Here’s what three hypothetical artists of different sizes might be pulling down for each album they make, based on musician interviews and industry gossip.
Tag: 02.07.14
How Architecture Gets Off Track: Focusing On Trivial Details
“In a context hugely dominated by specialization, the generalist gets very strange opportunities. There are very few people left to connect the dots. Being a laymen with curiosity, which both of them often are, becomes a virtue.”
Pricing For Tickets To Live Events Has Gotten Crazy. So…
“Simply put, nobody wants to pay prices in the middle anymore… So the arts have figured out how to play the upmarket game. But what about the other end? Where is the Dollar Tree of the arts?”
Dreams Delivered to Your Door Daily
“The poet Mathias Svalina is offering an unusual take on the subscription service model. Throughout the month of June, he will write and deliver dreams to everyone that subscribes to his Dream Delivery Service.” (Available only within delivery area.)
Eve Ensler Shakes You Up
The playwright-impresario-activist who created The Vagina Monologues starts out an interview talking about her One Billion Rising movement to combat violence against women – and ends up, by discussing her near-deadly bout with cancer, affecting her interviewer’s relationship with her own body. (includes video)
How The Internet Has Impacted Our Lives
“Whether we like it or not we are caught up in these flows of technology and as we are carried along by the flows, some barely visible to us, it becomes increasingly difficult to stand back and distinguish between what is good about these innovations and what is not.”
Turning Brainwaves Into Music (Literally)
Put an electrode at the back of your head, and watch a cellist play your thoughts. [VIDEO]
The British Love Fussy Architecture, Says Guy Who Headed Up The Stonehenge Visitors Center Debacle
“The English, he maintains, have what he calls ‘a sweet-tooth aesthetic’, a taste for ornamentation. That taste, he suggests, explains why each square metre of Lincoln Cathedral cost 10 times more than its French equivalents.”
A Life Utterly Devoted To Ballet
“‘Janet Sassoon gave her life to dance like the maiden to the volcano,” says choreographer Alonzo King, who has known Sassoon for decades. ‘Complete, total, unequivocally committed, as a performer, teacher and coach.'”
Our Audio And Video History Is Disappearing. Can We Save It?
“Video tape and audiotape is not a stable format. After 40 or 50 years, they are disintegrating. And the information—pictures, sounds on that physical medium—is disappearing. Unlike a piece of paper or a photograph that might last 100 years, media formats are extremely fragile.”