Recently, SmashingMagazine.com held a “Redesign the Web” poster contest with the aim of making the Web a more accessible and usable place. They received a number of great entries but three contributions really stood out that, when grouped together, sum up just about everything that is wrong with most arts organization web designs as well as pointing out the direction they should follow.
Year: 2012
I Wouldn't Really Say I Missed The Olympics
Everything moves in cycles and for whatever reason, getting excited about the 2012 Summer Olympics hasn’t made my to-do list. The only footage I’ve seen was via a television in a public space or when summer festival housemates were watching. Even then, the entire thing was more background noise than anything else but one item that caught my attention was the US national anthem.
I Wouldn’t Really Say I Missed The Olympics
Everything moves in cycles and for whatever reason, getting excited about the 2012 Summer Olympics hasn’t made my to-do list. The only footage I’ve seen was via a television in a public space or when summer festival housemates were watching. Even then, the entire thing was more background noise than anything else but one item that caught my attention was the US national anthem.
MN Orchestra Musicians Oppose State Marriage Amendment
It has been a long time since we examined issues related to same-sex and domestic partner relationships but a recent decision by the Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra (MMO) to formally oppose a Minnesota state amendment which would constitutionally limit marriage to opposite-sex couples is a good reason to revisit the topic.
The Leinsdorf Exit Interview
I’m back in Chicago after a wonderful working vacation at the Grand Teton Music Festival and am in the process of getting my head above the sea of emails, voice messages and the rest. As such, today’s post is a quick link over to a fascinating series of videos from 1969 at the WGBH website titled Tanglewood Tales: The Leinsdorf Exit Interview. It is fun to see the predictions juxtaposed against how things actually changed.