New theater technology hints at uses beyond art
THE DAILY STAR: The audience finds itself inside a giant uterus. Or it flies around cathedral ruins. Or it is transported to a dark, lonely forest. Such are the experiences offered by Satosphere, a new cinema with a massive dome screen in Montreal designed by the Society for Arts and Technology to provide spectators with a 360-degree view of art projections. Eight video projectors splash images over the entire surface of the steel-framed shell, which juts from the roof of the building, while 157 speakers emit sounds, creating the world’s first wholly immersive cinema. So advanced is it that it allows for viewing art in three dimensions without 3D glasses.
Overzealous cleaner ruins £690,000 artwork that she thought was dirty
The Guardian: An overzealous cleaner in Germany has ruined a piece of modern art worth £690,000 after mistaking it for an eyesore that needed a good scrub. The sculpture by the German artist Martin Kippenberger, widely regarded as one of the most talented artists of his generation until his death in 1997, had been on loan to the Ostwall Museum in Dortmund when it fell prey to the cleaner's scouring pad.
Little Giant Select Step Ladder
ToolSnob.com: So you're probably all familiar with the Little Giant Ladder. If not, it's a freaky sort of extension ladder that can transform itself through a lengthening or shortening of the legs into one of about fifty different configurations. They're very handy. They're also pretty heavy, but overall, great to have on site.
Julie Taymor Eligible for a Tony for 'Spider-Man'
Backstage: Julie Taymor might have been fired from the "Spider-Man" musical, but she could still walk away with a Tony Award next year for directing the stunt-heavy mega-show. The Tony Awards Administration Committee said Thursday that Taymor will be considered eligible in the best direction of a musical category for "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark."
The sudden death of film
Roger Ebert's Journal: Who would have dreamed film would die so quickly? The victory of video was quick and merciless. Was it only a few years ago that I was patiently explaining how video would never win over the ancient and familiar method of light projected through celluloid? And now Eastman Kodak, which seemed invulnerable, is in financial difficulties.
TGIS (Thank God I Stage-managed.)
TheatreFace: Many of my colleagues make fun of me for my epic paperwork, keeping a ruler in my audio script, my neat handwriting, my frustration/frequent venting about mismatched calendars/lack of information, my bouts of perfectionism, and my OCD. And then they make use of all the aforementioned skills/disorders.
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
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