I think curiosity is a virtue. | | | | Seymour Stein is America's greatest living record man. He signed Madonna, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, The Cure, Ice-T, Lou Reed, and many others.
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| | rantnrave:// We love to debate and prognosticate at REDEF. We often do this through REDEF ORIGINALS. So we selected a few killers ones from the past few years that still resonate. Enjoy... Over the past century, technological advancements have massively reduced the cost and time needed to create and circulate content. Though this has liberated artists, consumers are now drowning in a virtually infinite supply of things to watch, listen to and read. The answer to a world where attention is the key constraint, not capital or distribution, isn’t Big Media – it’s the Influencer Curator. "Age of Abundance: How the Content Explosion will Invert the Media Industry"... Sixteen years after the music industry's peak, revenues have returned to growth. But the core problems of streaming service profitability and minuscule artist royalties persist. There is cause for optimism, but transformation is needed. Enter, SPOTIFY RECORDS and APPLE MUSIC GROUPS? "16 Years Late, $13B Short, but Optimistic: Where Growth Will Take the Music Biz"... Marketer SETH MATLINS on the damage done by advertising that enforces unrealistic beauty ideals and how the TRUTH IN ADVERTISING ACT hopes to generate positive change. "With Great Power: Seth Matlins on How Advertising Can Shift Culture For the Better"... There are few concepts more fundamental to the video media business than that of content "windowing" – yet even this strategy is crumbling under the pressures of digital distribution. How will rights owners maximize the value of their content in the post-window era? The answer depends on how badly you want it. "Letting it Go: The End of Windowing (and What Comes Next)"... From the SUPER BOWL to the OLYMPICS to the NBA finals, sports rules the roost in TV programming. But nothing lasts forever, and as the cable ecosystem confronts challenges and viewers demand more and more personalization, what must the leagues and the networks do to keep their winning streak alive? "Ball in Its Court: How Sports Media Needs to Evolve"... Now reading SIREN SONG: MY LIFE IN MUSIC by SEYMOUR STEIN. I grew up in awe of his ear for musical talent. And the signings he made at his label SIRE RECORDS. MADONNA, THE RAMONES, TALKING HEADS, DEPECHE MODE, THE SMITHS, THE CURE, ICE-T, LOU REED, and many others. His memory for music metadata put SHREVIE in DINER to shame. His daughters MANDY and SAMANTHA were like my baby sisters. And his late ex-wife LINDA like my fun aunt. Tonight, Seymour talks about his career with HENRY ROLLINS at WEST HOLLYWOOD LIBRARY... Happy Birthday to DAN DOCTOROFF, AVI SAVAR, and RAMY ADEEB. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The Ringer |
| This is the true story of Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, and John C. Reilly’s side-splittingly twisted exploration of male arrested development, the most fun movie to make ever made | | |
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 | New York Magazine |
| A plausible theory of mind-boggling collusion. | | |
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 | Medium |
| Anxiety. Depression. ADHD. Dementia. The human brain is in trouble. Technology is a cause -- and a solution. | | |
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 | Vox |
| Even those most invested in the Court’s grandeur are finding it hard to defend its reality. | | |
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 | Wired |
| There weren't a lot of people online in the early 1990s. Mark Kelly, keyboard player for the English band Marillion, early internet adopter and self-titled "co-inventor of crowdfunding," was an exception. One night after a concert someone handed him a stack of papers--printouts from an email list of Marillion fans. | | |
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| Wired |
| Everyone who has seen "The Social Network" knows the story of Facebook's founding. It was at Harvard in the spring semester of 2004. What people tend to forget, however, is that Facebook was only based in Cambridge for a few short months. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| China is using its huge digital surveillance system, and the threat of sending family members to reeducation camps, to pressure minorities to spy on their fellow exiles. | | |
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 | Longreads |
| Uruguay, a small nation with a deep-seated passion for soccer, is the inspiration for any underdog vying to win a World Cup. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The long read: A new elite has accumulated more money, more quickly, than plutocrats in almost any country in history | | |
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 | BBC News |
| In the past decade, hundreds of local US newspapers have closed or merged. What happens to the communities they leave behind? | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| In order to measure just how divided American culture has become, economists built an algorithm that predicts somebody's income, education, gender and race based on his or her attitudes and habits. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| Almost 30 years ago, a stealth nominee-not Robert Bork-changed everything about the politics of confirmation fights. | | |
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 | The Drum |
| Imagine a single advertising campaign, so powerful that it lasted for over a decade, worked in more than 50 countries, was successful across TV, digital and social media and won multiple awards. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| The grand promises of withdrawal from the European Union run aground on the tedious and technical details that campaigners ignored. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| “He knows that the verdict of history is about to come down on him -- and bury him.” | | |
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 | Complex |
| Pastelle was supposed to be Kanye West’s grand entrance into the fashion world. So, why didn’t it ever come out? | | |
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| The Atlantic |
| A new law in Georgia prohibits drivers from even touching a screen. Whether or not it improves safety, it could help break people's phone habits. | | |
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 | Slate |
| Journalist Annie Lowrey deep-dives into the research on universal basic incomes and decides we really should just “give people money.” | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| Old media broadcasters in Germany and France are setting up ambitious joint national video platforms, but do they have what it takes to compete with the streaming giants? | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| How a ragtag crew of leftist revolutionaries and soldiers of fortune helped defeat ISIS. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| Competitors like Apple and Amazon -- booming from profitable non-media products and services that fill increasingly deep wallets for music and other content -- have already gained significant ground against Spotify in the music streaming wars. The secret word, which Spotify itself has yet to master: bundles. | | |
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 | FX Guide |
| Overall VFX Sup., David Vickery and ILM's VFX Sup., Alex Wuttke discuss balancing the needs and history of the "Jurassic World." | | |
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 | ProPublica |
| A family of chemicals -- known as PFAS and responsible for marvels like Teflon and critical to the safety of American military bases -- has now emerged as a far greater menace than previously disclosed. | | |
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