“Najjar was inspired to reach space after climbing Mount Aconcagua, the world’s second-highest peak. ‘I was looking out over the whole sweeping range of the Andes, when suddenly a Swiss Air Boeing 747 from Santiago passed just over my head and moved on its way through the deep blue sky,’ Najjar writes in his photo book. ‘It was completely surreal. And at this moment I thought, you’ve gotta go one step further; you’ve gotta go into space.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Closing A Tax Loophole For Amazon Accidentally Hits Self-Published Authors Hardest
“All fair and square? Not really. For microbusinesses faced with the job of calculating myriad tax rates, the new regime is an administrative nightmare.”
FIFA’s Bad Week Continues As Its Puff Film Flops – Seriously – In The U.S.
“Frédéric Auburtin’s film, funded by the football governing body and starring Tim Roth as Sepp Blatter, scored $607 from its 10-cinema limited run, according to the Hollywood Reporter. One cinema, the FilmBar in Phoenix, Arizona, reported one ticket sold, a site take of $9.”
Sony Confirms That Apple Is About To Debut A Music Streaming Service
“‘What does Apple bring to this?’ Morris said. ‘Well, they’ve got $178 billion dollars in the bank. And they have 800 million credit cards in iTunes. … I think that will have a halo effect on the streaming business.”
The Tragedy Of The Digital Commons – And What People Are Doing About It
“The designers of Turkopticon and its cousins draw attention to common problems, hoping to influence longer-term change on a complex issue. In time, the idea goes, requesters on Mechanical Turk might change their treatment of workers, Amazon might change its policies and software, or regulators might set new rules for digital labor. This is an approach with a long history in an area that might seem unlikely: the conservation movement.”
Virginia Symphony Loses So Much Funding, It Won’t Play At Colonial Williamsburg On The Fourth Of July
“They approached the Williamsburg City Council, which indicated it would kick in about $23,000 to pay for the orchestra. And they launched an online Kickstarter campaign to raise another $31,000 to pay for the staging, audio set-up and large video screen. But this year’s efforts weren’t successful.”
London Mayor Guarantees Public Monies For Garden Bridge
“The London mayor had promised that no more public money would be used on the project, following a £30m injection of cash by Transport for London. But Johnson has decided that the capital’s taxpayers will guarantee the future maintenance of the bridge – a decision that could mean considerable extra funding in future years.”
10 Contemporary Italian Filmmakers You Should Know
They make films about sex, society, violence, the city, the country, gender … and so much more.
The Literary Force Who Started And Still Runs One Of The Oldest Black Publishing Houses In The U.S.
“He writes energetically and reads voraciously, has a personal collection of ‘some 50,000 books and growing’ and cannot recall ever reading a book that he did not like. He can, however, easily and vividly remember the book that started it all.”
Tony-Winning ‘Fun Home’ Playwright Lisa Kron On Primal Desire And The American Musical
“Anyone who makes things knows — you always go into it naive. You wouldn’t do it if you knew what was going to happen to you; you are transformed by it. In that deep imagining, in that deep imaginative identification, you lose yourself. You lose control.”