“Subway riders could navigate from dot to dot, in much the same way that hikers traverse a forest by following trail blazes.”
Tag: 12.09.12
Chinese “Indie” Film Industry Takes Hold
“As the number of these government-approved indie films grows, a nascent Chinese industry — production houses and exhibitors — is emerging to support them.”
Robert Lescher, Literary Agent For Damn Near Everyone, 83
“Mr. Lescher epitomized a kind of Old World ideal of author’s agent — courtly, literary and invisible — reflecting both his nature and his wealth of contacts in the book world, where he began his career as an editor and something of a wunderkind. He was named editor in chief at Henry Holt & Company before he was 25.”
How Art Basel Miami (And Developers) Transformed A Neighborhood
“Mr. Lombardi began to court struggling artists who did not have gallery representation and could no longer afford South Beach. As they moved into the neighborhood, he started Roving Fridays, a stroll for cutting-edge art lovers who wanted to see the new scene for themselves.”
What Does Gollum Think Of The Hobbit?
Andy Serkis has (a lot of) skin in the game, of course, but he thinks all three films will eventually meld as one in the public’s mind with the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Sir Patrick Moore, Who Popularized Astronomy Via T.V., 89
“Sir Patrick presented the BBC programme The Sky At Night for over 50 years, making him the longest-running host of the same television show ever.”
For Ailey Director, Sleep Is Not A Priority
“People think of New York as a cold, big-city environment, but there are lots of places that feel so neighborhoody. Everybody knows you; they know what you do. That means a lot to me.”
The Scottish Play As A Subway Map? The Digital Bard, Continued
“The last few components of the My Shakespeare project, surveying all Bard-related activity online, are just starting to emerge, and they cover an extraordinary breadth of formats, from online and physical artworks to new renderings and visualisations of sonnets and plays.”
What Dreams May Come (And How We Turn Them Into Art)
Oliver Sachs: “Artists and painters and even some scientific discoveries have come from not what we would describe as rational consciousness but some other dreamlike or hallucinatory state.”
Ian McEwan On Getting Lost In Poetry
“[It] takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw that neglected cloak of stillness around you – and concentrate, if only for three or four minutes. Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. … What is it precisely, that feeling of ‘returning’ from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger – then it fades, but never completely.”