For that matter, what is a minute, really? Newton “believed that time was absolute – marked by God’s great metronome in the sky. It was certainly not subjective.” Einstein once wrote, “People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” And then there’s David Lamelas’s conceptual piece Time.
Tag: 08.07.14
Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.07.14
The Future Of Art Book Publishing Is Here
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-08-08
Creativity and “Powers of Two”
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-08-07
Sir Alan Peacock
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-08-07
My Night with Reg, La Ronde and the Daisy-Chain Plot
AJBlog: Plain English | Published 2014-08-07
Ystad Concerts: Korb And Lundgren
AJBlog: RiffTides | Published 2014-08-07
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250 Years Of Fussing About English Grammar, Hopefully (Ahem) Gathered Into One Database
“There’s a lot of advice about English usage that we largely take for granted, from split infinitives to dangling participles, but where did anyone get these ideas in the first place?” Linguist Robin Straaijer writes about his Hyper Usage Guide of English (HUGE)database project, using as an example the hopefully wars, which (like so many culture wars) has been fought since the ’60s.
Louisville Orchestra, Near Death Not Long Ago, Is Back In The Black
“The Louisville Orchestra is reporting a $20,000 budget surplus – the first time it has been in the black since it filed for bankruptcy nearly four years ago.”
Nashville Ballet Announces Major Expansion Project
“The Nashville Ballet is embarking on an unprecedented public fundraising campaign to finance an expansion project to grow studio space, renovate its Sylvan Heights headquarters and dramatically increase the number of students.” The campaign, called ELEVATE, “has already raised $3.7 million out of its goal of $5.5 million.”
Study: Brits Now Spend More Time On Technology Than They Do Sleeping
“Communications regulator Ofcom said UK adults spend an average of eight hours and 41 minutes a day on media devices, compared with the average night’s sleep of eight hours and 21 minutes.”
Meet Rob Ford, The Musical
“The 90-minute show has 10 original tunes and sees a “spiritual guide” leading Ford through the past year of his tumultuous life — including his admitted drug use and stint in rehab.”
The Met Opera Debacle – Voices From The Inside
“What he’s asking us to do,” Karen says, “is to think of these cuts as an investment in the Met, but to be a smart investor you have to have some faith in management and we just don’t have that.”
Classifying Music By Genres Seems So… Yesterday (And Yet)
“So with the internet letting us hear just about any music and see any musician any time we want, for a comparatively low cost of entry, in theory it could provide an ideal opportunity to get rid of genres. Unfortunately, one thing technology can’t do is make the day longer than 24 hours. There’s more information, and more music, more easily accessible to more people than ever before, but no one actually has time to read or listen to more than a fraction of it. So we still must rely on gatekeepers and sorting mechanisms, one of which is musical genre, and radio, retail, presenters, and media all continue to categorize music according to whether it is rock, pop, hip-hop, country, R&B, classical, blues, folk, jazz, and so on.”
Five Worst Book Covers Of All Time
What were they thinking? There are many ill-conceived covers of course, but these five seem to miss out altogether the point of the books they’re fronting.