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Friday, March 30, 2012Volume 99 | Issue 40
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JEANETTE SILVA Contributing Writer
More than 200 v iewers crowded a round to v iew “Heard,” a production by UNT artist-in-residence Nick Cave, which featured UNT dancers dressed in colorful horse-themed costumes.
The free-admission perfor-mance, which was nearly a year in the making, took place on the lawn between the Art Building and Curry Hall. The crowd consisted of elementary school students, UNT students and staff, Denton residents and even a few local police officers.
The dancers were dressed in Soundsuits made of raffia, a type of palm leaf, and collabo-rated with percussion players from the music department and designers from the art department.
“It was fantastic,” Cave said. “It was just what I had imag-ined in my head.”
Cave, who grew up in Missouri, attended graduate school at UNT in the ’80s to study art. Being this year’s artist in residence gave Cave the green light to go through with the performance he had been dreaming of.
At first, Cave couldn’t decide whether to name the piece “Herd” or “Heard,” but he decided on the latter. He felt “heard” signified the perfor-mance more because of the Soundsuits as opposed to focusing the performance on just a herd of horses on a lawn on campus.
Cave wanted viewers to go
Artist Nick Cave hosts “Heard” performance
to a dream-like state while watching the performance.
“It’s really about a very simple idea that gets the mind to sort of remove itself from
its day-to-day regimen,” Cave said. “A moment where you’re here in this alternative expe-rience.”
Painting and drawing junior
Layne Farmer thought highly of the performance.
“The music had a pulse to it and gave the performance a dream-like feel,” Farmer
said.D a n c e s e n i o r K o d i
Giovannini was a team leader for the dancers who performed in the Soundsuits, which
weighed about 150 pounds. Dancers were also attached to each other.
CAY DEE ENSEYStaff Writer
T h e E n v i r o n m e n t a l E duc at ion, Science, a nd Technology Building currently hosts a large collection of freshwater mussel shells that are being photographed and digitized to become a part of the Joseph Britton Freshwater Mussel Collection in UNT’s Digital Library.
Mussels, a marker species, act as a tell-tale to scientists who seek to gauge the health of a stream or river.
“They are used by stream ecologists to evaluate how clean water is,” said James K e n n e d y, t h e b i o l o g y professor in charge of the digitization project. “If we go out and find lots of different types of freshwater mussels, then we know the water is pretty clean. If we don’t find any, or only a few different species, then that tel ls an aquatic ecologist that there is something wrong in that stream.”
Mussels are valuable in d e t e r m i n i n g e c o l o g i c a l conditions because they filter particles that are in the water out for food.
“That could be microor-ganisms or decaying bits of plant material, and they feed on all that,” Kennedy said. “So when they are pumping the water through their gills they are very susceptible to any changes in their envi-
Ecological species digitized in UNT’s Digital Library
ronment.”The site for the collection
was ded icated to Joseph Britton, a biology professor f rom TCU who gat hered and cataloged most of the shells that are in the collec-tion today before his death
in 2006. The Inst itute of Museum and Library Services gave a grant of about $150,000 for the project. New speci-mens are constantly being added.
Biology master’s student Sarah Hammontree pulls a box of mussels from a shelf in the museum. Hammontree works with professor James Kennedy to document samples in 3-D for the UNT Digital Library.
PHOTO BY ASHLEY CRYSTAL FIRSTLEY/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Dance freshman Tyler Weems performs as a part of Nick Cave’s art piece “Heard” outside of the Art Building on Thurs-day. The show included UNT students such as dancers, percussion players and designers.
PHOTO BY CHRIS LEWIS/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
NICOLE BALDERASSenior Staff Writer
It’s not in many classes students study the philos-ophy of Friedrich Nietzsche using Batman comics as a supplementa l textbook, but in professor Shaun Treat’s “ Mythic Rhetoric of Superheroes” class, that is exactly what they do.
While the use of popular literature in the classroom has received scorn from some academics, many teachers find simply engaging students in learning is a win.
“You have to look at what your students are interested in,” said Treat, who works in the communication studies department. “We’re using themes people are inter-ested in but still using clas-sical theories to understand them.”
Through his class blog, Treat underscores material learned in class in a medium more conducive to the learning style of students.
“Sometimes students can get bored with Nietzsche,” Treat said. “But when I dress those theories up in tights and capes they’re on it.”
Although the trend of referencing pop culture to explain classic concepts isn’t a new one, a 2012 report titled “What Kids Are Reading” indicates students’ interest in pop culture may be driving more and more teachers to incorporate the material into classroom lectures.
The report gathered infor-
Professors add character to class
mation from more than 7.6 million students from 24,265 schools
nationwide who read more than 241 million books during the 2010–2011 school year.
Out of the 388,963 ninth through 12th graders in the report, the top reading choice
Communication studies professor Shaun Treat skims over one of his textbooks. Treat is one of the professors at UNT who uses popular literature to teach his classes.
PHOTO BY ASHLEY KING/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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among both men and women was “The Hunger Games.” The top choice of the previous year was “Twilight.”
“I realized these kids are kind of checked out, and they don’t want to read “Macbeth” and “Canterbury Tales” so the only way to bring them in is through pop culture references,” said Aaron Case, an English senior teaching 12th grade English at Denton High School. “I was using TV, but then I found a lot of them have read “Hunger Games” and we’ve been able to talk about character devel-opment so it kind of draws the gap between really archaic liter-ature.”
One UNT professor taught a less traditional undergrad-uate secondary English class using the book “True Blood and Philosophy” in addition to the class’ required rhetoric text.
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get bored with Nietzsche. But
when I dress those theories up in
tights and capes they’re on it.”
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Since 2004, there has been a 106,530 square foot periodic table of elements on the north end of campus.
The UNT chemistry building, shaped like the periodic table of elements, actually houses a set of all the elements on the peri-odic table too.
Material science, forensics, computations, education and history are all major aspects of the chemistry program, said chem-istry professor James Marshall, who has taught at UNT for more than 40 years.
Coursework in the depart-ment can be analyzing data on a computer or creating intense reactions in a lab, chemistry professor Diana Mason said.
“I blow up a lot of stuff,” Mason said. “Not a whole lot of people can say that they get to blow up stuff for their job.”
UNT offers classes in organic chemistry, instrumental anal-ysis, medical chemistry and genetic chemistry engineering. Careers in chemistry include jobs in pharmacy, agriculture, drugs and commodities mate-rials, Marshall said.
A career in chemistry doesn’t mean being bolted to a labora-tory, though. Marshall and his
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“You have to be excited about what you’re doing. You’ve got to have a hunger for it,” Marshall said.
Chemistry labs at UNT encourage students to come up with answers for problems them-selves instead of following a strict methodology, chemistry graduate
student Carrie Moore said. “I once had to extract a dye
from tomato paste,” Moore said. “Instead of a lab manual saying, ‘Do this, this and this,’ I had to create my own way of doing it.”
New ideas from students are what keep the professors on their toes and advances chemistry, Marshall said.
“Albert Einstein was young when he came up with his theory of relativity and ideas of
quantum mechanics,” Marshall said. “Younger people can look at things in a different way than someone who’s been teaching for years.”
Chemists need a strong back-ground in math, Moore said. Adaptability to new discoveries and technologies is also impor-tant, Mason said.
“Chemistry changes contin-ually,” Mason said. “It’s a lot of fun.”
PHOTO BY ASHLEY CRYSTAL FIRSTLEY/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Pre-computer science junior Sarah Deel inserts a test tube into boiling water during a chemistry lab Thursday. Students worked on a lab dealing with determination of cooling curves for pure substances and mixtures, led by teacher assistant Michael Kaho.
“It was fun to do the piece, but the costumes are ver y uncomfortable,” Giovannini said. “It’s very hard because you don’t know at first glance which horse is which. You have a l imited amount of viewing space, and you don’t have any peripheral vision.”
UNT Art Galleries Director Tracee Robertson and Robert Milnes, dean of the College of Visual Arts and Design, worked together to organize the perfor-mance that brought Cave’s dream to life.
Milnes gave the opening speech to kick the performance
off. He also helped make a pair of pants for one of the dancers.
More than 800 people worked behind the scenes to help put the performance together, and Robertson was appreciative.
“Hundreds of students have worked so hard for a year to make this happen,” Robertson said. “It’s been an amazing investment of their time and energy, and I appreciate it.”
For those who missed the performance, Cave will host a third and final perfor-mance Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. Tickets are $5 for students and can be purchased at the door.
