“The sociologists are right in pointing out that if organizations want to target artists, and if governments want to use research data to shape policies geared towards them (both of which are already happening), it might help to first figure out who an artist is.”
Tag: 03.24.13
D.H. Lawrence’s Poetry Published Uncensored For First Time
“Now a new edition of Lawrence’s poems, many rendered unreadable by the censor’s pen, will reveal him as a brilliant war poet whose work attacking British imperialism during the first world war was barred from publication.”
Does French Culture Teach The French To Be Unhappy?
“France, once famous for its joie de vivre, is suffering from existential gloom – and the French have only themselves to blame for their malaise … Research by a French academic … suggests that the country’s citizens are “taught” to be miserable by elements of their own culture.”
Ballet Meets Hardware: Dancers Dressed In Aluminum Tubes
“The idea for [The Aluminum Show] came to Israeli-born creator and artistic director Ilan Azriel when he was in a hardware store and opened a box, and some small aluminum tubing fell to the floor. Azriel liked the ‘snake-like’ material and started to examine its possibilities.”
An Architecture Critic Plays SimCity
“My challenge was to create a passable cyber-simulacrum of New York. Instead, I discovered a strangely addictive, deeply wonky experience, producing cities where I would never want to live. … The exercise of meaningless power is so enjoyable that at the end of a twelve-hour session, I barely stopped to wonder why I had spent so much of my weekend frantically building sewage plants.”
Will Our Devices Rob Us Of The Very Ability To Connect In Person?
“If you don’t regularly exercise your ability to connect face to face, you’ll eventually find yourself lacking some of the basic biological capacity to do so.”
Hollywood Is Abandoning Sex Scenes In Favor Of Special Effects
Says one market analyst, “Sex scenes used to be written, no matter what the plot, to spice up a trailer. But all that does today is get a film an adult-only rating and lose a younger audience. Today such scenes are written out by producers before they are even shot.”
Chinua Achebe On Becoming A Writer In Africa
“When a number of us decided to pick up the pen and make writing a career there was no African literature as we know it today. There were of course our great oral tradition…”
The Death Of California’s Visual Effects Houses
“We should be celebrating at this moment, but unfortunately it seems like we’re in the gutter looking for coins.”
History Was Brutal, But Don’t Look To Most Works Of Nonfiction To Tell You That
Instead, check out the realistically violent brutality of “Game of Thrones.”