More Amazon vs. Apple face-off – and more of a company “built for the future of consumption, not computing.”
Tag: 09.07.12
Choreographer Benjamin Millepied Finds Possibilities Away From NY
As the Black Swan choreographer (and partner of Natalie Portman) gears up his L.A. Dance Project, the city gives him “an unprecedented artistic freedom in which he can more fully embrace his early training in modern and African dance.”
New Print Books Control The Internet
“The physical book controls the webpage via embedded chips. When a page in the book is turned, the webpages online turn as well; tapping on graphics in the book allows readers to interact with them on screen.”
Found: A Second Photo Of Emily Dickenson
“The photo contradicts a misperception that Dickinson never left her house, when in fact she was quite social in her younger years, Kelly said. It also offers a strikingly different image from the existing photo of Dickinson as a frail, teen girl, which was taken before she began writing poetry. The newer image was taken when she was roughly 30.”
L.A. MOCA Cancels Fall Fundraising Gala
After a summer of controversy, board resignations, and an attempt to recreate unity among remaining board members, MOCA has canceled its usual fall gala (but may reschedule it at some point).
Creating The Digital Environment For A New (TV-Friendly) DIckens
Novels in the new Kindle Serials arena aren’t just cliffhanger-heavy e-books: “Authors will be able to interact with audiences as they write. They’ll read the reaction to their first segment while they’re writing their ending. They can use reactions to season one while they’re starting season two.”
Just Another Day In 1955, When Glenn Gould Was Changing Everything
“Outtakes from these sessions … suggest that in 1955 he used the studio in the opposite way: to maximize risk-taking, to push each of the short pieces that make up Bach’s ‘Goldberg’ Variations to its furthest physical, musical, spiritual extreme.”
Two Big NY Arts Institutions Go Small
“The Lincoln Center Theater and the Brooklyn Academy of Music have invested millions of dollars to fund new theater spaces for new work.”
Why Reader Reviews Matter
“The reader review – like Twitter, like Facebook – offers us the opportunity to parade our ignorance, to be uncritically fannish, or malicious without personal risk: but it doesn’t have to be that way.”
How Music Is Shapes By Its Environment
“Music doesn’t just work because of its effect on the senses; every aspect of its sound and construction has an emotional impact, right up to the way it’s distributed, even marketed, and the machines on which it’s consumed.”