Audio companion to Alex Ross’s charming New Yorker piece about Marlboro Music [available here behind a pay-wall, alas]. Included is a live recording from last summer of the slow movement of Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, with Mitsuko Uchida, piano; Soovin Kim, violin; and David Soyer, cello. Well worth a listen.
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Watching the rugby match (FogFest IV, Treasure Island).
1 week ago |
FogFest rugby festival on Treasure Island. Cookout between matches.
1 week ago |
jockohomo:
The fantastic Gallery of Danceteria flyers 82-86, complete with a clip of owner Rudolph on Nickelodian’s Livewire; n the pantheon of NYC nightclubs, Danceteria was known for dominating the early 80s downtown scene with a unique brand of performance and multimedia experimentation and was frequented by post-punks, poets, rockers, rapppers, Rastas, art stars, drags, suits, and more. Viva Haoui Montaug and No Entiendes!
Legendary club. And what an image: memories flood back.
My club-going started around 1985, so I only went to Danceteria a couple of times. The first was to see a performance by The Fabulous Pop Tarts — Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, who still work together as World Of Wonder, a production company with many successful TV and film credits under their belt. The rumor was that Madonna was somewhere in the club that night, which made sense to us because M. did a lot of her earliest performances there.
The club’s graphics were striking. Rudolf knew what he was doing.
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Re: the most creative city (below), writer Dan Savage begs to differ: “Where do I go in this fishing village to feel inspired? Besides the airport? I hate it here. Wound up here by accident and got trapped. Seattle blows. It thinks it’s Paris, France, and it’s barely Dubuque, Iowa.” Take that, Seattle.
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@mejoe: “It has become increasingly common for websites and computer media to provide computer generated visual images, called avatars, to represent users and bots during online interactions. In this study, participants (N=255) evaluated a series of avatars in a static context in terms of their androgyny, anthropomorphism, credibility, homophily, attraction, and the likelihood they would choose them during an interaction. The responses to the images were consistent with what would be predicted by uncertainty reduction theory. The results show that the masculinity or femininity (lack of androgyny) of an avatar, as well as anthropomorphism, significantly influence perceptions of avatars. Further, more anthropomorphic avatars were perceived to be more attractive and credible, and people were more likely to choose to be represented by them. Participants reported masculine avatars as less attractive than feminine avatars, and most people reported a preference for human avatars that matched their gender. Practical and theoretical implications of these results for users, designers, and researchers of avatars are discussed.”
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