Most studios may have played it cool this year, but Hollywood and Comic-Con are now one and the same. The only thing left to do is start preparing for next year. I’ve already got my Joker T-shirt packed.
Month: July 2016
Canadian Workplace Study Of Workers Most At Risk: Arts And Entertainment
The study looked at wage theft and precariousness of employment. Arts and entertainment workers topped the list of workers in all industries who are least protected.
The ‘Zines Of Renaissance England
“From the 15th century onward, everyday English people passed broadsides around, sang their songs, and gossiped about the news contained within. Unlike books or early newspapers, broadsides and pamphlets were not curated nor intended for a specific, upper-class audience. This early form of journalism and storytelling was sold on the cheap, and many took no time at all to read.”
Adrian Hall Once Ran The Dallas Theatre Center. Now He’s Fighting To Remember
Hall sees one positive aspect to his Alzheimer’s. It’s caused him to assemble the archive that now surrounds him at home. The word ‘legend’ comes from the Latin for ‘to read,’ but it also means ‘to select, to gather together.’ Hall has been gathering this rich chronology, piecing together the meanings and connections in his life and career. “So that’s what I have been doing,” he says. “I live in a world where I am constantly with my past.”
Stunning Chronophotographs Capture the Patterns of Birds in Flight
“For the past five years, the Barcelona-based photographer [Xavi Bou] has captured different bird species soaring around the Catalonia region to form his ongoing Ornitographies series, using a particular method he has honed to compress multiple seconds into a single frame.”
Whoa – When Did Howard Stern Turn Into Terry Gross?
“Since settling in to his new home on satellite radio, which he did in 2006, Mr. Stern and his show have gradually taken on an improbable new dimension. Scattered among the gleefully vulgar mainstays are now long, starkly intimate live exchanges – character excavations that have made Mr. Stern one of the most deft and engrossing celebrity interviewers in the business.”
How Mexico’s Great Architect Got Turned Into A Diamond
An American conceptual artist got the family of Luis Barragán to give her his ashes, which she had carbonized into a 2.2-carat diamond – all as part of a gambit to free up access to Barragán’s all-too-closely-held archives in Switzerland.
A Play About Critics Moves A Critic To Ponder Her Younger, Less-Compassionate Self
Laura Collins-Hughes, reflecting on Brenda Withers’s new play The Kritik: “I did what so many young critics do. In love with the sound of my own voice, unaware of how lastingly harmful meanness could be, I was sometimes far harsher than I should have been.”
Famous Armada Portrait Of Elizabeth I Will Stay In Britain Following Fundraising Appeal
“A grant of £7.4m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), using money from national lottery players, was the final piece in a campaign to raise £10.3m to buy the work … showing an elegant and triumphant Elizabeth I after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, … from descendants of [original owner] Sir Francis Drake.”
Why Is Whether Or Not Athletes Dope So Important To People?
Consider the anger at Lance Armstrong once the truth came out. Consider all the time and money spent on catching and eliminating athletes who dope. “If technology can help sports officials perform their jobs more efficiently and fairly, why can it not be used to help athletes do their jobs more effectively? The answer is quite simple: Athletes have to be human.”