“The US Army is trying to track down and harness people’s smell of fear. The military has backed a study on the ‘Identification and Isolation of Human Alarm Pheromones,’ which focused on the Preliminary Identification of Steroids of Interest in Human Fear Sweat. The so-called ‘skydiving protocol’ was the researchers’ method of choice.”
Tag: 01.18.08
Hollywood Had A Record Year Internationally In 2007
It’s now official — the foreign box office posted a 10% increase for 2007, finishing with $9.52 billion for the Big Six studios.
Ailing Columbus Symphony Proposes Dramatic Downsizing
“The savings would be achieved primarily by cutting the number of full-time musicians from 53 to 31 and the number of performance weeks from 46 to 34. The symphony forecasts a $1.5 million deficit this year, down from a record $2.2 million last season.”
Writers To Resume Negotiations
Writers Guild of America leaders plan to meet as early as Monday with News Corp. President Peter Chernin and possibly other studio chiefs, reviving talks that fell apart early last month.
Liberating Eloquence From Rhetoric
“Long thought to be a subset of rhetoric’s devices, eloquence has declared its independence: It has no designs on readers or audiences. Its aim is pleasure; it thrives on freedom among the words. Unlike rhetoric, it has not sent any soldier to be killed in foreign countries.”
The Ministry Of Jazz Information
“In the last 15 years, Tom Lord has established himself as the pre-eminent jazz discographer, especially in the technological sense. He began offering his massive jazz discography as a series of expensive (and, cumulatively, weighty) printed paperback books in the early ’90s before offering the entire 34-volume series on CD-ROM about five years ago. Now, he’s made an even more important breakthrough by making the whole works available online.”
Could License Fee Reinvent The Music Business?
“The Songwriters Association of Canada is proposing a $5-a-month licensing fee on every wireless and Internet account in the country, in exchange for unlimited access to all recorded music. The deal would put $1 billion annually in the pockets of artists, publishers and record labels, according to the songwriters group.”
Collector Returns Looted Art To Italy
“After 18 months of intense negotiations, the New York philanthropist Shelby White has ceded 10 classical antiquities from her private collection that Italy contends were looted from its soil, the Italian culture minister confirmed this week.”
Art Hype – Behind The Scenes At The Auction Houses
Behind the ever-increasing frenzy of the art market prices, the world’s auction houses play a dangerous game of expectations…
New Florida Symphony Orchestra Will Launch In Miami This Fall
”This is more program-driven than the traditional symphony orchestra. Between us, we can provide enough work for enough people and we should have a large enough music community to serve several needs. That’s really the objective.”