“Before letterboxing, we were throwing away three-quarters of the picture on some films.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Facebook Live Is Going To Have A Big Problem, And It Won’t Be Porn
Rule 34 notwithstanding, “it’s unlikely that the site will devolve into a Chatroulette-style exhibitionist’s paradise anytime soon, partly because its controversial ‘real names’ policy makes it hard for most to remain anonymous. Far more troublesome for Facebook will be … matters of intellectual property.”
Unknown John Cage Piece Turns Up In The Middle Of Another Composer’s Score
All Sides of the Small Stone, for Erik Satie and (Secretly Given to Jim Tenney as a Koan) lay undiscovered for 38 years; Cage evidently slipped it into the pages of a work by his former student.
A Writer Caught Between Two Languages She Can’t Hear And One She Can’t Write
Sara Nović: “Then there is my deafness, another kink in the mother tongue. Because of it, English, Croatian, or any spoken language can never truly be mine. … In American Sign Language, I am at home. Or at least, I’m at ease there – I see my reflection, and I can understand others without having to guess. … What does it mean to be a writer whose language negates the possibility of the written word?”
Calatrava To Design New ‘World’s Tallest Building’ In Dubai
The new structure doesn’t have an official planned height yet, but the developer says it will be “a notch taller” than the nearby Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest skyscraper. Both Calatrava and the developer say that the building will be as iconic for Dubai as the Eiffel Tower is for Paris.
Female Architects Tell Us What It’s Like, Even Today
“Every single day I have to remind someone that I am, in fact, an architect. And sometimes not just an architect, but the architect. … Every new job site means a contractor who will assume I am the assistant, decorator or intern.”
Did A Lost Caravaggio Just Turn Up Underneath A Leaky Roof In France?
“The mysterious 400-year-old canvas was only found by accident when the owners of a house near Toulouse went to fix a leak in the ceiling. The large, remarkably well-preserved canvas of the beheading of the general Holofernes by Judith, from the apocryphal Book of Judith, was painted between 1600 and 1610, specialists estimate. And many experts believe it could be a work by the Milan-born master, Caravaggio.”
It’s Happening: Barbra Streisand Will Be Playing Mama Rose On Screen
“STX Entertainment is in advanced negotiations to make Gypsy with the Grammy and Oscar winner taking the lead role, and Oscar winner Barry Levinson (Rain Man) directing.”
‘Hamilton’, Obama, And America
“The show dramatizes that our founding documents weren’t handed down on stone tablets, and the founders weren’t saintly philosophers. They could be vain, petty, self-destructive; they fought each other as viciously as they fought the British.”
Post-Kobborg Uproar In Bucharest: Alina Cojocaru In Tears, 30 Dancers Threaten To Quit, Staffers Scream ‘Foreigners Out Of The Country!’
Tuesday evening, after Johan Kobborg formally resigned as artistic director of the ballet company at the Bucharest National Opera, about 30 dancers (many of them from abroad) joined Alina Cojocaru – the country’s leading ballerina and Kobborg’s fiancée – to protest the situation; all of them agreed that they would not stay with the company if Kobborg were not brought back. Meanwhile, some other opera house employees counter-demonstrated, booing the dancers and shouting, “Foreigners out of the country! This is the Romanian National Opera!” (in Romanian; Google Translate version here)