“Anyone who’s been to a festival can recognise an archetypal attendee. But what if the festival itself were a person?”
Tag: 05.19.15
Data’s In: Are Song Lyrics Getting Dumber?
“Conducted by data analyst Andrew Powell-Morse, the study looked into 225 songs that have topped pop, country, rock and R&B/hip-hop Billboard charts for three weeks or more. “I turned to the Readability Score,” said Powell-Morse, who used writing-analysis tools such as the Flesch-Kincaid index, a readability test to measure reading difficulty, to determine the average reading level of a section of text.”
Tired Of Having Your Favorite TV Show, Movie Or Book Ruined By Spoilers? Now There’s An App For That
“Spoiler Shield comes as a Chrome extension and an app for iOS and Android. It creates a special version of your Facebook and Twitter feeds with all of the annoying spoilers removed.”
Finally – A Picture Of Shakespeare? (Experts Are “Deeply Unconvinced”)
“I can’t imagine any reason why Shakespeare would be in a botany textbook,’ he said, adding: “I don’t think very many people are going to take this seriously.”
Cannes Film Festival Stops Women Not Wearing High Heels From Walking The Red Carpet
A number of women in their 50s, some reportedly with medical conditions, were denied access to the showing of Todd Haynes’ entry Carol on Sunday night, according to Screen magazine.
Report: Cartoonists Worldwide Under Threat
“I don’t think very many Americans understand that a cartoonist in our midst has had to enter what is effectively a version of the F.B.I.’s witness protection program,” Robert Russell, the executive director of Cartoonists Rights Network International, said in the report.
A First: Artist To Be Depicted On English Currency (And Public Will Vote On Who)
“Speaking at the Victoria and Albert museum here on Tuesday, Mark Carney, the governor of the bank, said that artists, sculptors, ceramicists, craftsmen, designers, architects and filmmakers are eligible as long as they are not alive or fictional.”
Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center Is Now A Financial Success (But Has It Lost The Point For Why It Exists?)
“In short, by becoming more commercial, the Kimmel has adopted a business model that underwrites the rents of its resident companies by presenting less art and more popular entertainment. Thus, it leans more lightly on philanthropy, which pleases the overtaxed donor community. The benefits are real.” But…