A 3D sculpture made of string and light →

From the Monitor Digital Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico comes 'Lumarca', an immersive 3D sculpture made from the hanging of hundreds (thousands?) of pieces of string and a digital projector:

The Verge has done a nice interview with one of its creators Matt Parker that you can find here. I would love to see technology like this used as part of a performing arts piece - dance especially would suit this especially well.

We can dance

A video montage of Hollywood movie dance scenes edited to the Safety Dance by The Men Without Hats - great fun.

Bullying in the arts →

According to a 2011 survey in the UK, workplace bullying is more widespread in the arts than even the armed forces.

There is undoubtedly silence around the issue. Perhaps it's because people make allowances for what they see as artistic temperament, when in fact it's just a lack of human decency. Perhaps there's some hero-worship going on; and it may be that in an area where more people want to work than there are jobs, there is more room for exploitative behaviour.

Can artistic vision/passion/drive lead to a hostile work environment? And if so, are we more willing to put up with it because of its creative intent?

This is water...

Three years before David Foster Wallace died, he gave a graduation address at Kenyon College in the US. It's a gorgeous creation, one that I keep coming back to. This video is an abridged version of said speech and really well done.

Watch this.

Getting into Cirque Du Soleil

Whatever your opinion of Cirque Du Soleil, you would have a hard time arguing their blend of artist drive and business success is anything short of extraordinary - It's wonderful to watch the mechanisms of the organisation spin. If you can spare 50min - this is well worth your time.