“Safdi said that proliferating downtown high-rises — he called them “object buildings” — sitting atop retail spaces around the world are creating cities that are “disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilization.” He said these buildings fail to nurture community spaces like the squares and piazzas of the past, so that the very idea of shared space is becoming extinct.”
Tag: 10.08.14
What Happens When National Geographic Uses Your Art Without Telling You (Or Paying For It)?
“National Geographic used artist Barrett Lyon’s internet image (opte.org) on the cover of its bookazine, 100 Scientific Discoveries that Changed the World, and in the book, The Big Idea, without Lyon’s permission or respecting the Creative Commons license that allows it to be used free of charge for non-commercial purposes.”
Creativity Versus Evaluation (The Battle In Our Brains Over Ideas)
“Our findings suggest that individual differences in creativity may be related to a differentially activated network of evaluation that imposes a stricter process of evaluation, and hence inhibits creative production.”
Georgia Shakespeare Co. Shuts Down After 29 Years
“‘We had no major funders who were willing to make a lead gift,’ Managing Director Jennifer Bauer-Lyons said. ‘We had other people who were kind of waiting in the wings – ‘If you get a lead gift, call us back and we’ll do something’ – but there was nobody willing to make a lead gift.'”
Atlanta Symphony Lockout: How The Musicians Are Coping
“The cellist, who has barely slept, searches his laptop for a secret recording of a former symphony executive. The clarinetist is gone, joining two other musicians now playing in the New York Philharmonic. And the percussionist, who practiced all summer for a star turn that may never come, spent a recent morning packing bottles at a local brewery. He got $45 and, he adds, a case of ale.”
Can We Keep The Superintelligent Computers We Create From Conquering Us One Day?
The trick is how to serve us to keep us alive and well, as opposed to wiping us out…
Ex-NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Leaves Twitter After Less Than A Year
Schiller left her post-NPR job as chief digital officer for NBC News to become Twitter’s first-ever head of news and journalism partnerships – a job that has evidently been eliminated in a senior staff consolidation.
Lost Stories By Truman Capote Published
“A Swiss publisher was searching for chapters of Truman Capote’s unfinished final novel last summer when he stumbled upon a different find … a collection of previously unpublished short stories and poems from Capote’s youth.” Four of the stories (in translation) are being published this week in a German magazine.
Confirmed: The Oldest Known Art in the World Is In Indonesia
“The Indonesian images, discovered in a limestone cave on the island of Sulawesi in the 1950s, had previously been thought to date back only 10,000 years. Anything older would, it was assumed, have deteriorated.” In fact, it turns out, the oldest of the paintings is nearly 40,000 years old. (includes video)
Vienna Philharmonic Finds Good Use For Its $1M Nilsson Prize Money
The orchestra’s members voted unanimously to use the award to digitize its historic archives, which includes program leaflets, correspondence, and autographed manuscripts and scores.