“Have you ever wanted hear what Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro would sound like if processed through a European gumball factory and then pumped full of helium? We didn’t think so. And yet, try averting your eyes from the music video above, in which Mozart’s masterpiece is mercilessly tickled to death, Europop-style.”
Tag: 03.21.11
NPR Journalists Frustrated With Poor Defense Strategy
The journalists feel tarnished–and know who to blame. “Our problems don’t have much to do with what we do, but with the people who manage what we do.”
Microsoft Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook E-Book Reader
“Without actually suing Google itself, Microsoft contends that in developing Android, Google has infringed on Microsoft’s patents. Microsoft has also sued Motorola over devices that use Android.”
The Humanities Go Digital (And Change The Ways We Understand Literature
Undergraduates at dozens of colleges are taking “humanities courses — even Shakespeare — that are deeply influenced by a new array of powerful digital tools and vast online archives.”
Defunding NPR – Would It Kill Innovation?
“Given the toxic tone of the debate over the last few weeks, neither public media leaders nor station staff are eager to go on the record with their concerns. But behind the scenes, they fret that the most vulnerable dollars are those funding cross-platform, mobile and participatory public media experiments.”
Juan Williams: NPR Tape Shows Why NPR Should Lose Its Government Funding
“They provide a window in to the culture of elitism that has corroded NPR’s leadership. They’re willing to do anything in service of any liberal with money. This includes firing me and skewing the editorial content of their programming.”
How The Film Festival Is Changing
“Many of the major film festivals understand that an online component is going to become an important part of future festivals — and future films in general. For 2011, Tribeca is hoping to take its digital strategy to the next level by connecting audiences and filmmakers together.”
Was One Of England’s Great Children’s Classics Partly Plagiarized?
It is arguably the single most memorable episode of E Nesbit’s much-loved children’s book The Railway Children. … But it has now emerged that the dramatic episode may not have been purely the result of Nesbit’s imagination.”
Another Spider-Man Casualty: Choreographer To Be Replaced
“Producers of Broadway’s much- delayed $70 million Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark are in talks to replace its high-profile choreographer, Daniel Ezralow … Ezralow is likely to be replaced by Chase Brock, a Brooklyn dance maker in his late twenties.”
London Mayor Warns Of Damage To Arts Sector From New Visa Regulations
“Mayor of London Boris Johnson has warned the government not to ‘jeopardise London’s position as a world creative hub’ following new research into the points-based visa system.”