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Mary Dally-Muenzmaier
Milwaukee, WI USA
Head writer, critic and optimistic cynic of the art and culture blog CricketToes. I'm also a creative writer, artist and musician, and the author of the novel Artifacts.
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Attention Filmmakers: Time for 48 Hours of Madness--Again!
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According to an equal mixture of reliable and not-so reliable sources, it takes anywhere from 9 days to 15 months to shoot the average 2 hour film, and 6 days to 3 weeks to shoot the average 7 minute short... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at CricketToes
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Finally, A TEDx Event Miltown-Style
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If you've been reading this here bloggity blog for a while and you haven't yet guessed that we're HUGE fans of a little organization known as TED--that's Technology, Entertainment, Design--well consider yourself admitted to the loop. Why are we HUGE... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2013 at CricketToes
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SPOILERS! Troy Freund & The Amazing Comic Book Exhibition
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Folks in and around Milwaukee who pay attention to the shutterbug shenanigans of local independent photogs--and there are plenty--know Troy Freund well. A good percentage of his work is for arts organizations and other non-profits, and he often donates his... Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2013 at CricketToes
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The Art of Making Art from Other People's Moments
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The practice of gathering 'round to view images from your friend's trip to Idaho or Aunt Flo's cruise to Mexico while you struggle to keep your eyes open has a long and boring history. Super cool advances in technology have... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2013 at CricketToes
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Find The Promised Land On Teevee
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Before we get to the the whoot worthy news contained in this post, let's get one thing out of the way: The world of children's entertainment is chockfull of mindless, mega-hyper tripe crafted to pander to every kid's uncontrollable attraction... Continue reading
Posted Apr 10, 2013 at CricketToes
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The Future Of Animation: Crazy Apples And One Sad Banana
I have no idea how I missed this back in 2011, but this animation short created by a crew of teenagers in the ArtWorks program at the Milwaukee Art Museum is absotootly trippy: Hahaha!! That's fantasterrific! Take note, Adult Swim:... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2013 at CricketToes
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Reggie Watts At TED = Much Needed Hilarity
Ya know what we need? We need a timeout from all things painfully serious by gettin' ourselves some seriously wacky laughs, courtesy of Reggie Watts at TED2012: Phew, that felt good! Related: TED Presents: Andrew Bird & His One-Man Music... Continue reading
Posted Mar 20, 2013 at CricketToes
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Words & Images: A Conversation
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Something's happening over at Tumblr. Something that makes me want to use adverb + adjective phrases like "oddly delightful," "playfully cryptic," "strangely gemütlich"--using a German thesaurus on occasion is not a crime people! This something is called shutters/dead ends/lens/pens--all in... Continue reading
Posted Mar 13, 2013 at CricketToes
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Old-Timey Skills Are The Wave Of The Future
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We don't often blog up happenings, er, happening in our fair state's capital of Madison--there's just so much going on in Miltown, why look anywhere else, eh?--so when we do ya know it's not only gonna be off the hook,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 6, 2013 at CricketToes
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Bring Your Own Artistic Creature To Life In The DanceLAB--Mwahahaha!
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The process of artsy creation is always complicated and always messy, and anybody who tells ya different has never gotten his/her brain dirty--all right now, y'all know what I mean, sheesh! In the most obvious yet poignant metaphor in English... Continue reading
Posted Feb 27, 2013 at CricketToes
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True Rumor: Work On Artifacts Sequel Has Begun!
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When one manages to live through the simultaneously gratifying and agonizing experience of writing a novel, emerging more or less intact if just a bit off-kilter for a while, there is a natural reticence to begin that process all over... Continue reading
Posted Feb 20, 2013 at CricketToes
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True Rumor: Work On Artifacts Sequel Has Begun!
When one manages to live through the simultaneously gratifying and agonizing experience of writing a novel, emerging more or less intact if just a bit off-kilter for a while, there is a natural reticence to begin that process all over again. Oh, the bitter weeping and creepy low giggling! Ah,... Continue reading
Posted Feb 19, 2013 at Artifacts Blog
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Call The Art Police! Deviant Figure Drawing Models Are Donning Clothes!!
