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...What really fascinates me about khipu is the use of fiber as a medium for recording important data,” said Brezine, who is a mathematician by training and a weaver by avocation...
...make it on-demand and portable, Curry created the world's first podcast--a downloadable digital audio file (MP3)--a year ago. Since then, some 10,000 original podcasts most by amateurs talking about everything from their sex lives to their favorite Cabernetshave emerged, creating an entirely new medium. This summer podcasting became a full-blown craze, marked by the word's entry into the Oxford English Dictionary. Lance Armstrong has one. So does Donald Trump. "It's one of the quickest trends I've seen in 12 years," says Jeremy Welt, vice president of new media at Warner Music...
...Mark Kvamme of Sequoia Capital sees podcasting grabbing a chunk. "You can easily see it as a billion-dollar advertising market," he says. Internet audio advertising, he estimates, will capture 3% to 4% of all radio advertising over the next 5 to 10 years. "It's a very targeted medium," he says, and "a great place for an advertiser to hit specific audiences." Curry is betting that podcasting will deliver new ways of selling--allowing advertisers to go beyond product placement and permeate the content. "The show could actually be the advertisement," he says. "Dawn and Drew not just talking...
...glue and lampblack on the Sistine was put there by Michelangelo himself. James Beck cites a phrase in an account by Ascanio Condivi, a Renaissance biographer, about Michelangelo applying "so to speak, the ultima mano" (final touches) to the mighty fresco cycle; but Condivi did not say what medium these touches were in. Giorgio Vasari (1511-74), whose Lives of Italian artists is a fundamental source on the Sistine, describes how "Michelangelo desired to retouch some parts a secco, painting backgrounds, draperies and skies in ultramarine, and ornaments in gold." But he was prevented by Julius II, who wanted...
What is the best way to organize art? For the 400 years that public art museums have been around, they have mostly arranged their collections academically?by artist, chronology, genre or medium. Lately, however, some museums?especially the ones dedicated to modern art?have been challenging this classical approach. Yet none has done so with the explosive force of "Big Bang: Destruction and Creation in 20th Century Art," on view at Paris' Pompidou Center until February...