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"I knew I wanted to do something no other college team had done and bring a cinematic experience to the college football realm." Micah Brown
Love, who works closely with the team and is responsible for editing and creating all practice films, recognizes that Brown's relationship with the team gives him an advantage in filming its every move. Brown's history on the team makes him a good fit for the job because of his knowledge of football, a trait the department was looking for when hiring, Love savs.
Perhaps most surprising about "The Gridiron" is the quiet presence of the football program's leading man. Coach Turner Gill, with the exception of a locker room speech and a post-game consolation, plays a supporting role to the players.
Considering his legacy of Nebraska football and Orange Bowl titles, as a standout Heisman finalist and the coach of three national championship teams at Nebraska, perhaps Gill's role could be expected to be larger. Screen time is made up for in the intimate moments of Gill that Brown captures on film. A pensive Gill overlooks an empty field as well as groups of players wearing T-shirts which tout their slogan: "Believe."
These intimate moments might have the gravitas they do because of Brown's relationship with Gill. Brown's father was teammates with Gill at Nebraska and Brown grew up with Gill as a family friend. Their new working relationship hasn't affected their friendship, however.
"He's my boss, and I couldn't ask for a better one." Brown says.
Even though he has a history as a football player, Brown now watches the team from a
different perspective. He sees a transformation in the team and attributes it to Gill, the most consistent person Brown knows. Gill is creating a new culture for KU football, Brown says, a process that doesn't happen overnight but that Brown is confident Gill can achieve.
The documentary follows the team throughout the week, from practices to field time, chronicling the progress of the program Gill came to rebuild. It gives the viewer an inside look at what really happens during the course of the week during the college football season, Love says.
"There are a lot of programs where you are seeing more and more that fans love to be in the know," Love says.
The films, although helpful in reviewing game time mistakes or patterns, are really
meant for outside viewers. The documentary will be used to recruit high school athletes and potential KU students, as well as something to enjoy for the student body and alumni.
"You get provided with an inside look that you gravitate to," Love says. "You feel like you are in the locker room with these guys and you can't help but be a fan."
After a bleak loss to North Dakota State Saturday, Gill gathers his team in the locker room and reminds them to look ahead.
"It's just one day." Gill tells them. "It's just one game."
The men gather in a huddle, and on three chant their slogan: "Believe!" while Brown's camera catches it all.
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The annual event was a success during the weekend.
Cultural Indian Club to host events for Ganesha
Club will celebrate Indian festival for Hindi god this week in Lawrence
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Classifieds...7B
Crossword...4A
Cryptoquips...4A
Opinion...5A
Sports...1B
Sudoku...4A
Artist-in-Residence, Dan Periervich, works on his exhibit in the Spencer Museum of Arts Central Court Friday afternoon. Romanian-born Periervich will be at KU until Sept. 17th. While here, he will share his art and reflections with students and the community through his exhibit and artist talks.
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Simple drawings, complex ideas
Exhibit at Spencer illuminates artist's social philosophies
BY NICOLAS ROESLER proceler@kansan.com
A man with a thick black and gray beard stands 20-feet high on a cherry picker in the Spencer Museum of Art, drawing on the walls. He wears a green fly-fishing jacket, which holds everything he needs — a few markers and a notebook.
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His arms move quickly and deliberately, like a teacher at a chalkboard. He draws simple figurines, as if the walls were just a giant comic strip. Somehow, a clear message comes through.
"I have my own language," Dan Perjovschi said. "These are my words, and I recombine them into new phrases."
Perjovschi is the artist-in-residence at the Spencer Museum of Art. He has been drawing in the central court of the museum for almost two weeks now, creating walls of statements and observations through cartoon-looking, graffiti-style art. His exhibit, Dan Perjovschi Central Court, will officially open Thursday and run until Feb. 6, 2011. His artwork will stay on the walls until the end of the exhibit.
Perlovschi mixes political messages with simple observations of life. One of his favorite and recurring drawings depicts a man in a business suit pointing and yelling at a young skateboarder. The speech bubble coming from the man in the business suit reads "I was at Woodstock".
"It's not conventional art," Rachel
Schmidt, a freshman from Paola, said as she looked up at the walls of the Spencer. "It's just true, he puts things in a way that can relate to."
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It is that connection that Dan looks for. He said that everything he writes or draws, we have all thought about at some point. He said he has just trained himself to capture those thoughts in his notebook.
Walls have always been a part of Perjovschi's life. He was born in 1961 in the city of Sibiu, Romania, the same year the Berlin Wall vas erected.
Perjovschi said living in communist Romania was a life of restrictions. The government controlled all sources of information, blocking what Perjovschi starved for. He said he survived some of the worst dictatorial regimes of communist Romania where there
"It was a culture of missing" Periiovski said.
was no freedom to travel or read certain books.
"It is new all the time," Lia said. "We had a common idea to do what we want, a kind of ambition to contribute to our context."
While there, he started a sort of underground art project with his wife, Lia, whom he met at a special art school when they were 10 years old.
There would be periods where his family had no milk or bread. His working-class parents somehow managed to send all three of their children to universities, where Perjowski studied painting.
Because of censorship in Romania, each of Dan's art shows went through three different censorship committees before the public could see it. So, he began private
CENTRAL COURT
Dan Periovschi's "Central Court" exhibit will officially open Thursday night. Periovschi will speak at 5 p.m. at the SMA Auditorium inside the museum.
The exhibit will run from Thursday to Feb. 6, 2011.
showings in his loft in Bucharest.
slowings in his loft in Bucharest. Then, in 1990, Perjovski helped begin and run the first independent magazine in Romania called "Revista 22," named after a key date in the Romanian revolution: Dec. 22, 1989.
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