“You have this $150 billion-a-year industry that has no TV network. We are a universal network — that means we will be distributed and consumed anywhere our audience is consuming gaming content.” – CBC
Month: September 2019
Translations Say Something About Their Time. And Of Ours?
Are we reducing everything we translate to standard English, whatever that might be? Or are we struggling to get close to the otherness of foreign texts? – New York Review of Books
Artist Plants A Forest Inside A Soccer Stadium. Cue Backlash
“I have been working on this idea for 30 years, and the fact that it landed right on the dot amid this whole climate discussion feels a bit eerie to me,” he says. “ […] I am producing a radical image through relatively simple means: by taking something and setting it in a new context, it challenges people’s perception. I want them to reflect on how they deal with nature.” – Hyperallergic
Fire At NYC’s Cathedral Of St. John The Devine
Oil paintings and an 18th-century icon were destroyed and other artworks damaged. And the plumes of smoke that rose up through heating vents in the floor into the cathedral’s vast interior left soot everywhere. – The New York Times
Amazon Bets There’s A Market For HD Streaming Music
Below The Line: Tales From The Behind-The-Scenes Pros Of TV And Film
“In this post and the series of corresponding profession-specific stories we’ve published, we’re going to be giving proper credit to those people whose work truly brings entertainment to life” — Foley artists, costume designers, visual effects artists, music supervisors, food stylists, location scouts, prop masters, animal trainers, stunt performers, and caterers. – Vulture
The Chasm of Disbelief
Think you (or your organization) don’t understand the people you are trying to reach? If you are talking about people other than your current attendees/donors and their peers, you are 100% correct; and they understand you even less. (And if you don’t think you don’t understand you are probably deluding yourself.) – Doug Borwick
Norman Lear At 97
For Jimmy Kimmel, who produced “Live in Front of a Studio Audience” with Lear, the iconic producer is an inspiration: “To be 97 years old and looking to the future, and trying to make the world a better place, I think is a pretty unselfish thing to do.” – Variety
Turkey’s Television Epics Are Conquering The World
“Thanks to international sales and global viewership, Turkey is second only to the US in worldwide TV distribution – finding huge audiences in Russia, China, Korea and Latin America.” Reporter Fatima Bhutto talks to people at the center of the Turkish TV industry about why these series appeal to worldwide audiences (and why the English-language market is an exception) and how the shows were a huge hit in the Arab world until, one day, they were pulled off the air. – The Guardian
The Shambolic Ways In Which We Learn To Write
John Warner defines “the writer’s practice” as a set of “attitudes, skills, habits of mind, and knowledge” that writers embody, carry with them, or engage in. He describes the most important writerly attitude this way: “Writers continually build expertise without ever becoming expert. It is like being inside an endlessly right-scrolling game of Super Mario World – except you never get to defeat the big boss.” – Plough