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Tag: Technology

Creating strange and beautiful images with a smartphone

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs April 3, 2013, 4:41 PM Apr 3, 2013
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Photographer Buckner Sutter has gone from taking images with toy cameras and old Polaroids to using software on his smartphone to create a similar, otherworldly feel.

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Want to memorize a poem? There’s an app for that.

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs March 26, 2013, 9:30 AM Mar 26, 2013
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‘Poems by Heart’ is a memorization game featuring poems by Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and other famous wordsmiths.

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GiveMN likely to increase transaction fees

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs February 26, 2013, 3:29 PM Feb 26, 2013
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The platform provider for Give to the Max Day is increasing its transaction fees from 2.9% to 4.9% starting April 1. GiveMN is unaffected by the rate increase – for now.

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Guthrie Theater to offer ‘Tweet Seats’

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs December 21, 2012, 12:25 PM Dec 21, 2012
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Today the Guthrie announced that a dedicated section of the audience will actually be encouraged to ‘tweet’ during performances of the Italian comedy ‘The Servant of Two Masters.’

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Give to the Max in its fourth year – now for public schools, too

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs November 13, 2012, 11:55 AM Nov 13, 2012
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Up until this year many schools have been able to participate, but some public schools were left out.

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Walker to host Cat Video Film Festival, Internet LOLz

Jon CollinsJon Collins July 11, 2012, 7:40 PM Jul 11, 2012
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The Walker Art Center is made of cats.

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Does diversity sell theater tickets?

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs May 21, 2012, 11:26 AM May 21, 2012
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We asked people if knowing a play’s author or director was a woman or a person of color would change the likelihood of their buying a ticket. Here’s how they responded.

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Taking fashion design to outer space

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs April 5, 2012, 3:23 PM Apr 5, 2012

A University of Minnesota student will spend her summer working with NASA on new high tech suits for astronauts.

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The architecture of fish

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs April 5, 2012, 11:10 AM Apr 5, 2012

X-rays of sea creatures are the inspiration for an exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

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What is sustainable theater? 5 questions for Leah Cooper

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs March 2, 2012, 10:09 AM Mar 2, 2012

The Minnesota Theater Alliance has announced it’s hosting a national conference on sustainability in theater this spring.

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