“According to a manager at [Manhattan’s] Drama Book Shop, online sales have spiked thanks to Manuel’s efforts. ‘After having an inundation through water, we had an inundation on Internet through orders.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Every Single Movie Studio And Most TV Makers Failed (Hard) In New Study
“When we start to step back to see this larger ecology, I think we see a picture of exclusion. … And it doesn’t match the norms of the population of the United States.”
How Voiceover Actors Make Drug Ads Less Scary
“‘The challenge is saying all these really scary things, but in a way that people aren’t frightened,’ said Debbie Irwin, a New York-based voice actor who also does medical narration. Irwin has done voiceover work for hospitals, medical technology companies, and drugs like Surfaxin, a treatment for a respiratory condition. The tone Irwin tries to take? ‘Warm but factual,’ she said. ‘Absolutely I’m gonna sound like I know what the hell I’m talking about.'”
Teen Movies Used To Care About Working-Class Kids, But Now? Nope
“Documentaries will be the best record of this time in our country’s history. Documentaries aren’t as hopeful as movies. They’re not as pretty either, but they’ll give it to us straight. They’ll give us the cash-poor, or the crazy, or horrifyingly illegal practices of the filthy rich, or racially-infused violence. They’ll deliver subjects that filmmakers have otherwise been avoiding.”
The Art Of An Anti-Capitalist Mini-Golf Course
“A sculpture by John Akomfrah forces you to putt into the face of a kneeling figure wearing a hoodie – an obstacle inspired by the deaths of African Americans killed by the police in the US.”
The International Filmmakers Flipping Hollywood’s Scripts
“Increasingly films such as ‘Sivas’ and other foreign-language movies, including those nominated for this year’s Academy Awards, are chipping at the edges of American dominance. Talented directors and advances in digital filmmaking are helping countries rarely associated with movie production to gain acclaim for turning out intriguing counter-narratives to familiar themes.”
We Use Digital Technology To Store Our History, But That’s A Problem
“Centuries ago, people also felt overwhelmed by too much information. They thought it was terrible to print in books, and even people like Thomas Jefferson thought the downfall of the world would be all these people reading novels and entertaining themselves.”
Some Forms Of Dementia Can Elicit – And Explain – A Creative Flowering
“What if the failure of language itself were the cause of the enhanced creativity, one form of expression compensating for the loss of another?”
Turns Out LACMA Isn’t The Only Museum To Be Given A House
Still, it’s pretty rare to see “an encyclopedic museum of art acquiring a piece of architecture as an object for its permanent collection.”
Tech Is Great! And Also, We Have No Idea How To Just Sit With Ourselves Anymore
“To say I welcomed most of these diversions while I was laid up is an understatement. I stayed tuned in to developments at work by hanging out in Slack. I kept up with news on Twitter. I responded to get well wishes on Facebook Messenger. I sent emojis to friends in group texts.”