Playwright Marina Carr explores matters of life and death in 'Woman and Scarecrow'
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: To characterize Marina Carr‘s work as dark, as many do, isn’t so much wrong as exasperating.
The woman deemed by The Guardian newspaper to have “emerged as Ireland's premier female playwright” does lean toward the dark side of subjects, particularly motherhood.
Virtual Reality And The Brave New World Of College Recruiting
www.forbes.com: As colleges and universities face an increasingly tech-savvy applicant pool, many recruiters are seeking out novel ways to speak the new generation’s language. The launch of the Common Application in 1975 – and later online version in 1998 – was one of the most expansive attempts schools made toward revolutionizing the college admissions process. Originally 15 schools participated and last year it processed more than 3 million applications for its over 500 member colleges and universities. Now many institutions are beginning to embrace technology on their own as a marketing tool to attract potential applicants.
We've gone too far with 'trigger warnings'
Jill Filipovic | Comment is free | theguardian.com: Trigger Warning: this piece discusses trigger warnings. It may also look askance at college students who are now asking that trigger warnings be applied to their course materials.
Why Forced “Audience Participation” Doesn’t Work
Bitter Gertrude: There’s been a lot of talk in the past few years about “audience engagement.” It’s partially been driven by a few big grantors requiring some form of it, and partially driven by the psychology of trends. Because every new entertainment technology sends people right to the THIS IS THE END OF THEATRE box, frightened by the popularity of the internet and its DIY culture, some grantors and theatremakers have been scrambling to create theatre that borrows some of that mojo in order to glean a portion of that success. The problem is: It doesn’t work.
Drone lighting
MIT News Office: Lighting is crucial to the art of photography. But lights are cumbersome and time-consuming to set up, and outside the studio, it can be prohibitively difficult to position them where, ideally, they ought to go.
Researchers at MIT and Cornell University hope to change that by providing photographers with squadrons of small, light-equipped autonomous robots that automatically assume the positions necessary to produce lighting effects specified through a simple, intuitive, camera-mounted interface.
Sunday, July 13, 2014
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