Lady Gaga, new Polaroid's... creative director
The Paparazzi star is now a spokesperson for the camera company, saying that she will 'blend the iconic history of Polaroid with the digital era'
from the Guardian http://bit.ly/6H5PnB
Vinteuil is a newly created agency dedicated to cultural productions.
Serious and social games, cultural applications, mobile media, digital strategy for cultural institutions, photography, etc.
With a baseline, stolen to Louise Bourgeois, "Art is a Guarantee of Sanity".
The Paparazzi star is now a spokesperson for the camera company, saying that she will 'blend the iconic history of Polaroid with the digital era'
Curator high on list of most stressful jobs that pay badly
Posted by News on 9 November 2009 at 3:00pm
CNN has made a list of the fifteen most stressful jobs that pay badly, reports Lindsay Pollock, and number 12 is Curator (Social Worker is number 1). 89% of curators apparently report that their job is stressful, and 'median pay' is listed as $46,000. 'News' would like to point out that Reporter is number 6 on the list, however, and paid worse ('median pay' - $32,900). We would also like to take this opportunity, while we are talking about poor, exploited workers who are going out of their minds with stress, to alert you to Hyperallergic's very funny Powerless 20 (based on ArtReview's very own Power 100). The Top 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World. Wannabe curators, if not put off enough by today's news, should pay attention to the number 3 and 7 most powerless people....."3 – Independent curators without trust funds – There’s a saying, “No trust, no love.”
7 – Assistant Curators living off $27,000 salaries, with $80,000 in grad school debt from a fancy curatorial studies program. (When students enter MBA programs, professors often talk about the negative investment they make in their futures as they spend money to eventually make six or seven figures upon graduation. In curatorial programs, discussions of economics that don’t reference Marx or Negri are just gauche.)"
After lengthy negotiations, Electronic Arts closed it’s anticipated acquisition of social gaming startup Playfish for $275 million in cash. An additional $25 million in stock will be set aside for retaining the top talent at the startup, and another $100 million in earnouts are part of the deal as well if the business hits certain milestones. So the total value of the deal could amount to as much as $400 million when all is said and done.
Playfish is based in London, and has raised $21 million from Accel Partners and Index ventures.
Playfish operates social games on Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, and other social networks which have been installed more than 150 million times. It’s top games include Pet Society, Restaurant City, Country Story and Who Has The Biggest Brain?
Social games are increasingly popular and Electronic Arts needed to buy one of the top players: Zynga, Playfish, or Playdom. The issue is that all three make their money from trading in-game virtual currency for advertising offers. Many of these offers are outright scams, which may explain why Playfish got less in upfront cash than the $350 million to $500 million range it was looking for, and the last $100 million is in the form of an earnout. Playfish perhaps also is not as exposed to these scammy offers as its competitors.