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MusselsContinued from Page 1
“There are a little bit less than 2,000 shells that we have digi-tized with about 40 of the 50 species of mussels you can find in Texas,” Kennedy said. “It is a way for a small museum like ours to reach out to thousands of people who will never come
to the museum. “The Texas Mussel Watch is
a group of citizen scientists who take it upon themselves to learn about mussels and use that knowledge to monitor the environment in their local areas. Marsha May is the Texas Mussel Watch Coordinator with Texas Parks & Wildlife Department based in Austin, TX.
“Documenting data collection is very important, not only for tracking ecological elements but also for keeping up with endan-gered species,” May said. “There are species we know so little about, and we need to gain a better understanding of what’s out there. Collections like the one at UNT are certainly helpful.”
Colleen VonEhr is a second year biology master’s student
“They changed the book selection process for the summer I taught it,” said Julie Saffel of the English depart-ment. “During summer it’s hard to hold attention, so I wanted something the students would relate to.”
All interviewed professors
ComicContinued from Page 1
stressed the importance of solid ties between popular literature and the original text in order to not only engage students but ensure they are learning.
“There’s always a fine line between what is scholarly and trash,” Saffel said. “Some people enjoy that type of learning that incorporates current media, and some enjoy a more tradi-tional learning style.”
T houg h t he case may be made against the use of
In Wednesday’s edition of the North Texas Daily, the article “UNT to add six electric vehicle charging stations” stated the We Mean Green Fund subcommittee will pay ECOtality a total of $65,737 for electrical and data work, excavation, repaving, restriping and
the required signage. ECOtality will provide the equipment and cables free of charge and also grant UNT $13,500 for installation. The WMGF will pay $65,737 to UNT Facilities for the work, not ECOtality. The Daily regrets this error.
Correction
who did much of the digitizing of the collection.
“It is a historical collection,” VonEhr said. “Mussels are a good indicator species because they
are so sensitive to changes, and as we pour pollutants into our environment, this helps us see the bigger picture of the impact we are actually having.”
popular l iterature in the academic realm, throughout time books once not considered as classroom material have been studied as references to different time periods, such as “Valley of the Dolls,” a 1960s bestseller depicting the lives of the rich and famous dressed up through fiction.
“This is how Shakespeare started,” Treat said. “They used to call his work ‘trash pop liter-ature.’”
PHOTO BY ASHLEY CRYSTAL FIRSTLEY/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Biology master’s student Sarah Hammontree holds a pistol grip, a species of fresh-water mussel with bumpy texture. Hammontree works with biology professor James Kennedy to catalog samples in the UNT Digital Library.
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BRETT MEDEIROSSenior Staff Writer
Coming from a family where baseball and softball is genetic, sophomore utility player Ashley McCarroll has been playing softball since she was five years old. Since then, with constant support from her family, McCarroll has been devoted to playing the sport for as long as possible.
“I have been around the sport for a long time, and from the get-go you could tell all she wanted to do was to play the sport,” said Ashley’s father, Cary McCarroll. “We trav-eled all around when she was playing club ball, and she just truly loves the game.”
A university close to her home in Forney, Texas, was ideal, but UNT was not her first stop. Recruited by both UNT and University of Texas at Arlington out of high school, McCarroll chose the Mavericks over the Mean Green. After one year in Arlington, she found that it was not the right fit.
“Honestly I just wasn’t really happy there. It was just time for a change,” McCarroll said.
McCarroll played her first game for the Mean Green at the beginning of the spring season, and her impact was felt early.
McCarroll’s experience in playing every position except pitcher and first base was utilized immediately by UNT head coach T.J. Hubbard. Because of her versatility, McCarroll found an everyday spot in the lineup.
“We really just didn’t have a
ALISON ELDRIDGESenior Staff Writer
After a five-game road stretch, the Mean Green softball team (13-17,4-5) will start its longest series of home games this season against the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (21-12, 4-2) on Saturday.
The Mean Green will play five games over the next two weeks at Lovelace Stadium – four against conference oppo-nents. The opportunity to play at home can bring a significant advantage for UNT, who is 6-1 in home games this season, sopho-more catcher Ashley McCarroll said.
“The environment is a lot more enthusiastic.” she said. “It’s real intense, and I love everybody being here because it makes it a lot more exciting.”
Offensively, the team has been consistent in its perfor-mance this season. The Mean Green has scored first in four of the last five games, and for the
second week in a row has been nationally ranked in number of home runs per game. Of the 300 schools ranked, UNT sits at No. 25, with .97 home runs per game.
