The Milwaukee Art Museum has two new iPhone apps. One lets users flap the museum's Burke Brise Soleil wings. The other is a Milwaukee Art Museum tour app aimed at kids and families, created in conjunction with Kohl's Art Generation.
Both apps are available for free download from the iTunes store.
The first app has sections called: Flap, Learn, Tour, Play and Info. There's lots of video and audio, a panoramic tour of Windhover Hall and more.
But it's the section that lets you flap from any of four views of the museum – and the ability to do all four at once (pictured above) that will keep kids and adults amused for hours.
Once my kids discover it, I fear I'll never see my phone again.
In addition to containing the iPod Touch Tour that has been available at the museum since March, The Art Generation app also has an art ABCs feature.We'll try it out on our next visit.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
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