1) Under the Sea continues at Fernbank Museum of Natural History.
2) Richard Doster discusses his book, Crossing the Lines, at Opal Gallery.
3) Puppets Take Atlanta & Beyond kicks off with The Box? A Show of Feelings.
4) Only Dick, No Jane continues at Trois Gallery.
5) Public Enemies continues in area theaters.
(Photo © Jeff Wildermuth/Warner Bros. Entertainment)
1) Kat Von D signs High Voltage Tattoo at Barnes & Noble.
2) Stevie Tombstone plays Smith’s Olde Bar.
3) Christopher Moore signs Fool at Wordsmiths Books.
4) Finding Fiction, Predator and It’s Elephant’s play Wonderroot.
5) IMAX film Dinosaurs Alive! continues at Fernbank Museum.
(Photo © www.katvond.net)
1) Faun Fables perform at the Earl.
2) Ends of the Earth: From Polar Bears to Penguins continues at Fernbank Museum of Natural History.
3) Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s perform at Drunken Unicorn.
4) Whole World Theatre hosts Singles’ Night Improv Show.
5) The Artist Market continues at Arts for All Gallery.
(Photo courtesy Faun Fables)
1) Sorrowful Tunes from a Sunny Land: Photographs from the Republic of Georgia continues at Composition Gallery in Candler Park.
2) Rock out with Journey, Heart and Cheap Trick at Chastain Park Amphitheater.
3) Free Forum Xchange Spoken Word Open Mic is at Apache Cafe.
4) Reflections of Culture is on display at Fernbank.
5) Lakewood Amphitheater hosts Projekt Revolution w/Atreyu, Hawthorne Heights, Chris Cornell and Ashes Divide.
(Photo by Levan Kakabadze)
“Live every week as if it were Shark Week!” “30 Rock’s” Tracy Jordan offers those words to live by. The Discovery Channel is currently airing its annual “Shark Week” of Jaws-esque programming, which it shows in the middle of summer — just to mess with swimmers, apparently. By sheer coincidence (no, really), this week I interview Atlanta-based filmmaker D.J. Roller, who specializes in underwater, IMAX or 3-D photography (and frequently all three at the same time). Roller served as director of underwater photography for Wild Ocean, the latest IMAX documentary showing at Fernbank Museum of Natural History. I asked him about working with sharks:
That’s one of the questions I get asked the most. In Wild Ocean – that’s probably the most sharks I’ve been with in the water. We know that sharks aren’t as dangerous as the media portrays them in movies like Jaws, but they’re very capable of biting you. We think of them as an “acceptable risk.” Sharks are really sexy, cool creatures, and they were more interested in the sardines than in us. Sometimes the sardines or the dolphins would use us as barriers for the sharks. Sharks have very tough skin compared to dolphins, so if one bumps into you, the friction can almost spin you, and you really have to work to hold the camera steady.
The thing that’s wild about sharks is, if they’re going to check you out, they’re always going to come up behind you. I bought a rear-view mirror at an Atlanta bicycle shop that I mounted on my camera, so I can always check to see if anything’s coming up behind me.
I daresay Roller was not involved in the footage of this scene from Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, but in some ways it’s my favorite shark-related clip of all time:
