Sundance Institute and Adobe Announce 2021 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellows

Ten Young Emerging Artists, from Short Film Submissions on Sundance Collab The class of 2021 has arrived: Sundance Institute and Adobe announced this year’s Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellows today, chosen from a global pool of more than 1650 applicants from ages 18-25. Hailing from a broad geography, and rooted in a diverse array of creative disciplines from documentary to fiction, these 10 emerging artists … Continue reading Sundance Institute and Adobe Announce 2021 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellows

BMW Motorrad and Marshall Announce Strategic Partnership

BMW Motorrad USA is proud to announce a strategic long-term partnership with Marshall Amplification to deliver innovation and a premium listening experience for future BMW Motorrad sound system users. Riding a motorcycle while listening to music – a fitting combination, promising deep emotional experiences and increasing enjoyment on two wheels. It is not surprising that generations of artists have dedicated their songs to the motorcycling experience … Continue reading BMW Motorrad and Marshall Announce Strategic Partnership

Wrap Mind

By Stephan Pisko Human beings’ must encompass wrap mind around intellectually meaningful useful inspired passionate purpose this is fantastic health for the entire being physically and non-physically. We must defrag mind everyday review useful communication throughout identity’s daily duration period overall mind must be extremely selectively diligent to “screen in” so that identity’s “contained content” is less than identity’s “expelled extraneous” content of no meaningful … Continue reading Wrap Mind

Getty Awards New Grants for Curatorial Innovation in Prints and Drawings

Nineteen new grants totaling over $1.55 million will support exhibitions, publications and digital projects that center the graphic arts as part of the Getty Foundation’s ongoing Paper Project initiative. Prints and drawings are an unsung area of curatorial innovation and a place for museums to bring new forms of storytelling to their permanent collections. Launched in 2018, The Paper Project funds professional development and experimental … Continue reading Getty Awards New Grants for Curatorial Innovation in Prints and Drawings

Apple Scores 35 Emmy Nominations, Including 20 For Hit Series “Ted Lasso,” Which Makes Emmy History As The Most Nominated Freshman Comedy Series Ever

“Ted Lasso” breaks Emmy Award records as the most nominated comedy series this year, and the most nominated freshman comedy series in history. Apple also earns Primetime Emmy Award nominations for “Mythic Quest,” “Central Park,” “Servant,” “Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry,” “Boys State,” “Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special,” “Bruce Springsteen’s Letter To You,” “The Year Earth Changed,” and “Carpool Karaoke: The Series” Apple … Continue reading Apple Scores 35 Emmy Nominations, Including 20 For Hit Series “Ted Lasso,” Which Makes Emmy History As The Most Nominated Freshman Comedy Series Ever

“Branson & Bezos – Social Clowns”

By Stephan Pisko “Branson & Bezos” what a greedy egotistical comedy team their socialized clowns! They are both absolutely hilarious “space cissies” firing rocketships’ into outer space every month hitching a ride on a high altitude aviation vessel for a taste of weightlessness?? Don’t you mean brainlessness?? Richard Branson is the same degenerate that swam into shark infested waters was bitten and chewed on then … Continue reading “Branson & Bezos – Social Clowns”

Exhibition at The Met to Explore Politics, Patronage, and Power in Medicean Florence

Opening June 26, The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570 will feature more than 90 works of art by some of the most celebrated artists of the Italian Renaissance, including Bronzino, Pontormo, Cellini, and many others Some of the greatest portraits of Western art were painted in Florence during the tumultuous years from 1512 to 1570, when the city was transformed from a republic with elected … Continue reading Exhibition at The Met to Explore Politics, Patronage, and Power in Medicean Florence

“Wolfgang”, The Moveable Feast of 2021: A Film Review About One “Hella’ Life!” Where Food Is Life And Life Is Very Good Food

By Vernon Nickerson Can we all agree Wolfgang is a hetero-rock god’s first attempt at a reflection that strongly hints at the tell-all memoir that I predict audiences will crave after watching an epic plate of delicious small bites, tastefully delivered like all of Alexander Wolfgang Puck’s culinary arts masterworks? Well, gentle readers, we cannot have that conversation to agree or disagree unless you all … Continue reading “Wolfgang”, The Moveable Feast of 2021: A Film Review About One “Hella’ Life!” Where Food Is Life And Life Is Very Good Food

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Fellowship Program Announces 2021–2022 Fellowship Appointments

On September 1, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will welcome 64 fellows to take part in The Met’s 2022–2022 Fellowship Program. Together, this group of 21 postdoctoral and 43 predoctoral scholars joins the Museum from 16 countries, including Australia, China, Egypt, Hungary, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Namibia, Peru, Romania, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Over the course of their twelve-month … Continue reading The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Fellowship Program Announces 2021–2022 Fellowship Appointments

