If you haven’t yet recognized video gaming as one of the core entertainment/cultural platforms of this decade, take notice. A single game that went on sale at midnight last night may well hit $100 million in sales within its first 24 hours on the market. For a little perspective, that’s about 25 percent more than […]
Archives for November 2004
Blogging your brains out
It occurs to me that I keep ranting on about the distributed power of on-line technology, and the need for arts organizations to explore new ways of communicating with their audiences, but I don’t provide a whole lot of specifics. So, I thought it would be useful to point you to two of the main […]
The changing role of producers
The Guardian has a short and clear piece on the London production of The Producers, and more specifically on the cluster of producers that have brought it to the stage. There are as many as 13 individuals and organizations involved in the investor pool (depending on how you count), quite a few steps from the […]
Social Networking Software
Since arts managers are in the business of curated social interaction, it’s worth keeping an eye on the cutting edge of such things. One area of the world to watch, specifically, is the wide and wild world of social networking software. This includes any combination of computer software, hardware, and/or personal technology devices (cell phones, […]
Arts partnerships and the public schools
RAND has a new publication on arts partnerships between public schools and community arts organizations (available in an on-line brief and full download in pdf). The report is actually a commissioned evaluation/analysis of Los Angeles’ ten-year, multi-million-dollar program in K through 12 arts education, which had a core component ‘to build partnerships with community arts […]
Telling compelling stories
I was doing a Google search on the elements of compelling storytelling (see the results for yourself), and stumbled on this essay by Bill Johnson on that very subject. Here’s a quote of particular import: A storyteller should to be able to perceive what a story is about at its deepest level, and how to […]