“You can go from competition to competition, year-round. There’s a strategy of knowing who is going to be in which competition, so you avoid the stronger candidates. There’s a gaming atmosphere that any smart pianist figures out quickly.”
Tag: 07.08.13
Netflix Is Making Everything (Well, TV And Cable Things) Better
“When people aren’t at the mercy of the TV Guide schedule, it turns out they seek out higher quality programming than when channel surfing.”
How Technology Is Changing What It Means To Be (And To Learn To Be) An Artist
“The technological changes we are witnessing will not threaten conceptual rigor or craft, nor will the ease of expression and communication make art obsolete. But these shifts are changing what we mean by art making and what counts as meaningful, crafted expression.”
How Power Corrupts Our Minds
“A decade of research on power and behavior show there are some predictable ways people react to power, which can be simply defined as the ability to influence others. While power in governments and across the world can come at incredible costs, in a lab, it’s surprisingly simple.”
What Should An Essay Do?
“What should it offer? It finds its etymological roots in the old French essai: to attempt. It blends inquiry and confession into a hybrid weave that deepens each. It draws personal material into public mattering.”
Sufism’s First Lady Of Soul, Abida Parveen
“Anyone who has watched her on stage knows that this magnificent projection of calm often ends up a wild, sweaty, ecstatic mess. She has admitted to hallucinating while deep in performance and she regularly sends her audiences in Pakistan and India into swaying raptures, swooning and fainting being quite standard reactions.”
A New Service For Libraries – 3D Printers
“The lab at Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center will stock three MakerBot Replicator 2 3D printers, two laser cutters, a milling machine and a vinyl cutter, plus a selection of software.”
Big Media Companies In Another Round Of Merge, Consolidate
“The goal is not transformation, but leverage, using size to cut better deals with distributors and suppliers.”
Why Crowdfunding Isn’t Viable For The Arts
“The crowd isn’t a community. It’s a collection of anonymous people connected for a brief moment in a transitory project in which they ultimately have little say. Besides, when it comes to art, at least, it is most successful where there is one creator. If we want good art, crowdsourcing is not the answer.”
Aspen Music Festival Exec: What Ails The Business Of American Classical Music
“In almost all of the problematic cases in recent years, one or more of the “sides” in a dispute is saying that they can’t, or won’t, recognize another side’s good faith, and the rhetoric all around the country has been remarkably poisonous and negative.”