We Are Moving Into That Summer Season Of Gulf Storms And Intense Heat

By Jannie Vaught A real roller coaster ride for those who garden. One day you’re in a cloudy sky with tolerable humidity and garden tending is moving along. Then it so hot you’re out very early with the soaker hoses going and hand watering the fruit trees so they can finish their fruit cycle. I am not a climatologist, just a very dedicated weather observer. … Continue reading We Are Moving Into That Summer Season Of Gulf Storms And Intense Heat

SEE “SUMMER Of SOUL” AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE

By Vernon Nickerson Where were you in summer 1969? Can’t remember? Not born yet? That’s okay. I have the perfect film for where you needed to be in 1969 on the day man walked on the moon. GO SEE SUMMER SOUL AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE! A Questlove Jam: “Summer of Soul”, Or, when the Revolution Could Not Be Televised, is more than a documentary. … Continue reading SEE “SUMMER Of SOUL” AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE

WebSeries Canada, In Partnership With Canada Media Fund, Announce The 2021 T.O. WebFest Spark Equity And Inclusion Gala Winners

WebSeries Canada is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s awards, following the festival’s Spark Equity and Inclusion Gala on July 16th. The winners of the T.O. Webfest awards were announced live covering 35 categories and featured the best web series in categories including comedy, drama, family, musical, horror & thriller, sci fi & fantasy, documentary, and lifestyle. The gala took place virtually this … Continue reading WebSeries Canada, In Partnership With Canada Media Fund, Announce The 2021 T.O. WebFest Spark Equity And Inclusion Gala Winners

Spontaneous Selection – Machine Order – Compositional Form

By Stephan Pisko Spontaneous selection’ put through a ‘machine order’ equals ‘compositional form’ this form was already physically present and it was the ‘creative process’ that made it visible. Every art masterpiece required an ‘exacting creative process’ to render it visible physically – the Mona Lisa required Leonardo – Weeping Woman required Picasso and so forth. Basically what I am saying is that ‘all art’ … Continue reading Spontaneous Selection – Machine Order – Compositional Form

Country of Hotels, a Quirkily Entertaining Relief from the Summer of Comic Empire Promotionals

By Vernon Nickerson Country of Hotels, a new film by Director Julio Maria Martino and Producers Saba Kia and Emily Corcoran is a somber 21st Century homage to Rod Serling’s Night Gallery. Intrigued, gentle movie-watching public? Well if you are still fighting your natural urges to explore a mysterious sci-fi-ish drama, I would add that Country of Hotels was the winner of the Audience Award … Continue reading Country of Hotels, a Quirkily Entertaining Relief from the Summer of Comic Empire Promotionals

BMW Teams Up With Marvel Studios’ Black Widow For A Spectacular Cinema Experience

The BMW X3 and BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe make their Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Black Widow, featuring Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh. A celebratory display featuring the BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe is now at SPACE by BMW at The Grove in Los Angeles. Black Widow premiered in the U.S. in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access. BMW and Marvel Studios have … Continue reading BMW Teams Up With Marvel Studios’ Black Widow For A Spectacular Cinema Experience

Punk Rock Within The Disco Domain

By Stephan Pisko A dance beat stylized version of (Sid Vicious) minus the reforming ritual retribution why does mind always mix substance abuse with radicality? Why is there such a strong desire to reproduce past personal identity actions? This is so prevalent within the musical eras’ of bygone generations’ that psychologically introduced (fashions + fads) psycho-philosophy influencing gender and mentality infiltrating mainstream thought patterns’ for … Continue reading Punk Rock Within The Disco Domain

Delta Variant Surges in Colorado as the Bands Play On

By Rae Ellen Bichell GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Dr. Rachel LaCount grasped a metal hoop at a playground and spun in circles with her 7-year-old son, turning the distant mesas of the Colorado National Monument into a red-tinged blur. LaCount has lived in this western Colorado city of 64,000 nearly her whole life. As a hospital pathologist, she knows better than most that her hometown … Continue reading Delta Variant Surges in Colorado as the Bands Play On

’12 Mighty Orphans’ Offers a Story of Hope During Tough Times

By Mike Szymanski Everyone wants a story of hope during tough times, and this is a story inspired by true events during the tough times of the Great Depression. How appropriate then, to bring the story to light today in the middle of some very tough times, too. With a stellar familiar cast and a ripe pack of new talent, “12 Mighty Orphans” reminds me … Continue reading ’12 Mighty Orphans’ Offers a Story of Hope During Tough Times