“With just 34 foreign imports allowed to compete for China’s rapidly expanding cinema market in any given year, … drastic acts of appeasement are becoming commonplace.”
Tag: 05.03.13
Sharing Your Space With Many Others, Working Alone
“This was supposed to be the age of the mobile (a k a nonexistent) office, with ‘solopreneurs’ telecommuting from home or the beach in elastic-waist pants. But many who work independently are discovering alienation lurking behind the home-office fantasy.”
The Silent-Film Roots Of A Century Of Bollywood
The film “features scenes of grand palaces, elaborate costumes, and dancing courtesans that seem to appear out of thin air — early glimpses of Bollywood-style storytelling that’s now world-renowned.”
The Met Will Return Statues To Cambodia
“The decision — one of the more significant in a recent spate of controversial repatriations by American museums — came after the Cambodians offered evidence that the works had been improperly removed from the Koh Ker temple complex.”
Literary Translators Are In Demand – And The Internet May Provide The Supply
“Literary translators have to understand the cultural underpinnings of both languages and they have to elicit the author’s voice, intended meaning, melody, rhythm, and sensibility. They have to understand the intricacies of place and time as well — and all this often requires research and travel and a kind of intimacy with the author.”
Karl Marx, Garden Gnome(s)
“In honor of Karl Marx’s 195th birthday, Hörl has spread out 500 plastic figurines of the famous thinker in Trier, the western German city near the border with Luxembourg where Marx was born.”
Library Of Congress Gets Stuck In Sequester Molasses
“The office contributed more than 636,000 copies of books, serial publications, motion pictures, sound recordings, printed music and other creative works to the library’s collection last year; the average annual value of newly copyrighted works is $30 million.”
One-Upping Instagram With A Camera That Records Everything
“The Memoto camera can be clipped to your clothing or worn on a chain around your neck. There is no shutter release, no display and no on-off button. The camera simply takes a picture automatically every 30 seconds, which comes to 120 pictures an hour or 2,880 a day.”
Mike Gray, 77, Writer of ‘The China Syndrome’
“Filming the violence during the Democratic National Convention in 1968 changed the course of his life. Before that, he said, he had defined himself as a Goldwater Republican; afterward he was angry at the status quo.”
Writers Sue Self-Publisher
“Defendants have marketed themselves as an independent publisher with a reputation for outstanding quality and impressive book sales. Instead, Defendants are not an independent publisher, but a print-on-demand vanity press.”