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April 29, 2012 |
As exhibition titles go, "Meticulosity" is more of a speed bump than an open door or clearly marked path. The term looks familiar but sounds odd. It compels us to slow down, proceed with care. "We tried to stake out a word that's not commonly used, so people wouldn't bring a fixed meaning to it," explains writer and independent curator John David O'Brien, who organized the group show at Otis College of Art and Design's Ben Maltz Gallery with director Meg Linton. "Meticulosity" is an antiquated term for "scrupulousness," with origins in the Latin root for "fearful" -- a nod, write the curators in their manifesto-like catalog essay, to the urgency and meaning that are at stake in the art they've gathered.
ENTERTAINMENT
April 1, 2012 |
At first, Dayna Hanson says, she felt "a little intimidated" when she decided to create a "multimedia extravaganza" about the American Revolution. As an artist, she says, "I don't often undertake such sweeping topics, and I didn't feel like I had a ton of knowledge about this part of history. " Best known for co-founding the Seattle-based dance-theater company 33 Fainting Spells, Hanson wound up embarking on a rigorous research-based quest to expose the contradictions she observed between America's founding principles and current political and economic realities.
ENTERTAINMENT
March 19, 2012 |
For fans of TV history, a walk through the "Television: Out of the Box" show at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills is like a grand stroll through our collective past. Visitors to the exhibition, which celebrates nearly 60 years of Warner Bros. television, can view such items as Clint Walker's buckskin costume from the western "Cheyenne" and Connie Stevens' sundress from "77 Sunset Strip. " From more modern times, there's a section devoted to NBC's long-running medical drama "ER," which features such items as George Clooney's stethoscope and the County General Hospital badges worn by the cast.
ENTERTAINMENT
December 1, 2011 |
The first thing you see when you walk into British musician David J's apartment in the historic Villa Carlotta in Franklin Village is a gigantic painted portrait of 1960s icon Edie Sedgwick perched on one wall. "I say hello to Edie every day," the musician wryly notes. Andy Warhol's tragic muse is the inspiration for David J's theatrical production "Silver for Gold (The Odyssey of Edie Sedgwick)," which plays at the REDCAT downtown through Sunday. As bass player and founding member of seminal '80s goth-rock art band Bauhaus and later Love and Rockets, David J, who has lived in the U.S. for 16 years, turned his dark vision toward the "Factory Girl" in a melancholic song suite he originally created in 2008.
ENTERTAINMENT
November 13, 2011 |
Dark Eden A Novel Patrick Carman Katherine Tegen Books: 316 pp., $17.99 ages 13 and up The seven video screens in the new young adult thriller "Dark Eden" flicker in black and white - not only as described in the book's text but through an accompanying downloadable app that plays out the story's action in video snippets viewable on iPhones, iPods, iPads and Android devices. The back cover of the latest multimedia creation from bestselling author Patrick Carman also incorporates a QR code allowing potential readers to watch the ominously creepy "Dark Eden" trailer.
ENTERTAINMENT
May 14, 2012 |
James Franco is an actor-turned-artist-turned-author-turned-actor-playing-an-artist-named-Franco in the soap opera "General Hospital" — who has made a movie, "Francophrenia," that documents the experience. He's about as "meta" as it gets. Now Franco has brought his knack for melding pop culture and fine art in unorthodox ways to a new exhibition for Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art. "Rebel," which opens Tuesday, is a high-concept group show that is a loose, interpretive ode to the 1955 James Dean film "Rebel Without a Cause.
Tuesday 9 February 2016
July 20, 2012 |
"I have eclectic fans because I've had a very eclectic career. When someone comes up to me, they may be from the days of 'The Chosen'; it may be completely from Broadway," says actor Robby Benson. "So I'm never sure what might surprise them the most. Maybe the fact that I'm still alive. " He laughs, but the more one learns about him, the more surprising it becomes that he's alive - after four open-heart surgeries to correct a congenital defect. "People can learn from so many things I did wrong," says Benson by phone from his Cape Code, Mass., home, "that they're not alone when they think they shouldn't tell someone, they think they should pretend it's just indigestion or, if they're feeling blue, say, 'Naw, it's nothing.'" Benson's new interactive iBook, "I'm Not Dead … Yet!
