“Prosecutors have been complaining that shows like CSI are creating the expectation that every trial must feature high-tech forensic tests. They fear that when they don’t show off CSI-style technology, juries might let criminals get away with murder.” But is the effect real?
Tag: 02.06.11
Google Gallery – The Peace To Enjoy Art
“Google maintains that, beyond details you may not have noticed before, you can see things not normally visible to the human eye. And it is probably true. Still, the most unusual aspects of the experience are time, quiet and stasis: you can look from a seated position in the comfort of your own home or office cubicle, for as long as you want, without being jostled or blocked by other art lovers.”
Why Artist Colonies Are Important
“According to the website of the Alliance of Artists Communities, an umbrella group, more than 800 artists colonies exist around the world ‘supporting today’s artist in the creation of new work essential to human progress — not as a luxury, not as a leisure activity, but as a vital and necessary force in society.’ According to the alliance, more than 15,000 artists are in residence at colonies annually.”
Links Between Poetry And Madness
“The incidence of mood disorders, suicide and institutionalisation was 20 times higher among major British and Irish poets between 1600 and 1800 according to a study by psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison. In other words, poets are 20 times more likely to end up in an asylum than the general population. Science has puzzled to explain it.”
Random Act Of Art
Those people suddenly getting up to sing in shopping malls? It’s art baby, and an attempt by one foundation to more closely weave it into everyday life. “Our hypothesis is that people care about the arts, and if you analyze where they are and bring art to them, they will be passionate about it.”
Bhimsen Joshi, One of India’s Greatest Classical Singers, Dead at 88
“An artist in the Hindustani, or North Indian, musical tradition, Mr. Joshi was renowned as a master of the khayal, a genre of vocal concert music. … [He] was familiar to a vast public in South Asia through his live concerts, many recordings and performances on Indian film soundtracks.”
Transliterating Birdsong Into English
“Some of these sounds are hard to imagine, given only the transcription on the page: Would the kddddrrddi of the summer tanager sound different with another d more or less? Likewise, distinguishing the br-r-r-r-rt of the dicksissel from the brrt of the bank swallow and the tsip of the lark sparrow from the tsiip of the chipping sparrow must take a practiced ear.”
Russian Ballet Company for Big Girls Forced to Lower Standards
The “Big Ballet,” a company created by choreographer Evgeny Panfilov to show that heavy women can dance with grace and technical skill, has had to lower its minimum weight requirement from 108 kg (238 lbs) to 95 kg (210 lbs) in order to hire enough ballerinas for its upcoming UK tour. (The producers blame fitness campaigns in the media.)
Spider-Man Becomes Pop-Culture Punch Line – And Keeps On Selling Tickets
Julie Taymor’s $65 million musical “has been lampooned on every major late-night comedy show and by The Onion, which portrayed the producers as still being optimistic about the show despite a nuclear bomb’s detonating during a preview.” Joan Rivers’s suggestion: “Hire a stunt person to fall on someone every three or four weeks – that’ll keep audiences showing up.”
Wynton Marsalis Defines Swing
“[Imagine that] we just met on a plane and started talking. Man, we’d have so much in common. I got to figure out when I’m going to be quiet and when I’m going to ask you something. You have to figure out what you’re going to pick up on. We’re swinging! So the ultimate swing is when opposite poles comes together and are forced into a dance with each other.”