The plan for the upcoming Current TV series Bar Karma is that participants “would be able to submit story ideas, create storyboards based on the rough outlines from professional producers, and vote for the ideas that are submitted. The storyboard with the most votes will be adapted, produced and edited.”
Tag: 10.07.10
Perth’s Top Theatre Co. Can’t Afford to Use Its New Home
“Perth’s new State Theatre Centre may stay empty for several weeks next year because of a lack of money to stage plays … Black Swan State Theatre Company is struggling to match its ambitions for a full season of seven productions with a 75% increase in venue hire and staffing costs” at the A$70M complex.
Patti LuPone Isn’t Bitter or Anything, Is She?
“LuPone, one of the most celebrated musical theater performers of her generation, wears her anger with a difference. … As lacking in introspection as her tirades can be (can anyone always be the aggrieved party?), LuPone’s voice is most alive when crackling with hostility.”
‘The Four Hornswomen of the Apocalypse’ (aka Genghis Barbie)
“They go by the stage names Freedom Barbie, Velvet Barbie, Jungle Barbie and Attila the Horn. They play arrangements of songs by Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Queen and other pop acts. The name of their band is Genghis Barbie, and the group consists of four conservatory-trained French horn players.”
Canadian Copyright Reform Struggles In Parliament
“If passed, the bill would legalize several well-established consumer practices, permitting you to time-shift TV programs, make backup copies of CDs and DVDs and format-shift anything you have legally acquired, copying your CDs onto your iPod, for example. But it doesn’t permit you to pick any digital locks that producers might choose to install on their content, which is proving to be its most contentious provision.”
Wanna Lose Weight? Go To The Movies
A new editing program “allows professional and amateur movie-makers to dramatically alter how muscular, leggy or heavy people appear on film. Until now this could only be done by laborious frame-by-frame retouching.”
Woman Attacks Artwork In Denver Gallery
“A woman armed with a crowbar entered the Loveland Museum/Gallery on Wednesday afternoon and destroyed a controversial exhibit that some said shows Jesus Christ engaged in a sex act.”
Obama Copyright Enforcer To Take On File-Sharers
“At the Future of Music summit, Victoria Espinel waxed rhapsodic about the artistic community, echoing the Obama administration line that American innovation and intellectual property are key to its economic recovery. But without directly indicting consumers, she outlined a strategy for containing file-sharing that suggested that many digital music fans will need to alter their behavior or else risk being cut off from the Internet at the very least.”
It’s National Poetry Day. And Why Is That?
There’s been a flurry of poetry news lately (well, relatively speaking, of course). And poetry seems to have become popular again on the internet. So do we really need a National Poetry Day?
Lost Vivaldi Flute Concerto Found In Scotland
“Southampton University research fellow Andrew Woolley found the piece among the Marquesses of Lothian’s family papers at the archives in Edinburgh. It will receive its modern day premiere at Perth Concert Hall in January.”