“The report states that with more than 1 billion computers on the planet, the global IT sector is responsible for about 2% of human carbon dioxide emissions each year – a similar figure to the global airline industry.”
Tag: 12.03.07
A Giant (Casual) Video Game Industry
Seattle is the center of a category of video games known as “casual games.” “It probably would account for at least half if not two-thirds of the industry in casual games. It’s also a part of the gaming world in which women are the dominant players — and 74 percent of the payers.”
Short-Sheeting The New Museum?
“The New Museum could be the kind of institutional anchor downtown that Dia was in Chelsea before it closed its 22nd Street building four years ago and left for the suburbs. But can they do that in this building? Not to sound like an ingrate or be a buzz-kill, but I believe the museum, cool-looking as it is, is short on exhibition space.”
Study: New York Might Be Pricing Out Artists
“New York’s high real-estate prices may force artists to leave unless the city can adapt rent laws to accommodate creative people, according to a study published today on a Columbia University Web site.”
Mark Wallinger Wins Turner Prize
“Wallinger first made the shortlist in 1995, but lost out to Damien Hirst. He was favourite to win the prize for his £90,000 installation, which recreates everything from Brian Haw’s protest in Parliament Square in 2001.”
Inside The New Acropolis Museum
“The museum’s design is calm, even strait-laced. Entirely free of decoration, the concrete, glass and marble building nevertheless plays a number of clever structural games.”
U2 Attacked For Controversial Norman Foster Plan
Ireland’s equivalent of the National Trust has denounced the band U2 for its plans to partly demolish and redevelop a hotel they own by the river Liffey in Dublin. The new “U2 Tower”, designed by Norman Foster, at 32 stories, would be the highest building in Ireland.
Trouble For Legendary Powell’s Bookstore?
“Powell’s, which takes up a city block, has managed to thrive in this era of bookstore busts, thanks in part to a decision to move early and aggressively into online sales. So why is there a creeping fear that Powell’s, which has five other locations and a 60,000-square-foot warehouse, could soon get lost?”
Fight Over Stegner Book
A long-buried book by Pulitzer-winner Wallace Stegner is the subject of a dispute between a small publishing house and the late author’s family.
Canadian Government Cuts Art Transport Service
The Canadian government is “cancelling a service that carries art and artifacts to public museums and galleries across the country, leaving some curators worried they won’t be able to display non-local pieces anymore.”