“One woman is seen posing with a grenade in her hand. A man had his photo taken with a little boy sitting on his lap.” Weirder still is who put the booth there.
Category: AUDIENCE
Amazon Already Runs Its Own Version Of Netflix; Now It’s Starting Its Own YouTube
“With the launch of Amazon Video Direct, open to any video creator, the e-commerce giant will compete head-to-head with Google’s YouTube for video-ad dollars and views as well as other big Internet video distributors like Facebook and Vimeo.”
Music Has Become Too Disposable. Hence The Slow-Listening Movement
“Why vinyl? Commitment. In this mid-second decade of the 21st century, music is being taken for granted on a collective scale. An entire generation of music listeners will never pay for music, nor do they believe that they should. The long form music medium has taken a back seat to song culture, yet the average person only listens to a song for approximately 24 seconds before deciding if it’s worth their time to continue to listen.”
Michael Billington: Why Star Ratings Are A Very Bad Idea For Theatre
“For works of art it is extremely unhelpful as we all know works of arts are enigmatic, complicated things.” He went on to argue that stars did not leave much room for “ambiguity” with certain productions, where a “wonderful play has been given a poor production” or vice versa.
New York’s Bloody Shakespeare Riot Of 1849
“The affair began as a grudge match between two actors, but escalated into a street riot outside the Astor Place Opera House in which at least 22 people died. The Astor Place Riot still counts as one of the bloodiest episodes in New York’s history. The cause of the incident seems, by contemporary standards, hard to credit: who played the better Macbeth – an Englishman or an American?”
A Need For Defining Canadian Content (And Why It Matters)
“Despite the nationalist sentiment that originally drove them, Canadian cultural regulations have wisely tended to focus on the citizenship of the creators rather than recognizable settings or prescribed themes. The best definition of Canadian content remains a tautology: It’s content created by Canadians.”
Those Huge Online Video Viewer Numbers? Don’t Believe Them
“The conflation of digital and traditional viewership metrics has gotten under the skin of TV people, and for good reason. If advertisers can be hoodwinked into believing that a sizable number of people are actually watching things on Facebook Live, they will direct their money online, where the ad rates are much, much lower than they are on TV.”
Seems We Just Can’t Get Enough Of The Tudors – Why Is That?
Charlotte Higgins: “When speaking to historians, novelists and curators of the period, I found that they would, at some point in the conversation, reach for a pop-cultural analogy. The Tudors are like the Kardashians, said one. They are like the Caesars, or the Kennedys, said another. They are like Game of Thrones, said one. They are like House of Cards, said another. They are like Dallas, they are like Dynasty, said another.”
Here’s How To Get Butts Into The Met Opera’s Empty Seats
“The answer, it seems to be, is a refinement and great expansion of the existing Rush Ticket program (as originally backed by the sainted Agnes Varis.)” La Cieca explains how exactly this would work, complete with (“take a deep breath,” she warns) math.
‘There Is A Genuine Greatness To Bad Singing’: Anne Midgette On Why We Love Florence Foster Jenkins
“Great bad singers take our greatest fears and put them on the stage in front of us. Florence Foster Jenkins lives out all of our worst nightmares: getting up in public unprepared, being mocked without knowing it, realizing you have forgotten to get dressed before going out.”