As Mark Twain observed, “Humor is tragedy plus time.” But how much time? Researcher Peter McGraw of the Humor Research Lab (HuRL) tried some experiments (e.g., a Hurricane Sandy Twitter account) and thinks that “Too soon?” may not be the right question.
Tag: 03.24.14
Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.24.14
The Talking Cure, Part One (networking)
AJBlog: We The Audience | Published 2014-03-24
A Top Ten List In Dubai
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-03-24
Everything I Know about Why Art Matters I Learned from My 5-year-old
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-03-24
Arts as an Engine of Unrest Or, How the Arts Ruined a Perfectly Good Childhood
AJBlog: Field Notes | Published 2014-03-24
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Christoph Eschenbach Extends His Contract At National Symphony Through 2017
Anne Midgette: “The start of Eschenbach’s tenure appeared to be reinvigorating the orchestra, and the two international tours within eight months in 2012 and 2013, to South America and to Europe, boosted morale and the orchestra’s profile … Yet for all of the new energy, Eschenbach’s concerts with the orchestra have not consistently represented the kind of vital music-making one might have hoped.”
Virtual Reality Is Really Here (At Last) So How Do We Use It, Make Art Out Of It?
“After trying an array of prototypes and development kits at the Game Developers Conference here last week, I can assure you that virtual reality works. Technology is no longer the limitation. The lingering question is what game designers, artists and filmmakers should do with it.”
Science Answers: What Women Look For In A Male Partner’s Dance Moves
“They found that women rated dancers higher when they showed larger and more variable movements of the head, neck and torso. Speed of leg movements mattered too, particularly bending and twisting of the right knee. In what might be bad news for the 20% of the population who is left-footed, left knee movement didn’t seem to matter.”
Uh Oh – Netflix Stock Plummets After News Of Comcast-Apple Plans For Streaming Service
“Apple would deliver live and on-demand TV programming over a Comcast’s last-mile broadband networks, with guaranteed bandwidth to ensure high-quality video delivery to an Apple set-top.”
Writers Protest UK Rule That Bans Sending Books To Prisoners
“The ban is part of the Incentives and Earned Privileges scheme, which allows prisoners to buy their own basic supplies using funds awarded to them for good behaviour.”
Compare Paintings And Google Street Images To See How London Has Changed (Way Cool)
“Redditor Shystone has laid old paintings over Google Street View photographs to create a series of perspective-bending composite images of old and new London. Modern sculptures dominate a plaza that was once wide open; neon signs reside on the same block as gas-lit streetlights; and a bridge covers over a river that was once filled with sailboats.”
The Criminal Secret Life of the Godfather of Literary Theory
Paul de Man wasn’t just a professor at Cornell, Johns Hopkins, and Yale. He wasn’t just a Nazi collaborator in Belgium during the war. He was, it turns out, an embezzler, fraudster, deadbeat dad, and bigamist.