The Sikh temple in Wisconsin repaired everything but one bullet hole, next to which it placed a plaque reading “We Are One”. The multiplex in Aurora erased the two screening rooms where the murders happened, turning them into an “extreme digital” venue. That Pennsylvania Amish community razed the schoolhouse and planted the site with clover. And the summer camp near Oslo engaged designers to work an architectural transformation.
Tag: 03.07.13
Disney Studios Gives Up Hand-Drawn Animation
“Disney, the Hollywood titan which brought the world classics such as Fantasia, Bambi and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, has admitted it has no current plans to make hand drawn animated films.”
Meet The Echt-Bohemian Of Fin-De-Siècle Vienna
Peter Altenburg (né Richard Engländer) “walked out of courses in law, botany, and medicine before, in his thirties, giving himself over to a life of thorough and eccentric bohemianism. He is reputed to have spent most of his adult waking hours in coffeehouses, and the sleeping ones in a hotel that was little more than a brothel.”
A New Tax Law In Britain May Help Keep Animators At Home
“Programmes such as Bob The Builder, Noddy and Thomas and Friends – all conceived in the UK – have already jumped ship. Who could blame them?”
East Germany Wasn’t Alone In Spying On Its Own Literary Intellectuals
Britain did it too, but “truth told, this is most often a comedy of errors. We see that the security services – MI5 often, and Special Branch unfailingly – were useless at spying on intellectuals.”
Where Are The U.K.’s East Asian Actors? (Yes, The U.S. May Know This Story)
“What came out of the discussion was the need for greater visibility; for East Asian actors to make their own opportunities through writing and production; for an end to tokenistic typecasting of East Asian actors as foreigners or Chinese takeaway servers and finally for greater access to training.”
Burning Down A Museum In Naples To Make A Point
“Just north of Naples, a smoldering ruin is all that remains of the museum called the City of Science. It was deliberately set it on fire during the night between March 4 and 5, and it is not hard to read the message behind its destruction.”
The Classical Pianists With 55 Million YouTube Views
“Finally I came up with the crazy decision to just put all 24 tracks on YouTube myself, as I couldn’t keep control of my product anymore. Then a strange thing happened,” says Ms. Lisitsa: Sales of her DVD shot up on Amazon.
Why We Shouldn’t Just Accept Technological Change
“Technological defeatism–a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there’s nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms–is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We’ll come to pay for it very dearly.”
Newcastle Eliminates Culture Funding After All
Despite an intervention by the UK national Labour party, “Newcastle city council has approved a plan to cut completely its £2.5m culture budget despite concerted opposition from local residents and a host of artists connected to north-east England.”