The Creator’s Project in San Francisco draws artists of all stripes, and breathes creativity (and hipness) into a tech world that deeply needs it.
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Did Rodarte Make A Mockery Of Australian Aboriginal Art?
Turns out the sisters in charge of the fashion house handled the whole thing better than a U.N. expert on indigenous art thought they did. Probably.
Screen Actors Guild Pension Plan Denies Fed Investigation Rumors
“The Screen Actors Guild – Producers Pension and Health Plans (SAG-PPHP) has denied reports of an ongoing federal investigation into alleged fraud, embezzlement, and cover-ups at the Plan.”
Yarn-Bombing As Public Art
Yarn-bomber Bryan: “”I see public art as a form of positive vandalism. It’s something that is out there in your everyday life, something that you don’t have to pay money to see and that you can’t avoid seeing.”
Young Architects Stop Waiting And Head To China For Jobs
“This is the expected global economic formula flipped on its head: instead of American workers losing out to the Chinese, China is providing jobs for foreign architects. Even more surprising is the degree of imaginative license that China offers, even demands of, its foreign building designers. With new cities materializing seemingly overnight, international architects are free to think big, to experiment with cutting-edge designs, to introduce green technologies.”
Miramax CEO Performs Well, And Gets The Boot Anyway
Miramax announced on Friday that CEO Mike Lang was leaving. “The news came as a surprise because Lang has spearheaded a number of deals that Miramax’s owners have boasted led to financial success. They included a DVD distribution agreement with Lionsgate and Studiocanal and digital partnerships with Netflix, Hulu and Facebook.”
Got A Military Memoir? Now’s The Time To Publish – And Sell
“Readers have been snapping up the books, eager to get a glimpse behind the fog of war and ready to embrace stories that accentuate heroism instead of the often dreary developments reported in daily news accounts. Seeing some of these books rise to the top of best-seller lists, publishers are rushing to sign up similar titles, to be released in the next year.”
A Handy Dandy List For Music Directors Who Just Can’t Think Of Any Women Composers
Rob Deemer: “The need for greater programming of women composers is, of course, strong and obvious enough that nothing I could say could add to the argument. What little I can do to help the issue along I have done in the hopes that with information comes progress.”
Ethel Winter, Who Danced With Martha Graham, 87
“Paul Taylor, who danced with Ms. Winter in the Graham company in the 1950s, summed up her versatility in his memoir, Private Domain, writing, ‘Ethel Winter is a many-pointed star — spiritual as St. Joan, lascivious as Aphrodite, flirtatious as Cleopatra.'”
A Young Dancer … And Her Horrible Injuries, And Recovery
Paige Kohler was headed for a professional career in ballet – until a car crash changed all that. “It was really difficult,” Kohler said. “You don’t realize how much it’s part of your life until it’s taken away — when you can’t do it anymore. It was really hard to be a normal person.”