“The statistics from regulator Ofcom suggest people in the UK spend seven hours a day watching TV, surfing the net and using their mobile phones. However, the average person actually squeezes in the equivalent of nearly nine hours of media and communications by multi-tasking on several devices.”
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China: No Movie Ratings (And We’ll Still Censor)
“China said Thursday that it will not introduce a ratings system for movies any time soon and reiterated the central government’s role in the reform and development of the cultural and entertainment sectors.”
BBC Holds Competition To Diversify Talent
“BBC comedy executives have launched a competition to discover writers with ideas for multicultural sitcoms, in a bid to break the notion that the Corporation only works with white, middle class creatives.”
The 15 Most-Popular Movies Of All Time (Sort Of)
If you jkust count box office, Avatar wins, hands down. But calculating the most popular movies is a bit more complicated…
What Will Be The Next Buzzy Artwork For Trafalgar Square?
“A cake made from bricks and a big blue bird are among six artworks unveiled Thursday as finalists for a coveted place alongside Adm. Horatio Nelson in London’s Trafalgar Square.”
Opera Australia’s Revolution? Eh. You’ll Have To Wait
Opera Australia’s new artistic director, Lyndon Terracini promised new things. But “Terracini has announced a 2011 season that includes new productions of La Boheme, the American opera Of Mice and Men, The Merry Widow and Verdi’s Macbeth.”
The 1-Bit Symphony and New Horizons in Packaging
“At first glance, it looks like a CD with unusual cover art … It’s not a CD at all. It’s a simple electronic circuit glued inside a clear plastic jewel-box case, terminating in a headphone jack on the right spine. ‘It isn’t a recording,’ says Tristan Perich, the New York composer who created the device. ‘It’s a performance’.”
The Play That Brought Yeats and O’Casey Almost to Blows
When, in 1927, W.B. Yeats turned down Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie for production at the Abbey Theatre, “the drama of its rejection dominated the pages of The Irish Times for several weeks. There were leaked letters, threatened lawsuits, literary insults thrown in from both sides, and a lengthy debate about the state and future of the Abbey Theatre.”
Smuggling Suppressed Music Out of Dictatorships, Via the Internet
“Through his foundation, Impossible Music, [Austin] Dacey seeks out persecuted and muzzled musicians around the world. He then finds American counterparts to perform their work and stages live shows where the persecuted can watch the performers rescue their music, even participate a little via live Internet connection.”