When I was in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress in March, I attended the ‘Content is King’ panel at the “4 years from now” exhibition. Included in the discussion were representatives of Cisneros, Playbuzz, and Kantar. All three men had much to say about formats and platforms for delivery, and everyone agreed that “good content” is…
Category: Art
Café Nordo and David Lynch
For the second time this year I went to experience an evening of strangeness and fine cuisine courtesy of the mysterious Chef Nordo. This time around, Café Nordo set up shop in the cabaret area of Theater Off Jackson (formerly Canoe Social Club). My previous Nordo experience was in the shambling old Washington Hall, divided…
Laurie Anderson: Storyteller
First, and admission of ignorance: I’ve never really tried to figure out Laurie Anderson. My first experience of her was the soft-avant-garde-electro-pop-poetry she put out in the 1980s. It fit somewhere in the sphere of intellectual art rock, which was perhaps a bit too mature for a fifteen year old with giant Sisters of Mercy…