Law professor Robert Benson – part of the panel that gave Gehry his first major, attention-getting commission – considers how playfulness figured in the architect’s creative breakthroughs.
Tag: 04.30.11
Creating Mark Morris’s L’Allegro (It Was Hard On The Dancers)
Original cast member June Omura: “Mark knew the music so well that his choreography came out faster than most human beings could put up with. If you lost your concentration for a second, you were called out.” (Morris says only, “It was very difficult to make, both for me and my company.”)
Where Psychology Meets Building Design
“Recently, scientists have begun to focus on how architecture and design can influence our moods, thoughts and health. They’ve discovered that everything – from the quality of a view to the height of a ceiling, from the wall color to the furniture – shapes how we think.”
The Royal Ballet’s In-House Sports Psychologist
“For nearly 20 years, [Britt Tajet-Foxell] has been the Royal Ballet’s resident psychologist, working alongside its physiotherapists, masseurs and body-control experts to unlock fears, inhibitions, phobias and fixations and lead dancers to realise their full potential.”
Why a Good Film Script Is Like a Thong Bikini
Katie Wech: “”In screenwriting, you have to cover a lot of ground with very few words … Instead of spending a half page describing a character, I have to do it in a sentence. And it better be a good sentence, specific and vivid enough to help everyone from a casting director to a costume designer bring that person to life.”
Twitter Feeds Of Dead Authors
“What would Flannery O’Connor have sounded like if she’d had a Twitter feed? Or Charles Dickens? Or Shakespeare? The writers themselves may no longer be with us, but clever fans are impersonating them on Twitter.”
On The Brink Of Redefining The Movie Experience?
“It seems as if we really are on the brink of a major change in how we experience film. Judging by recent comments by two notable producers/distributors, Harvey Weinstein of The Weinstein Co. and Christine Vachon of Killer Films, we should all brace ourselves for a fast-approaching world beyond the theatrical release model that has defined cinema for much of its existence.”
Is A Music Download A Sale Or A License? (It Matters Big Time)
“A normal record deal today would usually give an artist 12-20% of revenue from sales depending on how successful they are at the point of signing (only the bigger artists get anything close to 20%). But if a song is licensed to be played in, say, a TV show or a film, they receive 50% of revenue.”
With Rise Of E-Books, A Rise In Product Placement?
“This brave new world of publishing has been heralded by the release of a new e-book reader by Amazon, in which adverts are automatically embedded in the text of novels. Harry Hurt’s innovation was to incorporate the adverts within the original text, but even this is not an entirely new departure.”
Cultural Prosperity Through The Arts – A Difficult Alchemy
“What is it that makes a neighborhood, or for that matter a whole city, come together at a certain moment, culturally speaking? Why was SoHo in its early days vibrant and special in ways that, despite the art world’s current money and hype, seem so hard to come by now?”