“Now an explanation has been offered in the form of research showing that people lose their sense of taste when listening to the sort of ‘white noise’ heard inside an aircraft’s cabin.”
Tag: 10.15.10
David Mamet on Parental Advice
“You look at the children about to leave the home and you say, ‘I’ve done everything wrong, I was lenient when I should have been strict, strict when I should have been lenient, I was overwhelming them when I should have left them alone and I was absent when they needed me, but as you are going away I have a few thoughts I’d like to share with you and I’m going to be as succinct as possible’.”
Video Game Sales Down Again
“The game industry suffered its sixth consecutive monthly sales decline in September, pouring cold water on hopes of the industry ending the year on a high note.”
Bilingualism Helps The Brain
“Being able to use two languages and never knowing which one you’re going to use right now rewires your brain. The attentional executive system which is crucial for all higher thought — it’s the most important cognitive piece in how we think — that system seems to be enhanced.”
Actors’ Equity Union Gets New Executive Director
“Mary McColl has been named the new executive director of Actors’ Equity Association. McColl comes to the stage actors’ union from the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts in Minneapolis, where she was executive director.”
Record Exec: CD Prices Should Be Drastically Cut
“If record labels made the decision to charge much less, fans would not think twice about buying an album on impulse and the resulting sales boost would make up for the price drop, he predicted.”
UK Arts Funding Cuts? Good! There’s Too Much Been Wasted
The “income and donations we have all become adept at gaining” have been wasted even in the lovely, spacious Duveen galleries of Tate Britain, where one has to sidestep strange pieces of rope, sandbags and eviscerated mattresses to reach the main collection.
If UK Arts Funding Gets Slashed, Then A New System Is Needed
Museum directors are “bracing themselves for drastic cuts in arts funding to be announced next week (on 20 October). Cuts of 25% to 30% are bound to have an impact on museums and non-profit galleries–with expectations that there will be redundancies, fewer exhibitions and programmes, reduced opening hours and smaller acquisition budgets.”
‘To Save and Project’: Rescuing Cinema’s History From Deteriorating Film Stock
“A great deal of important material … remains on unstable nitrate stock, and must be transferred to a more permanent base before the films turn to goo. And once the endangered material has been stabilized (the preservation step), it often must undergo an even more expensive process of restoration to recover its original luster.”
In Praise of the Doubly Gifted
Nat King Cole was every bit as skilled at the piano as at singing. George Gershwin was a bona fide painter. Samuel Barber didn’t just compose the song cycle Dover Beach; he sang it. And who would have guessed that ’60s action star Clint Eastwood would end up as a genuine cinema auteur?