There’s a long history of movie magic, thought it’s gotten easier in recent years with green screens. But “ever since Pretorius put ballerinas and kings behind glass in Bride of Frankenstein in 1935, filmmakers have used many different methods to make people appear small onscreen.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Harvey Weinstein Sued For Spying On Actress Who Says He Raped Her
This is complex, but stick with the story of one lawyer suing another lawyer, and Weinstein, in order to kick a D.A.’s investigation back into full gear: “Filler told Variety that he brought the suit in part to determine why the Manhattan D.A.’s probe of de la Huerta’s rape allegations appears to have stalled. ‘Our purpose is to investigate what caused the N.Y. D.A. criminal investigation and criminal prosecution to stall, and to call TWC/HW to account if they used extra-legal means as we believe they did,’ Filler said.”
A Burnt 1600-Year-Old Text Gets An X-Ray, And New Life
The codex was written between 400 and 600 AD, in southern Egypt. “The charred codex was purchased by the Morgan Library in 1962. But no one has opened it for fear of destroying it: The brittle pages have been fused together by a cinder that sank through much of the book, congealing the parchment fibers. Unlike famous codices that have their own names, like the Codex Sinaiticus, this one is known humbly as M.910.”
Bringing Anna Deavere Smith’s Eerily Contemporary Play About Rodney King To Britain, More Than 20 Years Later
The play’s director says: ““It’s shocking how cyclical it all is. … The same problems that existed 25 years ago still exist. And that is down to a lack of platform for a diverse range of voices. Not having that platform means we can’t have the right discussions.”
In 2017, All Three Top-Grossing Hollywood Films Were Led By Women
Interesting, in the year of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement. “You could argue that in a year when powerful men were named and shamed, it is fitting that powerful women are to the fore. Maybe it is a coincidence, not least when you consider how long it takes for a film to be made. But bear in mind, the last time the top three films were fronted by women was back in 1958.”
Betty Woodman, Who Turned Pottery Into A Multimedia Art Practice, Has Died At 87
Woodman bucked trends in high school and beyond. She was the first women artist to be alive when she got a retrospective at the Met in 2006. Art critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote at the time, “At the age of 76, she is beyond original, all the way to sui generis.”
Could ‘Moby Dick’ Help Get Humans To Mars?
OK, sure, why not? “The parallels between the whaling industry and deep human spaceflight are striking. Voyages to the South Seas usually lasted between two and four years, mirroring almost exactly the timeframes associated with a roundtrip journey to Mars. Whalers worked in confined conditions aboard their floating factories, often going months at a time without setting foot on land, prefiguring the cramped space capsules being considered for Mars missions.”
The Wikipedia Rabbit Hole We All Fall Down After Watching ‘The Crown’
Well, this is fun to know: “Traffic to the queen’s Wikipedia page peaked on Dec. 10, when the second season of ‘The Crown’ started streaming. The entry about Princess Margaret (played by Vanessa Kirby) spiked on the same day, and hit No. 37 on the list, just behind Melania Trump. (“I haven’t watched ‘The Crown,’ so I can’t really comment on the version of Princess Margaret that is drawing viewers to this site,” one Wiki editor wrote.) Prince Philip‘s page hits its peak in May when Buckingham Palace announced his retirement in real life, though he’s also played by Matt Smith in ‘The Crown’; he’s No. 44, between ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ and ‘Star Wars.'”
A Woman Who Saved A London Bookstore And Earned A Double First At Cambridge (And Was A Supermodel) Earns The Ire Of A Man ‘Protecting’ Emily Brönte’s Name
So this went over well (read the link for the lengthy backlash): “‘What would Emily Brontë think if she found that the role of chief ‘artist’ and organizer in her celebratory year was a supermodel?’ the biographer, Nick Holland, asked. Mr. Holland said Ms. Cole’s appointment smacked of a desire to be ‘trendy.’ He was quitting the society, he added sarcastically, before it had the chance to announce the comedian James Corden and the singer Rita Ora as future partners.”
The Instagrammable City – A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come
Don’t do this, cities. Or maybe do do this, if you’re a marketer. But wow, what a tool of gentrification Instagram has become. For instance, in a Northeast D.C. neighborhood that is experiencing rapid gentrification: “The murals are fine ones; the splashes of color are nice. But most are very clearly Instagram bait in the service of developers.”