“As a business, entertainment has in some ways become less democratic, not more. Technology is making the rich richer, skewing people’s consumption of entertainment towards the biggest hits and the most powerful platforms. This world is dominated by an oligarchy of giants, including Facebook, Google, Amazon, Netflix and Disney (as well as Alibaba and Tencent within China’s walled ecosystem). Those lacking sufficient scale barely get noticed. Paradoxically, enabling every individual and product on the planet to find a market has made it next to impossible for the market to find them. Consumers generally favour whatever they find on their mobile screens or at the top of their search results. The tail is indeed long, but it is very skinny.”
Tag: 02.11.17
Gender Breakdown Of Top 40 Music – An Odd Correlation
In 2005, Billboard changed its methodology to include digital downloads, and in 2007, it included digital streaming. In 2013, they added video streaming from sites like YouTube. There’s certainly a correlation between the music industry’s digitization, and women’s drop in representation. In 2016, only 22 percent of popular songs were performed by only women. That’s a huge drop from the 41.4 percent that women performed in the decade 1997-2007.
The U.S. Has Opened Its Doors To Many Great Artists, But That May Come To An End With The Travel Ban
“The O and EB1 visas are what many consider America’s secret weapon. ‘It is how the US has been stealing the best of the best from other nations for years,’ Mazaheri believes.”
Manga Artist Jiro Taniguchi, Who Was Wildly Successful In France, Dies At 69
“Mr Taniguchi was widely praised for the gentle manner in which he approached subjects that were often unique for Japan’s manga consumers. His works such as The Walking Man, The Summit of the Gods and The Magic Mountain, stood apart in a genre sometimes seen as rooted in extreme violence and pornography.”
When A 33-Year-Old Author Has A Stroke, She Has To Recreate Her Life Using Journals
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee could only remember 15 minutes at a time. “I couldn’t plan for the future. I couldn’t think of the past. I had no regrets. So it’s literally living in the moment. I was experiencing something that people go to yoga and Zen retreats to achieve. So it was quite pleasant. It was not pleasant for the people around me.”
The Third Show At The Apollo: Backstage
“One of the Apollo Theater’s fans got it almost right when she told Earl Caldwell of The New York Times: ‘You get two shows at the Apollo. That’s what I like down there. You get the show on the stage and the one in the audience.'” And then there’s the space where the performers, and the journalists, escape the crowds.
If You Want To Learn Faster, Speed Up Your Audio And Video Input
You can speed up YouTube videos, Audible books (this is especially useful for those ponderous history readers), podcasts and more. And maybe you should. “It’s a clever adaptation. In an age where more and more information arrives as multimedia, we’re reinventing the noble art of skimming.”
Harvey Lichtenstein, Who Led The Rebirth Of The Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Has Died At 87
It’s a tale of arts and gentrification, investment and marketing, failures and ultimate successes: “When Mr. Lichtenstein arrived at the academy in 1967, its stately building on Lafayette Avenue, erected in 1908, needed extensive and costly renovation. Portions of it had been rented out, and there had even been talk of tearing down the building and using the site for tennis courts. Many members of Mr. Lichtenstein’s target audience, especially Manhattanites, viewed the neighborhood — the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn — as undesirable.”
Save This Brutalist Building, Cries The Architecture Critic
The student union building, slated for possible destruction, isn’t ordinary, says Rowan Moore. It’s “a manmade terrain of rooms and spaces – large, intimate, sociable, secluded, high, low, top-lit, side-lit – which, grouped around a plunging and generous staircase, help you see the banks of green on the other side and feel the slopes of the ground. It is a way of being in the gorge while also – as a human being rather than a bird – using the facilities offered to human students.”
The Most Prolific British Woman Artist Is Marianne North, An Underappreciated Victorian [VIDEO]
Marianne North traveled around the world, dropping her easel anywhere – including in the thickest Brazilian rainforest – to paint the flora and fauna of the area. She bequeathed her oil paintings to Kew Gardens, and she designed a gallery to hold them as well.