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Tag: 06.14.12
Do These Cave Paintings Pre-Date Homo Sapiens?
“A series of cave paintings in Spain are thousands of years older than scientists realized, raising speculation – but no proof – that Neanderthals could have been the earliest wall artists in Europe.”
Bengali Musician Sues London Local Council Over Humiliating Cross-Language Misprint
Abdul Shahid, a busy, internationally traveled violinist, claims that his career and life have been ruined after the Tower Hamlets council circulated a brochure for an Indian music fair with Shahid’s first named printed as Bal (which means “pubic hair” in Bengali).
Rehearsing Robot Realness: A New Trailer For Pilobolus’s Automaton
A new video showing preparations for the company’s new collaboration with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, which is “described as a cyborg of a dance that takes place in a mirrored world somewhere between Tron and Metropolis.”
Becoming A Brooklyn Power Couple, By Way Of An Open Relationship (Of Course)
“Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones were not thinking about the most efficient way to jump-start their careers when they decided, back in 2006, to have an open relationship. Less than happy but still in love, the couple, who met as students eight years ago at the Tisch School of the Arts at N.Y.U., were merely searching for a way, in effect, to break up without fully breaking up.” Then they made Breaking Upwards, and everything changed.
We’re Really Very Sorry About That Bad Joke About George W. Bush’s Head
Game of Thrones producers “Benioff and Weiss apologized in their own statement, explaining that they rent prosthetic body parts in bulk and that, after the scene was shot, someone pointed out the head’s resemblance to Bush.”
Oregon Symphony’s Executive Director Resigns
Elaine Calder “leaves the Oregon Symphony in better financial shape than when she arrived in 2006. For the past three years, the orchestra has ended the fiscal year with a small surplus. When she came, it faced a $1.6 million deficit and had long-term debt of $7.2 million. ‘Privately, we were talking to bankruptcy lawyers,’ she said. ‘It looked really, really dark.'”
Hey Newspapers (And Other Content Creators): Twitter Loves You!
“For media firms, an app pact with Facebook is Faustian by nature: it may achieve virality, but it involves letting Facebook keep their customers within the confines of its walled garden. There’s a whiff of desperation about the whole idea, like record companies trying to mitigate declining sales by giving up control to Apple. Twitter, on the other hand, is all about links to the rest to the web.”
One Guy (And His 500 Workers) In India, Hammering Out Chain Mail For Hollywood
Rai “recently traveled to the Kaiserburg Museum in Nuremberg, Germany, to study the kind of metalwork detail that went into making suits of armor. For a recent order of World War II helmets, he ensured the leather liners were stamped with numbers used by the original manufacturers. That kind of effort, he says, helps protect his business from competition. ‘This is painstaking, labor-intensive work. There’s a lot of research that has gone into our inventory, and that’s not easy to replicate,’ he said.”
Getting Britain’s Three National Dance Companies Together For An Olympics Programme
“The logistics involved in staging and touring a show with just one of these companies is difficult enough, but when English National Ballet, National Dance Company Wales and Scottish Ballet hit the road together, it takes some serious planning.”