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The Creator Economy Owes A Lot To Gaming Site Twitch

When Twitch entered the picture 10 years ago, most creators - writers, artists, makers, eaters of food on YouTube - weren't yet earning money through digital patronage. That has changed, and dramatically. Co-founder Justin Kan says "he and his cofounders spent years ruminating on how to make people interact online and give each other money. Should they have...

Conductor And Soundmaker Yoshi Wada, Of Fluxus Art Collective, Has Died At 77

Wada wrote and performed music that "was characterized by dense, sustained sounds that could create mind-bending acoustic effects. He borrowed widely from different musical traditions — Indian ragas, Macedonian folk singing and Scottish bagpipes — all while supporting his musical life by working in construction" - which meant that sometimes, tools of the trade (like plumbing pipes) became instruments....

The BAFTA TV Awards Didn’t Pick Faves This Year

Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You did win two awards - best mini-series and leading actress, which Coel dedicated to the production's intimacy director: "Thank you for your existence in our industry, for making the space safe for creating physical, emotional, and professional boundaries so that we can make work about exploitation, loss of respect, about abuse of power,...

Pose Showed How To Tell Great Trans Stories

The show, whose third season, and run, ended on Sunday night, was set at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the gay and trans subcultures in New York. And yet, it wasn't about Capital-T Tragedy. - Slate

The Motion Picture Museum’s Timing Was Unlucky – And Very Lucky

Though the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's new L.A. museum was delayed, and delayed and delayed again - the last delay coming from the pandemic - that worked in its favor for staying up-to-date: "While the 300,000-square-foot, $482 million museum, designed by Renzo Piano, has been under construction, the movie business has been going through a process of deconstruction,...

Jeanette Winterson Is Literally Burning Her Own Books

Happy Pride Month! Um: The author of the groundbreaking Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and many other experimental, daring works wrote on Twitter, "“Absolutely hated the cosy little domestic blurbs on my new covers. Turned me into wimmins fiction of the worst kind! Nothing playful or strange or the ahead of time stuff that’s in there. So I...

How Academic Freedom Ends

Just look to Hong Kong, where by the time a group of University of Hong Kong academics gathered in a town hall meeting in May. "The assembled faculty pressed on whether HKU would provide legal assistance if they were arrested for allegedly violating the law while working, what to do if students reported professors on a government tip...

Publishing Is So Easy To Spoof

Or so says Zakiya Dalila Harris, the author of The Other Black Girl. The book is a combined thriller and social satire that was indeed inspired by Harris' experiences. "Part of me enjoyed editing and I felt I was good at it, but it’s also an exhausting job for an entry-level person in terms of the pay. I was...

Why ‘In The Heights’ Took So Long To Become A Movie

The movie has been in development since 2008. "The project stalled for many years between different directors and studios, because executives wanted more well-known Latino actors to star, such as Shakira or Jennifer Lopez. They also wanted more stereotypical storylines for the characters, such as pregnancies and gang violence." But Hamilton changed all that. - NBC

How Lin-Manuel Miranda And Friends Made The Drama Book Shop New

From the 140-foot long sculpture of scripts and songbooks to replicas of armchairs from Hamilton, the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan will be reborn this week, from the ashes (and flood, pandemic, and rent hikes) of the old. - The New York Times

The Silencing Of America’s Most Distressed Areas

The newspaper crisis - and be assured, for small, local places, it is a crisis - means that areas where people need the most are getting covered the least. - LitHub

A Return To Movie Theatres, Or Not, Summer Watchlist

Choose your own adventure - couch or theatre? Crowded or distanced? Popcorn or not? (That's a trick question: Always get the popcorn.) - The Atlantic

Can We Ever Trust A Recorded Image Again?

A new documentary "focuses on surveillance and the cop-worn body-cam in specific as key topics, exploring the headquarters of the Taser, drone and camera manufacturer Axon in search of insights on the police state’s expansion. But this inquest soon gives way to a more expansive interrogation of the treachery inherent to every photo and frame of video, warped and...

Sophie Rivera, Photographer Of Puerto Rican New York, 82

Rivera began by asking her neighbors to be her subjects. "The images she made were majestic four-by-four-foot prints of everyday New Yorkers of all ages. They were time-stamped by their hair styles and clothing as citizens of the 1970s and ’80s, but they were made eternal by their direct gazes, formal poses and the nimbus of light with which Ms. Rivera...

Check Your Local Little Free Art Gallery If You’re In Need Of Visual Stimulation

One artist says little free art galleries stir "feelings of 'cute aggression,' a term that describes the way our minds cope with the onslaught of positive feelings brought on by something adorable — you just want to squish/squeeze/eat it. Thankfully, no one has tried, but part of the popularity might come from the feeling that you could. Artists and...

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