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"Battlefield 6" in drei Tagen 7 Millionen Mal verkauft
Electronic Arts vermeldet den erfolgreichsten Start der "Battlefield"-Geschichte: Über 7 Millionen Spieler kauften "Battlfield 6" in den ersten Tagen.

PEN America elects novelist Dinaw Mengestu as president, as the organization navigates free speech challenges across the US and criticism of its Gaza response (Jennifer Schuessler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/arts/dinaw-mengestu-pen…

Dinaw Mengestu Will Be New President of PEN America
The novelist Dinaw Mengestu will lead the literary group at a time of escalating threats to free expression at home and abroad.

"I remember somebody jokingly suggesting that I challenge Elon Musk to a fight (this was during his and Mark Zuckerberg’s martial arts feud), and quietly thinking to myself, I am literally not paid enough for that" -- @…
Happy retirement, Eugen!

My next chapter with Mastodon
Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.

U.S. Enters 15th Day of Late-Night Jokes About Government Shutdown (Trish Bendix/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/arts/television/jimmy-kimmel-government-shutdown.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t08.VCnB.j2o1YytvJ6Ww&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p16#a251016p16

Can AI really replace humans when it comes to the arts? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/oct/11/can-ai-really-replace-humans-when-it-comes-to-the-arts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Arthur Bliss' Miracle in the Gorbals
Mark Forrest introduces an afternoon of of specially made recordings from the Belfast International Arts Festival plus the theme of dance continues.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n9sk

Walter Sorel
The duality of vision Genius and versatility in the arts

I just love linear() 😍 #CSS #animation
Wrote about it here, in case you’re interested:
https://matthiasott.com/notes/lin…

Linear() Is Not (That) Linear · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

Sacred Arts 2026:Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/12/sacred-arts-2026exploring-the-spiritual-dimensions-of-artistic-expres…

A look at French indie game studio Sandfall Interactive, whose critically-acclaimed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sold 5M copies with a budget of less than $10M (Zachary Small/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11…

How Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Became a Gaming Tour de Force
Without a blockbuster budget or much experience, the creators of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 astounded the industry with an emotional narrative and old-school design.

Q&A with Marc Maron on ending his WTF With Marc Maron podcast after 16 years, having President Obama as the final guest, never winning a Peabody Award, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/arts/marc-maron-wtf-podcast.html

Marc Maron on the End of the “WTF” Podcast
The comedian, actor, and former podcaster discusses his decision to bring “WTF” to a close after 16 years and interviewing its final guest, Barack Obama.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Arthur Bliss' Miracle in the Gorbals
Fiona Talkington introduces an afternoon of of specially made recordings from the Belfast International Arts Festival plus the theme of dance continues
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n9sk

📝 Join us at the American Academy of Religion for the Arts of Interpretation sessions at Harvard. #AARSBL25
https://indigenousvalues.org/find-us-at-the-aar/
!Arts of Interpretation flyer with a picture of Charles Long (https://cdn.some.pics/adjb/691b3896ebbed.png)

Konsortium kauft Electronic Arts für 55 Milliarden US-Dollar
Der Spielepublisher Electronic Arts wird von einem Konsortium gekauft, an dem der saudische Staatsfonds beteiligt ist. Der Deal kostet 55 Milliarden US-Dollar.

How video podcasts have developed distinct visual styles favoring casual and intimate aesthetics, including Joe Rogan's almost proletarian dark red drapes (Joe Coscarelli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/12/arts/podcast-sets-design.…

Modern Podcast Sets and Online Chat Shows Are Less Polished By Design
Modern online chat shows look less fussy and polished than TV. That’s by design.

Bill and Ted's Broadway Debut
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/keanu-reeves-and-alex-winter-reunite-on-stage-in-broadways-waiting-for-godot

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reunite on stage in Broadway’s ‘Waiting for Godot’
It's a classic of theater that continues to be taken on by top actors and still resonates with audiences. “Waiting for Godot” mixes despair and comedy to raise questions about the meaning of life. Now, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, two actors who are great friends, are doing their waiting on Broadway. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown has the story for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.