Though it has been strong
behind the plate, UNT has strug-gled in extra innings, holding a 2-7 record in games played past the seventh inning, some-thing the team has to be able to control, head coach T.J. Hubbard said.
“I think the big focus for us is just closing out the games,” he said. “We’ve had the lead a lot and seem to find ourselves in a pressure situation of having
to win, instead of just playing with the lead and containing the other team.”
Western Kentucky will bring a lot of speed both out of the box and on the bases, and its pitching staff won’t give the Mean Green many options at bat, Hubbard said.
“We’ll have to make sure we maintain those speed kids to keep them off the bases, keep them from stealing bases, and we’ll have to be smart and patient at bat when we‘re finding our pitches,” he said.
When the teams met last season, the Mean Green fell 2-1 to the Hilltoppers in the series.
“We need to make sure we solidify a spot in conference,” sophomore pitcher Ashley Kirk said. “We need to take care of business and the little things as a team like taking care of the bunts, getting base plays, getting those routine plays, and the rest will fall in place.”
The series will start with a doubleheader Saturday at 2 p.m. and will conclude with a 12 p.m. game Sunday.
JOSH FRIEMELStaff Writer
When the UNT volleyball team travels to Houston on Saturday to compete in the Houston Juniors College Invitational, winning will not be the focus of the trip.
The team’s main goal is to start building team chemistry and to try limiting its set and hitting errors.
The Mean Green will face off against Houston, Rice, Sam Houston and Baylor at the Reliant Center in two-set games, as opposed to the normal three-set games like in the fall.
Over the offseason the team lost six seniors, leaving May Allen the lone senior for the 2012-2013 season.
“Each semester is like a new season to me,” head coach Ken Murczek said. “Yeah, we lost six seniors, but now we have a new crop, if you will, that will move up a year. It’s a different vibe in the gym because we have different players.”
Allen said she wants her senior year to be one that helps change how others view the UNT volley-ball program.
“More than half the team is young kids, so I just think it’s
Mean Green returns to Lovelace
whole lot of outfielders out there to feel comfortable about, and her versatility was so helpful in that,” Hubbard said. “She definitely has the ability to fight for the open catcher spot next year, but she’s been doing so well for us in the field that maybe at this point it would be hard for me to take her out of that position.”
McCarroll made her biggest impact at the plate, grabbing the attention of her teammates and coaches with her ability to hit the ball over the fence.
This season, McCarroll is one of the top power hitters for the Mean Green with five long-balls in 82 plate appearances. Most of her damage is done from the plate when leading off the inning for UNT, where her batting average leaps to .400.
“When she [McCarroll] gets a hold of the ball she can hit it pretty dang far, farther than me even,” senior catcher Caitlin Grimes said. “On top of that she’s even got a rocket of an arm. We call Mac ‘Bazooka’ because it’s just a cannon.”
McCarroll helps team on and o� diamond
Sophomore catcher Ashley McCarroll runs to catch the ball during softball practice on Tuesday morning at Lovelace Stadium. The softball team will play Western Kentucky University on Saturday in Denton.
PHOTO BY CHELSEA STRATSO/VISUALS ASSIGNING EDITOR
Off the field was a tough transition for McCarroll, but the women of the softball team welcomed her with open arms. The change and comfort with her teammates is evident. After big hits, McCarroll can be seen dancing in the dugout, which has become a staple amongst her teammates.
McCarroll has an extra year to become a part of the team than the average transfers who come to UNT prior to their junior season. That time will give McCarroll optimal time to influence the results of seasons to come.
Year: Sophomore
Major: Kinesiology
Bats/Throws: Right/Right
High School: Forney High School
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Sophomore pitcher Lauren Poole winds up to pitch to a teammate at practice at Lovelace Stadium on Thursday morning.PHOTO BY CHELSEA STRATSO/VISUALS ASSIGNING EDITOR
“The environment is a lot more enthusiastic.”
—Ashley McCarrollSophomore catcher
Softball
good for them to feel that winning experience early in their career so they can keep building from that and start and go up from there,” she said.
Sophomore Eboni Godfrey said she doesn’t view being a young team in a negative manner.
“The thing that I’ve noticed coming into college is that the older the girls get, the less you see that passion in the game,” she said. “Since we’re all young,
when something happens, we’re so excited. I think that turns into our advantage more than anything else.”
