“The cold became so extreme — dropping into single digits — that she bought a used, professional-grade snowsuit on eBay; it made her look like an extra from ‘The Eiger Sanction,’ but it kept her from becoming so cold that she could no longer paint.”
Tag: 06.07.13
Is Alec Baldwin Truly Finished With Broadway?
“‘No more,’ Baldwin told Zap2it. ‘Broadway has changed. It is not what I remember. It was a very, very, very exhausting experience.'”
Painting Desperate Tales Of Struggle And Survival – On Clothing
“Wearers include doctors, health policy types and regular folks. Their jackets tell the stories not just of their work life, but of their personal experiences with health care.”
The Metafunding Of A Documentary About Kickstarter
“The film, ‘Kickstarted,’ is to chronicle the rise of this revolutionary form of financing creative projects by focusing on the people behind some of the most high-profile campaigns.” You can help fund the film on Kickstarter, of course.
London Review Of Books, Did You Know Women Write Books?
The Guardian’s latest look at who reviews and who gets reviewed reveals a newspaper world creeping toward gender equality … in most cases.
Broadway Theatres: Not The Most Nimble Of Spaces (With Serious Consequences)
“Even once a show’s financing looks solid, and a star and a theater are lined up, it takes time to construct sets, retrofit the theater and finish the creative work on the script or score — often a few months for a play and twice as long for big musicals. So when one show flops, and a theater becomes available, few if any shows are ready to fill the void.”
The ‘Bad’ Cover: Where Classical And Pop Cross Paths
“The differences between a performance of the same work by the New York Philharmonic as compared to the London Symphony Orchestra can be tantamount to Nirvana’s cover of ‘The Man Who Sold the World’ versus David Bowie’s original.”
So, How *Was* That ‘Red Wedding’ Episode Filmed? [Major Spoilers In Article]
“‘I wanted then to move into unusually bright light, by Game of Thrones’ standards, for the feast,’ McLachlan said. ‘I had the art department add a great deal more candlesticks and torches than they wanted.'”
Stuck On The Tarmac? Better Hope Philly Orchestra Musicians Are On Your Flight
“Passengers on a flight from Beijing to Macau … had been sitting on the tarmac for three hours when a quartet of musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra pulled out their instruments and provided what they called on YouTube a ‘pop up’ performance.”
Harvard Doesn’t Understand Historical Stats: The Humanities Are NOT Dying
“Compared to the massive changes in the American university since the Second World War, it’s the resilience of the humanities that should be surprising.”