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RANDOM LINKS FOR 5/7/13

May 7th, 2013 by Clark Humphrey

neil hubbard via cousearem.wordpress.com

It was 37 years ago this month: The TMT Show, the first faint stirrings of Seattle punk rock culture. May Day of the Bicentennial year. Three bands rented a hall in the Odd Fellows building on Capitol Hill. About 100 people showed up. From these DIY roots sprang, directly or indirectly, all the noise that emanated from this burg ever since.
The City Council’s revised South Lake Union rezone: even fewer affordable housing units than Mayor McGinn’s plan, but more preserved Space Needle views for condo owners.
The old Seattle Rep space, which became the Intiman Playhouse, is now the “Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center.”
Ray Harryhausen, 1925-2013: The king of stop-motion animated fantasy was better known than his films’ official directors, for a good reason. Those dudes were simply in charge of the live-action scenes. The filler, if you will. Harryhausen was the films’ real auteur.
Ex-Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein sez search engines are getting rich off of the pirated works of fine people such as himself.
I’m not so sure that there really is a “Conservative Quest to Eliminate Facts.” It’s more universal than that.
It’s not so much that the tech companies listed in one woman’s Tumbler blog “Only Hire Men,” but that they seem to presume only men will even apply to work there.
Dear Crowdfunders: Millionaire celebrities and billionaire media titans don’t need your Kickstarter money. Really.
Even the bosses of America’s hyper-bloated “security” bureaucracy don’t seem to know all that’s in it.
Recent “good news” about newspapers’ paid readership (in print and online) seems, in some cases, to be exaggerated.
Blogger Mark Manson has “10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America.” Number 5: “The quality of life for the average American is not that great.” Number 6: “The rest of the world is not a slum-ridden shithole compared to us.”
Allen Clifton at Forward Progressives isn’t the first, and won’t be the last, to remind you Jesus probably neither a corporate lobbyist nor a Tea Partier.
The downside of traditional publishing: A Brit lady who writes popular children’s books really wants her publisher to stop putting them inside pink covers. She says pink turns boy readers away and distracts from her stories’ often-serious content.
The downside of modern publishing: An American gent who’s written three novels “to good reviews” (if not good sales) tries self-publishing and finds it to be “the worst.”
I’d be more interested in Out of Print, Vivienne Roumani’s forthcoming documentary about the digital publishing “disruption,” if the director didn’t seem so obsessed with making everyone younger than herself look like an idiot.
Let’s close for today with some wonderful old Greek and Greek-American music from the 78 era.

One Response

Art Marriott (AKA "ArtFart") writes:
May 8th, 201312:43 pmat

My reading of the article quoting Harvey Weinstein indicates that what’s really got his knickers in a knot isn’t Google’s search-engine so much as YouTube (which actually _delivers_ content as opposed to proclaiming the existence thereof). I have a related beef about YouTube and similar sites like DailyMotion in that they’re indeed making a lot of money deluging the viewer with paid ads while a lot of the content people come looking for was compiled, and in many cases produced from scratch, by people working for free.