For Godfrey, having the oppor-tunity to play someone other than her teammates in practice is a motivating factor for the tour-nament.
“We’re just itching to get out there and see how another team is going to play us for a competi-tive feel,” she said.
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The UNT volleyball team practices Wednesday to get ready to compete in the Houston Juniors College Invitational on Saturday in Houston.
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NORTH TEXAS DAILY, March 30, 2012 VOLUME 99, ISSUE 10
Burst of BalloonsThe World Balloon Convention featured more than 600 creators showcasing one of art’s newest forms.Pg. 4
S C E N E
LIFE: DIY: Customize a
Koozie for your next event
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EXHIBIT: World Balloon
Convention highlights a new art form
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ART: Day in the Life of a
music producerPage 6
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Friday 3.30.2012 3LifeSCENE
EMILY PEEKIntern
At functions and parties, it’s easy to mix up drinks and forget which one is yours. Diminish that problem with a personalized duct tape Koozie.
There are numerous styles of duct tape to choose from, so everyone can find a design they like.
It takes about 15 minutes to make a Koozie.
The supplies should cost $10. The price of duct tape will vary, depending on how decorative the design is.
Things you’ll needDuct tapeScissorsSoda can
Take the duct tape and cut three 10-inch pieces.
Wrap one strip of duct tape around the can, with the sticky side facing out. Do this with the other two, overlap-ping about half an inch. Make sure that the last strip does not go over the top of the can.
Now cut two 5-inch strips of the
LEIGH DA NIELSStaff Writer
Elvis Presley is the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Beatles estab-lished the pop-rock genre, and
Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin was the first one to write songs about sex, drugs and music.
Musical misconceptions such as these are dismissed in MUET
? that’s a class Popular Music in American Culture
Class: MUET 3020
Subject Matter: Popular Music in American Culture
Better Known As: The Music of America
Required Texts: “MUET 3020: Popular Music in American Culture” by Thomas Sovík (the professor)
DI :Duct tape Koozies
PHOTO BY CHELSEA STRATSO/VISUALS ASSIGNING EDITOR
Wrap the decorative duct tape around the inside out duct tape, sticking them together. This will create the outside of the Koozie.
3020, a lso k now n as Popular Music in American Culture. The class is offered during the fall and spring semesters and honors the impact music has made on American society – in both the past and present.
“We study the music, history a nd cu lt u re so we have t he academ ic pa r t, but we a lso have the students put together talent shows and game shows,” professor Thomas Sovík said.
One of Sovík’s teaching assis-tants, Jordan Tucker, said that the class is structured to chron-ologically explore music genres, starting with Tin Pan Alley and ending with pop music of the recent years.
“I think you get a lot more than the music out of the class, because you get the culture and the history too,” he said.
Tucker said the class is great for bot h music majors a nd non-music majors because the course’s content is entertaining and interesting.
Sovík has taught the class for 25 years and also wrote his own textbook for the course.
Publishing company McGraw-Hill Education purchased the course in 2010 to distribute it to other universities internation-ally, according to Sovík’s biog-raphy on UNT’s website.
Sovík lectures from the front of the recital hall in the College of Music while his TAs film the lecture so he can stream his cla ss t h roug h podca sts a nd videocasts.
These podcasts and videocasts are used for the online version of the class.
Both his students and his TAs
agree that Sovík is the best part of the class because of his enter-taining mannerisms.
“I like music so I figured this class would be a good fit, and the professor is very interesting and blunt,” pre-psychology sopho-more Lauren Martinez said.
While the lectures are about exploring t he various genres of popular music in America, students also get the opportu-nity to participate in and create various types of shows, including the Vaudeville show.
Sovík said he enjoys working with his students to put on the $5 Vaudeville show – a perfor-mance that showcases a variety of amateur ta lent – which he said sells out the Lyceum each year.
The show is open to the public and will be in April.
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same style of duct tape. Take one and place it on the bottom side of the can to create the bottom of the Koozie. Leave the duct tape sticky side up.
Since the tape will be hard to fold down, cut slits on each side where it meets the edge and fold the tape dowan so it’s smooth.
Now do the same thing with the duct tape that you want to use to deco-rate your Koozie. Cut three 10-inch pieces and two 5-inch pieces.
Start with the two bottom pieces, so you can hide the sticky side of the tape coming up with the other strips.
Put all five pieces on exactly how you did with the bottom layer, except have the design facing out.
