“The #MeToo moment is a symptom of a broken legal system. All too frequently, women and other sexual-abuse complainants couldn’t get a fair hearing through institutions – including corporate structures – so they used a new tool: the internet. … [But] if the legal system is bypassed because it is seen as ineffectual, what will take its place? … In times of extremes, extremists win. Their ideology becomes a religion, anyone who doesn’t puppet their views is seen as an apostate, a heretic or a traitor, and moderates in the middle are annihilated.”
Tag: 01.13.18
Hip Hop’s TV Takeover
Is the question why now, or is the question why did hip hop, which has dominated the music scene for decades, take this long to take over the small screen? “Hip-hop is the soundtrack of at least one, probably two generations now. … People used to be afraid of it or consider it the music of gangsters or thugs, or whatever. But now, it’s part of everything … and everyone under the age of 40.”
Male Models Say They Were Sexually Abused By Photographers
Photographers Bruce Weber (Calvin Klein, Abercrombie & Fitch) and Mario Testino (the British royal family, Vogue) are accused by numerous models of coercive sexual touch and much more. “Those who said they were on the receiving end of unwanted attention felt the choice was clear: acquiesce and be rewarded with lucrative ad campaign work, or reject the approach and risk hobbling, or destroying, a career. Many said they still would not speak publicly.”
The Pronunciation Battles Of Britain
From a BBC presenter: “Listeners didn’t just say they ‘disliked’ something. They used the most emotive words they could think of. They were ‘horrified’, ‘appalled’, ‘dumbfounded’, ‘aghast’, ‘outraged’, when they heard something they didn’t like. Why do people get especially passionate about pronunciation, using language that we might think more appropriate as a reaction to a terrorist attack than to an intruded ‘r’ (as in ‘law(r) and order’)?”
Cryptocurrencies Might Be The Next Big Thing Transforming The Art Market
But seriously, what does that even mean? Meme-able art may turn into money, basically. “The most spectacular proof of this concept has been CryptoKitties. These cute virtual felines have a collectibility — and tradeability — that has attracted more than 235,000 registered users and more than 37,000 Ether, or about $52 million in transactions, according to the company. Cryptokitties.co charges 3.75 percent every time a cat “breeds” with another or is sold in its own marketplace. In December, one of the 100 ‘Founder Cats’ traded for 253.3368 Ether, equivalent at the time to about $111,000. (It would now be more than $300,000.)”
How Did The San Antonio Symphony Save Itself So Quickly And Thoroughly?
Even negotiations with the musicians went well – with a new board chair. And the musicians got something they’ve been asking for for (get this) a decade — “that they be allowed to live-stream their performances and post archival recordings on social media to spread the symphony’s message to new listeners, in and outside of S.A.”
After Huge Outcry, Actor Who Got Paid 1500 Times More Than Michelle Williams For A Post-Spacey Movie Reshoot Donates His Salary
The #TimesUp movement got what founder Amber Tamblyn described as the second donation from a man “in our business” when Mark Wahlberg, who was paid $1.5 million to reshoot the movie All the Money in the World while star Michelle Williams was paid union minimum of $80/day, donated his salary for the movie to the group. The two actors share the agents William Morris Endeavor, which pledged $500,000 as well.
How The Soundtrack To ‘The Graduate’ Created A Revolution
The sound defined an entire generation of media-makers and audiences. “Previously, traditional orchestral film scores were used simply to provide background music for onscreen action. So The Graduate’s heavy reliance on the folk-rock songs of the popular duo Simon and Garfunkel was unprecedented: By the time the film was released, many of the major tunes were already well known.”
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Turns 200 This Year, And It Continues To Govern Our Anxieties About Technology
Mary Shelley was a child prodigy, and so much more: “How could a teenager come up with not one but two enduring archetypes: the scientist obsessed by blue-sky research and unable to see it has ethical and social consequences, and the near human he creates?”