#Interlochen

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Ansichtskarte / Vintage Postcard

NATIONAL MUSIC CAMP Interlochen, Michigan

Made by Dexter Press, INC. WEST NYACK, NEW YORK 6729-C

Dist. by The Camera Shop, Traverse City, Mich.

Photo by John Underwood

[federer7]

August 1942. "Interlochen, Michigan. National Music Camp, where some 300 young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Dance jamboree on a Monday night."

Photo by Arthur S. Siegel for the U.S. Foreign Information Service

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[ossiethegreat]

one of the animation teachers here animates warrior cats amvs 😭😭😭😭😭

[butterflywithsass]

Writer problems

after you leave the arts school and go back to the real world wondering if it was all a dream and you actually dont have any talent at all and maybe you should give up and stop writing and never write another word again but the words keeping coming like the blood pumping from a split artery but all the blood is just gibberish and shitty tumblr posts late at night and you wonder if all the hopes you nursed before were just fantasies because now you're in the daylight.

[drinkin-cherryschnapps]

get on dude i got into interlochen for highschool

damn nice job. are you going for piano?

[yourpalharvey]

[septfair]

[jellyghostspace]

Don't worry… it's just a dream, remember?

My new Silent Hill 4 sticker sheets are up in the shop just in time for Halloween! There are two designs, one with Henry, Eileen, and Walter (the handprints are also stickers FYI), and another with extras. Both sheets are available individually or as a discounted bundle :)))

[federer7]

August 9, 1942. "Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight ho by

Photo: Arthur S. Siegel

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[tsunflowers]

this book about the bi girl at summer camp is set in beautiful northern michigan and I was like INTERLOCHEN MENTIONED when it was referenced. idk how well known interlochen is outside of michigan but it's a performing arts school that runs a fancy summer camp for music students and when I was doing middle school band there was always someone going to interlochen and we'd all be like ooooh

[ossiethegreat]

I will never stop thinking about how chappell roan went to the same summer arts camp as me

[jellyghoststore]

Trico fell asleep in my shop, now I gotta sell'em! These stickers are ~4x3 inches, which is pretty big (true to life, Trico is large), and are based on John Tenniel's illustration of the sleeping griffin from Alice in Wonderland (my favorite illustration, perhaps of all time), and they're available now!

[jamesrodayrodriguezpresents]

A new force has arrived on Detroit’s film scene. 

One month after moving to the city, independent California filmmaker Tom E. Brown has hit the ground running excited to boost Detroit’s film community, which has suffered the recent loss of three Indie theaters in Metro Detroit. The freshly appointed Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit Film Theater board member said he has his eye on growing the local film community and pushing for a return of the state’s film tax credit. 

During a free Sunday screening of his 2016 film “Pushing Dead” at the Senate Theater and Q&A for World AIDS Day, he announced plans to film a sequel in Detroit.

“I’m going to try to see if I can do anything to help bring the film incentives back, because that would be nice for Detroit,” added Brown, who bought a house in East English Village. 

The bipartisan Multimedia Jobs Act would create a transferable tax credit of up to 30% for Michigan-based multimedia projects. The bill was co-sponsored in 2023 by John Roth, R-Interlochen, and Jason Hoskins, D-Southfield. Currently, more than 35 states have a multimedia or film incentive. For seven years Michigan had a film credit offering up to 42% rebate of filmmakers’ in-state production costs, but it ended in 2015 amid criticism that taxpayers weren’t benefitting.  

Roth’s office did not immediately return a request for comment on the bill. 

Opponents of the package, from teacher unions to Republican lawmakers, say the state can’t afford film subsidies amid large public infrastructure needs. In November, the Great Lakes Gun Rights nonprofit told Republican lawmakers in a post to X, formerly Twitter, that the package was “anti-gun” by giving tax dollars “to liberal anti-gun Hollywood elites to produce liberal anti-gun programs in Michigan.” The tax program would entail $2 billion in credits over 10 years. 

Others, like the Michigan Film Industry Association, have argued that the money would be well spent by boosting the local economy and tourism by $6-$8 billion in direct spending in the first 10 years, and creating new jobs, while decreasing the population loss of college graduates.

