Media psychologist Stuart Fischoff, “says Winfrey is a master of impression management. … People seek leaders who will guide their decisions, according to Fischoff, and he says Winfrey exhibits the very qualities people look for in leaders – authenticity and trust. … Plus, he adds, Winfrey is smart and unguarded with her faults, which shows her humanity.”
Tag: 11.20.09
Crowdsourced Animation Through Facebook
With dozens of animators pitching in through a specially built Facebook application, the slick clip from the crowdsourcing specialists at Mass Animation is a rare “art by committee” success story.
How Downloading Is Changing Music
“Digital downloading and distribution, illegally or otherwise, has had a greater effect on the recording industry than anything in its history. As the legal variety grows rapidly, driven most significantly by iTunes, so those old-school players are having to adopt radical new business plans to compete in the brave new world of music.”
Has Paris Nightlife Gone To Sleep?
“According to an online petition entitled “When the Night Quietly Dies,” which was organized by a group from the techno and electronic music scene, the City of Lights is in danger of becoming the “European Capital of Sleep.” Among the complaints listed in the petition are the closure of leading bars, strict rules on noise and smoking regulations.”
YouTube To Provide Automatic Subtitles
The titles will make it possible for deaf users to read videos. “The machine-generated captions will initially be generated in English. At first they will only be found on 13 channels.”
Best Documentary Oscar Semifinalists Announced; Guess Who’s Missing?
“Most of the top-grossing and critically praised documentaries of the year [are not on the list], including Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story, Chris Rock’s Good Hair, the struggling rock band chronicle Anvil! The Story of Anvil and R.J. Cutler’s inside peek at Vogue magazine, The September Issue. (The Michael Jackson doc This Is It was released too late to be eligible.)
NY Times Recognizes Seattle As ‘A Proud And Meaningful Theater Town’
Brian Colburn, managing director of the Intiman Theatre, tells the paper: “There’s probably as much theater here as in the city of Los Angeles, but the population is one-sixth the size. You can walk from theater to theater here, meet friends or colleagues at a cafe.”
The Mystery Of Ancient Roman Painting
“Very little remains, and what remains is puzzling. … [Most of the survivors] were mural paintings, preserved (ironically) by the lava of Vesuvius, while the paintings in other cities, such as Rome itself, were destroyed or faded away. Was the art of these two provincial towns inferior to the art of the capital? If we saw real Roman painting, would that make the work that’s survived look very average? Or is this as good as it got?”
Edward Elgar Was A Terrible Trombone Player
A newly rediscovered letter reveals the awful truth. “His skills were so poor that when the composer from Worcester started playing a specially inscribed trombone for a dear friend, she ran out of the room in a fit of hysterical laughter, leaving the composer swearing in frustration.”
What’s The Etiquette For Spoilers?
In this era of live blogging and TiVo time-shifting, “[p]eople are, if anything, more insistent on keeping their bubbles of cultural innocence intact. Heaven forbid they should learn that, in a romantic comedy that opened three weeks ago, the guy gets the girl in Act 3.”