Yesterday I learned of a thing called MetaFilter. Someone in the MetaFilter community subsumed my recent blog posts into a MetaPost about theater economics.
The ensuing conversation is great fun to read, although a little difficult to follow; coherency suffers in the age of aggregated essays. Clarity also suffers: “Is this sentence addressed to [...]
Since my recent post arguing that artists should not receive public funds for the purpose of making art, I’ve been thinking a lot about how theater artists earn money.
You know, in terms of business models, just about anything beats theater:
The product can not be mass-produced.
At best, you can replicate it a few hundred seats at [...]
I’m a little scared to write this entry. You’ll see why in a minute. Hopefully by the end you’ll also see why I decided to do it anyway.
Welcome to the Recession, I’ll be your Impending Sense of Doom for the evening.
In a year of deep financial crisis the theater community—never far from financial [...]
Kutiman mixes YouTube, and how.
One thing I especially love about this project is the respect Kutiman shows to the people he’s borrowing from. The Internet loves to laugh at people who didn’t know they should not film themselves being imperfect. Plenty of these clips could have easily been turned into a joke—but [...]