It is the province of cartoons and the often-bumbling bad guys in ridiculous capers, those who have no idea that they are displaying the most suspicious form of motion perhaps ever taken. The Pink Panther is the king of slink. So, too, it seems, is one improbably successful thief who stole a Banksy piece, “Trolley Hunters,” from a temporary gallery space in Toronto on Sunday, June 10 at 5:04 in the morning.
Tag: 06.23.18
This ‘Game Of Thrones’ Armourer Has More Than One Catapult To Look After
Natalia Lee is the only woman armourer on the Game of Thrones set – something she’s used to. She made the Heartsbane Sword, aka the big one that (spoiler alert) Sam stole from his dad to take into future battle. Lee “has kept an eye out for young women on set, saying: ‘If it’s a stand-in or stuntwoman, I’ll always reach out and talk to them, I know how it is. Some days I’m the only woman in a male environment of thousands of men. I know it can be uncomfortable.'”
Novelists Are Mining Their Own Lives For Fiction, Which Might Kill The Novel
OK, that’s a ridiculous claim. But: “In the perpetual present of social media, when personal presentation, on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, is everything, these autofictions offer an alternative, experimental narrative of self. They are attempts to reshape and repurpose a literary form.”
The Vandalism Vs. Art Debate Flares Up In England After Three Taggers Are Killed By A Train
A former Transport for London board member tweeted that the young men were “common scum and criminals,” while “at Loughborough Junction station – the stop closest to where the three died – graffiti writers were among the mourners who have contributed to a shrine, with spray cans nestled among bouquets, and messages sprayed on the wall.”
The Grim Tradition Of Turkish Writers And Journalists Having To Publish From Behind Bars
Wow: “‘There’s a saying in Turkey: if you want to be a writer, you need to go to prison’ says PEN International board member Burhan Sönmez. ‘Everybody repeats it. It’s a good joke, but still a fact for our generation.'”
Art In The ‘New Black Gothic’
Think Jesmyn Ward – and Daniel Glover, and the film Get Out. “This black Gothic revival includes tropes of darkness, madness, ghosts, and isolation that combine to create unease and evoke fear and terror.”
How Did The British ‘Now That’s What I Call Music’ Album Become A Bestselling Empire Of Pop Music Anthologies?
First come the songs, usually on memory sticks. Then the number crunching, via iPad and a lot of data. Then the vague predictions – and voilà! A child of 9 or 10 years old gets her first “Now,” as they’re known in Britain, and an addiction is born. “Nows tend to land at a particular moment in your young listening life. Some time after the realisation that the pop playing on the radio and out of Chinese restaurant speakers isn’t all indistinguishable mulch, but some time before you learn what albums really are and turn obsessive about track arrangement and liner notes.”
The Fix Is In: Corruption At The Big International Music Competitions
Imagine the following scenario. A teacher in a German Musikhochschule is offered a paid week in a sunny resort. All she has to do is listen to hopefuls for a few hours a day and pick a winner from a list of students of the professor who invited her. If she plays ball, the chairman might let one of her pupils take the fourth prize. The rewards would swiftly follow. As a teacher of an international prize-winner, our anonymous friend might then be able to double her private fees and promise all future students that they will have prizes.