“When I tell people that I make shows for babies, and that the youngest audience member for Replay’s work was just four days old, they often look incredulous. The look is swiftly followed by a lot of questions: ‘How does that work?’ ‘What’s the point?’ And, most of all, ‘But they’re not going to remember!’ Here’s the thing. They are.”
Tag: 09.22.15
Annotation Nation – More And More We Feel The Need To Explain (In The Margins)
“In recent years, more and more of us are reading annotated editions of our favorite books—The Annotated Wuthering Heights, The Annotated Lolita, The Annotated Anne of Green Gables—as well as posting on sites like Genius.com, which claims to host more than a million annotated texts, and sharing notes and highlights on Kindle. Never before has there been so much activity in the margins of culture.”
What’s Wrong With The Music Business: 178 Million Streams For “All About The Bass” Earned What???
“That was the real issue for us, like 1 million streams equals $90. For a song like ‘All About That Bass,’ that I wrote, which had 178 million streams. I mean $5,679? That’s my share. That’s as big a song as a songwriter can have in their career and No. 1 in 78 countries. But you’re making $5,600. How do you feed your family?”
How Does Creativity Spread? Networks, Connections, Influence
The truth is life is not fair. For creative work to spread, you need more than talent. You have to get exposure to the right networks. And as unfair as that may seem, it’s the way the world has always worked.
Should A Monkey Own Copyright For A Selfie It Took? PETA Says Yes, And Sues On The Monkey’s Behalf
“The suit was filed Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. It seeks a court order allowing PETA to administer all proceeds from the photos for the benefit of the monkey, which it identified as 6-year-old Naruto, and other crested macaques living in a reserve on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.”
‘Wouldn’t It Be Incredible To Meet Someone Who Experienced Having Quentin Tarantino As A Clerk?’ In Praise Of The (Vanishing) Video Store:
“Brooklyn-based journalist Tom Roston did not want the video store to die unmourned. He spoke to filmmakers – Darren Aronofsky, Allison Anders, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, Nicole Holofcener – and others about what mattered about these places. Some of these directors spent years working behind the counter.”
France Tries To Enforce ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ On Google Worldwide, Not Just Google.fr
“On Monday France’s data-privacy agency ordered Google to delist certain links (that is, remove them from search results) everywhere it operates and in every service it offers” whenever anyone asks for them to be removed under French law. “It’s unlikely that even Louis XIV thought French regulatory authority should stretch so far.”
French Ideas And Philosophy Once Enthralled The Western World. No More. What Happened?
Sudhir Hazareesingh suggests that some of the French habits of thought that made its great minds so influential from the Enlightenment through the 1960s contained the seeds of their own decline.
Rare 1915 Films Show Rodin, Monet, Renoir, and Degas in Their Twilight Years
“In 1915, with the newly innovated film camera, a young Russian-born, French actor named Sacha Guitry captured some of France’s greatest artists and authors. His footage of Auguste Rodin, Claude Monet, Edgar Dégas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and other luminaries in their twilight years appeared in his first cinematic work, a 22-minute silent film called Ceux de Chez Nous (Those of Our Land).”
Leadership Through The Lens Of Dance
The Women in Dance Leadership Conference will feature speakers with varied backgrounds, including dance but also business, medicine, higher education and technology. “It’s using dance as a vehicle because of my profession, but I also wanted to touch base (in other fields) and how that aspect and those professions are being impacted.” Many observers tend to think of dance as a female-centric profession, Parks said, but those in leadership positions are about 70 percent male.