“Nearly every image is original: either a graphic created in-house, a photograph taken in-house, or an image so manipulated by Photoshop as to not represent any real event that has ever happened. The tiny graphics team at The Onion pumps out about 50 original pieces of art per week.”
Tag: 08.22.14
A Director’s Medium: It’s Not Just The Writers Who Make This A Golden Age Of TV
“The prevailing sentiment is that TV is a writer’s medium, and film is a director’s medium. … But that doesn’t mean TV can’t be a director’s medium, too – many ‘golden age’ shows have also had fantastic directing. In fact, many respected movie directors are taking notice and flocking to the small screen.”
Harvey Weinstein Feuds With NY Post Columnist Over “Finding Neverland” Musical
Post theater columnist Michael Riedel, based on two reviews of the pre-Broadway run in Cambridge, Mass., pronounced the show “dead in the water” and said of the critics that “if you’re going to review the baby in the cradle, strangle it.” One of those critics, Jeremy Gerard, reports on the brouhaha and Weinstein’s predictable response.
No Copyright For Works Not Created By Humans, Says U.S. Copyright Office
“Marking an end to the controversy surrounding the ‘monkey selfie,’ a self-portrait snapped by a particularly photogenic macaque in Indonesia in 2011, the US Copyright Office” has ruled that it “will register an original work of authorship, provided that the work was created by a human being … the Office will not register works produced by nature, animals, or plants.”
Zaha Hadid Sues Critic For Defamation
“Zaha Hadid has filed a law suit against the New York Review of Books and architecture critic Martin Filler … claiming that Filler had falsely implied that she did not care about the working conditions of migrant workers on her projects in the Middle East.”
Google Wins Dismissal Of German Publishers’ Suit
“A German regulator handed Google Inc a victory on Friday as it said it would not pursue a complaint brought against the internet search engine operator by a group of publishers for giving users access to their news articles.”
The Real Editors And Gatekeepers Of The Internet
“In a small number of Silicon Valley conference rooms, decisions are being made about what people should and shouldn’t see online – without the accountability or culture that has long accompanied that responsibility.”
Chautauqua Symphony Mourns Murdered Violinist
“For eight weeks every summer, Mary Whitaker, 61, would come to the Chautauqua Institute to play violin with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. Whitaker was a regular for the past 36 years.”
The Art Thief Who’s Turned Into An Online Art World Sensation
Turbo Paul: “When it comes to negotiating the recovery of stolen art, the bad guys want to deal and tell the truth, the so-called good guys lie and prevaricate.”
You Have No Excuse: More (And More And More) Ballet On The Internet
“The quantity of ballet performance history currently available to us on YouTube alone is staggering. No ballet illustrates this better than ‘Giselle.'”