A profile of Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, who has 19M followers on the platform, many of them young people, and drew nearly 50M viewers to a monthlong stream (Emmanuel Morgan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/arts/kai-cenat-twitch-streaming.html

How Kai Cenat Became a New Kind of Celebrity for Gen Z
With his boisterous antics, Cenat has gained 19 million Twitch followers and the attention of celebrities who covet that audience.

@… Saw this go by on Hackaday - https://www.ajc.com/arts-entertainment/2025/11/typewriter-tom-fuels…

Typewriter Tom shares collection with aficionados, the curious and even Tom Hanks
Roswell's Tom Rehkopf owns about 1,000 typewriters, which he tinkers with at his workshop and happily shares with fellow aficionados, curious youngsters and even Tom Hanks.

I love TAC and the refurbished and renamed Wood-Mico Theatre has reopened as a more accessible space (finally).
Tuggeranong Arts Centre scores biggest upgrade in nearly 30 years | Region Canberra
https://region.com.au/tuggeranong-arts-cent…

Tuggeranong Arts Centre scores biggest upgrade in nearly 30 years | Region Canberra
The Tuggeranong Arts Centre has pulled back the curtains on its revamped theatre, following the first major refurbishment since the…

Storefront signs in #Chicago

A new thing to boycott, if you aren't already: https://apnews.com/article/ea-electronic-arts-video-game-silver-lake-pif-d17dc7dd3412a990d2c0a6758aaa6900?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

EA to be acquired for $52.5 billion in largest buyout ever of a public company taken private
Electronic Arts, the maker of video games like “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield,” and “The Sims,” is being acquired by an investor group including Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in the largest private equity-funded buyout in history. The investors, who also include a firm managed by Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, and the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, valued the deal $55 billion. EA stockholders will receive $210 per share. The deal far exceeds th…

Kristi Noem Says ICE Will Be ‘All Over’ the Super Bowl https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/arts/music/ice-bad-bunny-super-bowl.html

This month, the Network Performing Arts Production Workshop (NPAPW) 2025 brought together performing artists, technologists, educators, and students from around the world.
A joint initiative of GÉANT and Internet2, NPAPW25 explored what happens when creativity meets advanced networks.
From history of network-enabled performances to MVTP uses cases, and the distributed concert linking New York & Miami, it was a success.
🔗 Read the full recap by Domenico Vicinanza:

Lecture: Yen-yi Chan, “Presence and Performance: Devotional Images of Shaka and His Sacred Body in Medieval Nara” (Kanagawa U., Wed., 24 Sept, 3:30–5pm; in-person only)
https://ift.tt/0ixpmAw
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Gotta watch *the episode* in her honor tonight.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/arts/television/prunella-scales-dead.html

Prunella Scales, Sybil on ‘Fawlty Towers,’ Dies at 93
Best known “for playing unfortunate wives,” she had a decades-long career in the theater and on television.

Everyone should know
STEM is the vital support
On which the Arts bloom.
#dailyhaikuprompt - stem
#haiku
#poem

Christmas music is more popular than ever, with listeners embracing it earlier in the year; by December 10, 20 of Spotify's top 25 tracks were Christmas-themed (Elias Leight/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/music/…

Buyout von Electronic Arts: Saudi-Arabien stemmt über 90 Prozent
EA wird von einem Private-Equity-Konsortium gekauft, zu dem drei Firmen gehören. Nun werden die neuen Kräfteverhältnisse bekannt – sie sind wohl sehr einseitig.

Mangia!
‘A gesture of love’: Italy’s cuisine joins UNESCO’s cultural heritage list | Arts and Culture News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/11/a-gesture-of-love-italys-cuisine-joins-unescos-cultural-heritage-list?traffic_source=rss

In BC, Abbotsford and other border areas are under flood evacuation orders, especially from the Nooksack River. The Tyee recently reported on the lack of an agreement on flooding of the Nooksack, which is a perennial problem that the US government has ignored.
British Columbia and Washington need to work on a Cascadia-focused agreement on how to manage the Nooksack without meddling from the United States or Canada, which are apathetic to the real issues facing our region

Cascadia Journal
Observations on news, politics, and the arts in the Pacific Northwest.

