The fact it has to offer thousands of movies is quite expensive. And not necessarily efficient. Pay-per-view services might be more cost-effective and chew up Netflix’s model. – The Conversation
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Watch Workers 1000 Feet Up Building The Chrysler Building
This footage from 1929 and 1930 of the building’s construction – including the placement of an iconic 61st-floor Art Deco eagle – showcases how these workers were less comfortable delivering canned lines for the cameras than they were sitting atop beams hundreds of feet high. – Aeon
YouTube Used To Be About User Content. No Longer
It’s first tagline was “broadcast yourself.” But more recently, big video producers have begun to dominate the platform, changing it. – OneZero
Arts Organizations Laying Off Their Education Staff? Isn’t That Backwards?
In a now infamous email, the Museum of Modern Art told its museum educators “it will be months, if not years, before we anticipate returning to budget and operations levels to require educator services.” – Creative Generation
The Touching Story Of Maria Abramovic And Ulay’s Walk On The Great Wall Of China
To the Chinese who encountered the artists, they were of great curiosity. Having originally believed themselves to be the sole players and audience for their walk, they found everything they did was witnessed as if a performance. – The Guardian
The Virtual World Is Awash In Streaming Film Services
Aside from drive-ins, we can’t go to the movies. A trickle are coming out online, but “if you thought choosing a film at the multiplex was difficult, finding that same new movie in the current hodgepodge is potentially paralyzing.” – The New York Times
Actors Quarantined At Home Are Making A New Form Of Theatre Using Virtual Reality
A virtual reality piece released last October seemed like a wild, enjoyable experiment at the time. But now, the piece (which, not incidentally, is keeping at least 18 actors employed) “shows one potential way forward, a future where the worlds of home technology and theater coalesce to build not just fresh experiences but carve out new business models.” – Los Angeles Times
Edward James Olmos Thinks Hollywood Needs To Step Up Its Understanding Of Latinx Actors
The Oscar nominee (for Stand and Deliver) is quarantining alone and promoting a virtual film festival in Los Angeles. Of his friends who are Latino actors, he says, “We want to be known as American actors. That’d be the correct way, but it isn’t. And I knew it would never be in my lifetime. I knew that we had to first be known as American Latinos, and carry that very strongly and proudly, for us to then be able to not have to use it anymore.” – The New York Times
In Case You Missed Christine Baranski, Meryl Streep, And Audra McDonald Singing For Sondheim
Please immediately click on this link. Just do. – The Hollywood Reporter
One Of London’s Top Ceramic Collection Lived In A Two-Bedroom Apartment In Public Housing
That is, until its Buddhist monk owner developed dementia and decided to let his collection go. – The Observer (UK)