A longitudinal study “found positive outcomes for families that used media such as TV, movies and the Internet ‘as a tool — to laugh together, to become informed, to connect, to spark discussion.’ Such shared activities led to greater levels of personal disclosure for adolescent boys, more positive family functioning for adolescent girls and greater parental involvement for both.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Iceland’s Biennale Artist Wants Her Work To Speak For Itself
“I’d rather see this piece as a thought. It’s an encounter in space. A cave is not usually a place of the moment, yet this cave is. A cave calls to mind minerality and minerals mean time – a stone is time. But this is made of ephemeral material, high-quality cotton paper pulp.”
We’re Addicted To Creating Content, But It Doesn’t Make Us Happy
“Once we buy into a specific apparatus, it’s awfully hard to leave it. Your cultural artifact is locked within that system, constrained by its programming. Notice how another user’s Instagram photo can’t be resized, emailed, or downloaded to your hard drive. It can’t exist within any other ecosystem than Instagram’s.”
Iconic Victorian Gas Structures Are Going Down All Over The UK
“Gasometers were crucially important to the growth of London as a modern city and to Britain as an industrial and post-industrial nation. The use of gas in street lighting, for instance, is a central element in the creation of the modern city and these amazing floating structures are where the gas was eventually stored. They are important as scientific as well as architectural icons and we should preserve the best of them.”
How Drawn & Quarterly Transformed Comics From An All-Male Bastion To Something Slightly Different
“While D&Q has championed female artists, those creators have also helped the company succeed. Its three best-selling cartoonists are Tove Jansson (the ‘Moomin’ series), Lynda Barry (‘What It Is’) and Kate Beaton (‘Hark! A Vagrant’).”
Crowd-Sourced Piracy Gets Crowd-Sourced Chinese Novels Translated
“Vietnamese writer and translator Trang Ha condemned the conservatism of Vietnamese literature, and the paucity of good-quality fiction available to her compatriots. She was speaking in response to the increasing availability of Chinese novels in Vietnam – works which have often taken a convoluted and heavily mediated route to market.”
Remember Esperanto?
“He used Esperanto while traveling when he was younger, bicycling between Esperanto-speaking homes in Korea. He used a free hospitality network, called Pasporta Servo, which lists Esperanto speakers willing to open their homes to fellow Esperantists. Pasporta Servo still exists today.”
Much Maligned And Under Pressure, Library Of Congress Chief Retires
“In a 2013 audit, the library’s inspector general warned that millions of items, some from as far back as the 1980s, remained piled in overflowing buildings and warehouses, virtually lost to the world. In addition, just a small fraction of its 24 million books are available to read online, 200 years after Thomas Jefferson laid the foundation for a vast national library by selling Congress his personal collection of books after the War of 1812.”
Can You Make ‘Othello’ Fresh With Your Casting Choices?
“Might [race] be erased, no longer an issue between the two men – or for the audience, who just get to watch two top-drawer actors? Or might it be highlighted, even encouraging us to see both as victims of prejudice, an Iago consumed with self-loathing?”
How Did A Tiny French Town Become The Site Of An International Film Fest?
“One of the ways the fest accomplished this was by building loyalty among animation royalty, including screenings of the early works of Tim Burton and Pixar’s John Lasseter. That personal connection with the festival keeps filmmakers coming back even after they hit it big.”