Once you are done, cut a small hole in the bottom so it’s easy to put your drinks in the Koozie.
The personalized duct tape Koozies make great gifts or drink identifiers at a party.
Friday 3.30.20125ExhibitSCENE4 ExhibitSCENEFriday 3.30.2012
ASHLEY GRANTSenior Staff Writer
Close to reaching the ceiling of the Sheraton Dallas Hotel, a sleeping angel lies on a bed of light pink clouds, with two white columns trimmed in gold standing on either side of the gentle giant.
The sculpture is made entirely of latex and foil balloons and is one of many pieces constructed by 625 professional balloon artists from 47 different countries who came together for the third annual World Balloon Convention and Festival of Balloons from March 21-25.
The World Balloon Convention is geared toward the education of artists, while the Festival of Balloons welcomed viewers on March 25 to share in the excite-ment and admire the balloon artwork, said Amanda Dolechek, e d itor at P ione er Ba l loon Company.
“We put t h is convent ion together to help educate balloon a r t ists a nd ba l loon profes-sionals on various techniques and marketing strategies so they can make more money,” she said. “The festival is designed to give the public a chance to see all of these incredible works and what’s possible with balloons.”
Aside from the large sculptures, several tables were lined with themed arrangements ranging from baby showers to birthdays.
There were nine categories in which artists could sign up to compete.
One of the newest categories in this year’s convention was the “Balloon Fashion” competition, which showcased one main article of clothing – mostly dresses.
Niko Fric, a 12-year-certified balloon artist from Slovenia, took second place for his long dress made of gray and black balloons.
“I started out as a magician doing shows for kids and was
making simple figures, like dogs,” Fric said. “Then I started making bigger figures and using five to ten balloons. Then I went on to compete in contests.
Fric said he became interested in the art of balloon fashion six years ago and has worked on fashion shows in Dubai, Shanghai, Las Vegas and New York City.
Convention publicist Sandy Bell said Fric has really elevated balloon art to high art.
“His work is the couture of balloons,” she said.
T he orga n i zi ng compa ny, balloon manufacturer Qualatex, a lso had a couple of balloon artists come to the public viewing to create f igures on the spot.
Each artist had their own tank and messenger bag filled with balloons.
“There’s a high level of tech-nical ability that goes into making these pieces of art, and they learn those things at the convention,” Bell said.
The a r t ists, some coming from countries such as Bahrain,
Japan and Switzerland, met at The Sheraton Dallas Hotel to take classes and learn from other professionals.
Japanese artist Azusa Ieizumi was commissioned to create a “Welcome” piece covering most of the wall at the main entrance to the Sheraton Hotel.
Artists were also given the
The World Balloon Convention floats into Dallas to showcase a rising art form
opportunity to take the Certified Balloon Artist exam.
The CBA exam requires test-takers to watch several balloon-making videos. Once that portion is completed, artists then demon-strate their knowledge of the videos.
Dallas resident Brenely Barroso came to the Festival of Balloons
with her sister, who’s a balloon enthusiast.
“It’s breathtaking to see all of this can be done with only balloons,” she said.
The artists enjoy what they do, and the medium in which they work with makes it better.
“We’re all kids at heart,” Fric said.
The first convention and festival in 2010 drew a crowd of about 10,000, and the line wrapped around the building.
“From what we’ve heard from the artists, everything ran pretty smoothly this year,” Dolechek said. “We learned from the first one to have more security so chil-dren don’t try to take the figures
or pop them.”In the future, Dolechek said
this is something they hope to put together every two years. The next one will be held in Denver, Colo.
“Hopefully, a new apprecia-tion [is gained] for the industry and the artists in it,” she said. “We don’t want people to think
of a balloon tied on a string or a simple bouquet. We want them to know that there’s no end to what can be done with balloons.”
PHOTO COURTESY PIONEER BALLOON COMPANY
The second-place large sculpture was designed by certi� ed balloon artist Masako Nomura of FuwaFuwa Co. Ltd. in Okayama, Japan.PHOTO COURTESY PIONEER BALLOON COMPANY
The � rst-place large sculpture was designed by certi� ed balloon artist Akane Shibata, of Bunny’s Balloon Factory in Shizuoka, Japan.
PHOTO COURTESY PIONEER BALLOON COMPANY
Yuka Yamakita of Global E Network in Tokyo, Japan, took � rst place in the Balloon Fash-ion category at the Festival of Balloons on Sunday.
