Corporations of all sorts have long used focus groups and surveys to find out what their customers are thinking. With the Council of Stellar Management, CCP has taken that idea an unlikely step further: allowing its customers, the Eve players, to elect their own representatives to express concerns and suggestions directly to the company. CCP then flew the nine players here at its expense to wield the brickbats. The company plans to repeat the exercise every six months.
Tag: 06.27.08
Art Shortages And The Art Market
“If extreme scarcity makes it easier to exaggerate the merit of the remaining works by artists whose truly great pictures rarely come up at auction, it also leads to some real gems being overlooked. As art supplies shrink, so does connoisseurship – the most gifted connoisseurs are only as good as the sum total of what they have trained their eyes on.”
Boston’s MFA Raises A Record $500 Million
The Museum of Fine Arts has reached its $500 million fund-raising goal, the largest sum for a campaign by an arts institution in Boston history.
Man Caught While Trying To Sell Stolen Monet
“A Frenchman living in Florida was charged with attempting to sell a Claude Monet painting and three other artworks stolen at gunpoint last year from the Museum of Fine Arts in Nice, France.”
Chinese Writers Getting Established On The Web
City of Books, Shanghai’s largest book store, takes up six stories, and more and more, books that first showed up on the Internet are turning up on the shelves there.
Why The Screen Actors Guild Won’t Strike
“If (when) the AFTRA deal is approved, SAG seems likely to be left as the lone holdout. At some point, it seems clear that SAG will have to sue for peace. Perhaps the studios will give SAG a fig leaf–allow the union to say it improved on AFTRA’s terms in a couple of respects. But entertainment attorney Jonathan Handel, who keeps a watchful eye on Hollywood’s labor turmoil, puts it this way: SAG has overplayed a weak hand.”
Ethiopia Bans Country’s First Nude Photo Ahow as Pornograpghy
Ethiopia has imposed a ban on what had been billed as the Horn of Africa nation’s first exhibition of nude photography
The Live Album Is Dead
“It is time to say farewell to some of the greatest albums ever made, albums that made careers, defined genres, and celebrated the raw power of music. Because the live album, once a rite of passage for every act of substance, is dead.”
Prado: Famed Goya Painting Was Actually By Pupil
“Francisco de Goya’s arresting image of a brooding giant rising above a stampede of terrified people and animals has held pride of place for decades in Madrid’s Prado museum. But in an announcement set to raise a storm in the art world, the museum said yesterday that the celebrated El Coloso was not by the Spanish master after all, and was probably painted by a pupil in his studio.”
Movie Box Office Plunges In UK
“Last month there was a 19 per cent drop in cinema admissions. Uninspiring movie releases and the economic downturn are being blamed by cinemas for a fall in admissions which, they say, could be down by 11 million this year.”