But, science says, it’s only good if you take the photos “for the right reasons.” That’s because “when you’re searching the visual field and trying to decide what to photograph, that volitional process of trying to capture a moment actually draws you into experiences.”
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Horror Movies Have A Too Much Information Problem
Basically, we shouldn’t understand the backstory behind evil forces, or we lose our sense of fear. “When filmmakers, writers and producers give us the tools to comprehend a monster, the monster becomes perceptible, and, in becoming perceptible, it becomes considerably less, well, monstrous.”
Can Legislation Return Film-Scoring Jobs To Los Angeles Musicians?
The numbers are grim – “According to International Recording Musicians Association president Marc Sazer, L.A. musicians – who once routinely scored nearly all American movies – have lost substantial ground to London and other European venues. In 2003, nearly 60 percent of feature films were scored by American Federation of Musicians members; by 2015, that number was down to 30 percent” – so a tax credit may soon be in the offing.
Three Detroit Museums Band Together To Address The Riots That Dramatically Changed The City
Two museums whose patronage is supermajority white in a city that’s 80 percent African American combine with a museum that has more appeal to the city’s Black residents in a bid to get Millennials interested in what did happen – and what can happen again. One curator said, “This occurred, and pay attention, because it can happen again.”
The Brouhaha Over The Koch Brothers Funding ‘Wonder Woman’ Reflects Entertainment’s Biggest Problem
Uh, y’all, the system is capitalism, and that means that “the moral ballyhooing or furious condemnation of mainstream art and pop culture often seems undercut by the very fact that, presumably, the process by which most of these works were made will inevitably play into inequality-perpetuating systems in ways that have just as critical — and in some ways, a more direct and immediate — impact on the world as what we’re seeing onscreen.”
Here’s A ‘Shelfie’ Of The Novelist, And Her 12,000 Books
Yes, Hanya Yanagihara (author of A Little Life) has a fair number of books. And she has some opinions about how to shelve them, too: “Anyone who arranges their books by colour doesn’t truly care what’s in the books.”
When The Music Director Writes Things On Scores, The Orchestra’s Music Librarian Must Translate For Everyone Else
At least with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nezet-Seguin, who prefers editions called urtexts (with the composers’ original phrases, dynamics, and notes), says librarian Robert Grossman. “Although the Philadelphia owns more than 5,000 scores and their instrumental parts in the public domain and has another 5,000 scores for pieces written since 1926 whose parts must be rented, this means Grossman is starting with a clean slate when working with the urtext editions.”
Why The Statues Celebrating The Confederacy Need To Come Down
Statues have symbolic power. “The statues in public squares, the names on street signs, the generals honored with military bases — these are the ways in which we, as a society, tell each other what we value, and build the common heritage around which we construct a nation.”
Latin American Galleries Launch A Cooperative In Los Angeles
Here’s a model that could prove sustainable in the middle of the crazed art fair cycle: “At a modest cost of $2,500—the rent divided between the five galleries—each space effectively gets a four-month presence in Los Angeles, as opposed to four days at an art fair.”
Fairy Tales Are Useful, Often As Warnings Or Behavioral Guides
The stories we tell matter: “We are born into a certain world, and how we navigate that world is part spunk and part, frankly, wariness and warning.”