“SCI-Arc bought a century-old rail freight depot that is a quarter of a mile long and about 37 feet wide. The school has been a tenant in the building for 10 years, having failed in an earlier attempt to buy the property.”
Tag: 04.24.11
Shelving Books By Augmented Reality
“A computer scientist at Miami University has developed an augmented reality (AR) app which he hopes can facilitate and speed up the job of finding misplaced books and returning them to their rightful place.”
The Psychology Of “American Idol”otry
“American Idol” the entertainment equivalent of the “tea party” movement… People resent the entertainment industry not because they hate the movies, records, and TV shows it produces, which are, in fact, popular; they hate the industry because, in its arrogance, it seems as if it is superior to the public it serves. We have been its passive receptors, not the initiators. “American Idol” briefly changes that balance of power.
Colorado Symphony Boosts Pay And Expands Season
“The Colorado Symphony and its musicians have ratified a three-year contract that will restore four weeks of pay lost to furloughs and offer a 4.5 percent salary increase for the 2012-13 season. While the contract does not fully restore pay levels prior to substantial cutbacks in 2009-10, it moves significantly in that direction.”
Why We’re Psychologically Hooked To Teams
“It may seem bizarre to argue that a team can strengthen its bond with the people who feel invested in its success by getting its butt kicked. But the link between losing and loyalty is less puzzling to experts in the growing field of fan studies, a burgeoning effort in the academy whose practitioners are interested in how sports fans think and why they feel as intensely as they do about their favorite teams.”
Why Are America’s Major Movies So Stubbornly White?
“The dismay over the overwhelming predominance of whiteness at the movies is almost as old as the movies themselves, but the divergence from normal American experience seems to be, if anything, getting worse.”
After 130 Years, Barcelona’s Famous Sagrada FamÃlia Is Getting Close To Completion. But…
“We have been so long accustomed to the idea that Barcelona’s most famous landmark is a permanent ruin, unfinished and unfinishable, that it comes as a shock to find it is now keeping out the weather, for the first time in its 130 years of making.”
Shakespeare Was Born 447 Years Ago Yesterday. Why Do We Care?
“What’s his secret? You can invoke a higher power for the astounding universality of his work, but that won’t do, especially for anti-Stratfordians. If I had to sell Shakespeare to a class of refuseniks I’d focus on three essentials that separate him from almost every other literary writer.”
The Analog Artists (Not Everything Has To Be Digital)
“The work of these artists is born of a dissatisfaction with digital culture’s obsession with the new, the next, the instant. It values the hand-made, the detailed and the patiently skilful over the instantly upgradeable and the disposable.”
Composer Peter Lieberson, 64
“Mr. Lieberson was an eloquent voice in the generation of composers seeking to infuse the thorny rigors of academic music with a more accessible, lyrical sound.”