“Mr. Skinner never asked to become part of rock ‘n’ roll lore. He didn’t even like rock ‘n’ roll. He was just a by-the-book gym teacher … who, in the late 1960s, sent some students to the principal’s office because their hair was too long.” One of those students went on to found Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Tag: 09.20.10
Dancing About Garbage on the Beach
At Coney Island this weekend, “[clad] in costumes crafted from plastic six-pack rings … six dancers will map the journey of trash as it leaves human hands and makes its way to the ocean.”
‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game,’ The Opera Remake
As part of the lead-up to its annual simulcast in Nationals Park, Washington National Opera “held a baseball-related contest, challenging all comers to write new, opera-themed lyrics to ‘Take me out to the ball game.’ This yielded more than 40 entries, many of them strikingly funny.”
Stevie Wonder Appeals For Easing Of Copyright For Blind
The blind singer told the U.N.’s 184-nation World Intellectual Property Organization that more than 300 million people who “live in the dark” want to “read their way into light,” and the current copyright system denies them an equal opportunity.
2010 Giller Prize Long List Revealed
“The jury, which included CBC host Michael Enright, American writer Claire Messud and British author Ali Smith, trolled through 98 books and selected 13 titles.”
Who Is The World’s Number One Writer? (Is There One?)
“There is always something a little bit canine about the literary world: there has to be a top dog. And there are different, even competing, kennels.”
Cameron MackIntosh: Theatre Funding Cuts Can Make You More Creative
“The commercial and subsidised theatre are intrinsically linked. I wouldn’t have had the career I have had without the opportunities I had through the subsidised sector. However, I do think, in any walk of life, subsidy for the sake of subsidy is not always healthy. Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative.”
So Can Video Games Be Art?
“They certainly incorporate many artistic elements: painting, architecture, music, sculpture, acting, writing, animation and dance. The games that feel more like art tend to have qualities in common.”
Guggenheim Curates First YouTube Biennial
”YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video,” is the first curated search for videos of a higher brow on the popular Google Inc.-owned website. From among more than 23,000 submissions from 91 countries, 125 videos were shortlisted for the inaugural biennial.
Theatre’s Baby Boom
“American theater is having a baby boom. After rising in popularity in Europe in recent years, sophisticated stage plays targeted to children as young as 12 months are increasingly being produced in the U.S.”