“This is a piece called … and darkness descended, the latest project from immersive theatre pioneers Punchdrunk. Collaborating with PlayStation for the upcoming release of Resistance 3, Sony’s flagship sci-fi horror series, the company has created a terrifying and brilliantly authentic-feeling world beneath the railway arches at Waterloo station.”
Tag: 09.02.11
Is Addiction Efficient – Neurologically Speaking?
“The world itself is nothing but a source of activation of the brain’s chemical keyboard. So the addict — in a way — has the right idea: to hell with the world, I’ll turn my gaze inward and use drugs or other behaviors to play the keyboard of my brain myself!”
They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That Anymore: Admiring The Dancing In Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
Wendy Perron stumbles across the 1954 Hollywood western-musical on cable television and marvels anew at the choreography and the cast.
First Look At Montreal Symphony’s New Home
“The promise of better acoustics is the whole raison d’être for l’Adresse symphonique, the first cultural building to be raised under the province’s recent legislation governing private-public partnerships. Everything outside the auditorium – backstage and front-of-house areas, foyers and delivery spaces – have been fit into a tight footprint at Place des Arts, with not much in the way of optional amenities.”
Argh, Copyright. It’s Getting Nasty!
“The battle is bitter and widening; increasingly, it engulfs large middle-class groups, with differing economic interests, who fight about access to education and a creator’s right to get paid. A battle that used to be waged by record labels against 12-year-olds now pits writers, artists and publishers against university professors and librarians.”
Stripping Irish Dance Bare
Though Breandán de Gallaí did manage to win the All-Ireland championship, he “had a streak of originality that did not endear him to the judges monitoring the orthodoxy of Irish dance competitions … his long hair and flashy leg beats raised disapproving eyebrows.” His and others’ struggles with the genre’s conformity have led him to create a work titled Noctú (Irish for “bare” or “stripped”).
Satirical Dutch Reality TV Show Has Competition For Asylum Seekers
“The nation that brought the television world Big Brother and a hoax game show with a donor kidney prize has now pitted five young rejected asylum seekers” – real ones, not actors – “against one another to compete for €4,000 ($5,600) for when they are kicked out of the country.”
The Five Craziest Things People Used To Believe About The Sun
Author Bob Berman gives the list, and some of them are pretty crazy.
That Rumored Amazon Tablet? It’s Real, And Shipping For Christmas
The rumored tablet might change everything about e-book, music and video purchasing … and it’s no longer just a rumor: The Amazon Kindle will go head to head with Apple’s iPad and the Barnes & Noble Nook Color. And it’s cheap.
Old Media: Don’t Touch That Dial! Viewers: I’m Tweeting That.
“Forty-four percent of respondents said they stream TV shows online more than once per week.” But networks are pushing back — hard. What does the future hold?