“[Karen X.] Cheng, a former Microsoft Excel employee turned dancer, ‘viral video consult,’ and Queen Latifah guest, collaborated with filmmaker Ross Ching for the trick-heavy homage to slopes. … the project was inspired by Dan Ng’s photos that ‘correct’ San Francisco’s awful angles.”
Tag: 06.16.15
Making Art Out Of California’s Great Drought
“Over the past 18 months, the photographer has documented most of San Luis Obispo County’s bodies of water, ranging from the small — Atascadero Lake and Laguna Lake in San Luis Obispo — to the sizable, such as Santa Margarita Lake, Lopez Lake east of Arroyo Grande, Nacimiento Lake northwest of Paso Robles and Whale Rock Reservoir near Cayucos.”
Vancouver Opera To Abandon Regular Season, Become Spring Festival
“The 55-year-old institution, the second-biggest opera company in the country, will no longer run a full season. Instead it will concentrate three of its four productions over three weeks in late-April and early May.”
Kansas Has Eliminated One-Fourth Of Its School Librarians
“Over the past decade, Kansas has cut 25 percent of its public school librarians. In many schools, librarians are being replaced by media clerks, who are paid hourly wages and may lack teaching credentials.”
It’s Not Fair That Playing Othello Is Now A ‘No-Go Zone’ For White Guys Like Me, Complains Leading UK Shakespearean
Steven Berkoff: “Again, one suffers the bilge of a critic who in reviewing Othello warbles happily how fortunate we are, that actors no longer black up. As if that’s all there is to playing Othello: a bit of shoe polish on your chops. … To reserve, out of the hundreds of Shakespearean characters, the role of Othello for black people only, is a form of racism in reverse and to me, particularly obnoxious.”
Conductor Walter Weller Dead At 75
“He started his career as a violinist, joining the Vienna Philharmonic (in which his father, also Walter, was a violinist) at the age of 17, and at 22 became joint concertmaster with Willi Boskovsky. … In 1977 he was appointed Principal Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and … led the Scottish National Orchestra from 1992 to ’97.”
Ralph Nader Is Opening A Museum About Lawsuits
“Officially titled the American Museum of Tort Law, the nonprofit attraction will focus on aspects of the legal system that handle wrongful actions that result in injury, otherwise known as ‘torts’.” (Unfortunately, Nader rejected the idea to have “a clock that marks time by having a life-size Pinto erupt in flames every hour, on the hour.”)
Can Your Brain Fill Up With Too Much Stuff?
“Each day you accumulate fresh memories—kissing new people, acquiring different phone numbers and (possibly) competing in pi-memorizing championships (we would root for you). With all those new adventures stacking up, you might start worrying that your brain is growing full. But, wait—is that how it works? Can your brain run out of space, like a hard drive? It depends on what kind of memory you’re talking about.”
What If You Printed All Of Wikipedia?
Everyone knows that Wikipedia is huge, but it takes the physical book — still a “cognitively useful” unit of measure, Mr. Mandiberg said — to grasp just how huge.
Photographer: Security State Making It Increasingly Difficult To Photograph In Public Places
“It seems to me, from a photographic point of view, that the public space has become privatised, with CCTV everywhere and the lone photographer increasingly unwelcome.”