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6 ArtSCENEFriday 3.30.2012
A day in the life.... of a music producer[ ]Nadia HillStaff Writer
Encased in a glass studio, Erik Herbst’s nimble fingers move along the soundboard, piecing together harmonies and vocals to create music — the heart of his startup production company, Panhandle House.
UNT alumnus Herbst is a self-taught music producer, who made mini-demos at a young age. His company has created music with big-name bands like The Eagles and Josh Abbott Band.
“It’s like cooking with audio,” he said. “You know how it’s supposed to taste and the basic ingredients involved, but you’re massaging it until you get the taste you want.”
Most of Herbst’s projects take about six weeks, including meet-ings with the artists to discuss logistics, as well as actual recording time in the studio.
Pre-production is the collab-oration between the artist and Herbst. This involves deciding how
the music will sound and to what extent he will be involved in the process. From there, musicians jam out in the studio, and Herbst works the soundboard, committing to twelve-hour work days.
“I really like seeing all of it come together,” Herbst said. “The ‘a-ha moment’ for me is in the mixing phase, when I’m making the sum of the parts bigger than it was. It’s where you feel like you were put on earth to do certain things.”
W h i le musicia ns rely on producers to make their music accessible, producers need musi-cians in order to build a name for their business.
“Producers can actually help make the album and then also shape the band and take creative energies to streamline their sound,” said Kaleo Kaualoku, Recycled Books employee and local music manager. “Very few actually do promotion work.”
This changes the game for some artists, like bassist and UNT music
professor Lynn Seaton. Seaton said he and his self-named trio recorded an album at Panhandle House in 2005.
“Everyone has eccentricities,” Seaton said. “It’s different when you’re a side person working on someone else’s project because some people have a larger thumb they want to put down on the music. When you’re hired for jazz, though, usually they want you to be you.”
Business comes in waves for Herbst. He’s said he’s seen costs for album production as low as $5,000 and as high as $90,000.
While Herbst admits that basic production technology can be easily done at home, he said it makes a difference to go to a studio and work with someone.
“There’s a command of skills you need to put audio together to elicit an emotional response,” he said. “Great music has feeling built into it, but audio can make or break that sound.”
Photo by Jordan Foster/Intern
Panhandle House owner and producer Erik Herbst sits in his studio before running a program on the soundboard. Herbst graduated from UNT with a degree in music.
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Friday 3.30.20127HungerGamesSCENE
BRITTNI BARNETTSenior Staff Writer
“The Hunger Games” is a series of novels set in a futuristic world gone awry. After rebelling against their leaders in The Capitol, the 12 districts of the world are forced to send one woman and one man to the annual Hunger Games, where they must fight to the death. The movie based on the first novel earned an estimated $150 million during its opening weekend, making it the third-largest debut in terms of revenue ever.
The NT Daily got a chance to sit down with Liam Hemsworth (“Gale Hawthorne”).
“ The Hunger Games” is filled with some really heavy material, but it still appeals to younger audiences. How did you guys walk that line in the film, and how did you achieve actuality on set?
L i a m Hemsworth: The thing about the books and the movies is the movie is very, very similar to the books, and the violence in it is not glorified in any way. It’s about these children who are caught in this horrible situation. Most of these children in there, they are these young adults so they don’t want to kill, and the people in these districts don’t want to watch them. It’s not entertainment to them. It’s their family and friends, and they’re probably not going to come home, and so it’s not glori-fied in any way.
ASHLEY GRANTSenior Staff Writer
The anticipation for “The Hunger Games” was evident when the movie raked an estimated $150 million opening weekend. The book-to-movie series focuses on a televised battle forcing the world to see who can survive in a post-apocalyptic realm.
The NT Daily got a chance to sit down with three cast members from “The Hunger Games:” Jacqueline Emerson (“Foxface”), Isabelle Fuhrman (“Clove”) and Josh Hutcherson (“Peeta”).
OK, so you guys are considered the hottest people in town, do you feel the excitement?
Jacqueline Emerson: “I felt the excitement, definitely. It’s exciting on set, for me, because of everyone else. You see it on the news and see videos of people going to malls. I never expected this to happen. It’s
something I’ve always dreamed about, but [I] never actually thought that it would happen.
When you were shooting, Josh, I heard that you ended up with a concussion.
