“It definitely crossed my mind, if someone wanted to be a huge asshole or was so protective of their work that they didn’t want anyone whispering its name, that they could potentially have a problem with this idea.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Want To See Mind-Bending Ballet Poses? These Russian Dancers Have You Covered
The Bolshoi and several other ballet Instagram accounts give some insight into the world of Russian ballet (gnarly feet, fashion shoots and more included).
The FCC Is About To Give You (Physical) Control Over Your Cable Box
“Even as computers, wireless phones and other electronic devices have become cheaper, the cost of renting cable boxes has been increasing. That’s because cable companies have made it incredibly hard for customers to buy and use their own machines.”
The Value Of Real Architecture In A Strip-Malled State
“Cities traded rich architectural histories — marked by encounters and conflicts between Native Americans, the Spanish, the French, and later arrivals from Europe and the Caribbean — for easy money in the form of modern coastal development. This makes sense; there is money in waterfront property. But this is no charming Nantucket or Cape Cod; my city doesn’t even pull a San Francisco and have a touristy wharf.”
YOLA And Gustavo Dudamel Nail Their Super Bowl Appearance
“Classical music’s vaunted elitism is tissue-paper thin: The field is always almost pitiably hungry for validation from the pop world, while appearing to disdain it. But if the field is really eager to win over young audiences, this is the way to do it.”
The UK’s Funding Cuts Are Destroying Regional Museums
“A public protest on the scale of the movement fighting for the preservation of local libraries has yet to get under way. So far, the British public seem to feel less ownership of their neighbourhood museum. But anger is growing, with campaign groups springing up to protect specific gems.”
The Second Act Of Pamela Anderson
“Pamela became a celebrity in a different age. … Her heirs to the throne of tabloid notoriety have no such luxury, nor do they desire it. The celebs created by Instagram and YouTube became famous to be seen; what’s the point of privacy? Now that every would-be Kardashian can send out a constant, direct-to-consumer stream of staged intimacy and selfies, access—the longtime currency of fame—has been upended. Pamela, whose image was ubiquitous before ubiquity could be juiced with retweets, is left in the strange position of having to renegotiate the nature of her own public image.”
Rabindranath Tagore, In A New Translation, Is Too Sexy For China
“‘Most Chinese grew up thinking Tagore was mild and romantic, all stars, gardens and flowers,’ Mr. Feng said in a recent interview in his Beijing studio. ‘So with my translation, many people felt like their Tagore, the Tagore from their childhood textbooks, had been challenged.'”
Is Twitter Becoming Facebook? (And Does Anyone Not Already On Twitter Care?)
“It tears conversations apart, and it’s really confusing when some people have been live-tweeting an event and those things get scattered all across my timeline. It makes it extremely hard to follow events, and destroys one of the core values of Twitter, in my opinion.”
Our Phone Addiction And What It Really Means (Or Does It?)
“If so much of what we do on the Internet is harmful to us, and harmful to one another, perhaps we should do less of it. But that turns out to be not so simple. There’s no clear boundary between a hard-to-quit behavior and a compulsive one.”