While developers do not feel an absolute competitive imperative to have A-list art, many believe that great art can help make an already distinctive building an enduring one (and, one assumes, a profitable one).
Month: July 2016
How A Young Entrepreneur Uses Dance To Make Videos Go Viral
“DanceOn tapped 50 influencers in its network to create dance-based music videos for Silentó’s song, “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae).” In just three months, those videos gained 250 million views. It eventually propelled the official music video, which was also created with the help of DanceOn, to become the most viewed YouTube video of 2015.”
Is Push To Change Musical Theatre Form Hurting Creativity?
“Personally, I wouldn’t want to write something thinking about form, it would scare me. I want to tell something in the best way I possibly can. I would feel hamstrung if I was sat there thinking I have got to completely reinvent the form. The best things work because sometimes you do exactly what the audience wants.”
Alignment Of Values – What Does Your Funder Believe In?
“Increasingly, artists and arts organisations are being asked to reflect upon who funds their work and examine whether that funder shares their values. The motivations of a corporate sponsor are not something that should be taken for granted. But in order to do that, we first need to understand our own ethical values.”
Los Angeles Opera Posts Big Jump In Ticket Sales, Attendance For 2015/16
“L.A. Opera sold 118,565 tickets for the 2015-16 season, compared with 98,861 for 2014-15, the company said. Ticket revenue was about $14.2 million for the 2015-16 period, compared with about $11.1 million during the previous period.”
South Africa’s Public Broadcaster Lurches From Crisis To Crisis
Battles over the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) go back decades before the end of apartheid, but the network’s biggest problems these days seem to sten from its COO, Hlaudi Motsoeneng. He has been accused of censorship and interference in media content, sudden and capricious decrees, lying about his educational credentials, and a bullying management style that South Africa’s Public Protector called “pathological.”
Our Thinking – Our ‘Mind’ – Doesn’t Just Live In The Brain
“The brainbound view pictures the brain as a powerful executive, planning every aspect of behaviour and sending detailed instructions to the muscles. But, as work in robotics has illustrated, there are more efficient ways of doing things, which nature almost certainly employs.”
Samuel Beckett, Master Of The Short Story
Chris Power: “It is an irony of Beckett’s posthumous reputation that his plays are now far better known than his prose, although he considered the latter his primary focus. … I suspect the real problem with Beckett’s short fiction is its difficulty, and that his greatest achievements in the form do not comply with what some gatekeepers suppose to be the genre’s defining traits.”
Tehran Is About To Get The World’s Largest Bookstore
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this title was held by the Barnes & Noble bookstore in New York City, which covered 154,250ft². Unfortunately, the 5th Avenue flagship store closed down in 2014.
For Eid Ul-Fitr, Check Out These Panoramic Photos Of Gorgeous Persian Mosques
Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji, a physics student turned photographer, is becoming famous for his images of the intricate, geometric, colorful religious architecture of his native Iran. Here are rotating 360-degree views of five spectacular sites.