121 stories by "Guy Yedwab"
Let's review:
Mark Zuckerberg got Jessie Eisenberg:
Bill Gates got Anthony Michael Hall:
Steve Jobs gets Ashton Kutcher:
I think that makes two degrees of separation b…
Here's how the bright new generation sees advocacy:
From the manifesto of the website Upworthy ("Here's what we think is wrong with the Internet, what we plan to do about it, and a pi…
A fantastic look at marriage, actually presented at a real, honest to god wedding:I celebrate Taylor. I celebrate Karina. I celebrate [Taylor&Karina]. But this wedding also has a third party…
Take this as another apology from me... Periodically, I get swamped by work and by performances, and it takes me a bit to reboot. So I'm back in the saddle, will do some catching up.Also, in…
Last Thursday, I had the great pleasure of attending a talk by the head of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Although he is previously known for being a great communicator of scie…
To the blogosphere: there's an incredible list of Nazi rules for jazz performance re-published on Atlantic Monthly's blog:
Pieces in foxtrot rhythm (so-called swing) are not to exceed 20% …
Isaac thinks about the "free download" approach to getting people hooked in your creative offering:
The question it seems to me is not what is theatre's equivalent of the free download? The…
Have I been on a gentle hiatus? Perhaps. I was quite industrious while I was working.
Anyways, some bits and bobs that caught my eye while I was out:
Forming a community, whoever we are:
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Previous installments: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, an update, VII, and VIII
A frequent series I've been running here has been a look at the rules of engag…
(I steered clear of the obvious The Agony And The Ecstacy of Mike Daisey...)
Here's the situation:
A highly popular episode of This American Life in which monologuist Mike Daisey tells …
Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie has passed away at 82. If you'd have asked me yesterday who my heroes were, I probably wouldn't have listed him (or his Star Trek counterpart, M…
Syrian rebels smuggled a wounded British journalist out of the besieged central city of Homs Tuesday and whisked him to safety in neighboring Lebanon, activist groups said.
How utterly fucke…
Mike Daisey continues to fight for his work to make its proper impact -- in this case, by challenging NYTimes Tech Columnist David Pogue to come engage more deeply with his work.
A little icing on the legal cake: buried in SCOTUSBlog's run-down on a ruling whether law requiring the losing party to pay for the cost of an interpreter applies to translation fees:
It's …
Here's Garrett Epps, in The American Prospect, describing the broader legal implications in the Ninth Circuit Court's decision to uphold the invalidation of Proposition 8:
"It's always bee…
A graf artist paid in Facebook stock.
Even Ken Davenport has noticed it.
There's another great installment of "The Decoder", where Howard Sherman breaks down awful PR speak into understandable tid-bits.
I just wanted to highlight this one:
7. Timely = addres…
Two examples of defending your work from critics today.
First up, Mike Daisey:
Daisey played to small but appreciative crowds across the US, winning critical praise but stirring little t…
Tim Cook 0, Mike Daisey 1.
This morning I woke up to a comment on this post, which was an innocuous reposting of Joshua Chamberlain's speech in the movie Gettysburg. The commenter, who was the person who posted the vi…
