For at least seven years, film studios and theaters have been hyping digital projectors and the crisp, clear picture quality they will bring to movie screens. Yet the vast majority of the nation’s cinemas are still using old analog projectors. Despite the economic and visual advantages of digital projection, out of the nation’s more than 38,000 movie screens, only around 2,200 have digital projectors.
Tag: 03.21.07
Paul Taylor’s Music
Choreographer Paul Taylor’s “range has always been, well, rangy — which is how he was sometimes described when he was a tall, swift, astonishing dancer, first in Martha Graham’s company, then in his own, which turned 50 in 2004. The reach of Taylor’s musical choices have matched the complexity and speed of his choreography, fulfilled by the remarkable movers he continues to teach, challenge, and inspire.”
France Gets Into Gaming
With a few strokes of the bureaucratic pen, France has officially raised video game design to an art form, placing it alongside literature and art on the list of professions deserving of national recognition and even subsidy. “For some French officials, games are beginning to serve as an outlet for France’s creative energies, but will need nurturing and state patronage to flourish.”
Study: One In Eight Kids Are Bullied By Text Message
“Twenty-one per cent of girls were victims of cyber-bullying last year, while ten per cent of boys were victimised. Fifteen per cent of pupils reported suffering harassment via text or the Internet.”
How To Stop Boring Theatre Audiences
“Boring an audience is the one true sin in theatre. We’ve been boring audiences for decades now, and they’ve responded by slowly withdrawing their patronage. I don’t care that the recent production of The Seagull at the Royal Court was sold out. To 95% of the population, the theatre (musicals aside for now) is an irrelevance. Of that 95%, we have managed to lure in maybe 10% at some point in their lives, and we’ve so swiftly and thoroughly bored them that they’ve never returned.”
Manchester Joins The Festival Sweepstakes
“The world’s first industrial city is hoping to show the world a thing or two about innovation with a festival of the new works and world premieres: 25 specially commissioned productions, performances and projects will be seen and heard across Manchester between June 28 and July 15.”
Superstore As Invasive Species
“Big superstores and chain retailers were allowed to spread by planners, town councils and governments in awe of big business. But then it started to go wrong. The chains became the economic equivalent of invasive species: hungry, indiscriminate, often antisocial and destructive. When no one was paying much attention, the superstores and cloned shops grew to dominate and suffocate the economic ecosystem.”
Descent Into Tackiness (Why Channel 4?)
“When it started on November 2 1982, [the UK’s] Channel 4 was conceived of as a public-service broadcaster, commercially self-funded yet publicly owned, originally by the Independent Broadcasting Authority. Where, one might be forgiven for asking, did it all go wrong?”
Seminal Rothko For Auction
David Rockefeller is “selling a seminal painting by Mark Rothko for what the auction house hopes will be more than $40 million. The painting is a particularly sensuous example of Rothko’s abstract work during his most important years. It will be the star of the sale at Sotheby’s, which has consistently lagged behind Christie’s in recent years and has been aggressive about securing prestigious property for this spring’s auctions.”
A Link Between Brain And Moral Judgment
Researchers have discovered that brain injury can affect moral judgment. In the study, victims of an injury “expressed increased willingness to kill or harm another person if doing so would save others’ lives. The finding could have implications for legal cases. Jurors have reduced sentences based on brain-imaging results, and experts say that any evidence of damage to this ventromedial area could sway judgments of moral competency in some cases.”