BUSINESS
June 5, 2012 |
When Chris and Rebecca Rider sit down to watch a romantic movie together, they don't pop in a DVD or turn on the DVR. They fire up their video game console. Once kept in rec rooms for a family's gamers, Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360, Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Co.'s Wii are increasingly being used by people who have no interest in helping Mario save the princess or the "Call of Duty" soldiers win the war. The 31-year-old Chris Rider began playing video games on his family's Atari in the early 1980s.
September 5, 2012 |
What Jean-Luc Godard is to film and Marcel Duchamp was to the visual arts, John Cage was to music -- a radical experimentalist who constantly sought to reinvent the art form. Boldly conceptual -- and to many, frustratingly impenetrable -- his pieces stand among the most important works of music created in the 20th century. Cage was born 100 years ago Wednesday in Los Angeles. His father, John, was an inventor, and his mother, Lucretia, held an editing job at the Los Angeles Times.
ENTERTAINMENT
August 26, 2012 |
Scholastic's newest multimedia adventure for middle-grade readers, "The Infinity Ring," launches Tuesday with "A Mutiny in Time. " The new series follows three young characters who are tasked with traveling back through history in order to fix it and save the future. "The Infinity Ring" can be enjoyed for the action and adventure in its printed pages. But readers who decide to continue the journey online can do so with the help of a map tucked into the front cover, which guides them through the tale as one of the main characters in a role-playing video game.
ENTERTAINMENT
July 27, 2012 |
It's conventional wisdom that old boundaries between different art forms are fraying fast. Globalization and new technology have made dance, theater, film, music and visual design blur together to create interdisciplinary hybrids and collages. So when George Lugg hears people using the "I" word loosely, he reacts with a certain cautiousness. "I often find myself in conversations about interdisciplinarity, and I just want to back up and say, 'Well, what are we talking about?'" said Lugg, associate director of the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater.
SPORTS
July 20, 2012 |
The trickle down from the Pac-12Conference's new television deal is already being felt at UCLA, which has invested heavily in its football staff. Head Coach Jim Mora received a five-year, $11.235-million deal when he was hired in December. Former coach Rick Neuheisel received a five-year, $6.25-million contract in 2008. Athletic department officials expect UCLA to take in $17.6 million this year from television contracts, multimedia rights and apparel sales. The Pac-12 has a $3-billion television deal with Fox and ESPN.
January 21, 2013 |
Meredith Monk - composer, pioneering vocalist, choreographer, dancer, theater maker, filmmaker, mythmaker - has long been an art-world force of nature. Now Monk, 71 and with a rapturous new work, is Mother Nature. If you don't find that formidable, then perhaps I could interest you in a fixer-upper on the New Jersey shore The title is "On Behalf of Nature," and the first performance was Friday night at the Freud Playhouse on behalf of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, which commissioned it. Every one of its enrapturing 73 minutes was a minute well spent.
NEWS
October 3, 2012 |
William Shakespeare once wrote: "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. " That seems to be the guiding philosophy behind a new line of Shakespeare e-books from Sourcebooks that seeks to demystify the playwright's work. Called the Shakesperience and available through iTunes' iBookstore for $9.99 per title, the e-books use audio readings, a glossary, photos from notable performances and other tools to help student readers better understand Shakespeare's famously challenging texts.
July 20, 2012 |
"I have eclectic fans because I've had a very eclectic career. When someone comes up to me, they may be from the days of 'The Chosen'; it may be completely from Broadway," says actor Robby Benson. "So I'm never sure what might surprise them the most. Maybe the fact that I'm still alive. " He laughs, but the more one learns about him, the more surprising it becomes that he's alive - after four open-heart surgeries to correct a congenital defect. "People can learn from so many things I did wrong," says Benson by phone from his Cape Code, Mass., home, "that they're not alone when they think they shouldn't tell someone, they think they should pretend it's just indigestion or, if they're feeling blue, say, 'Naw, it's nothing.'" Benson's new interactive iBook, "I'm Not Dead … Yet!
