“Buzkashi Boys is the story of two young boys in Kabul who dream of playing buzkashi, the Afghan national sport in which horseback riders compete for possession of a headless goat. … [The movie] has provided a rare opportunity for a narrative, fictional film shot in Afghanistan to reach an international audience and has invigorated the tiny Afghan film industry.”
Tag: 10.04.12
Not Creativity, Recreativity (Is There Really Nothing New Under The Sun?)
“[An] emerging movement of critics, theorists, writers, and artists argue that techniques of appropriation and quotation are inherent to the creative process. Not only are the concepts of originality and innovation obsolete, they’ve always been myths. … ”
Tribute To A Fallen Leader
“Like the best comedy, his dances turned on situations and timing, driven home with unpredictable musical panache. And his character sketches! What caricaturist Al Hirschfeld did with his pen, [choreographer Eric] Hampton could do with a few gestures, a slouch, a cigar — and just the right dancer.”
What Google/Publisher Settlement Means For Books
“Though the settlement will not change much about the way that Google and publishers already partner, it is the newest signpost for defining copyright in the Internet age.”
Pop Music By The Numbers (How It’s Changing)
Recording and concert sales chart the changing realities of the music industry.
Facebook Hits One Billion Users (Some Perspective)
“There weren’t a billion PCs in use until just four years ago. And as of the end of last year, roughly one third of the world’s 7 billion people — 2.3 billion, give or take — were using the internet. In other words, nearly half of the internet-using population is on Facebook, and that’s with it officially banned in China.”
Big Bird Memes Flood Twitter After Romney Says The Big Yellow Guy Will Get The Ax
A sample: “Big Bird@FiredBigBird 47 percent of Chic-Fil-A chickens think theyre victims. I will never convince them to take personal responsibility”
The Changing Demographics Of American Higher Education
“Within a decade we anticipate that nearly half of public-high-school graduates nationwide will be students of color, and all states will confront this escalating diversification, to varying degrees. Unfortunately, we have struggled to serve such students as well as we serve their white peers, accounting for the achievement gaps that have proved so stubbornly persistent.”
Mark Morris Disses His Hometown
“I was 19 years old when I moved to New York forever. I was quite resented by the dance community of Seattle. I don’t know why. Maybe because I moved to New York and got famous and good. People resent excellence.”
The Cleveland Neighborhood That’s Thriving, Thanks To Arts And Education
“Blessed by a significant cluster of university, medical, cultural, and transit facilities, [University Circle] is in a fortunate position to generate private sector development (the neighborhood has grown to support around 3 million visitors, 50,000 jobs and 10,000 residents) that many surrounding communities still cannot since losing their industrial base in the last century.”