It’s Lyn Gardner. But relax, she’s talking about Christmas pantomimes, not King Lear.
Tag: 12.26.12
Have 3D Movies Played Themselves Out?
“In retrospect, Avatar now seems the high-point of 3D movie-making, with little since 2009 to challenge its achievement. Three years on, has the appeal of 3D gone flat?
LA’s Top 2012 Culture Stories
“As it did last year, the Museum of Contemporary Art dominated cultural headlines.”
China Says It Will Build Massive New Music City
“Beijing officials have announced plans to spend more than 10 years and £1.4bn turning the area into the “China Music Valley”, a sprawling compound that will be home to recording studios, instrument makers, music schools, five-star hotels and an arena in the shape of a peach.”
Art Of Video Games – Moving Beyond Shoot ‘Em Ups
“The level of action needed to make a game pleasurable to interact with is already an obstruction to the calm that might help explore a more complex idea. But there’s also the lack of experience among big-time game creators of deftly making complex work.”
Money For Dance Companies Hurt By Sandy
“Starting in early January checks from $1,000 to $5,000 will go out to companies, choreographers and theaters knocked back on their heels by the destruction and flooding.”
The Essential Artform Of Video Games
“A game makes a player its subject, while the tyranny of the director’s point of view in film and the author’s withholding of detail in fiction both place the viewer as an observer in the world.”
Netflix Goes Down Christmas Eve
“We’re sorry for the Christmas Eve outage. Terrible timing! Engineers are working on it now,” the company tweeted Monday.