“Bisexual omnivores. Echoes of Occupy. Time-travelling terrorists. Plus razor-sharp plots and wildly blurred boundaries. A Canadian industry once known for staffing geek-pleasing U.S. productions is redefining the genre with home-grown mashups that are garnering outsize audiences and out-of-this-world buzz.”
Tag: 04.13.13
Okay, Canada, Accept Your Creative Brain Drain
“Arts reporter John Barber discusses with Madeleine White why an artistic brain drain is inevitable in Canada and why Canadians shouldn’t be bothered by it.”
What Does Brünnhilde Do On Her Day Off?
Deborah Voigt: “I’m constantly needing to brush up on things, learn new repertory. I’m also in the process of trying to put together a cabaret act, so I’m being sent music to look at for that.”
Indie Film Could Be Thriving, But Distributors May Be Blocking The Trend
“Even as the rules of financing and distribution are rapidly changing, with the rise of Internet fund-raising services like Kickstarter and video-on-demand distribution via the likes of iTunes, film distributors are still following an unoriginal playbook.”
‘Django Unchained’ May Reopen Soon In China
“One person who was briefed on plans for the film said late Friday that it would undergo additional cuts to qualify it for the Chinese film market, following some slight earlier changes to its presentation of bloodshed.”
Oregon Ballet Loses A Star To Monaco
“For the past two or three years, I’ve been thinking about going to dance in Europe,” Threefoot says. “There’s a different dance culture there. It’s much more contemporary, and that’s the kind of movement that I feel the most comfortable in.”
Photographers Join The Self-Publishing Revolution
“Having long since shaken off the kind of stigma that still attaches to, say, self-published fiction, the self-published photobook is currently a mini-phenomenon within the bigger thriving culture of photography book publishing.”
How To Succeed At Self-Published Photography Books? Work Incredibly Hard
The self-publishing process is “painstakingly laborious because every design element is considered and becomes part of the work.”
No, Selling One-Way Tickets To Mars Isn’t Crazy
“It is about whether we are able to survive in a whole new environment–in a small community and a micro-ecosystem, growing our own food and building almost everything from scratch. In a sense, it will be comparable to what human explorers did in the prehistoric age.”
Margaret Thatcher Left Quite A Mark On The British Arts
“Political pop was not born in 1979. But it received an almighty fillip with the Thatcher era, allowing everyone from Billy Bragg to Wham! to rally around loathing of one of the most hated figures of modern times.”