Jimmy O. Yang says that even his Uber job – a job he got after buying a car with the money he made doing three days of filming for the show Silicon Valley – helped him prep to be a comedian. “There were some stupid drunk people every now and then but, for the most part, people were very nice, and I’m a people person. In a way, I was just kind of running my stand-up material on some of these people, just chatting them up.”
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These Architects Turned Their Office – Logically, They Say – Into A Working Farm
And it’s in London – as in, in the city. “Many architects have a yearning for the primitive hut, but few can boast pigs outside the window of their office. ‘It does lead to some awkward phone calls. … Clients ask what the grunting noise is in the background.'”
Robot Intimacy Can Never Be Enough For Humans
Just in case you were worried, sex is going to keep happening – between (and among) humans, even when we have sex robots – and humans will still need other humans to take care of them as well, not just care robotos. “This is an intimacy that does not make room for human empathy or what human beings in their bodies experience as the fear of death, loneliness, illness, pain. We diminish as the seeming empathy of the machine increases. It is technology forcing us to forget what we know about life.”
Critics To The Academy: Just No On The ‘Popular Oscar’
And the changes in ‘streamlining’ the awards ceremony by cutting the designers out of the telecast? Whew. “The folks below-the-line are the artisans and craftspeople that make a movie speak and sparkle. … You’d think one night a year, Hollywood could find the time to acclaim them for the magic that would be impossible without them.”
A Director With A History Of Violence Quits A Jessica Chastain Movie
The Australian director Matthew Newton, who has convictions for domestic abuse and who also has a history of punching men (a taxi driver and a hotel clerk), wrote the action movie Eve. Chastain’s production company is one of the producers of the movie, and she was set to star in it. “Ms. Chastain’s involvement with Mr. Newton’s movie was particularly jarring to many of the critics. The actress has spoken out in the past about increasing gender diversity in Hollywood, and has said she refused to work with Harvey Weinstein because of his reputation.”
Restoring Some Painted-Over Banksy Murals In Glasgow
The murals were part of the artist’s early work, in a 2001 exhibition. “Six years later, and long after Banksy had established himself as an international artist, the murals were covered with grey emulsion during refurbishment work at the nightclub.” Oops. Now, carefully, they’re being uncovered again.
The Push To Erase A Monumental Gender Gap
Time’s just about up for dude-focused statuary: “In the United States, there are about 5,200 public statues depicting historical figures, according to The Smithsonian’s Art Inventories Catalog. Very few of those — fewer than 400, according to one account in The Washington Post — are of women.”
Netflix Originals Predominate Its August Releases For The First Time, Marking A Sea-Change in Streaming
“The aggressive move toward original programming is having a palpable effect on content available to subscribers and reflects Netflix’s ambition to dominate Hollywood. The Los Gatos, Calif., company has already upended traditional distribution models and is now lessening its reliance on content from competing studios to fill its direct-to-consumer pipeline.” But without Disney and other licensed content, can Netflix compete in the streaming market for long?
Making Instagram Art That Owes More To Horror Than To Conventional Notions Of Beauty
It’s not all make-up tutorials, beauty influencers, and traditionally contoured faces over there anymore. Instead, sci-fi and horror are having their Instagram day, with various accounts “marrying the macabre and the glamorous. They have antecedents in the work of Alexander McQueen, 1990s club kids, Cindy Sherman (currently posting eerie self-portraits on her own Instagram account) and Lady Gaga.”
Profit Flop At Sotheby’s
“Arcane side deals” trouble the waters, and the value, of the auction house.