“Some investors have concluded that owning media stocks is too risky amid dramatic changes in how viewers consume entertainment, analysts said. Viewership changes are beginning to prompt studio chiefs to reassess how they manage their businesses and even which shows and movies get the green light.”
Tag: 08.07.15
Does Anyone Care About Blackface Makeup For Otello?
“What I think is most damaging is when there’s no discussion about it, and then you get a situation where the cover of an artistic brochure shows somebody in blackface and then the rest of us are thinking, ‘what’s going on?'” (The Met’s decision came after an outcry from some subscribers who took issue with a photo in its season brochure.)
Explosive Growth: Thousands Flock To Watch Video Game Competitions
“As many as 12,000 people descended on KeyArena this week to watch teams of professional gamers square off in the International Dota 2 tournament. At stake in Saturday’s final round is a $6.5 million prize, part of an $18 million purse, the largest in e-sports history. E-sports, as competitive video gaming is known, is big business and is now attracting the likes of Amazon and Microsoft. Increasingly, the Seattle area is a focus of the industry.”
SOOO Many Problems With Streaming Music. Ultimately They Don’t Matter
“The thing to remember when it comes to the progress of art (and to technology): Never follow the money, follow the artists. That’s where the creativity and caring lies. Streaming is no exception.”
The First Woman Member Of The New York Philharmonic Is Still Playing
“Back in 1966, when Leonard Bernstein hired Orin O’Brien to join the double bass section of the New York Philharmonic, she became the orchestra’s first woman, making history in a heretofore all-male club. (The first ever was Edna Phillips, who broke the gender barrier in 1930, when Leopold Stokowski hired her as principal harp of the Philadelphia Orchestra).”
Tate Britain Attempts To Turn Visual Art Into Multi-Sense Experience
“The exhibition features cutting edge technology, including binaural and directional audio to produce 3D sound, a perfume release system to engage the sense of smell, and state-of-the-art haptic technology to recreate the sense of touch.”
Challenge: Diagram A Donald Trump Sentence (And The Surprise Inside)
“First, I’m surprised that so much of a speech that sounds like pure blather actually does form a few coherent sentences, albeit fractured and interrupted by other thoughts. Second, If you can locate the main clauses I’m talking about, you can see, graphically, how much weight they have to bear.”
Thin Skins: Today’s College Students Can’t Take A Joke (Or Don’t Want To)
“Keeping hold of that kid for all four years has become a central obsession of the higher-ed-industrial complex. How do you do it? In part, by importing enough jesters and bards to keep him from wandering away to someplace more entertaining, taking his Pell grant and his 529 plan and his student loans with him.”