3BlackDot & BavaMedia

from The Hollywood Reporter Digital Studio 3BlackDot Inks Deal With Management Firm BavaMedia (Exclusive) The Los Angeles-based company will provide content services to Bava’s talent roster, comprised of live-streamers and YouTube personalities. BY TRILBY...

The Long-tail Rising

from Showbiz 411 What Year Is It? Oldies Take Up 8 of the Top 20 on iTunes Including 1994 “Zombie” and 1970 “Spirit in the Sky” by Roger Friedman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zJ_07cnY5c&feature=emb_logo What year is it again? While Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call...

Critic Declares Warhol Not Lame

from The New York Times Warhol a Lame Copier? The Judges Who Said So Are Sadly Mistaken. An appeals court ruled that Andy Warhol violated a photographer’s copyright by appropriating her image for a silk-screen he did in 1984. Our critic disagrees. By Blake Gopnik Andy...

Almost da Vinci

from France 24 World’s priciest painting not a full da Vinci, claims doc The painting was last auctioned at Christie’s in New York in 2017 TIMOTHY A. CLARY AFP A French documentary has cast fresh doubts over the world’s most expensive painting, the...

Baby Satting

from SF Gate Satellite technology puts into orbit swarms of spacecraft no bigger than a loaf of bread Christian Davenport, The Washington Post The Superdove mini-satellite manufactured by Planet. Photo by Planet Labs The avalanche was a stunning disaster, 247 million...

Wheelmaker

from WIRED Who Invented the Wheel? And How Did They Do It? The wagon—and the wagon wheel—could not have been put together in stages. Either it works, or it doesn’t. And it enabled humans to spread rapidly into huge parts of the world. by CODY CASSIDY ILLUSTRATION:...