BUSINESS
June 5, 2012 |
When Chris and Rebecca Rider sit down to watch a romantic movie together, they don't pop in a DVD or turn on the DVR. They fire up their video game console. Once kept in rec rooms for a family's gamers, Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360, Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Co.'s Wii are increasingly being used by people who have no interest in helping Mario save the princess or the "Call of Duty" soldiers win the war. The 31-year-old Chris Rider began playing video games on his family's Atari in the early 1980s.
September 16, 2000 |
Two of Canada's most powerful companies, BCE Inc. and Thomson Corp., announced a $2.7-billion multimedia joint venture Friday that combines the Internet, telecommunications and news media to create a powerful Canadian competitor in the digital world. Officials of the new venture hope it will have the scope and resources to compete with the tentacles of AOL-Time Warner and other multimedia giants reaching into the Canadian market.
ENTERTAINMENT
October 14, 2006 |
REDCAT has proved itself fertile ground for vibrant new takes on musical theater, hinting at what the genre might be and where it can go. Thursday night, the boundary-stretching continued with the area premiere of Pamela Z's "Wunderkabinet." Although it's a strain to neatly describe the work or identify the context in which it belongs, something fresh is clearly afoot.
October 25, 1999 |
High-tech companies routinely complain that there aren't enough engineers with special skills in multimedia. The Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at USC's School of Engineering is responding by developing two new bachelor of science degrees for electrical engineers and computer scientists that focus on multimedia.
BUSINESS
January 12, 1995 |
High-tech billionaire Paul G. Allen disclosed Wednesday that he is financially backing an upstart film production, television and multimedia company as part of his ongoing expansion into the entertainment field. The company will be called Storyopolis and expects to work on projects with authors of popular children's stories and classic tales. Details on the size of Allen's investment weren't disclosed.
BUSINESS
February 28, 2000 |
The National Science Foundation has renewed its funding for USC's Integrated Media Systems Center, the only national research center focused on multimedia. USC is expected to announce this week that the federal agency has approved $14.2 million in base funding over the next five years and supplemental funding of $915,000 for new research initiatives. The center, known as IMSC, was established in 1996 with a five-year, $12.4-million NSF grant.
BUSINESS
April 12, 1985 |
Multimedia, a Greenville, S.C.-based company that has grown steadily by acquiring newspapers and broadcast outlets in areas with minimal competition, Thursday rejected a $1.02-billion acquisition bid from Culver City-based Lorimar, saying the company is not for sale. Lorimar's offer, at $61 a share, bested a recent $1-billion offer by Wesray, a company led by former Treasury Secretary William E.
BUSINESS
July 29, 1996 |
Television producer Max Keller, with his bright orange blazers and indescribably garish ties, seems an improbable choice to champion a technological innovation--much less sip tea with PhDs at Cambridge University or rub shoulders with button-down executives at defense electronics concern Litton Industries. Low-budget syndicated TV fare--Keller's big successes so far include "Acapulco H.E.A.T." and "Tarzan"--seems much more his style.
Perkembangan IPTEK semakin mendorong upaya pembaharuan dalam pemanfaatan hasil-hasil teknologi untuk proses belajar. Diperlukan adanya inovasi media pembelajaran untuk menyampaikan bahan dan informasi pengetahuan kepada siswa. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan produk Multimedia Interaktif, mendeskripsikan kelayakan media berdasarkan penilaian para ahli dan respon siswa. Media pembelajaran yang dikembangkan mencakup beberapa komponen media yaitu teks, gambar, audio, video dengan muatan materi pajak penghasilan pasal 21. Penelitian ini menggunakan model pengembangan Four-D Models berdasarkan teori Thiagarajan, yang terbatas pada tahap pengembangan. Multimedia Interaktif ini diuji cobakan kepada 20 siswa kelas XII Akuntansi di SMKN 10 Surabaya. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah angket terbuka dan tertutup. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan Multimedia Interaktif memenuhi kriteria sangat layak digunakan sebagai media pembelajaran perpajakan pada materi pajak penghasilan pasal 21 untuk siswa kelas XII Akuntansi di SMKN 10 Surabaya.
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