“If you deliberately and regularly go without checking your phone, or indeed exposing yourself to any other source of electronic stimulation, you’ll build ‘the skill of boredom,’ which will enable you not only to confront life’s grand questions, but also to be less bored with ordinary life.” - Open Culture
He won for his work on Secret Lives of Orangutans, a documentary that also won Emmys for “outstanding music direction and composition and outstanding directing team for a single camera daytime non-fiction program.” - BBC
Loves: Baroque music, textiles “from all over the world,” real estate listings from across the world. Oh, and candy. "Am I not human?” - The New York Times
Some of the movie theatres in Mälmo “offered safety and security concerns for their refusal because they were worried something might happen to endanger their staff or audiences.” - Seattle Times (AP)
DanceSport International London used to be a dance studio - but now it employs 52 artisans constantly engaged in costumes for the West End, not to mention films and TV series. The dance background makes sense: "Performers want to move, and we want to accentuate the movement” - BBC
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi enjoy watching their architecture vanish beneath the landscapes they also design. Or is it all one artistic product? - The New York Times
First of all, it was a surprise - to HBO. “It was very clear that they had been having meetings for Phase 1, and I had not been included in those meetings 'cause nobody thought I was going to be nominated for an Emmy.” (See the full interview here.) - NPR
“A friendly assistant director who is already known to you, who brings you tea and holds your phone while you’re acting, says that the VFX team are in today – and just after you finish the scene, could you pop over to the VFX bus? And off you go.” - The Guardian (UK)
The founder: “I had friends who wrote award-winning books and couldn't get their books into D.C. bookstores because they were smaller presses, or they didn't have a mass appeal. … And that always seemed wrong to me.” - NPR
“Just as Trump is trying to legally redefine what it means to be ‘American,’ he is also attempting to redefine which Americans can make and see art. Our work as Americans right now, as citizens and artists, is to continually expand the definition of ‘our people.’” - American Theatre
“The thieves used a basket lift to access the room directly, forced a window and broke display cases to steal the jewels, before escaping on two-wheelers.” What is believed to be the Empress Eugénie’s crown, broken, was later found outside the museum. - Euro News (Yahoo)
Participants in the International Chopin Piano Competition “train as if they were elite athletes, with superhuman focus and skill, preparing hours of music, even though many of them end up performing only a fraction of it.” - The New York Times
“For readers, the sloppified news churned out by many of the sites is a reason to be wary of a confusing media landscape. And for beleaguered news publishers, the AI news sites threaten their investments in journalism.” - Nieman Lab
