George Orwell called it “thoughtcrime”: punishing people for their thoughts rather than their actions.
Tag: 02.26.13
Six Treasures Too Fragile To Be Displayed In A Museum
They’re valuable but so frail that they would ruined if they went on display.
Live Nation (World’s Largest Concert Producer) Saw 8 Percent Jump In Revenue In 2012
“Quarterly revenue for the period ending Dec. 31 was up 21% from the fourth quarter of 2011, tallying $1.4 billion, thanks to the presence of both Madonna and Lady Gaga on the touring circuit during the quarter. Yearly figures were likewise goosed by the Summer Olympics in London.”
Cable TV Provider Sues To Stop Viacom From Forcing Customers To Pay For Channels They Don’t Watch
“Cablevision, a New York-based cable TV provider, filed an antitrust lawsuit against Viacom on Tuesday in federal court hoping to stop the media conglomerate from forcing Cablevision to pay for channels its customers don’t watch.”
Duplitecture – A Venerable Chinese Aesthetic
“This craze for duplication isn’t just creative laziness or a willful disregard of intellectual property rights. It grows out of old and venerable Chinese aesthetic traditions, in which copying is valued not only as a learning tool (as it is in the West) but as artistically satisfying in its own right.”
Pittsburgh Theater Board Fires Founder
“The Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre board of directors today fired founder and artistic director Andrew Paul and told him he would not be working on the four plays he was scheduled to direct.”
Getty Announces Theme For Next Pacific Standard Time Mega-Exhibition
“After dozens of meetings and a few orphaned ideas, the Getty has settled on a theme for a 2017 sequel to the 2011-12 museum exhibition extravaganza known as Pacific Standard Time. It will be ‘Los Angeles and Latin America,’ or ‘L.A./L.A.’ for short.”
Computer-Assisted Choreography
Hiroaki Umeda: “I already had an idea of a dance I wanted to do, but no dance style seemed to fit into my vision.” And no money to pay collaborators seemed to make it into his budget. “[But] I already had a computer, which became my tool of creation.”
Can This Project Convince The Suspicious That The Arts Really Aren’t Elitist?
Chloë Booker, founder of Platform33: “The idea came to me a few years ago, after trying to convince a friend to come to a classical orchestral concert with me. She didn’t want to commit her money and evening to something she knew nothing about and saw as pretentious, boring, and just not for her. Platform33 is designed to be the introductory step, where you see artists from completely different genres perform in intimate, unconventional venues.”
Apple Settles iTunes Case, Will Give Away $100M In Free Credits
“Apple has agreed to hand out more than $100 million in iTunes store credits to settle a lawsuit alleging that its iPhone and iPad apps allowed children to make purchases without their parent’s knowledge or consent.”