“The prize stipulates a woman of 32 years or younger, who has not had a Broadway production, a major off-Broadway production, success in writing for film or television, or national media attention. That age limit, combined with the other parameters, sets impressive hurdles against many deserving writers.”
Tag: 11.17.10
Wayne McGregor Mixes Dance With Cognitive Science
“I’m watching ten members of Wayne McGregor/Random Dance in rehearsal, with notebooks in their hands, scribbling furiously. The grey-haired men who are entering data into a laptop and adjusting the many HD cameras recording every angle are two of the world’s top cognitive scientists.”
IQ: Minnesota Is Good for You and Florida Is Bad for You
“A paper recently published in the journal Psychological Reports concludes that of the 48 contiguous United States, those with cooler average temperatures tend to have populations with higher IQs.” (So that explains Canada …)
Why Frank Gehry Is Designing Office Furniture
“It’s not every day that Frank Gehry designs lobby furniture for an office building. But Mr. Gehry made an exception for the Inland Steel Building, a Chicago landmark, because he owns a part of it.”
London’s Royal Opera House Mounts A Daffy Viral Ad Campaign
“Called Danny Knows Best, it is – supposedly – an online reality TV show along the lines of Jerry Springer. There are three episodes, featuring shouty family conflicts broadly based on ballet and opera plots.”
Border Agents Versus The Cellist
“More usually associated with musical esoterica than international espionage, terrorism, or economic skulduggery, the world of musicology – which is to say the music departments of our universities – is under threat. Government cuts? Tuition fees? The progressive dumbing down of today’s culture? Well, all that – and the UK Border Agency officials at Heathrow.”
Scottish Arts Funding – (Comparatively) Moderate Cuts
An early read of the Scottish budget brings us news that the Scottish arts and culture budget will be a great deal more protected than that in England.
College Debates Funding Theatre That Does “Evil” Things
Grand Rapids Community College officials say they will allow debate over whether they should continue funding programs one trustee says includes performances of “evil things.”
Amazon Gets Into The Movie (-Making) Business
“Amazon.com is launching Amazon Studios, a new website that lets users upload scripts and sample movies and then use community tools to evaluate and edit each others’ work. Work judged the best by a panel of experts and company executives will be brought to Warner Bros.”
Study Tracks How Online Comments Spread News
“Researchers sampled 50,000 comments at random from each dataset and analyzed whether each one was a reply to a news post or to another comment, and how many were replies to discussions that already had a crowd of comments.”