“As I try to approach many of the stories I have in my drawers, I find they are all rejecting me. … In the last six months I’ve gone back to six different screenplays and started working on them and I stopped. I dropped them. This is something quite unheard of for me, but no film for me is worth being made now.”
Tag: 04.12.13
National Dance Company Wales Suspends Co-Founder
“The organisation says Roy Campbell-Moore has been suspended from his post as artistic associate following a complaint by other members of staff.” The nature of the complaint has not yet been made public.
Theatre As Community-Based Development In Rural India
“Rather than arriving with a paternalist message to preach,” Community-Based Theatre “invites villages to determine what their primary problem is, and then to write and perform a play that illustrates it. … ‘It is not about the problems of the NGOs. People are working for their own rights, in their own way’.”
Jon Stewart Catches On In China
“Jon Stewart has decided, as he put it this week, that he might be working the wrong continent. In a segment called ‘Big Ratings in Giant China,’ Stewart expounded on his recent discovery that he is racking up millions of hits, and thousands of favorable comments, from Chinese viewers, who see the show in scattered subtitled clips posted on Chinese sites.”
Why Are We Paying For Specialty Cable Channels We Don’t Use?
“This is known as doing nothing. And yet people pay money to subscribe to Book Television. Most subscribers probably have no idea they’re paying to get it, because it is bundled with other channels they want to see. This is known as getting money for doing nothing.”
How To Manage Your Online Life… After You’re Dead
“Google rolled out a new feature called “Inactive Account Manager,” which seems an overly sterile way to describe a system designed to manage the accounts of dead people/”
An Ambitious $300 Million Museum For Film
The architectural centerpiece of the 290,000-square-foot complex, just west of the campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, would be a giant glass-enclosed dome, which Piano refers to as the “sphere” and the “soap bubble.”
Brain Scans Reveal How Much You’d Pay For Music
“Study participants browsed through 60 songs they had never heard before and were encouraged to use their own money to acquire the ones they wanted. Participants underwent MRI scans as they perused the music selection and specified how much they were willing to spend on each song. Music was available for free, 99 cents, $1.29 or $2.”
Universities Opt Out Of Copyright Royalties Service After Big Fee Hike
“Some universities no longer feel the need to pay for the services of Access Copyright which has provided a pool of protected intellectual work for almost two decades while distributing royalties to the writers, artists and publishers it represents.”
Can You Distance Political Ideology From Architecture?
“I think it is really great architecture. You take off the swastikas, and you can admire it without feeling guilty.”