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Excerpt from District, the Student Voice of SCAD. For the full article, please click here.

CAILA BROWN Staff Writer
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KATELAN CUNNINGHAM Assistant A&E Editor
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The Sidewalk Arts Festival is always a time of bright color and beautiful drawings for the residents of Savannah. This year’s festival held Saturday, April 25, was no exception.

The drawings slowly took form on the concrete sidewalks of Forsyth Park, starting as simple lines and evolving into intricate detailed renderings, hardly reminiscent of the chalk drawings we created as children.

Walking through the park, one could see pieces ranging from colorful design oriented work to photo-realistic portraits that one would expect to see from a Life Drawing class. The artists included alumni, prospective students, undergraduate and graduate students representing both Savannah and Atlanta campuses.

The group who formed squares 393 and 394 created a portrait of Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire from the movie “Funny Face.”

Professional writing major Kaitlin Allen, fashion major Bridgette Blanton, painting major Colby Branum, graphic design major Kathryn Hartmann and photography major Vicky Jenkinson collaborated on the unique monochromatic square.

Jenkinson said that she and her team “wanted black and white because everyone was doing color.” Their piece stood out among its surroundings with its stark black and white with a splash of red. “It’s a good classic movie,” she added.

Fashion alumna Alyssa Couturier-Hemdon also used a photo reference for her piece, but chose to emphasize the bright colors generally associated with the season.

“I picked flowers because it’s spring and they’re everywhere,” she explained.

Others, however, incorporated objects into their work.

“I’m going to serve it at four,” third year film and television major Lindsay Johnston said of the real chocolate raspberry cake that was a prominent feature of her square.

Her chalk design was a striped pattern with the words, “Let them eat,” which with the cake in place formed the phrase, “Let them eat cake,” saying that Johnston reminded passersby was mistakenly attributed to Marie Antoinette.

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Excerpt from District, the Student Voice of SCAD. For the full article, please click here.

By Caila Brown

Whether it is a birthday, graduation or true love, Disneyland and Walt Disney World have a history of promoting their parks through the idea of celebration. For 2010, Disney will be celebrating the spirit of giving through their “Give a Day, Get a Disney Day” program. Disney’s goal is to inspire 1 million people to volunteer a day of service in their communities.

The program is offered to residents of the United States, Puerto Rico or Canada. These residents can volunteer at a preapproved location provided by the HandsOn Network, but must sign up for these volunteer opportunities through the Disney “Give a Day, Get a Disney Day” Web site.

The HandsOn Network is the volunteer branch of the Points of Light institute that focuses on inspiring, equipping and mobilizing people to take action.

After a participant signs up and completes the chosen volunteer service, they will receive a voucher for a free one-day ticket to a Disneyland or Walt Disney World Resort theme park.

The theme park ticket must be used on the same day that you redeem the voucher. The available theme parks are either Disneyland, Disney’s California Adventure at the Disneyland Park in Anaheim California, Magic Kingdom, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Epcot or Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World in Kissimmee, Fla.

The ticket vouchers are not valid for admission to a Disney Water Park, DisneyQuest Indoor Interactive Theme Park or Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex. If a volunteer participant has a valid multi-day ticket or an Annual Pass or Passport, you can turn in your voucher for a Disney’s FASTPASS Special Exchange Card for certain attractions. The FASTPASS can be used for the voucher holder and up to 5 additional people.

Excerpt from District, the Student Voice of SCAD. For the full article, please click here.

SNL hits the big screen with “MacGruber” [insert panther roar]

By Myrriah Gossett and By Caila Brown

Being avid “Saturday Night Live” fans, we had a pretty good idea of what to expect when walking in to see “MacGruber.” The film is based on the SNL sketch of the same name, starring two of the actors of the film’s heroic trio: Will Forte as MacGruber and Kristen Wiig as Vicky St. Elmo. Forte, having experience with the character, actually co-wrote the script with John Solomon and Jorma Taccone.

Sitting down we expected to roll our eyes at MacGruber’s stupidity, laugh at repetitive jokes and cringe at the awkward moments.

And we got exactly what we expected.

We didn’t expect Oscar-winning performances with exceptional plot twists and a beautiful romance or even brilliant humor. Don’t walk into this movie with a completely critical eye. If you just want a good laugh, it’s the movie for you.

However the plot was surprisingly well developed for starting out as a one-minute comedy sketch. There were plenty of jokes, with only a few being repeated throughout the film. And those jokes that were repeated, instead of becoming dull, changed just enough to become even funnier the second and third time the audience heard them. While it was predictable and included a few plot holes, it was still easy to follow and fun to watch.

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