Zimmer called in a bomb threat
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-10-03/future-ruins-nine-inch-nails-film-music-festival-is-called-off

Future Ruins, Nine Inch Nails' film-music festival, is canceled
The hotly-anticipated event from the band's Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross had been scheduled for Nov. 8.

Wow.
Gaming giant Electronic Arts bought in unprecedented $55bn deal
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4w3jzx807o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

Gaming giant Electronic Arts bought in unprecedented $55bn deal
EA is known for making best-selling games such as EA FC, The Sims and Mass Effect.

GlobalizeEd: A Multimodal Translation System that Preserves Speaker Identity in Academic Lectures
Hoang-Son Vo, Karina Kolmogortseva, Ngumimi Karen Iyortsuun, Hong-Duyen Vo, Soo-Hyung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11596

GlobalizeEd: A Multimodal Translation System that Preserves Speaker Identity in Academic Lectures
A large amount of valuable academic content is only available in its original language, creating a significant access barrier for the global student community. This is a challenge for translating in several subjects, such as history, culture, and the arts, where current automated subtitle tools fail to convey the appropriate pedagogical tone and specialized meaning. In addition, reading traditional automated subtitles increases cognitive load and leads to a disconnected learning experience. Thr…

Oh, I am crushed.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/acclaimed-british-playwright-tom-stoppard-dies-at-88

Acclaimed British playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88.

Tonight (November 21) Carpe Diem Arts has a Fall of Freedom event from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM at Seekers Church, Takoma Park across the street from the Takoma Metro (Red Line). More details in comments.
#DC #WashingtonDC

Taylor Swift set a new record for first-week album sales, reaching 4M by releasing 38 variations of Life of a Showgirl, an increasingly popular strategy (Elias Leight/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Korngold’s Straussiana live with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Step into Vienna’s golden age of the waltz with a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Mark Forrest introduces music from the Belfast International Arts Festival.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002nb6v

@… Superb article - & everyone please call on the libraries, universities, arts organisations & NGOs important to you...
#OpenAccess #DigitalSovereignty

Lecture: Yen-yi Chan, “Presence and Performance: Devotional Images of Shaka and His Sacred Body in Medieval Nara” (Kanagawa U., Wed., 24 Sept, 3:30–5pm; in-person only)
https://ift.tt/KsP1Mnt
TOC The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol 18, 5 (2017) …
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A few people look tiny in the slot between Olin and Uris Libraries from the Arts Quad to Ho Plaza
#photo #photography #buildings

👀 Browsing Harvest Arts (https://aila.ngo/harvest-arts-crafts-market/).

✍️ New post: Play On
#blogtober #music #play #technology

Play On · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

C’mon man just let it go! 🤦‍♂️
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/arts/music/black-flag-greg-ginn.html

Black Flag’s Latest Reboot Has Everyone Talking (Even Greg Ginn)
At 71, Ginn has remade his hardcore institution once again — this time with zoomer-aged bandmates. Is it a punk statement or karaoke?

EA reports Q2 net bookings down 13% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.88B est., and says it will no longer issue forward-looking financial guidance due to its $55B sale (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/electronic-arts-sales-down-ea…

Electronic Arts Sales Down, Suspends Earnings Calls
Electronic Arts saw its sales fall 13% year over year during the July-September quarter.

The most celebrated architect of his age, a wry, pugnacious, singular genius,
Frank Gehry, died Friday at 96
In Bilbao and Berlin, New York and, especially, Los Angeles
— where the Canadian-born Gehry settled and became inseparable from the city
— he left behind playful, polarizing, materially and technologically stunning buildings

Frank Gehry: 12 Essential, Stunning Projects
A singular genius, Gehry redefined architecture with joyful buildings like the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

FRIDAY, October 31st
From 7:30 – 9:30 PM
@ Yale CCAM Sound Art Series
(149 York St, New Haven, CT)
"SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DECEPTIVE"
An audio visual live performance by #Negativland SUE-C
Free, open to the public, but limited capacity – first come first serve!

Electronic Arts vor Buyout: Sind die goldenen EA-Jahre jetzt plötzlich vorbei?
EA wird von Private Equity gekauft. Schlimm! Fans der liebenswürdigen US-Spieleschmiede müssen sich auf so einige Veränderungen gefasst machen. Eine Glosse.

