“I also heard more than once that a lot of stand-ups think that nobody in the mainstream media gave a darn about their art form before it broke out, so why should they now be accommodating when they get no financial benefit? Good point.”
Tag: 04.06.16
The Largest War Ever Fought On The Internet (So Far)
“EVE Online is a massive multiplayer online game – a single environment shared by thousands of players, like World of Warcraft or Second Life – that has been in continual operation since 2003. … And in the latter half of the 2000s, those people engaged in an enormous conflict: The Great EVE War.”
This Woman Wants You To Dance Every Single Day At 3:15 PM
“[Choreographer Meg] Foley and three collaborators committed to creating an improvised dance at precisely 3:15 p.m. each day for six months, and documenting the results in writing, photos, or video. … Members of the public also are urged to do their own 3:15 dances – and document, upload, and hashtag them as part of the project.”
In An Age Of Instant Availability Of Movies, We’re Losing Some Classics
“The digital technology that was supposed to rescue the back catalogue from oblivion, restoring and preserving fragile celluloid for future generations, poses as many problems as it solves. The digital age is full of false assumptions about access and availability, and film is a fleeting medium, its materiality under more direct assault than ever before.”
Blindsight – When Your Brain Sees What You Don’t
“Blindsight offers a tantalizing hint about human consciousness. It demonstrates the difference between merely processing visual information in the brain, like in a computer, versus having a reportable conscious experience of it.”
Look, Thomas Jefferson Was Neither (Just) A Founding Father Deity Nor A Slave-Owning Monster, Say Historians
Peter S. Onuf: “Every Jefferson biography on the shelf is a polemic, one way or another, but we wanted to get beyond that.” Annette Gordon-Reed: “People read history the way we watch movies, where you have a good guy and a bad guy. What’s the point of even going to the library to do research if you already know what you think?”
Atlanta Considers Fate Of Its Breuer-Designed Library
“To suggest that a building of such architectural merit is not worthy of being preserved and reused in a new capacity is shortsighted at best and downright flippant at worst. Suffering from neglect and a rather unflattering interior renovation in the last decade or so, the building would require a commitment by the city to restore and maintain the facility.”
Why Musicians Turn To Bach In Times Of Public Trauma
“Not every composer writes music with medicinal effects. Mahler’s darker symphonies could make a bad day even worse. Yet Bach … is described by passionate advocates as music for times of modern-day crisis. Says pianist Alexandre Tharaud, “When I play Bach, my hands feel better, my body feels better, and my heart feels better.”
Panama Papers Claim Their First High-Profile Arts-World Scalp
“The Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has canceled publicity events linked to Friday’s release of his latest movie, Julieta, after reports that he and his brother, a movie producer, were named in the … leaked documents.”
Half Of Brits Don’t Want To See A Female Hamlet
“When asked about a female Hamlet, 48% did not like the idea. This contrasts with only 15% who were in favour, and 28% who were ‘neutral’. … Of the same sample, nearly a third had positive feelings about a black or minority ethnic Hamlet, compared with 20% who felt negatively about it.”