If you are in the Wichita, Kansas area be sure to stop by the Exploration Place to see all of the arcade games.
Exploration Place’s “Videotopia” Exhibit Pics Part 1
The first round for pictures from the “Videotopia” exhibit at Exploration Place in Wichita, Kansas. Be sure to stop by and play a round of games.
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Episode 3 of ComicPop Visits with Christina Bluml of Exploration Place
Richard visits with Christina Bluml, Director of Marketing, of Exploration Place in Wichita, Kansas. They discuss the recently installed “Videotopia” exhibit, where you can see and play video games. This is the first of three visits at Exploration Place. The other visits will be spread out over the coming months. Don’t forget if you are interested in the Mixer go to their website to purchase tickets (if not sold out) for this Friday night, October 12.
Episode 3 of ComicPop Visits with Christina Bluml, of Explortion Place
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Videotopia at Exploration Place
The new exhibit, in Wichita, Kansas’ Exploration Place, is going to be entitled “Videotopia”. This collection is a traveling exhibit that gives the history of the video game and has several video games on display that any gamer will know and recognize. Even those that aren’t hard core gamers will recognize games from their past. The exhibit will open, this Saturday, September 29 and run through January 1, 2013. So start making your plans to attend! Follow the link below to Exploration Place’s webpage for the exhibit.
http://exploration.org/videotopia.html
Sculpture Obscene in Overland Park, KS?
The above sculpture “Accept or Reject” is one of eleven sculptures donated to the Overland Park, Kansas arboretum by Chinese Sculptor Yu Chang. A Grand Jury was formed to determine if the sculpture is obscene, by glorifying “sexting”. The petition that triggered the Grand Jury was started by Joanne Hughes and Phillip Cosby, the state American Family Association director. The sculpture is of a headless partially clothed woman taking a picture of herself. While some individuals see the sculpture as glorifying “sexting” others see the sculpture as the opposite. Because the woman is fragmented and headless they see is as in today’s world by taking pictures of yourself and putting them on social networks you are being identified as pieces of a body, degrading your person. You are not being identified as you, a full person with feelings and knowledge. That is what some see is the message of this sculpture, the danger of this activity. What side of the fence would you fall on? To read the full article, by Maren Williams, on this you can follow Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s link below:
http://cbldf.org/2012/09/kansas-sculpture-targeted-in-grand-jury-investigation/
Episode 21.5 of ComicPop Library
Matt and I walk through giving an audio tour of Wichita Kansas’ Exploration Place’s, Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit. Along the tour we meet up with Exploration Place’s President Jan Luth for a quick interview and you get a brief sampling of the Millennium Falcon experience. The transitions are a little rough, but we make it through the asteroid field. If you have not been to the exhibit yet make your plans because the exhibit only runs through September 3.
Remember the Exploration Place Star Wars Exhibit
Remember that the Exploration Place has the “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” exhibit. Their are several hands on stations that are within the exhibit as well that everyone can enjoy. So be sure to make if you have plans to be in the Wichita, Kansas area make sure you make time for the Exploration Place.
http://www.exploration.org/starwars.html
New Comic Book Promotional Tool for Library School
The “Boys are back in Town”. Matt Upson (Writer), C. Michael Hall (Artist), and Dustin Evans (Colorist) have produced another comic book promotional tool to assist libraries. This time around it was for Emporia State University, School of Library and Information Management, located in Emporia, Kansas. The title of the comic book is Supreme Librarians in Metaspace and was made in the hope “that this resource will encourage prospective and current SLIM students, alumni, and librarians around the world to take a look at the profession in a new light”. If you are interested in viewing the comic book or possibly get a paper copy (minimum of 5 copies when purchasing) contact Matt Upson at sliminfo@emporia.edu. Great job again guys. Its great to have you supporting librarianship.
More Exploration Place
One of the Hands-On Stations at Exploration Place’s “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” exhibit. This station has three different locals that attendees can enter act with (That’s April and Logan, part of the ComicPop Library team, in the second picture). Each station is different. They stations themes are: Moisture Farm; Mos Eisley; and Jawa Village. You have a variety of plates that you place in front of a scanner and it will tell you what the plate represents. It then puts the image of the plate up on the computer screen around your environment. You then place the images on different places on the turn table to make a functioning environment. Depending on your placement of the plates will determine if your economy good, social aspects are good, and conflict is minimal or viceversa. So if your looking for a fun event to do this Summer, stop by the Exploration Place in Wichita, Kansas.
http://exploration.org/star_wars_exhibit.php
Exploration Place’s Opening Weekend of Star Wars Exhibit
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This weekend Matt and Richard will be at the opening weekend of “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination”. They will be taking pictures and doing interviews that will be uploaded to our website. The pictures will be uploaded during the weekend and the interviews will be in a special podcast that will be uploaded sometime next week.
This is Wichita, Kansas’ Exploration Place opening weekend (May 26, 2012) for “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” exhibit. “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” exhibit will feature Star Wars costumes and prop models along side actual science in today’s world. If you have a Star Wars fan this will be right up their alley. The exhibit will be at the Exploration Place until September 3, 2012, so make your plans to visit. Our website also had a special podcast with Linda Eaves, Marketing Project Coordinator for the Star Wars exhibit, that can be found under our “Podcast” tab, Episode 14.5 or by the link below. Also below is a link to the exhibits webpage to get more information. Thank you to Exploration Place and LucasFilm for providing imagery.
http://comicpoplibrary.com/news/episode-14-5-star-wars-where-science-meets-imagination/
http://exploration.org/star_wars_exhibit.php
