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Sunday, November 24, 2013

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week.

Digital street artist replaces car headlights with projectors

InAVate: A video artist became the subject of a recent LG viral advertising campaign when he used the electronics manufacturer's Minibeam projectors and a Mini car to stage a series of clever digital street installations. The artist, only known as Jaun, removed the headlights from the car and replaced them with the small, WiFi connected, 500g projection units.


Rube Goldberg's marvelous machines

Boing Boing: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg's absurdly complex mechanisms for achieving easy results are so ingrained in popular culture that the artist/engineer's name appears in the dictionary as an adjective. A new book highlights his happy mutant approach to engineering.


Here’s Lady Gaga in a Flying Dress Because Okay, Sure

Geekosystem: We might not have commercially available jetpacks just yet, but of course that hasn’t stopped Lady Gaga from deciding that she needs an extra-fashionable version of one for her very own. Meet Volantis, the flying dress that we’re pretty sure she named after the place that Robb Stark’s wife is from in Game of Thrones. You can’t convince us otherwise.


20 Reasons Someone Else Got The Job Instead Of You

Come Recommended: When you’re up for a very competitive job opportunity, the choice can become quite close for employers. You might be neck and neck with another candidate who is as equally qualified as you, so what makes the difference?


A fine-arts degree may be a better choice than you think

WSJ.com: "Artists can have good careers, earning a middle-class income," says Anthony Carnevale, director of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce. "And, just as important and maybe more, artists tend to be happy with their choices and lives."


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