“Maybe the research investment and brain-obsessed media headlines are largely irrelevant to the general public. I looked into this question recently and was surprised by what I found.”
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Here’s An Idea: Streaming Music Services Won’t Succeed Without Collaborating With Songwriters
“Streaming is undoubtedly the wave of the future, and when streaming companies value songwriters, the sky’s the limit. It’s time they start collaborating with the music creators they depend on, otherwise they may never, ever, ever get back together.”
Don’t Say It.. No…No…- The “Netflix Of Books” Has Arrived
“Little more than a year after launching its all-you-can-read ebook service, the San Francisco startup Scribd has announced that the service now offers more than 30,000 audiobooks, including titles from big-name publishing houses HarperCollins and Scholastic as well as audiobook-specialist Blackstone. For $8.99 a month, you can not only read as many books as you can find on the service, but also listen to as many audiobooks as you can find.”
LA Pols Approve Roadmap For New $600 Million LA County Museum Of Art
“If there are no serious bumps in the road ahead, the plan would yield a streamlined, curving 410,000-square-foot new museum building designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor that would open in 2023, spanning Wilshire Boulevard with an enclosed bridge that doubles as gallery space.”
Here’s What Happens When You Block Google From Showing Snippets Of Your Content
Germany’s largest news publisher, Axel Springer (Bild), wanted Google to pay licensing fees for showing the typical brief excerpts from its articles in search results. So, for two weeks, it barred the search engine from doing so. And how badly did that backfire?
Shakespeare’s Globe To Offer Streaming-Video-On-Demand
More than 50 of the theatre’s productions will be available, including the summer seasons from 2009 onward and the complete 2012 Globe to Globe festival of Shakespeare stagings from all over the world.
Former Psychiatrist Wins France’s Top Literary Prize
Lydie Salvayre won the Prix Goncourt for Pas pleurer (“Don’t Cry”), “in which she interweaves the voices of her mother and a French writer during the Spanish Civil War. … The winner of the prize receives the nominal sum of 10 euros ($12) but can expect to see sales of around 400,000.”
Drama Schools “Can’t Teach You How To Act” Says Derek Jacobi
“I think you’re an actor before you go in – they teach you all the other things that you need you to lose or acquire. But they can’t teach you how to act. … The attitude nowadays seems to be to get famous quickly, to get ‘celebrity’ quickly, to get known quickly … without actually learning your job.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.05.14
Partners
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2014-11-05
Falling for “Spring”: Getty Buys $65.125-Million Manet at Christie’s
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2014-11-05
Don’t Miss This Exhibition! (Installation Pictures Included)
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-11-05
“National Gallery” — The Film
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-11-05
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The Great Auteur Of Film Trailers
“[Mark Woollen is the] 43-year-old shaggy-haired hipster introvert who makes indelible spots for Hollywood’s highbrow one percent. Terrence Malick, David Fincher, Werner Herzog, Lars von Trier, the Coen brothers, Spike Jonze, Sofia Coppola, Wes Anderson … One studio executive calls his body of work ‘the Criterion Collection of trailers’.”