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So, you've taken a figure drawing class or two, right? Course ya have. And anyone who has ever taken such a class knows that the human body displayed in full nude glory--preferably in an unreasonably cold room with florescent lighting--is... Continue reading
Posted Feb 13, 2013 at CricketToes
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The Hero Librarians--& 72 Year-Old Security Guard--of Timbuktu
A time does not come often when we may so obviously equate librarians with heroes, preferring to bestow that honored title most often upon those who carry swords rather than pens, but such a rare moment has come and it... Continue reading
Posted Feb 6, 2013 at CricketToes
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RedLine's Runway Design Competition: That Is So RePurposed
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Throughout the centuries, high fashion has suffered mightily from what can only be described as acute cases of silliness, disfunction and waste. Take the ginormous, neck-straining wigs so popular with the French royal woman in the late 1700s--twas not so... Continue reading
Posted Jan 30, 2013 at CricketToes
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Good to be back, Stephen!
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Cricky's Coming Back!
Phew, it's been a mighty long time since Cricky's posted anything on this here bloggity blog, eh? Nary an old- nor new-timey word have I shared since, well, let's just say many new moons have past. But today I am... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2013 at CricketToes
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Alverno Presents' Quest For The Best Yields Trisha Brown Dance Co
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If there's one thing those who pay even the slightest attention to live performance in Milwaukee know it is this: When the folks at Alverno Presents set their collective mind to bringing fantastical dance to our fair city, they do... Continue reading
Posted Sep 27, 2012 at CricketToes
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A Centennial Celebration Of Cage: It's Gonna Be A Circus!
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John Cage can be fairly described as a jack-of-all-arts. A composer, performance artist, visual artist, writer, poet, mycologist--that's somebody who studies mushrooms at a super smart nerd level, and anyone who's experienced his abstract experimental music should not gasp with... Continue reading
Posted Aug 23, 2012 at CricketToes
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Five Hours Of Music In (& For) Alternating Currents
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It's that time of year again, y'all! No, not time for the Plague Of Locusts. And, no, not time for the Scary Clown Parade, though we've got some fantastic weather for that, eh? It's time for the Woodland Pattern Music... Continue reading
Posted Aug 17, 2012 at CricketToes
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Now Dig This: Urban Anthropology LIVES!
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Much of the work done by mega smart anthropologists entails delving into the dusty, sneeze inducing archives of humanity's past. What draws them to this discipline is the desire to understand the always complicated and twisted paths we have followed... Continue reading
Posted Jul 7, 2012 at CricketToes
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Met Opera's Spoiled Diva Tears Instigate Censorship Slap Fight
Here's a tirade you may have had the guilty pleasure of hearing/saying before: "Critics, who needs 'em, huh? Certainly not us artistic types, right? I mean, who are they to judge our work when they're just pathetic, frustrated artists themselves,... Continue reading
Posted May 22, 2012 at CricketToes
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WisCon: The Smartest SF Convention You've Never Heard Of
When you're a writer and you're nutty enough to decide that Novelist should be added to your curriculum vitae--in fancy Latin, of course--'cause, hey, you've never done it before and crafting thousands of words that somehow hang together to make up a coherent story sounds like a super fun way... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2012 at Artifacts Blog
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WisCon: The Smartest SF Convention You've Never Heard Of
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When you're a writer and you're nutty enough to decide that Novelist should be added to your curriculum vitae--in fancy Latin, of course--'cause, hey, you've never done it before and crafting thousands of words that somehow hang together to make... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2012 at CricketToes
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Indiana Green 2012: Fresh Artsy Fruitcake!
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Most exhibitions have one good run, then they're done. Indeed, many last just one night or one weekend and pass into the annals of artistic happenings, sequestered to a section rarely visited. But a few have more staying power than... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2012 at CricketToes
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