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Almost every art has its technology. Painting is an ancient mud process. Welded-steel sculpture required the invention of the welding torch. Janet Cardiff's breakthrough work required--the Walkman. Ten years ago, while thinking about a new artwork, she was walking through a cemetery in the Canadian town of Banff, reading into a tape recorder the names she found on old gravestones. At one point, she rewound the tape, then replayed it to find where she had left off. That is how she first had the disorienting experience of hearing herself describe a walk while she was still...
...most popular single-country pavilions remained the German pavilion, a house reconstructed by Gregor Schneider that caused either great claustrophobia or great praise, and the Canadian pavilion (George Bures Miller and Janet Cardiff), which took science fiction film making to the next level by using all five senses to play with the viewer’s sense of perception. The Polish pavilion (Leon Tarasewicz) won the cheap thrill award, by creating an easy optical illusion with their floor. (Ridges cut into the floor and painted orange on one side and blue on the other caused the floor to miraculously change...
...Garel Rhys, director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at the Cardiff Business School, is a little more positive, saying that the Mini's low-volume production is offset by BMW's positioning of it in the upper end of the mini market, against the likes of the Volkswagen Polo and the Peugeot 206, where margins are higher, around 5% to 6%, compared to about 3% in the Mini's previous sales bracket. Still, Rhys notes, "small cars mean small profits...
...latest in a series of automakers to be based at the nearly century-old Longbridge factory outside Birmingham, England - isn't out of the woods yet. "They have created a new company with speed and adroitness," says Garel Rhys, director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff Business School. "They're making cars that dealers find easy to sell and at good margins." But while Rhys thinks the company can become profitable and remain strong for six to seven years, he says after that it will need to partner with or be bought by a larger rival...
...says, because "they're the acts that can still sell vast amounts of tickets." Of course some relative newcomers such as Robbie Williams may be able to pull off stadium shows in certain markets; he will tour Britain and Ireland in July and August (including stops at Glasgow and Cardiff). But it's mostly the older bands - the likes of AC/DC and the Eagles, which are both touring Europe - that have achieved the critical fan mass to fill the big venues consistently...