What, #alphorns in a #planetarium? Everything is possible at the https://divefest.de - a festival for immersive arts - in Bochum this weekend.

“Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, said he did not believe Mr. Kimmel’s removal was an example of ‘cancel culture.’ He said that ‘when a person says something that a ton of people find offensive, rude, dumb in real time and then that person is punished for it that’s not cancel culture. That is consequences for your actions.’”
🧐

Imagine you are the organiser of a small arts festival. You issue a complimentary ticket at no charge to each of - a performer's mother, a commercial sponsor of the festival, a member of your board of trustees, and a volunteer who is helping at the festival.
In which of those situations should you pay HMRC the VAT that would have been due on the ticket had it been sold at full price?

RIP Electronic Arts, 1982–2025.

@…
It just occurred to me that I should probably let you know about this entry if you didn’t already know about it :
The 27th Annual North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival will be held on September 27 and 28, 2025.
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Rain or Shine, at Forster Farm, 60 Chestnut Hill Road, Orange, Massachusetts.
It’s garlicky!

North Quabbin Garlic & Arts Festival
Feeding Others Feeds Your Soul

American Sports Are Turning Up the Volume of Afrobeats https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/arts/music/afrobeats-nba-nfl.html

I just learned that Frank Gehry passed away. 😔
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/design/frank-gehry-dead.html
One of his buildings that I hope to visit is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 🇪🇸. I looked at the list of buildings he designed and the only o…

Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96 (Nicolai Ouroussoff/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts/design/frank-gehry-dead.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p88#a251205p88

Harvest Arts & Crafts Market – American Indian Law Alliance https://aila.ngo/harvest-arts-crafts-market/

✍️ New post: Overshoot
#blogtober #climate #climateAction #podcast

Overshoot · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

White House ousts arts commissioners expected to oversee ballroom, arch construction
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5577918-white-house-fires-commission-fine-arts/

Timbaland's Stage Zero launches TaTa Taktumi, an AI pop artist created using Suno's tools; Timbaland says ~85% of the creative work is still done by humans (David Peisner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/arts/music/timbaland-a…

Timbaland’s Latest Protégée Is an A.I. Pop Singer
The producer dreamed up TaTa Taktumi and brought her to life with help from the software Suno. She’s arriving at a fraught moment for artificial intelligence in music.

I dagens @… oversettes «liberal arts college» som «liberal kunstskole» 🤦‍♂️
«Liberal arts» er en samlebetegnelse for en rekke studier fra humaniora og samfunnsfag, og, nei, det har ingen ting med kunstutdanning å å gjŸre (som faller under paraplyen «fine arts»).
BA / MA (Bachelor of Arts / Master of Arts) er gradene liberal arts fŸrer til. BFA / M…

Saudische Investoren könnten Electronic Arts übernehmen
US-Medien berichten von einem der größten Buyouts der Geschichte: EA könnte für 50 Milliarden Dollar von der Börse genommen werden.
https://www.

EA strikes a partnership with Stability AI to build game developer tools that serve as "smarter paintbrushes" (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/electronic-arts-stability-developer-deal-1236559755/

Electronic Arts Partners With Stability AI
Video game giant Electronic Arts has struck a new partnership with generative tech company Stability AI

Australian stories aren't just entertainment. They create jobs, drive tourism, and show ourselves, and the world, who we are. When streaming giants take billions, pay next to no tax without investing back, we lose jobs, and the movies that define us.
Every signature matters. Every share counts. The time to act is now.
#Petition

Sign the Petition
Save Australian Stories

CFP: Popular Arts Conference 2026 - Pop Culture Studies at DragonCon
https://ift.tt/jEPMklV
updated: Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 12:12pmfull name / name of organization: Popular Arts…
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Portland's weird, effective resistance
We live in strange times, and the people of Portland are responding with their trademark whimsy. Despite US president Donald Trump's best attempts to portray the City of Roses as a "war-torn" "hellhole," folks who live there are demonstrating that these are lies – lies intended to bolster his authoritarian efforts to deploy the National Guard in cities that oppose him and his tyrannical policies

