“How do you give the past a human voice without betraying it or making your reader furiously impatient? Too much period flavor, and you slow up the story. ‘Nay, damsel, be not afeared,’ may be authentic, but it will make your reader giggle. If you give way to an outbreak of ‘prithee’ and ‘perchance,’ then perchance your reader will hurl the book across the room.”
Tag: 04.27.12
Edmonton Theatre Reduces Its Shows To One To Make More Impact
“So often the playwrights are just alone in the garret and [then]they’re subjected to gang dramaturgy and actors and everyone trying to fix their play. So we felt, especially on a piece like this, the design would affect the dramaturgical development of the piece.”
“Follies” Tops Drama Desk Nominations
“Unlike the Tony Awards, the Drama Desks consider productions from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway equally in each of its multiple categories.”
Hurray For Public Transportation, But Not When It Kills Galleries
“The expansion of the new Exposition Light Rail (Expo) connecting downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica means major changes to the Bergamot Station Arts Center, a 7.4-acre complex that houses 35 galleries in several metal-clad industrial buildings. An 18-year-old art space is being threatened with destruction and gallery owners worry they could be pushed out by rising rents when the new railway stop opens in 2015.”
Artists Sometimes Lie, But What Does That Mean For Art Historians?
Although Georges Braque denied that his painting Vanitas I was about death or religion, some art historians think that he was probably lying. Whom – or what – to believe?
75 Years Of Cinecittà – A History And Slideshow
“Founded by Benito Mussolini in 1937 to film propaganda, Cinecittà was the site of 300 films in its first six years. During World War II, the Germans looted the studios, and from 1945 to 1947, Cinecittà was a displaced persons camp, but in the 1950s, American production companies in need of a cheap studio turned to southeast Rome. Hits such as La Dolce Vita, Ben Hur, Roman Holiday and War and Peace were filmed there. When the production of Cleopatra ran over budget in London, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the enormous cast finished the film at Cinecittà .”
Forget E-Book Lending; Now Libraries Lend E-Readers Themselves
Lending e-readers may only hasten the e-book checkouts at libraries: “The San Francisco Public Library told Wired that if its digital lending library were counted as a single physical branch location, its monthly checkouts would rank number eight among 26 individual branches.”
Chairs (And Other Furniture) For How We Sprawl Now
“While teaching a design class at California College of the Arts several years ago, Brian Kane noticed that his students often didn’t sit. They instead draped themselves across their chairs or lounges, completely absorbed by their various electronic devices. Sealed off from the world by earphones and entranced by glowing screens, they were as likely to sprawl sideways as to sit up straight. Even in public places, many of them liked to rearrange the furniture and transform those spaces into their own customized zones for working, meeting or socializing.”
Quick! Snap A … Description? Cameras Print Text, Not Images
“Instead of producing an image, Richardson’s camera produces a printout of a description of that image. It works like a regular camera — point and click to shoot — but what’s captured in the viewfinder is sent to the anonymous workers in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program, who are paid $1.25 per image to write a brief description. When they submit their description, typically a few minutes later, the camera prints it out.”
Think Fast! – And Take Greater Risks
Results are in from “a team of Princeton scientists who thought there might be a causal relationship between the speed of a person’s thought and their willingness to embrace dangerous behavior, such as illegal drug use and unprotected sex.” The answer? Possibly yes.