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To coincide with the huge photo event coming to downtown Orlando in May called Snap Orlando (hear interview with its producer Patrick Kahn), I want May's Mobile Art Show to be a photo retrospective...

Patrick Kahn, Founder/Producer of Snap! Orlando, sat down with us to give a five minute overview of the huge photography event coming to downtown Orlando May 2-23, 2010.

Patrick Kahn Interview:

MP3 File

A big feature of Snap Orlando is the appearance of legendary photographer Douglas Kirkland.

Ron's Miniature Shop
751 West Colonial Drive
Orlando, FL 32804-7343
More photos here
Photo Credit: Mark Baratelli

The Black Olive, site of our upcoming TheDailyCity.com Martini Tuesdays, is doing a $55 three-course meal on New Years Eve. Also, my waiter the other day told me they stopped the nine buck lunch special in place of lowering several of their lunch dishes to nine bucks. If you order the pasta, they make it "al dente," which to my taste is undercooked and chewy. Just a word of caution.

Ego Lab (130 South Orange Ave, Suite A, Orlando, FL 32801) in downtown Orlando is a neat space. We're not cool enough to shop there, nor do we have enough hair to warrant a hair cut there, but we like the interior design and offerings nonetheless. There's a handful of designed spaces in Orlando and we have to celebrate the ones that exist. Yay designed spaces!

TheDailyCity.com is bringing back its Mobile Art Show for the December edition of City Arts Factory's Third Thursday art gallery hop event December 17, 2009, 6pm-8:30pm. We'll be pulling up across the street from City Arts Factory in a rented UHaul full of arty wares. After you explore the galleries inside City Arts Factory, come take a walk on the UHaul side and say hi. We'll have the usual decorated flashlights for night time viewing and printed programs slathered with info about Orlando and the artists participating.

Our past Mobile Art Shows:
Mobile Art Show #1 | The Travel Edition
Mobile Art Show #2 | Third Thursday
Mobile Art Show #3 | Dirty South BBQ in Milk District

Outbreak 5 is December 11-12, 2009 at the ROXY Nightclub in downtown Orlando. This is an all ages event. More Info

"Outbreak 5 is an internationally recognized hip hop festival featuring world class b-boy battles, with confirmed attendees and competitors from all over the US, as well as countries such as Japan, Korea, Italy, France, Ukraine, Spain, and many more. The event also features a graffiti art exhibition showcasing some of Florida's most talented artists, and a live concert featuring performances by Florida's BEST hip hop and funk bands...FUSIK, ArtOfficial, and, MAYDAY.

The world-famous Radio City Rockettes are making a FREE appearance December 1, 10:30am at the downtown public library to perform and promote their upcoming UCF Arena kick-your-face show "Radio City Christmas Spectacular" running December 26-28, 2009. Hosted by Mix105.1 morning show personality Erica Lee, the event will include a reading of "Twas the Night Before Christmas."

Self-identified global design explorers Jay Corless and Sali Sasaki rented one of the empty gallery spaces in the Orlando City Arts Factory (29 South Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801). Thank God someone is/did/are. Downtown is broke.

For the month of Novemdecember, the couple is in Orlando as part of their exploration of over 30 American of the cities that met their “creative city criteria." What is their criteria? Its not getting paid to ride rides and go to fundraisers. They "cross-referenced economic reports, with media coverage and membership in professional design organizations. (They) chose cities that are not often in the spotlight and are pursuing enlightened strategies and ideas."

Someone on this blog is jealous of someone's life(s), having visited over 80 American cities sans a cool website to show for it.

The Novemdecember-long downtown street-facing window-laden show is a "showcase of original art, prints and gifts that reflect the fun, comfort and inspiration (FCI) they have discovered during their expeditions. Through original paintings, drawings, limited edition prints, unique objects, and rare album/book cover art." They're showing their creative-city-criteria-based wares November 19, 2009 to December 14, 2009, Tuesday to Saturday 12:00 noon to 7pm. Follow them on twitter.

A cyclist was killed at the corner of Church Street and Hughey in downtown Orlando November 23, 2009 at 9:30am, the same time performance artist Brian Feldman cancelled & postponed his pedestrian performance art piece, designed to bring attention to pedestrian deaths.

Perhaps this will bring even more awareness to pedestrian safety. On November 9, 2009 Orlando was named worst city for pedestrian safety with over 1 million residents.