“‘Mi vestido soy yo,’ Frida Kahlo used to say – my clothing is me. … Kahlo’s look was inspired by the traditional clothes of the Tehuantepec region of southeast Mexico, where women often earn more money than their husbands and administer the family assets.” (photo journal)
Tag: 12.02.15
By The Numbers: Here’s Why So Few Women Run American Theatres
“To conclude that the main problem is a pipeline issue and over time more women and people of color will become viable candidates is an incomplete diagnosis of the problem, and an excuse.”
Why Do We Need Libraries Anymore?
Today, when electronic technology announces (perhaps prematurely) the death of paper and promises us unfading memory of many millions of texts and images, as well as apparently limitless storage in cyberspace, the question “What is a library?” pops up with satisfying frequency on our bookshelves, both virtual and concrete.
Study: Watching Lots Of TV Is Harmful To Your Brain
“A new, large-scale study finds a link between heavy TV viewing as a young adult and below-average thinking skills in middle-age.”
Now *This* Is How To Do A Theatre Conference
“During the day, audience members could choose to attend one of three deeply audience-centric experiences, which took place variously in a pool, a bed and a cupboard. They came together for a group experience in the evening, set up to look like a panel discussion – and then a show that is usually staged by surprise in classrooms happened. By surprise.”
One Of Hollywood’s Very First Power Duos Was Female
“Mary Pickford was America’s original sweetheart, the ‘girl with the golden curls,’ who became an international superstar playing plucky children filled with innocent wonder. Frances Marion was a patrician sophisticate, ‘just as beautiful as the stars she wrote for,’ who was continually told that she was wasting her looks on writing. Together, they would become one of the powerhouse teams of silent Hollywood.”
Twyla On Twyla: The 50th Anniversary Tour Wrap-Up
“After the final show on Sunday night I slept 12 hours and took Monday off. But Tuesday was time to think again about being in the studio. There is absolutely nothing glamorous about starting over again. One foot down, next foot up. Find two ideas to rub together. No judgment, just get it down. But this small daily practice is, for me, sanity, and to begin constructing a new phrase of movement is my connection to the world.”
That’s Totally Not Gollum, It’s Smeagol, Peter Jackson Says About Turkish Court Case
Asked to weigh in on the current lèse-majesté trial – the defendant juxtaposed photos of the Tolkien character and President Erdoğan – the director and screenwriters of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films said in a statement, “We can state categorically: None of [the images] feature the character known as Gollum.”
Where Book Titles Come From
“Writers are at least as picky about the titles of their novels as parents are about their children’s names; often more so. This is perhaps to be expected, as a book’s conception is considerably less pleasurable, and the gestation period generally lasts far longer than nine months.”
Could You Resist Making A Designer Baby?
“You would be literally designing and producing a new type of baby via the same sort of technology that is used to make a GM tomato, mouse, or monkey. The baby would be a genetically modified human or, to phrase it in an edgier manner, a GM human.”