The video, and its many predecessors, and the many dancing videos it’s spawned since a right-wing Twitter user tried to use it to shame the Congressional representative, is only available because the Electronic Frontier Foundation pushed back (pushed back hard) against takedown notices from a record label … and won. – Wired
Tag: 01.03.18
Report: Women Directed Only Eight Percent Of Hollywood Films Last Year
Small gains were made in other key behind-the-scenes positions, the study found. Women accounted for a greater percentage of producers, executive producers, writers and editors, compared with that number in 2017. The biggest increases were seen in the number of editors (21 percent were women, compared with 16 percent the previous year) and writers (16 percent, up from 11 percent in 2017). Still, the 2018 figures represented just single-digit gains from 1998. – The New York Times
Small Niche Cable Channels Are Being Dropped As Audience Flees Cable
The rise of cord-cutting (people ditching cable packages for cheaper digital options) is beginning to reduce financial margins at cable and satellite providers, and channels that aren’t driving a lot of viewership are paying the price. – Axios
How The Art Of Directing Theatre Is Changing
“If the job description and skill set of directing hasn’t changed much, the circumstances in which American directors work certainly has. The cost of renting performance spaces has shot up in major urban areas, and the existence of affordable spaces for young artists everywhere has dwindled. While programs and grants to nurture young playwrights have sprung up across the country, support for those with directorial aspirations is relatively sparse.”
Taking A Scholarly Look At UrbanDictionary.com
“So just how good is the Urban Dictionary at capturing new words, and how does it compare with more conventional approaches to producing online dictionaries? Today, we get an answer of sorts thanks to the work of Dong Nguyen at the Alan Turing Institute in London and a few pals, who compare the Urban Dictionary and its content with Wiktionary, another crowdsourced dictionary.”
Museum Of Ice Cream Fined For ‘Environmental Hazard’ In Miami Beach
The problem is the pop-up museum’s most popular attraction: a pool full of plastic rainbow sprinkles for visitors to roll around and play in.
What Directing Teachers Teach Their Students: Five Veterans Explain
Frank Galati: “Certain aspects of the job can most definitely be taught, the way a language can be taught – the grammar, the practice. Those are rules that don’t really change.”
Sarah Schulman: “I can’t teach you talent. I can’t teach you insight, and sensitivity, and awareness, and perception. I can’t teach you poetry – but I can help you expand these skills by asking the right questions.”
What Directing Students Say They Learn In Their MFA Programs
“Robert O’Hara, who got his MFA in directing from Columbia University, was surprised when the program director, Anne Bogart, said she could teach the class all there was to know about directing in three weeks. What was the rest of the program about, then?”
What Foucault Knew: Sharing In Public Makes Us Self-Monitor And Conform
According to Foucault, the dynamics of the Panopticon bore an uncanny resemblance to how people self-monitor in society at large. In the presence of ever-watchful witnesses, he said, physical coercion is no longer necessary. People police themselves. They do not know what the observers are registering at any given moment, what they are looking for, exactly, or what the punishments are for disobedience. But the imagination keeps them pliant. In these circumstances, Foucault claimed, the architecture of surveillances become perniciously subtle and seamless, so ‘light’ as to be scarcely noticeable.
Are We Really In a Post-Facts World? Our Writer Investigates What Science Says
“Why has the end-of-facts idea gained so much purchase in both academia and the public mind? It could be an example of what the World War II–era misinformation experts referred to as a “bogie” rumor—a false belief that gives expression to our deepest fears and offers some catharsis. It’s the kind of story that we tell one another even as we hope it isn’t true. Back then, there were bogie rumors that the Japanese had sunk America’s entire fleet of ships or that thousands of our soldiers’ bodies had washed ashore in France. Now, perhaps, we blurt out the bogie rumor that a rumor can’t be scotched—that debunking only makes things worse.”