danah boyd: “Why the hell aren’t academics working together to resist the corporatization and manipulation of the knowledge that they produce? Why aren’t they collectively teaming up to challenge the status quo?”
Tag: 12.11.11
Why A 3-D Dance Documentary? Wim Wenders on ‘Pina’
“Even if you use a hand-held camera and are among the dancers, you’re still outside; you need to work in their own element. And I never thought it was space. It just never crossed my mind until I saw one of the first films in 3-D. It was a U2 concert film, and when I saw that, I realized that was the tool we had been waiting for.”
Christopher Logue, 85, Who Made The Iliad Modern
Logue is best-known for his 40-year project of transforming the Iliad into a contemporary piece, but his life “was a fittingly picaresque epic that also included being imprisoned in a Crusader castle, writing a pornographic novel, acting in films by the director Ken Russell and committing a modest armed robbery at the age of 8.”
The Romance Of The Glorious, Doomed Attempt
Sure, Amundsen made it to both poles – but almost everyone knows the stories of the doomed Captain Robert Scott. That’s because Scott was noble in defeat – and humans like that kind of story, says Harry Mount.
Old Charity Gets New Legs From “Warhorse”
Interest in the animals of war, both from the hit play and the new movie, reinvigorates a post-WWI charity still caring for warhorses around the world. (Moral? Get Steven Spielberg interested in your cause.)
Endangered No More, Thanks To Cellphones (And 6-Year-Olds)
“We are getting languages where the first writing is not the translation of the Bible — as it has often happened — but text messages.”
Hugh Jackman, The Bi-est Guy On Broadway
“Eight times a week he clefts himself in twain for the delectation of largely female audiences who love him just for his selves. Let’s face it. Mr. Jackman is, unapologetically and triumphantly, the bi-est guy in town: bicultural, bimorphic, binational, biprofessional and, for entertainment purposes, bisexual.” (Emphasis added.)