Over the past six months, British opera has taken three or four giant strides into the 21st century.
Tag: 06.25.11
Netizens Of The World, Working Together, Make One Heck Of A Photography Scholar
When news, along with excerpts, of an album of rare World War II photos was posted on blogs at The New York Times and Der Spiegel, it took the Web’s collective hive mind all of three hours to identify the previously unknown German photographer.
What’s The Best Newspaper Column Ever?
“The National Society of Newspaper Columnists has weighed in on the question of what it considers the finest example of its craft.” (Well, in a US paper, evidently.) And no, Virginia, the winner is not about Santa Claus.
As US School Budgets Shrink, School Libraries Start To Close
One sad example: “The schools superintendent in Lancaster, Pa., said he had to eliminate 15 of the district’s 20 librarians to save full-day kindergarten classes.”
Filming Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake In 3D
Fiona Morris, the executive producer of the new 3D film of the piece, talks about some of the challenges she and her colleagues faced – from shooting with multiple cameras versus single cameras to what happened when most of the world’s 3D film stock washed away in the recent Japanese tsunami.