Your correspondent goes to New York’s High Line for a 50th anniversary performance, on Earth Day, of Fluxus artist Alison Knowles’s Make a Salad.
Month: April 2012
Opening Night Performance Meant To Show Importance Of Theatre In Vancouver Is “Epic Fail”
The Playhouse has 668 seats. On opening night, 343 tickets were spoken for. Of those, 256 were comps. “That was an epic fail,” John Cassini says. “To come out … and see those empty seats, I’ve got to say, in the first couple of minutes of the show, I think we were all, as actors, a little shocked.”
Why TV Isn’t Going To Die
“Right now, with such online services as YouTube and Hulu holding “upfront” presentations to advertisers in New York, the chatter about the end of TV rises noisily again. Much of the chatter is absurdly out of touch with the realities of human nature, technology and consumerism. TV isn’t dead or dying, and here’s why.”
Major Publisher Decides To Release E-Books With No Copy Restrictions
“Tor, the world’s biggest science fiction publisher and home to authors including Orson Scott Card, China Miéville and Cory Doctorow, has shaken publishing with the news that its entire list of ebooks is to be made digital rights management-free.”
New Music Biz Reality: Singles Sell, Albums Don’t
“If you used to have a big single, you would sell a million albums, and if you sell a million albums and you’re a band, you can probably not have to work for a couple years. We don’t have that luxury.”
Paradigm Shift Unbundled
“Thomas Kuhn wanted to free us from the illusion that knowledge is independent of history and of the sociality that marks us as humans, but he did not think that all beliefs that our history and sociality put before us are equally worthy. Indeed, he quickly moved away from the “shift happens” conception of paradigms as bundles of beliefs, emphasizing instead that they’re examples of good scientific practice that researchers apply in their daily work.”
Want A Better Brain? Exercise Is The Key Factor
“Animals that exercised, whether or not they had any other enrichments in their cages, had healthier brains and performed significantly better on cognitive tests than the other mice. Animals that didn’t run, no matter how enriched their world was otherwise, did not improve their brainpower in the complex, lasting ways that Rhodes’s team was studying.”
Study: Want To Make Better Decisions? Learn A Second Language
“A research team led by psychologist Boaz Keysar reports using one’s second language reduces or eliminates certain biases that otherwise infiltrate our decision-making. Specifically, our aversion to potential loss — a bias that can lead us to pass up promising opportunities for potential gains — diminishes as we ponder options in a language learned later in life.”
Jazz At Lincoln Center Gets A New Director
Greg Scholl is a former NBC Universal executive with a background in digital music distribution.
Music Companies Get More Aggressive In Demanding Licensing Fees For Film
“As the recording industry has seen its sales tumble by more than half since 2000, labels are intent on squeezing every bit of profit out of songs in their catalogs. Licensing that music to films — whether big Hollywood productions or modestly budgeted documentaries — is an attractive source of revenue.”