Portland's weird, effective resistance
Hi there! In October, I'm hoping to hit 70 paid subscribers to Cascadia Journal. For just $5 per month you can help me continue to publish these weekly essays about how Cascadia becoming more autonomous and resisting fascism. Plus, I also round up news, environmental reporting, and arts coverage from

A look at Alan's Universe, a YouTube channel for Gen Alpha with 98.3M subscribers that releases long-form, episodic videos as viewers shift to watching on TV (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/arts/television/youtube-alans-universe.html

‘Alan’s Universe’ Shows What It Might Look Like to Win at YouTube
As Gen Alpha’s attention drifts from TV and movies, video creators like Alan Chikin Chow are eager to fill the void.

Some podcasters are embracing AI voice clones from ElevenLabs and other startups, aiming to augment, translate episodes, and even replace in-studio performances (Reggie Ugwu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/arts/podcast-ai-voices-clones.html…

For Podcasters, a Voice Clone Is a Double-Edged Sword
Are A.I. replicas a boon for productivity or a betrayal of the bond with listeners?

Korean Students demonstrate a giant video game on the side of a truck on the arts quad
#photo #photography #cornell

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Johann Sebastian Bach, James Ehnes, Charles Hamann & Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra:
🎵 Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor, BWV 1060R: I. Allegro
#JamesEhnes
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Ri9NnsAcxDynIRHTO5s5A

OK, let's be clear about #Autism:
A majority of engineers, including software engineers, are #ActuallyAutistic; I suspect a majority of architects and people who invent new stuff generally are; many people in the creative arts are.
Without

Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: terms of reference

White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/28/trump-arts-commission-firings-ballroom-arch/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p138#a251028p138

It was National Voter Registration Day,
and Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows was on her way to a small liberal arts college
for a voter registration event.
That’s when she learned the US Department of Justice
was suing her over how she manages Maine’s voter registrant list.
While the DOJ appearing as the official plaintiff was new,
what the federal government sought through the lawsuit
—access to Maine’s complete, unredacted voter roll file

Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.

Sacred Arts 2026:Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual
https://ift.tt/rx4b8ia
updated: Friday, December 12, 2025 - 12:32pmfull name / name of organization: London Arts-Based…
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A profile of Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, who has 19M followers on the platform, many of them young people, and drew nearly 50M viewers to a monthlong stream (Emmanuel Morgan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/arts/kai-cenat-twitch-streaming.html

How Kai Cenat Became a New Kind of Celebrity for Gen Z
With his boisterous antics, Cenat has gained 19 million Twitch followers and the attention of celebrities who covet that audience.

Bad Bunny Will Headline Super Bowl Halftime Show https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/arts/music/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime.html

Inside the creation of AI actress Tilly Norwood, which included 2,000 iterations; Particle6, its creator, says it has ~60 NDAs for projects involving Tilly (Ellen Gamerman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/till

Sacred Arts 2026:Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual
https://ift.tt/rx4b8ia
updated: Friday, December 12, 2025 - 12:32pmfull name / name of organization: London Arts-Based…
via Input 4 RELCFP

How Israel's war in Gaza engulfed the entertainment industry, including popular TV shows produced in Israel going dark on US streaming platforms like Netflix (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-cul…

Sacred Arts 2026:Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual
https://ift.tt/rx4b8ia
updated: Friday, December 12, 2025 - 12:32pmfull name / name of organization: London Arts-Based…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Crip Culture
Celebrates disability arts, culture and creativity...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods <…

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/arts/design/trump-eisenhower-king-charles-sword.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qk8.LzPJ.VnoNm9f7aTX6&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/251002/p136#a251002p136

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#FridayNightIsMusicNight
- Christmas at the Movies
George Morton conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert of Christmas film scores. Live from Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre. Presented by Katie Derham.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kzm9

An interview with Michele Mulroney, the new president of WGA West, about helping bring Jimmy Kimmel back, plans for upcoming contract negotiations, and more (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/busin…

The Writers Guild helped bring Kimmel back. Here's what its new president plans next
Michele Mulroney was elected WGA West president, a key role during next year's negotiations with major studios.