The bills were tentatively scheduled for a vote in the state House last month, but no action was taken amid attendance issues and lingering concerns over the proposal. Time is running short to get the bills passed this session, as lawmakers will break for the year in late December.

Brown’s “Pushing Dead” is a comedy that focuses on an HIV-positive writer who is suddenly dropped from his health plan for earning too much after depositing a $100 check in his bank account. The film stars James Roday, Danny Glover and Robin Weigert.

Brown, 57, has made short films for nearly four decades that have been featured at the  American Museum of Natural History, the Walker Art Center and the Guggenheim. “Pushing Dead,” supported by the Sundance Institute and Rockefeller Foundation, screened at more than 50 film festivals winning 10 best-feature and audience and jury awards. 

The “Pushing Dead” sequel, which Brown said is 25% written, is one of several films he hopes to shoot in Detroit. The movie will open with a couple pushed out of San Francisco who land in Detroit, and features a scene in the city. Brown said he has already received verbal promises of financial support from locals, which is “rare” for an Indie film. 

In San Francisco, films are ranked by factors like local jobs and diversity and entered into a lottery for tax incentives. Depending on whether Brown wins San Francisco’s film lottery and how Michigan’s legislation advances, Brown said he would also like to film the movie “American Dog,” in Detroit. That film, he said, is about “an unhinged lesbian cop in backwater America” who will be played by Margaret Cho. 

If the Multimedia Jobs Act were passed Brown said it would make filming American Dog in Detroit “more appealing” because it’s increasingly challenging to raise funds for film. But regardless, Brown said he’ll film in Detroit, and is passionate about doing so. 

“It’s a lot of things that come into play when you’re trying to raise money for a movie, but I will absolutely make movies in Michigan,” he said. “I like the idea of setting this little indie with the same characters, with the two main characters from ‘Pushing Dead’ in Detroit, just because it’s such a beautiful city. Everywhere you look it’s just filmic and gorgeous.” 

Last year, the city’s Detroit Film Office authorized 83 productions to film, according to a BridgeDetroit FOIA. 

The subject matter of Brown’s film is particularly relevant to Detroit, where HIV rates are four times higher than the rest of Michigan.  

On Sunday, a post-screening panel featuring Brown, Weigert and LGBT Detroit Executive Director Nzere Kwabena focused on the film production process and AIDS. 

In Detroit, approximately 766 people per 100,000 residents have HIV, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services 2023 HIV Prevalence Report. 

Brown, who was diagnosed with HIV 40 years ago and initially given three years to live, said World AIDS Day is a happy day for him now because it means he’s alive. World AIDS Day, on Dec. 1, was first recognized in 1988. 

“Pushing Dead” is available for free streaming with a public library card on Kanopy or on various paid streaming services. The timeline for the sequel is unknown, but expected after Brown  wraps production on “American Dog.”

(via DannyG)

[lboogie1906]

Damon Evans (November 24, 1949) is an actor known as the second of two actors who portrayed Lionel Jefferson on The Jeffersons. He portrayed the young Alex Haley (ages 17–25) in Roots: The Next Generations.

Born in Baltimore, he attended the Interlochen Academy on a Reader’s Digest Scholarship. He attended the Boston Conservatory of Music. While in Boston he appeared in productions of Two If by Sea, Hair, and The Corner at the Theatre Company of Boston.

His Off-Broadway credits include performances in A Day in the Life of Just About Everyone, Bury the Dead (for the Urban Arts Corp), and Love Me, Love My Children. He made his Broadway debut in The Me Nobody Knows. Other Broadway credits include Via Galactica and Lost in the Stars. He toured as Judas and Jesus Christ in the authorized concert version of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. He appeared in the Broadway musical Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope.

In the late 1980s, he appeared in Trevor Nunn’s Glyndebourne Festival production of the George Gershwin opera, Porgy and Bess, and again in the 1993 television adaptation of that production. In addition to him and other noted performers, this British production of Gershwin’s ‘American Folk Opera’ featured the Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Philharmonic, both conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. He played Sportin’ Life, a role originated by John W. Bubbles and originally written for famed 1920s and 1930s jazz bandleader and singer Cab Calloway. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[yourpalharvey]