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“When Love opened, in 2006, some critics raised an eyebrow at the prediction by Apple and Cirque that it would run for 10 years. How many Beatles fans, after all, were likely to travel to Las Vegas to see a site-specific acrobatic show?”
Category: AUDIENCE
A New Tactile Language Helps Create Comic Books For The Blind
“‘Comic books have a language,’ says comic artist Ilan Manouach. ‘They have specific devices’ to convey certain actions or emotions, like ‘a lightbulb, [or] a drop of sweat,’ that get lost when a visual story is translated into a fully language-based one. But Manouach believes he’s found a way to overcome that particular hurdle.”
Big Tech Killed Bookstore Chains – And It’s Saving Indie Bookstores
“It’s a bit of tech innovators being hoisted by their own petard: the massive drop in cost in back-office software and computers has benefitted small stores as much as a large ones. It costs much less now to do much more than a decade [ago], reducing overhead and improving efficiency.”
Remember What It Was Like To Shop For Classical Records In Stores?
“Sic transit gloria disci.” Mark Obert-Thorn reminisces about the unexpected finds, the in-store appearances by musicians, the passionate sales clerks, and the discussions with other customers in what was, not so long ago, one of the best cities for classical record shopping in the country.
What Pizza Delivery Big Data Tells Us About Ourselves
“During O.J. Simpson’s famous, slow-speed police chase in the summer of ’94, Domino’s Pizza reported record-breaking pizza sales. (According to the same company, not a single person in the entire country ordered a pizza from them during the five minutes the Simpson verdict was read out the following year.)”
Hollywood Finds A New Mine For Source Material: YouTube
“YouTube has become a go-to place for budding filmmakers to share short movies that previously wouldn’t have had the opportunity to reach a wide audience.”
The ‘Final Harry Potter’ Book Creates Excitement Like Nothing Seen Since The (Final) Harry Potter Book In 2007
“In New York and across the country, so-called Potterheads swarmed bookstores Saturday night and into Sunday morning to celebrate the release, as if they had found the secret winged key that not only let them back into their childhoods but also opened the door to another generation.”
Why Is Buying Concert (Or Hamilton) Tickets Such A Rigged System?
And what if the extremes are what the price actually *should* be?
This Week In Audience, When Fans Feel They Own The Art Edition
This Week: Are artists now a weapon for developers?… When fans as creators believe they own the artists’ work… It’s getting tougher to figure out which music is popular… Bots increasingly compete with audiences for tickets… Audio books have become a big market for publishers.
Can Arts Organizations Reflect Reality Without More Diversity On Their Boards?
“The boards of all these organizations are receiving contradictory messages. … On one hand, they’re being told, ‘You have to raise more private money.’ On the other, they’re being told, ‘You need to diversify and elect people who may or may not be able to raise that money.'”