OK, this is just cool, especially if you’re mature enough to remember the launch of Voyager in 1977: “Using audio from the original tapes from the 1970s, a small team in California has put the Golden Record on vinyl for the first time. The set contains three LPs and a book of the photos that were encoded in the original record.”
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Is The Podcast Score A New Art Form?
The makers of “Serial” and “S-Town” want you to think so. “As podcasts grow in popularity and ambition, they’re proving an exciting laboratory for original music, essentially creating a new art form.”
Looking For A Book That Explains The United States? Here Are Three For Each State To Get You Started
Hey, it’s the end of the summer, and people are traveling (if they’re not already back in school): “Whenever I’m visiting a new place, and particularly if I’m going to spend a good deal of time there, I like to find my way in with a book—either a book about the history of the area or one that’s simply set there, so that I can get a feel for its rhythms, the cadences and locations that will soon become familiar to me. That is, I’m looking for a kind of recognition. A reference point, if you will.”
The First Job As Artistic Director Of A Nonprofit: Listening To The Stressed-Out Staff Complain
Christopher Morgan’s second job as new artistic director of the beloved Dance Place: “zeroing in on how to make his studios available to local choreographers. He’d like to develop ‘space grants.'”
How Did This Berlin Underpass Become One Of The Biggest Action Stars Of The Past Decade?
This place has a great IMDb page: “Since doubling as the exterior of a Moscow airport in 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy, the distinctive orange-tiled walls and pillars of the Messedamm underpass have been seen in Joe Wright’s Hanna in 2011, 2015’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, last year’s Captain America: Civil War and Charlize Theron spy thriller Atomic Blonde, released earlier this month.”
Tobe Hooper, Director Of ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ And ‘Poltergeist,’ Has Died At 74
The director became a legend of horror with the 1974 Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which was shot for less than $300,000, was banned in several countries for its violence, and then became one of the most profitable indie movies of the decade.
Netflix Capitalizes On Our Emotions, Including, Especially, Anticipation
It’s science! “Netflix’s deluge of announcements is, for the most part, a welcomed high at a time that has taken us to new lows—often with no roadmap to find our way back. What’s not as obvious is the camouflaged science behind these announcements: Netflix’s long game.”
‘Gone With The Wind’ Is No Longer Going To Be An Annual Tradition At This Memphis Theatre
The Orpheum Theatre screened the film on August 11, the same day of the white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville – and commenters weren’t shy about connecting the two. The president of the Orpheum Theatre Group says the decision was made before Charlottesville, but: “As an organization whose stated mission is to ‘entertain, educate and enlighten the communities it serves,’ the Orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population.”
Artist Ron Athey, Who Left The Country After The NEA Backlash To His ‘Solar Anus’ In The 1990s, Is Back
Athey says, “Being contextualized in art history for your asshole alone is a feat.” But he adds that if he hadn’t become a performance artist, he would have been a landscaper rescuing Los Angeles from its raggedy lawns. “I’d rather see a nice xeriscaped garden than some poor lawn. I love the garden. I would have a botanical garden — the botanical garden with all the special poison and psychedelic plants.”
In 10,000 Rediscovered Somali Recordings, Remembering A Very Different Mogadishu
Yes, Somalia was under military rule, but it was a military rule that supported the arts and music. One singer from the time:”We had bars in Mogadishu and five nightclubs. We travelled from city to city and performed in hotels and bars. Those were the golden years.”