Bob Dylan värittää valokuvia

Galleria on nyt muuttanut näyttelyyn markkinointiaan. Kun aiemmin näyttelyä kuvattiin "visuaaliseksi matkaksi", nyt kyse onkin "visuaalisista heijastuksista".
http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/Bob+Dylania+syytet%C3%A4%C3%A4n+plagioinnista/a1305546151734

Writers No One Reads

http://writersnoonereads.tumblr.com/

Uncreative writing

For the past several years, I've taught a class at the University of Pennsylvania called "Uncreative Writing." In it, students are penalized for showing any shred of originality and creativity. Instead they are rewarded for plagiarism, identity theft, repurposing papers, patchwriting, sampling, plundering, and stealing. Not surprisingly, they thrive.

If all language can be transformed into poetry by merely reframing—an exciting possibility—then she who reframes words in the most charged and convincing way will be judged the best.

Even if, as Christian Bök claims, poetry in the future will be written by machines for other machines to read, there will be, for the foreseeable future, someone behind the curtain inventing those drones, so that even if literature is reducible to mere code—an intriguing idea—the smartest minds behind the machines will be considered our greatest authors.
http://chronicle.com/article/Uncreative-Writing/128908/

6 Things the Film Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know About

Here’s a basic example of Hollywood Accounting: A studio makes a movie. The studio distributes the movie itself, and although the distributor is technically a separate company, they both belong to the same parent company. Also, the distribution arm sets whatever fees it wants. If they want to charge themselves eleventy quintillion dollars for distribution, they totally can. Then, even if the film earns billions of dollars in box office receipts, they’re still technically in debt (to themselves) and thus haven’t turned a profit. --
Winston Groom, the writer of Forrest Gump was told that the film based on his work wasn’t profitable. Of course, he got the last laugh when they came to him asking if they could turn the sequel, Gump and Co. into a film as well, and he reportedly told them, ”I cannot, in good conscience, allow money to be wasted on a failure.” In other words, “Go fuck yourself.”
http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/6-things-the-film-industry-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about.php

Uwe Boll and the German Tax Code: Why people keep giving him money to make movies

Ach du lieber! You've lost nearly 95 million, right? No, we're not done yet. Follow me closely here: Under the German tax code, you can take the full 90-million deduction, then have your Munich shell company charge me (the American producer) 80 million to lease back the rights to my movie. Because you just took a 90-million loss, you don't have to pay taxes on the 80 million you recouped.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_81/460-Uwe-Boll-and-the-German-Tax-Code

Cory Doctorow: Why Should Anyone Care?

But the reality of books was this: a publisher’s rep would come in and tell us breathlessly about the lead titles – how much promotion they were up for, how much the house believed in the title, how well the author had done before. We’d order a pile of hardcovers, generally a smaller pile than we’d been asked to take, and usually, they’d sell modestly well. Then we’d return the leftovers, and some months later, they’d resurface as remainders, with their dustjackets clipped or magic-markered lines drawn on their page-edges. Then they’d come in as paperbacks, hang around for a few months longer, and vanish. Sometimes, a copy or two would surface as used trade-ins, and sometimes a regular would ask us to order a copy, but within a short time, the book would no longer be in the publisher’s catalog in any form. It would be gone. -- Here’s the thing: I’ve just described the best-promoted books in the field, the ones with the biggest push.
http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2011/09/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/

Rosvohammas ja Norsunluuvaras -trilogia julkaistu

Rosvohammas ja Norsunluuvaras -trilogia julkaistu 1.9.11.

Eeppistä post-apokalyptistä invaasiofantasiaa animetroopeilla kuorrutettuna.

X Meets Y -tiivistelmä: Return to Nevèrÿon meets Nemesis the Warlock.

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