“Analyzing vast amounts of information puts the commodity of data in a whole new context and infuses it with new meaning: new information is created and benefits not only big business but also society and individual customers. Provided that we are willing to accept its utility – in both material and immaterial respects -, data can help us solve many problems.”
Tag: 08.22.13
K-Flicks: Korean Cinema Begins Making It Big In The West
“Twenty years ago, South Korean directors dealt with heavy-handed state censorship and worked under protectionist laws, insulating local artists from American competition. But an economic boom in the late 1990s fired up a generation of directors who, like the Hong Kong and Japanese filmmakers before them, have built up global recognition.” GlobalPost introduces four of them.
Why Are We Afraid Of Free Time?
“An unquenchable passion for work might be a panic-stricken way of concealing the fear of a lack of passion for life itself. If you are what you do, what are you when you stop doing it and you still are?”
Portland Police Force Mural Artist To Paint Over His Own Work
An Oakland artist (and the owners of the buildings where he painted) missed the info on Portland, Ore.’s “mural permit,” so police order him to paint over two large pieces.
Opera Gets A Creative Infusion Of Rock
“Opera, indeed, has a lot to gain if some of the best musicians in other fields bring their creative focuses to bear on it — not because they represent new audiences or potential commercial windfalls, but because some of them bring interesting perspectives.”
Patrick Stewart And Ian McKellen Talk About Performing On The Stage
“Stewart recalled that in the early days of his “Star Trek” series, when he was in denial about his newfound television success and living above a garage in Hancock Park, he started creating one-person shows to perform on weekends on college campuses in California, so terrified was he of losing his confidence in performing before a live audience.”
Why I Hate Museums
“I can’t claim to have the answers, but I do know I expect a sense of traveling back in time when I visit a museum, of feeling like I was there while these things lived or were used, of feeling the ghosts of the past grab me by the hand and walk me around. Instead I get a sense of a classroom made of cold granite, the only sense of life emerging from the tourists.”
Grantmakers’ Janet Brown Responds To NYT Op-Ed On Charitable Giving
I was appalled by Mr. Singer’s use of a museum as an example of “bad charity.”
Malcolm Gladwell Defends His 10,000-Hour Rule
“People are jumping ship from the 10,000-hour rule, including prominent economist Peter Orszag over at Bloomberg News and former professional cyclist Richard Moore for The Guardian.”
Did MinnOrch Management Plan Lockout? Hints In Domain-Name Controversy
About four months before talks broke down, the Minnesota Orchestra Association bought up more than a dozen URLs such as www.saveourminnesotaorchestra.org, www.savetheminnesotaorchetra.com, and www.saveourorchestra.com. What does – or doesn’t – this imply?