“[It’s] now possible to imagine a world in which every person creates his own mental fortress and apprehends the outside world through digital arrow-slits. But is this long-standing theoretical fear becoming an actual problem in our society?” Jacob Weisberg says no.
Tag: 06.13.11
What’s New To Buy On The Web? Direct Advice From A Prize-Winning Economist, Poker Player Or Chef
“Reputation has always been another form of income, and successful people have long found innumerable creative ways to monetize their time. Now a start-up called Expert Insight is trying to make the process far easier, enabling the more famous or distinguished among us to sell their expertise by the hour, from the comfort of their homes, while dressed in their pajamas.”
Hollywood Studios Back Away From Comic-Con
“In summers past, [studios have] used Comic-Con International, the premiere convention for comic book, science fiction and fantasy fans, as a marketing platform.” This year, not so much. “Comic-Con, as a growing number of movie marketers are realizing, has turned into a treacherous place.”
Scottsboro Boys Now Recordholder For Most Tony Nominations Without A Win
The final Kander & Ebb musical “seemed to have a shot at redemption for its short-lived, six-week Broadway run when it was nominated for 12 Tony Awards … Instead, The Scottsboro Boys set a record at Sunday night’s ceremonies by becoming the most nominated show to receive no Tony Awards.” (The two runners-up are also Kander & Ebb shows.)
Should We Care About The Personal Lives Of Artists, Composers, And Writers? Yes, Says Jonathan Jones
“The fact is that art is a communication between human beings, and to imagine the author as someone who once lived a flesh-and-blood existence may be fundamental to any serious reading of it. The alternative view, that art exists in Byzantine perfection beyond anecdote, smacks of sterile pretension.”
‘Ballet Dancers Don’t Enjoy The Pain. We’re Not Masochists,’ Says Tamara Rojo
“There are injuries, like for any athlete, because we lead the lives of athletes in our daily routine, but that is not why we do it. … You do not and should not think you have to suffer for the art.”
Considering The Pseudonym (And Its Decline)
“A pseudonym may give a writer the necessary distance to speak honestly, but it can just as easily provide a license to lie. Anything is possible. It allows a writer to produce a work of ‘serious’ literature, or one that is simply a guilty pleasure. It can inspire unprecedented bursts of creativity…”
As Expected, Book Of Mormon And War Horse Dominate Tony Awards
The “smash-hit Broadway musical made out of the unlikeliest of elements – unwavering faith, jokes about AIDS and lyrics so profane that many of its songs could not be televised” won nine Tony Awards. The sold-out about a horse drafted into World War I received five statuettes.
The Vorticists (They’re A School Of Painters, Not A Rock Band)
They were a “group banded around Wyndham Lewis which exploded on the London scene with a full manifesto and magazine just before the First World War, only to become all-too-quickly subsumed by that terrible conflict and to be forgotten once it was over.”
Pittsburgh Symphony Players Agree To Contract With Pay Cut
“Pittsburgh Symphony, Inc. and orchestra members … have reached an agreement for a new three-year contract nearly three months ahead of schedule. … The agreement calls for a 9.7 percent wage cut in musicians base salary the first year” with no increase in the second year.