Will Self: “That’s right, give it up for Lent: all pictures and drawings, music and books, television, film and radio. Eschew newspapers, and magazines; look not upon the glittery face of the worldwide web. Instead, stride out into the world protected only by the flimsy raiment of your own reason, guided solely by the light of your own conscience, and warmed by your own imagination alone.”
Tag: 02.22.10
E-Bibles At Forefront Of Reading-Technology Revolution
“If you want to see what a 21st century reading experience should look like — one that enables you to bookmark, notate, listen to, and share passages instantly on Facebook and Twitter — the marketplace you’re looking for is e-Bibles. At the time of this writing, six of the top 20 most popular paid e-books in the Apple App Store are Bibles.”
Royal Liverpool Phil Looks To Build Second Hall
“Ambitious plans are being drawn up to build a second concert hall for Liverpool’s Philharmonic as part of a £40m revamp. Officials have revealed proposals to build a second hall,” – smaller and more flexible than the Art Deco 1,800-seat Philharmonic Hall – “create more back stage space for musicians and new drinking and eating areas for concert goers.”
The Limits Of Secular Reason In Public Life
Stanley Fish: “It is not … that secular reason can’t do the job (of identifying ultimate meanings and values) we need religion to do; it’s worse; secular reason can’t do its own self-assigned job – of describing the world in ways that allow us to move forward in our projects – without importing, but not acknowledging, the very perspectives it pushes away in disdain.”
So You Think Bobsledding Is Tougher Than Ballet Dancing, Do You?
UK bobsledder Dan Money and his partner wiped out on the track in Vancouver last weekend, and he got a gash on his leg. “It’s just one of those things,” he shrugged, “but it’s bobsleigh, you know, not ballet dancing.” Well, Sadlers Wells chief Alistair Spalding has a few things to say about that.
Does FCC Have Jurisdiction Over A Show That Never Aired?
“If ‘Our Little Genius’ had aired it’s a pretty safe bet that — if the allegations about the show are true — the show might have found itself in violation of government regulations. But the idea that it may look to penalize Fox for a show it decided was not worthy of broadcast has caught many Washington insiders by surprise.”
Chicago’s Skyscraper Isn’t The Tallest, But It Is The Best
“Emporis, the global building database, on Tuesday will name the residential and hotel tower” Aqua, designed by Jeanne Gang and “best known for its spectacularly undulating balconies, its 2009 skyscraper of the year.” The runner-up for the Emporis Skyscraper Award is Dubai’s O-14 high-rise.
Art Gallery Of Ontario Gets $7.5M To Expand Education
The federal stimulus funding will pay for a “new 35,000-square-foot learning centre [that] will be a substantial upgrade of [the] gallery’s existing educational spaces … and will house new programs. There will be a staff expansion as well, allowing the AGO to host twice as many schoolchildren.”
Artist Finds Her Work Is Off-Limits To Public At Olympics
What Claire Kujundzic “thought was being leased to VANOC as a work of public art isn’t available to the public at all, and won’t be even after the Games. Furthermore, Ms. Kujundzic’s contract to lease the work to VANOC bars her from publicizing it. So the public can’t see it, and the public can’t hear about it directly from her.”
Tim Burton’s Inspiration For The White Queen? Nigella
Burton, the director of “Alice in Wonderland,” said Nigella “Lawson’s domestic goddess routine has an eerie edge to it at times. ‘She’s really beautiful and she does all this cooking, but then there’s this glint in her eye and when you see it you go, “Oh, whoa, she’s like really … nuts.” I mean in a good way. Well, maybe. I don’t know.'”