“Emoji are bidirectional: Not only can they express actions, but they can also directly represent spatial relationships. Emoji are a special case for her discipline – linguists disagree about whether they’re even words, and society’s use of them is maturing before their collective eyes.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Even The Idea Of ‘Home’ Isn’t What It Used To Be – And TV Is Reflecting That
“As technology continues to muddy the boundary between home and work, it’s dragging TV along with it. Flavorwire TV Editor Lara Zarum discusses how ‘the erosion of the concept of a stable home is a reality that spans generations as well as borders.'”
What A Decade’s Worth Of Viral Videos Has Taught The Band OK Go About The Internet
Damian Kulash, OK Go’s frontman: “[After ‘A Million Ways’ went viral], we were like, ‘if we can do this by accident, we should do it on purpose.’ And that’s when we did the treadmill dance at my sister’s house in Florida. But even that video, we thought that was a gift to those same nerdy fans, the three or four hundred thousand people who wanted to see us dancing in the back yard.”
Lemony Snicket Creates A Poetry Prize
It seems that when the author of A Series of Unfortunate Events – né Daniel Handler – was on location in Vancouver for the shooting of Netflix’s upcoming Series series, he never spent his per diem. So he’s come up with a use for that money.
Charles Busch Recalls The First Time He Performed In Drag
“I had always tried onstage to eliminate any effeminate mannerisms, and consequently, came across as lively as the animatronic Abe Lincoln at Disneyland. Playing a female role gave me a freedom of expression I had never known.”
The Woman Conductor Who’s Made Herself A Hong Kong Institution
Over 15 years, Yip Wing-sie has transformed the Hong Kong Sinfonietta from a barely professional part-time orchestra to a full-time, full-pay, adventurous ensemble.
Judge Throws Out Gender Discrimination Suit Against Artist Robert Motherwell’s Foundation
Joan Banach was Motherwell’s personal assistant for the last decade of his life (he died in 1991) and was employed by his Dedalus Foundation until 2008. That year she was fired and accused of stealing artworks of his; she responded by filing a suit claiming she was dismissed because she was a woman.
Guard At Musée d’Orsay Tells Noisy Students To ‘Shut Their Mouths’, And All Paris Argues About It
The students in question come from a “education priority zone,” and their teacher complained (on Facebook, of course) that middle-class white students could make noise without getting yelled at.
Chief Of Vienna State Opera To Be Replaced By Recording Exec
“Bogdan Roscic, 52, will take up the post in 2020, moving from Sony’s classical music unit which he has headed since 2009. Before then he worked at Decca Music Group and an Austrian pop music station, but has never been director of an opera house before. He will replace Frenchman Dominic Meyer, whose tenure, which started in 2010, has been marked by clashes with star conductors Franz Welser-Möst and Bertrand de Billy.”
It Took Ethan Stiefel A 9,000-Mile Motorcycle Trip To Figure Out His New Ballet
“He’d set off on the cross-country journey soon after getting the call from Julie Kent, the Washington Ballet’s newly arrived artistic director, who offered him his first big commission as a choreographer.”