film yet, the Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, After The Wedding. Far from home, Jacob (Casino Royal villain, Mads Mikkelsen), runs a struggling orphanage in one of India's poorest regions. Desperate to save the orphanage from closure, he returns to Denmark to meet Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard) a wealthy businessman and potential benefactor. Jorgen offers Jacob a seemingly innocent invitation to attend his daughter's wedding. What appears to be nothing mroe than a friendly gesture sets in motion an increasingly devastating series of surprises, revelations, and confessions that will forever change their lives. Sweeping, yet entirely intimate, After The Wedding is a shattering portrait of a family struggling with the fragility of life and the search for connection, healing, and forgiveness.
Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven made his name in Hollywood with films such as Robocop, Basic Instinct and Starship Troopers. But Verhoeven got his start in the industry by making films (the acclaimed Spetters and Soldier Of Orange among them) in his native country, and it's to Holland that he returns for Black Book - his first Dutch film in 20 years. The story is set during the final days of World War II in Holland, and follows a Jewish singer named Rachel Stein (Carice Van Houten). Rachel attempts to avoid the Nazis and remains in quiet hiding until her family is brutally slain, causing her to join up with a resistance movement. Verhoeven's film is wildly ambitious and takes many intriguing twists and turns during its 145 minutes. Black Book commanded the largest budget of any film to be produced in Holland, and it shows. Explosions litter the screen, there are plenty of car chases ensue, and wince-inducing injuries and deaths propel the action. The director isn't afraid to criticize his fellow countrymen and inserts a fascinating subtext about the actions of the resistance fighters, asking some uncomfortable questions about the similarities between their behavior and that of the Nazis.
More information is available at the Ross website.
