Emily Davidow

Unevenly Distributed: Production Models for the 21st Century
Mark Pesce illuminates how the audience became not just the distributors but the producers of their own content, and have brought down the walls which separate pros from amateurs. Then he outlines the future: how the value of media is based on salience.
(tags: mustread media production film television [...]

Taksang Monastery, Bhutan
Check out the first trailer for Bhutan: Journey with Robert Thurman, a spiritual adventure film and multimedia experience through the land that measures progress in GNH (Gross National Happiness).

According to “Is That a Lama Behind the Camera,” Anupama Chopra’s great article in the New York Times on Bhutan’s budding film industry, last year a record 24 films were produced in the tiny Himalayan kingdom, population 700,000; in 2003 the total was only six. Even though there were only ten films produced in [...]

LIVE from the NYPL

MIRA NAIR &
JHUMPA LAHIRI
Saturday, March 10, 2007
at 7:00 PM
Celeste Bartos Forum
LIVE from the NYPL books
$15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students with valid identification

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Global Orgasm – December 22nd, 2006 – Peace through Global Ecstasy
Global Orgasm is an experiment open to everyone in the world. The goal is to add so much concentrated and high-energy positive input into the energy field of the Earth that it will reduce the current dangerous levels of aggression and violence throughout
(tags: sex orgasm [...]

Terry Gilliam screened “Toto le Heros” (or “Toto the Hero”) for a sold out audience of fans at IFC Center last night.

I was checking out what’s new on Gretchen’s Happiness Blog and noted August was all about memento mori, remembering we will die.

Hilarious little article in the NYT today on type anachronisms in film, “Good Film, Shame About the Helvetica,” featuring link to Mark Simonson’s Typecasting article. (Note also the ongoing notebook of sightings.*) As one who can’t help recognizing and calling out the name of the typefaces in the world around me, I’m not ashamed [...]

Art:

nyc: Sarah Sze’s truly amazing universe at Marianne Boesky Gallery through July 1.
nyc: Dominic McGill’s graphic exploration of ideas profligating in the universe from the triangulation point of November 22, 1963 (day that JFK, Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis all died) at Derek Eller Gallery through May 25.

nyc: Sophia Petrides’ quiet video meditation “I Am [...]