“It’s a model that isn’t rooted in community, isn’t rooted in humanity, is all about the dollar bills and trite, unhealthy, viral sense of Make Or Break explosiveness that usually makes human shells out of people when it doesn’t all out kill them.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
We Know What Wood Wants, But What Do Our Screens Want?
“Computers, after all, are just shaky towers of nested abstractions.”
Is That A Six-Minute 3D Laser Light Show Writ Large Across Shakespeare’s Birthplace?
Yes, yes it is. And Stratford-upon-Avon seems keen to do it again.
When You Stifle Your Ballerinas, They Might Jump Ship To Your Rival
Alina Cojocaru: “At the Royal there was one way of doing things – the Royal Ballet way. Now I’ve cut the ropes that were holding me, I can experiment, and I’m not afraid to fall.”
Can Podcasting Ever Be A Moneymaking Proposition?
“Producing a podcast can cost as little as the price of a good computer. But the amount of labor that goes into the production can be the equivalent of a full-time job.”
Margaret Atwood Says Doris Lessing Inspired ‘Colonials With Scant Prospects’
“Some of Lessing’s energy may have come from her outland origins: when the wheel spins, it’s on the edges that the sparks fly. Her upbringing also gave her an insight into the viewpoints and plights of people unlike herself. And if you know you will never really fit in – that you will always be ‘not really English’ – you have less to lose.”
The Bolshoi’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Month (And Year)
All of the (bad) news about the Bolshoi collated in one post. Yikes.
Helen Mirren Plays The Queen (Again); Wins Award (Again)
“‘I’ve always felt playing her majesty that it’s actually her majesty who’s winning the award and not me,’ Mirren told Reuters.”
Developers Win A(nother) Battle Against Graffiti Artists
“‘I love the work and it’s going to tear my heart out to see it torn down, but as a judge I have to apply the law,’ said the Brooklyn federal court judge Frederic Block.”
Exotic Foreigners Would Like To Make It In Bollywood
If only there were more roles for the (blond, blue-eyed) actors/dancers/models.