“Jamie Hendry Productions, which is producing the show, set out to raise £650,000 using an online platform the company created specially for the project, with investment available at £1,000, £2,500 or £5,000.”
Tag: 02.12.14
What Might George Gershwin Have Accomplished If He Hadn’t Died At 38?
There seems no outer limit to what he might have accomplished; the trajectory he dreamed of was always, only up.
Binge TV Watching As “Restorative Experience”
“The term ‘restorative experiences’ was coined by University of Michigan psychologist Stephen Kaplan. He wanted to understand why walks in the park, or even looking at a picture of a landscape, can recharge your mental batteries.”
How Fast Can You Read? Here’s A Test
“If you maintained this reading speed, you could read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy in 11 hours and 1 minute,” I am told. Well, I think if I maintained that speed, my brain would combust, and I was cheating a bit…
Why The Literary “Hatchet Job” Prize Doesn’t Work In Today’s Culture
“The Hatchet Job – as all self-styled rebellions and expressions of naughtiness do – relies on the idea of a flourishing literary culture, peopled with literary colossi wielding influence with every metaphor they scrutinise, pontificating weekly in seemingly endless literary sections, dominating the stage on television arts shows, venerated across the land. Oh. Right.”
Arts World Welcomes Nomination Of Jane Chu To Lead NEA
Chu “has a reputation for fundraising prowess and executing major projects in times of fiscal uncertainty.”
How Goodreads Became A Successful Social Networking Site
“We launched the site thinking it would be a good way to find books through your friends. We didn’t fully anticipate the strength of the communities that cropped up, where people were friending not just people they knew in real life but people they had been meeting on the site.”
Why Writers Are Epic Procrastinators
“Most writers manage to get by because, as the deadline creeps closer, their fear of turning in nothing eventually surpasses their fear of turning in something terrible. But I’ve watched a surprising number of young journalists wreck, or nearly wreck, their careers by simply failing to hand in articles.”
Germany to Create Independent Center To Find Nazi-Looted Art
“Germany will set up an independent center to comb museum collections for art looted by the Nazis, the country’s culture minister said, shortly before representatives for the son of an art dealer tied to Hitler disclosed another hidden cache of paintings.”
Ballet Grand Dames to Today’s Dancers: Quit Yer Bellyachin’ (We Danced Through the Blitz)
“Two grandes dames of [British] classical ballet” – Gillian Lynne and Beryl Grey – “have ridiculed repeated claims that today’s dancers are driven to exhaustion and starvation and say pushing them to the limit is the nature of the art.”