UK singer Lily Allen has hit out (also reported here) at rich old musicians like Nick Mason of Pink Floyd and Ed O’Brien from Radiohead, who support file sharing and free exchange of music tracks.
The Featured Artist Coalition also says file sharing’s fine because it “means a new generation of fans for us”. This is [...]
Behold the creativity.
A head made completely of human blood on display in London.
And across the channel, an exhibition of cadavers doing the horizontal tango is planned for Germany.
What’s wrong with modern art? I think the answer is banal: the main problem is simply lack of talent.
Being controversial is a way of trying to distract from [...]
The good.
Lots of edge-of-your-seat suspense, to the point that I could barely take it;
Brad Pitt does the most authentic Southern accent ever (I guess living in Louisiana with Angelina and the kids helped with that); He was also very entertaining and generally did a great job;
Brilliant acting all around;
Lots of clever dialog.
Never boring.
The bad.
Unspeakably violent. [...]
Also tagged films, reviewsA new study found that a significant minority – around a third- of the Australian population are against public breastfeeding. The group most opposed to it were 18 to 24 year olds.
Aren’t the young supposed to be cool, easy-going, and not hung up with old fashioned moralism? Not when it has something to do with [...]
A modern poet claims that he is going to reject modern technocracy by going off-line. This anti-modern, romantic impulse is not surprising at all coming from a poet. Poetry is actually a great example of a mode of communication that has been almost entirely superceded by a more advanced mode: lyrical music.
Really, the greatest poets [...]
Steven Pinker: the world is gradually becoming less violent, century by century. That’s the big picture at least. In the short term, he admits, we can’t be compacent, especially with the dangers of “national leaders who combine pre-modern sensibilities with modern weapons.”
But in hunter-gatherer societies, the risk of a man dying at the hands of [...]
As always, the real action in arts is in the “lowbrow” end. While auteurs still struggle to create the next great novel, the cutting edge of creativity has moved on to other media. Eventually, novels will be dead as poetry.
(at least, poetry not set to music).
Video games are the future.
Our experience of stories is, by [...]