The accumulation of wealth by a small percentage of people at the top of the pyramid gradually engulfs everything.
The money produced by art has not disappeared. The issue is not that the people of the world value television less than they did in the 1990s. The reality is that the people with the most money have devised, at every turn, new and more bulletproof ways for them to make and keep more money, and for the people who make things to make less. This is the eternal story of labor and management; it just has hot people in it, in this case.
Greyhound buses, emblematic of a bygone era in American travel, have left an indelible mark on the collective imagination, gracing the frames of classic films and the pages of literary works. In this article, Joanna Pocock follows in the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir as she crosses the country by bus, only to encounter a transport network that's now a mere spectre of its former glory.
Reading this, I was surprised to learn that Greyhound now belongs to cheap German bus company Flixbus. That's quite a fall.
Some filmmakers can do action, others can do comedy. And this video shows why Jackie Chan is one of the rare people to combine them well.
Fascinating look into how sounds in film are produced. As well as a custom house built to do the work.
British illustrator Richard Wilkinson creates insects based on characters like Bugs Bunny or Jason Voorhees.