Josh Hutcherson: “Yes, Jennifer kicked me in the head. She told me she would kick over my head,
like that was how high her kicks were, and she decided to show me. She got me right on the side of my head, and it was a pretty full-force kick, actually. It took me down to the ground. I was fine, and even though I had a concussion, I wasn’t in that much pain. She was in tears, and I felt awful. I guess that’s the dangerous life of an actor.”
You’ve had other concussions before, right?
Josh Hutcherson: “Yes, from doing crazy stuff over the years and being a daredevil.”
Isabelle Fuhrman: “And from being a boy.”
Josh Hutcherson: “That, too. And trying to jump over things that you can’t make.”
You’ve got all these celebrities that you’ve befriended now. Who was someone that you looked up to in the industry?
Jacqueline Emerson: “Meryl Streep, because she’s so talented. I’m not going to lie, I may have cried a little bit when she got her Oscar. I also love Viola Davis and her work in “The Help.”
Isabelle Fuhrman: “I love old movies, they’re my favorite, and Audrey Hepburn just brings life to the screen when you see her. She’s just a classy person.”
Josh Hutcherson: “Ryan Gosling is someone I really look up to and respect in the industry, because he’s got a lot of versatility in the roles he takes on.”
Celebrity crushes. Who are they and why?
Isabelle Fuhrman: “I don’t have any. I really think you have to know someone in order to have a crush on them. Now, I think there are a lot of celebrities that are attractive. I think [Andrew] Garfield is very attractive.”
Josh Hutcherson: “Based purely on physical appearance, I’m going to go with Kate Upton, the Sports Illustrated model. I think she’s gorgeous.
Jacqueline Emerson: “Ryan Gosling, probably. Not only is he dreamy, but he’s also very talented, and I’m one of those people that falls in love with talent just as much as looks.”
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8 FoodSCENEFriday 3.30.2012
Ian JacobyViews Editor
Palio’s Pizza Cafe, located off Loop 288, provides a friendly staff and a decent atmosphere. While the restaurant prides itself on ser v ing “gourmet pizzas,” customers will find this to be an empty promise, with food that is underwhelming and leaves one
Palio’s Pizza Cafe1716 S. Loop 288
Suite 110 Denton, Texas 76205
Monday - Sunday: 11am -10pm
Did You Know?Palio’s Pizza Cafe
encourages patrons to B.Y.O.B.
SNOBSFOOD a bit hungry.
After walking up to the counter, patrons are immediately greeted by welcoming staf f, who t a ke t he c u stomer ’s order and hands them a nu mber. T here’s a nice pat io a rea t hat, disappointingly, offers a terrible view of a busy road, a Whataburger and a shopping center.
The atmosphere of Palio’s isn’t awful, but being connected to a Popeye’s Chicken gives the whole thing a very “franchised” feel.
T he food ca me out fa i rly quickly, along with a cold beer, which was the highlight of the meal. Palio’s has an assortment of high quality brews to choose from. Keeping with the Italian theme, a Peroni was a nice match with the pizza.
There are many varieties of pi zza opt ions, including t he Grace’s Alfredo – a thin-crust pizza covered in Alfredo sauce,
spinach, mushrooms, roasted ch ic ken, a nd che dd a r a nd mozzarella cheeses .
T he g luten-f ree cr ust was thin and pretty tasty, but the toppings brought one, very sad word to mind: bland.
T he A l f redo sauce wa sn’t creamy and was in fact a tad reminiscent of glue. The spinach, woefully placed on the very top layer, came out of the oven black a nd cr ispy. The chicken was dull as well, with no discern-ible seasoning. It might as well have been roasted tofu. The mushrooms were dehydrated and of fered an unappetizing and unexpected crunch.
At $11.99 for a medium pizza,
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Palio’s Pizza Cafe
Photo by StePhanie Mulcihy/Staff PhotograPher
Palio’s Pizza Cafe has offered the Denton community fresh and made-to-order pizzas for three years. The Mean Green specialty pizza is a top seller and includes ingredients such as pesto, Alfredo sauce, Canadian bacon and lemon juice.
the pricing isn’t too terrible, but it a lso isn’t worth customers’ time.
However, Palio’s is on to some-thing with their BYOB policy, which is a great way to dine out and save some money—espe-cially on a college budget.
Palio’s doesn’t quite have the recipe down for what makes a successful pizzeria. What they could use is less piano music, a location that isn’t nestled into the suburban setting off Loop 288 and a much, much better product.