Professional accent and dialect coach Andrew Jack covers a dozen or so accents from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and even the Isle of Man – all in 1’25”. (video)
Tag: 04.03.14
The Purpose Of Failure
“Since we cannot succeed simply by not failing, we should stop spending so much energy trying to avoid failure or engineer it away. Instead, we should embrace it — smartly.”
Austrian Gov’t Declines to Bail Out Bankrupt Businessman by Buying His Art Collection
Karlheinz Essl “had offered to sell his 7,000-piece collection, most of which is housed in the Essl Museum near Vienna, to raise money to inject into his struggling DIY store chain bauMax.”
Why Don’t Some Of The Biggest Hits On Cable Get (A Lot) More Press?
“Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta, the crown jewel in its flagship franchise, swelled to a network-best 4.6 million viewers in February. The current season, one of the top five nonfiction series across all of cable, skews overwhelmingly African-American, at 68 percent. “
Are We Ready For Bite-Sized Lunchtime Theatre?
“I sat next to a woman who told me she had children and normally rushed home after work, but that she liked the idea of seeing a 50-minute show in her lunch hour. Tellingly, as a result of seeing a lunchtime show she was planning to see an evening show later in the month.”
Why Are Galleries In NY and LA So Overwhelmingly Male?
“Rather than dwell on the inequity, Hebron and her collaborators turned it into art – in most cases, a poster, though there is painting, quilting and assemblage as well.”
The Dying Last Of A Breed: Peter Matthiessen, The CIA, The Paris Review, And Zen
“Born into the East Coast establishment, Matthiessen ran from it, and in the running became a novelist, a C.I.A. agent, a founder of The Paris Review, author of more than 30 books, a naturalist, an activist and a master in one of the most respected lineages in Zen.”
Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum Gets $30 Million From Boeing
The museum, one of Washington’s top tourist attractions, “will use the money to renovate its main exhibition space that serves as home to such icons of aviation as the Wright Brothers’ airplane and Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis.”
Most Britons Want Local Arts Funding to Triple (If You Read the Study That Way)
“According to the results of a new survey … 63% of residents in the UK want to see their local council budgeting at least 50p per person every week on arts, museums and heritage.” The actual figure, averaged across England’s local councils, is 16p; only three spend more than 50p.
Priscilla Morgan, One of the 20th Century’s Great Cultural Matchmakers, Dead at 94
“Known for recognizing talent and nurturing it, for making connections among artists – ‘an instinctive, intellectual switchboard,’ [one observer] wrote of her – Ms. Morgan was at various times an agent, an amanuensis, an administrator, a salon-keeper and a behind-the-scenes alchemist who helped forge creative partnerships for decades.”