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Tag: 04.30.13
More Bolshoi Ballet Drama As Former Star’s House Gets Burgled
“Robbers stole two safes and attacked the domestic help at the home of former Bolshoi ballerina Anastasia Volochkova in northern Moscow.” .
Why Other People’s Cell Phone Conversations Drive Us Nuts: It’s Hard-Wired
“There’s a great deal of psychological evidence showing that people find cell phone conversations particularly more annoying than general conversations or ambient noise … because our brains expend a lot of energy trying to guess what words will come next.”
Baz Luhrmann Completes Great Gatsby Via Skype
“Having blown his budget and his schedule, Luhrmann was bunkered down in an editing suite in New York late last year while secret final reshoots wrapped up in Sydney. He used Skype to monitor the set.”
Street Art Of Sid Vicious Violates Copyright, Says Judge
“The Los Angeles-based street artist Thierry Guetta, better known as Mr Brainwash, has lost a copyright case involving a 1977 photograph of the punk rock musician Sid Vicious shot by the British photographer Dennis Morris. Guetta had claimed that the seven works he created using Morris’s black and white photograph … were sufficiently altered to be protected by the fair use defence.”
Pornography Gets Its Own Academic Journal
It had to happen sooner or later. “Porn Studies, to be published by Routledge starting in 2014, is described as ‘the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as pornographic and their cultural, economic, historical, institutional, legal and social contexts.”
This Year’s Tony Nominations
“The revival of “Golden Boy” had the most nominations of any play, 8, with the new Tom Hanks play “Lucky Guy” close behind with 6 nominations.”
China Gives Algeria A 1,400-Seat Opera House
“The Algerian government provided the land for the opera house, which will be the first in the Algerian capital, but not everyone is pleased with the development.”
How Technology Is Changing The Art Of Typography
“The last decade has been challenging for type designers. The print world is shrinking, but technical limitations prevented web designers from fully exercising their typographic skills. Now, however, the growing popularity of the “@font-face” tag that became formalized in the CSS3 specifications is reinvigorating typography on the web by allowing a diverse range of unique but high-quality fonts to be called onto a page from an external foundry.”
Summers Aren’t For Rerun TV Anymore
“The old model of running new material from September to May and then airing repeats and an occasional special in the summer is defunct. As is the model of airing new material from September to May and then airing new reality TV in the summer. So many channels, so many choices have undermined that model.”