For over a month, more than 11,000 TV and film writers have been on strike over key issues involving equitable pay and working conditions in the streaming era. They see the strike as fundamental and vital to preserving writing as a livelihood: As studio and streaming executives swallow up massive profits, the people who make…
The harsh crackdown on comedy is bad enough, but now it’s getting bad for musicians as well. “The problem is that those making the decisions here are keen to be seen to be imposing the Party’s will more enthusiastically than rival bureaucrats.” – BBC Source link
“Talking to him you feel how much he loves literature and stories,” Ms. Beer said, adding that “after reading the script together we will watch movies and he will talk about books that refer to our work.” The 28-year-old actress, who answered questions via email while serving on a jury at Cannes, said Mr. Petzold…
The Brooklyn Museum has dismissed negative reviews of “It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby,” which opened to the public today after being panned in ARTnews and the New York Times. The show, co-organized by Gadsby and Brooklyn Museum senior curators Catherine Morris and Lisa Small, features more than 100 works. Alongside many Picassos, there…
Bjørn Karmann’s camera, named the Paragraphica, uses censors and geolocation data—including weather conditions—to create a stream of text that is then converted into a “photo,” according to his website. The camera looks like a typical point-and-shoot, but replaces the lens with a red device, described by the photography website Digital Camera World as looking like…