“Writers of live-action features get royalties when their work is repackaged and sold. But writers of animation don’t. Their ‘ancillary profit participation,’ as it’s known, is paid in multiples of zero.” That means “live-action” writers can get rich, while writers for animation don’t. Now the animation writers want a share…
Tag: 08.20.06
NY Ballet’s All In The Family
“At New York’s two major ballet companies — City Ballet and American Ballet Theater — siblings are increasingly common…”
How About Getting Movie Fans To Pay First, Before The Movie Is Made?
The usual movie production formula is to raise the money to make it, then hope it sells enough tickets to make a profit. But Robert Greenwald has turned the formula upside down – he raised money from fans first, thn set about distributing it…
The Art Of Great Jazz
“Gone are the days when we could search in jazz dealers for those sumptuous cardboard squares that always seemed to promise so much, even if that promise was sometimes disappointed when you actually played the contents. The cult of labels has a lot to do with packaging: the yummy colour photographs in the case of Impulse and luxurious folding sleeves, the more austere Bauhaus look of Blue Note. It all comes down to shopping. And that’s something that, with the advent of iPods and downloading, is changing out of recognition.”
How Does Music Physically Affect Us?
Daniel Levitin, “who now runs the Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise at McGill University in Montreal, has immersed himself in music about as deeply as is humanly possible. He began asking scientific questions about the nature of his beloved obsession — Where does creativity come from? What goes into making a song memorable? — in the late 1980s. He began asking his peers and role models in the music business and publishing those conversations in magazines such as Billboard and Mix.”
Rumors Of A Long Lost Leonardo
“The Battle of Anghiari is the real Holy Grail of Leonardo studies: a wonderful lost object for which the search continues today. Its rediscovery would be an art-historical sensation. War was the stuff of everyday life in early 16th-century Italy, and Leonardo had plenty of opportunity to observe it: he described armed conflict as ‘the most beastly madness’.”
Read For Fun
Life is too short to be reading books you don’t like, writes Nick Hornby. So often we read books we think we ought to read. But what is the point?
Tijuana Builds An Art Culture
“While a flourishing of the visual arts has brought Tijuana a growing reputation in recent years, many of these artists struggle financially. Commercial art galleries have stepped in to fill the void, working to sell their work at home and abroad.”