“Hollywood will be destroyed and no one will notice,” Wales said. But it won’t be Wikipedia (or Encarta) that kills the moviemaking industry: “Collaborative storytelling and filmmaking will do to Hollywood what Wikipedia did to Encyclopedia Britannica,” he said.
Tag: 04.23.12
How “The Hobbit” Could Change How You See Movies (Twice As Many Images)
“Frame rates are the number of images displayed by a projector within one second. Twenty-four frames per second (fps) has long been the standard in cinema, but industry leaders James Cameron and Peter Jackson are among those who propose high frame rates such as 48 or 60, reducing or eliminating jutter and other motion artifacts.”
British Dancer Opens Ballet School In Cambodia
“Stephen Bimson, 29, who graduated from the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in 2009, is working with a granddaughter of a Cambodian princess to transform a one-bedroom flat into Cambodia’s first ballet studio.”
Obama Administration Launches Arts Education Project To Turn Around Failing Schools
“Sarah Jessica Parker, Kerry Washington and Forest Whitaker are adopting some of the nation’s worst-performing schools and pledged Monday to help the Obama administration turn them around by integrating arts education. The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities announced a new Turnaround Arts initiative as a pilot project for eight schools.”
Filmmaker Rejects Singapore’s Cuts To His Shame
“Steve McQueen has stopped his controversial film on sex addiction Shame being shown in Singapore after a row over censorship.”
Musician Fazil Say Will Leave Turkey Because It’s Hostile To Atheists
Turkey’s most famous classical pianist and composer “has said that he is going to leave his native country and move to Japan after he was placed under investigation by the Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office for ‘insulting religious values’ and offending Islamic belief. His (alleged) crime? Tweeting that he is an atheist.”
Court Quashes Final Attempt To Stop Fisk-Crystal Bridges Art-Sharing Deal
“Artist Georgia O’Keefe gave the 101-piece Stieglitz Collection to Fisk [University] in 1946 with the stipulation that it could not be sold. At issue for the last several years has been whether Fisk can accept 30 million dollars to share the art with Crystal Bridges museum in Arkansas.” The Tennessee Supreme Court has rejected the state’s attempt to block that arrangement.
Texting And E-Mail Aren’t Ruining Writing – Because They Aren’t Writing At All
John McWhorter: “Yet the brevity, improvisation and in-the-moment quality of e-mails and texts are those grand old defining qualities of spoken language. … In this sense, they are not ‘writing’ in the sense we are accustomed to. They are fingered speech.”
Charles Aznavour Cancels New York Concerts In Dispute With Producers
“Legendary French singer Charles Aznavour, who cancelled three New York shows for this week, said he was in a dispute with his producer – and not ill – in an interview Monday.” He accused the producer of breach of contract and said that “there is no reason for us to take the stage with him owing us so much money already.”
The Great Tolstoy Vs. Dostoevsky Smackdown
Eight experts – a mix of scholars and lay readers – weigh in on who’s the greater Russian novelist.