Tshering Wangyel wrote, directed and shot at least two films a year – and for years carried a portable screen, projector and generator himself to villages throughout the Himalayan kingdom. His Bollywood-meets-Buddhism style ultimately became more popular with Bhutanese audiences than the Indian movies that had dominated the market.
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The Bookstore Where Every Book Is Recommended
“Hicklin aims to make bookselling more selective and personal — in other words, everything that Amazon is not — by attaching familiar names to titles and having them explain why those books have shaped them.”
Maybe The New Architecture Will Be Buildings That Change As We Change
“The idea of a self-repairing, pollutant-neutralising, climate-adapting ‘living’ architecture no longer seems the preserve of fiction.”
Shifting The Lines Between Fact And Fiction – A New Genre?
“Sometimes, advances are made at the expense of already established forms; other times, the established forms are themselves challenged and reinvigorated by the resulting blowback. At this moment, it’s the shifting sands between fiction and nonfiction that compel attention.”
Photographer Discovers ISIS Has Stolen His Artwork
“[Brian McCarty] was shocked to find an altered version of his photograph Cinderella photoshopped with the terrorist group’s flag. … The [altered] text reads, ‘Even if war destroys everything, the Islamic sign and state is protected and will never fall down.'”
Are Films Of Shakespeare Too Faithful?
“Whereas filmmakers feel comfortable taking artistic license when adapting novels or the works of most other playwrights, there’s an unwritten rule that Shakespearean dialogue is so precious as to be locked in, that the stories cannot be tampered with in any significant way. Directors update the setting … but more often than not the core storyline and dialogue remain virtually untouched. … One has to wonder if film’s apparent reverence towards Shakespeare is too restrictive, when cinema allows for so much possibility.”
Is Using Classical Music To Fall Asleep Disrespectful To The Art Form?
J. Bryan Lowder: “The same music that you’d be chastised for dozing off to during a concert is available for precisely that purpose when you get home. Why does the taboo apply in one place and not the other? … I’m happily using a Cy Twombly piece as my iPhone background right now; should using a Beethoven sonata as nightcap really feel any different?”
To The Man Suing The Met For ‘Aesthetic Whitewashing,’ Here Are Some Of The Museum’s Non-Aryan Jesuses
What did the guy expect if he didn’t venture beyond the European galleries? He ought to have visited the Byzantine, Ethiopian, and Armenian collections. (He even missed Gauguin’s Ia Orana Maria [Hail Mary].)
What Became Of Candy, Little Joe, And The Other Characters In Lou Reed’s ‘Walk On The Wild Side’?
With the passing of Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn, The Guardian reviews – verse by verse – the fates of her cohorts.
The 100 Best British Novels, As Picked By A Panel Of Foreigners
“What does the rest of the world see as the greatest British novels? In search of a collective critical assessment, BBC Culture contributor Jane Ciabattari polled 82 book critics, from Australia to Zimbabwe – but none from the UK. This list includes no nonfiction, no plays, no narrative or epic poems (no Paradise Lost or Beowulf), no short story collections (no Morte D’Arthur) – novels only, by British authors (which means no James Joyce).”