Or his, of course. For instance, "Picasso’s palette from 1961 recently fetched £56,250 at auction despite being made of cardboard.” - The Guardian (UK)
“If it’s just one idea, it will probably die in the impulse phase. If the idea opens avenues and you see many more roads, that’s worth pursuing. It doesn’t leave you alone.” - Fast Company
“'The air has come out of the content bubble,’ says Matthew Belloni, the founder of Puck News, which covers the entertainment industry. ‘Crisis is a good word. I try not to be alarmist, but crisis is what people are feeling.’” - BBC
D&D is "a folk practice for generating stories that are both visionary and ephemeral,” a practice which can help create, or sustain, novelists. - LitHub
Michael Crichton was so powerful that he won a “frozen rights” contract, one that even follows him after death - and may tank a proposed, but unauthorized by his estate, ER spinoff. - Fast Company
“Steeped in a neo-Romantic sensibility that owed as much to John Keats as to the Beat Generation and Bob Dylan, Mr. Kristofferson’s work explored themes of freedom and commitment, alienation and desire, darkness and light.” And then he found a second career in Hollywood. - The New York Times
Why? Money. “Just to be straight up, a lot of the companies wanted to figure out ways to invest less in programming. Narrative podcasts are very expensive to make.” Chat podcasts? Not so much. - Wired
Nothing good. “Is a commercial art gallery willing to risk litigation if it dares to offer one of Warhol’s Prince or Marilyn silk-screens ‘for sale?’ What if another commercial gallery across town is offering a retrospective survey of Goldsmith’s rock star photos or Korman’s publicity shots?” - Oregon ArtsWatch
She helped redefine what that meant, too, especially for women. “The face and body may change, but the spirit need not falter, the desire and ability to do what you love need never abate.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