✍️ New post: The HTML Output Element
#blogtober #HTML #web #development

The HTML Output Element · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

Frida Kahlo Painting Sells For
$54.7 Million,
the Most Ever for a Female Artist at Auction
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/fine-art/frida-kahlo-sothebys-auction-the-dream-bed-9998aa13

A look at Live Nation's Setlist.fm, a wiki-like site with 80M annual users that changed live music by letting users document songs that artists play at concerts (Marc Hogan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/arts/music/setlist-fm-website-con…

The Website Reshaping Live Music, One Set List at a Time
On Setlist.fm, users track what songs artists play at concerts (and more). The availability of so much data has changed the ways musicians and fans experience shows.

Some podcasters are embracing AI voice clones from ElevenLabs and other startups, aiming to augment, translate episodes, and even replace in-studio performances (Reggie Ugwu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/arts/podcast-ai-voices-clones.html…

For Podcasters, a Voice Clone Is a Double-Edged Sword
Are A.I. replicas a boon for productivity or a betrayal of the bond with listeners?

Expect deep cuts in PhD admissions throughout the US, including biomedical programs.
The current model of PhD training and the current financial climate are simply not compatible.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/21/fas-phd-admissions-cuts/…

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years.

Microsoft plans to bring its Halo franchise to the PlayStation for the first time with the launch of a 25th‑anniversary remake of Halo: Combat Evolved in 2026 (Zachary Small/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/arts/halo-playstation-microsoft-xbox.h…

With Halo: Campaign Evolved, Microsoft Brings Prized Xbox Game to PlayStation
As part of a strategic shift away from exclusivity, Microsoft is bringing Halo to Sony’s competing console for the first time.

White House fires commission charged with advising the president on design as Trump pushes construction projects (Samantha Waldenberg/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/politics/trump-fine-arts-commission-firings
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p6#a251029p6

Inside the creation of AI actress Tilly Norwood, which included 2,000 iterations; Particle6, its creator, says it has ~60 NDAs for projects involving Tilly (Ellen Gamerman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/till

In case you missed my post from day 3 of #blogtober: It’s about a legendary piece of gear that shaped the sound of Abbey Road studios – and what it all has to do with building for the #Web. 🤓

Tweaking the Circuits · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

Literature and the Visual Arts https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/02/literature-and-the-visual-arts

White House fires board that reviews presidential construction projects in Washington (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-fires-commission-fine-arts-board-trump-ballroom-projects-rcna240405
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p1#a251029p1

How Israel's war in Gaza engulfed the entertainment industry, including popular TV shows produced in Israel going dark on US streaming platforms like Netflix (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-cul…

A look at Live Nation's Setlist.fm, a wiki-like site with 80M annual users that changed live music by letting users document songs that artists play at concerts (Marc Hogan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/arts/music/setlist-fm-website-con…

The Website Reshaping Live Music, One Set List at a Time
On Setlist.fm, users track what songs artists play at concerts (and more). The availability of so much data has changed the ways musicians and fans experience shows.

A profile of EA CEO Andrew Wilson, who is expected to stay in the role, as Silver Lake's Egon Durban hails him for building EA's "crown jewel" sports business (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ea-electronic-art

A profile of Dr. Phil, who launched Envoy Media two weeks after his company Merit Street Media filed for bankruptcy in July, prompting accusations of bad faith (Stacy Perman/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts…

Dr. Phil's media network is mired in bankruptcy. What happened?
The unraveling of Dr. Phil's media venture was a blow to the celebrity therapist who built a reputation as one of the most trusted voices on television. But his fortunes faded amid a dying market for syndicated TV and clashes with a distributor and partner.

The European Broadcasting Union says it is tightening Eurovision's voting rules to limit the influence of governments on the public poll that decides the winner (Lynsey Chutel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/arts/music/eurovision-votin…

Eurovision Tightens Voting Rules to Tamp Down on Government Influence
In this year’s contest, a campaign by Israel to encourage voting for its entrant drew criticism.

Filings: after EA's buyout, Saudi Arabia's PIF would own 93.4% of EA, implying it needs to put up ~$29B, while Silver Lake and Affinity would own 5.5% and 1.1% (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/saudi-fund…