All the reporter wanted to do was learn how to code. Then she discovered the subculture of Ruby programmers, and the man who tried to open that world up to the world – before he disappeared.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Magazines Aren’t In As Much Trouble In Canada – And Publishers Can Thank The Economy For That
Canadian magazines are faring better during the recession. Is that bad news for U.S. publishers? No: “Several of the reasons that Canadian newsstands are doing better support U.S. publishers’ argument that long-term reader demand is only part of the problem. Some of the other problems are temporary, unrelated to magazines, or both.”
Eleven Thousand Movie Posters Seek Good Home
Movie posters: Art, or just a somewhat random obsession for one of their biggest collectors? Dwight Cleveland has every poster of every Academy Award-winner ever, plus quite a few thousand more – and he’d like to get them to an archive. But it’s not going to be cheap.
Is Religion Just Playing Dead (Or Dying)?
In the United States, five major events marked religion’s “horrible decade” from 2000 to 2010. Is this religious recession over – or has the real decline only just begun?
How Intimate, Personal Stories Can Change The Perception Of India And China
“Since India is not seen as a threat to the United States’ global power, this allows storytelling about Indians’ complex lives to proceed without the obstacles that arise in telling similar Chinese stories. Reportage on China is hampered by access, language barriers, and censorship. Rural communities are often off-limits to outsiders and Chinese people’s opportunities to participate in civil discourse are more limited.”
Shakespeare Didn’t Worry About Copyright, So Why Should Contemporary Playwrights?
“I hope that with the provisional defeat of SOPA and PIPA, we are in a moment where we as an industry can finally question the current copyright and intellectual property regimes under which we labor. We must dream together new systems that encourage creativity and move away from our current privatized, exclusivity-based system.”
How Should Japan Memorialize The Earthquake And Tsunami?
“The sheer scope of the 2011 disaster and the diversity of the cities and villages it ravaged means that a single monument may not be sufficient, or appropriate. … Officials should consider pairing any official monument with a network of smaller, or less formal, found memorials.”
North Korea And France Make (Beautiful) Music Together
South Korean conductor Chung Myung-Whun led the combined forces of the Unhasu orchestra and the Radio France Philharmonic in a joint concert by his musical “families.”
Pierre Schoendoerffer, 83, War Filmmaker
The French filmmaker was captured during the 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu and spent most of his life as a war correspondent before making movies like the Oscar award-winning The Anderson Platoon.
The Problem With Revenge Movies (And How Hamlet Gets It Right)
“Vigilante justice is reduced to a personnel problem. If a crazy bad person picks out people to kill, then that’s evil. If a noble, comforting character actor … is in charge of picking out the people to kill — well that should be all right, then.”