Mon, Sep 08, 2008
September 8, 2008
Tips for Creating an Eco Room
ASUN, Housing, Admissions and University Communications have teamed up to create a virtual tour of an "eco-chic" dorm room, to help students moving back to campus minimize their environmental footprint. The sample room's décor mixes secondhand accessories and dishware, eco-friendly personal care and cleaning products, and a few new items that reflect environmentally responsible manufacturing practices.
Annotated photos of the room and a downloadable PDF tip sheet are available at the housing website. Students can learn how to swap out traditional light bulbs for compact fluorescents, browse thrift stores for funky and unique decorations, invest in highly sustainable, pesticide-free bamboo bedding, and choose a refillable water bottle over throw-away singe-serving plastic.
ECO ROOM TIPS
638 OLDFATHER HALL, 3:30PM
History Department Colloquium - "America's Conservatory: Race, Reconstruction and the Santo Domingo Crisis, 1869-72"
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
Leighton Pierce's 'Agency of Time' at Sheldon Museum of Art
Artist Leighton Pierce uses film, video and sound to create transformative experiences for museum visitors. His new installation, "Agency of Time," continues at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Museum of Art. The exhibition, on view through Oct. 19, is free and a gallery guide is available for visitors.
Pierce created this site-specific installation for the Sheldon and engages viewers by creating an emotionally evocative experience. "The video loops (presented on constructed 3-D objects) are painterly, marginally abstract, gestural evocations of common objects and activities," Pierce said. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Encounters At The End Of The World and The Animation Show Year Four Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Encounters At The End Of The World and The Animation Show Year Four. Both films will show through September 11.
Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn) confirms his standing as poet laureate of men in extreme situations with Encounters At The End Of The World. In this visually stunning exploration, Herzog travels to the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, headquarters of the National Science Foundation and home to eleven hundred people during the austral summer (Oct-Feb). Over the course of his journey, Herzog examines human nature and Mother nature, juxtaposing breathtaking locations with the profound, surreal, and sometimes absurd experiences of the marine biologists, physicists, plumbers, and truck drivers who choose to form a society as far away from society as one can get.
"The Animation Show," which has put together three previous feature-length collections, started in 2003 with Mike Judge of "Beavis and Butt-head" fame and Oscar-nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt curating, but this year finds Judge solely in control. After last year's somber program, or, as May called it, "a dozen shorts on death," Judge and the producers wanted the show to play lighter and faster. "This year we tried to focus more on comedy," Judge said. "This tour is like the midnight shows I loved to watch [at the International Tourneés of Animation] with a good mix of comedy and shorts that are visually amazing to look at on the big screen."
More information is available at the Ross website.
