The best and most influential special effects in recent film history
sploid.gizmodo.com: You can agree or disagree with the selection of films in this compilation of the most influential special effects since the 1980s, but your brain will be on a sensory overload from beginning to end.
Time Travel Through Set Design
Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma: Long before the rehearsal process for a show begins, hours and hours of work have been put into the production already. Marketing materials are developed, designers have made renderings and plans, and the stage manager has drawn up breakdowns, run sheets, and complex schedules to make the show run like clockwork.
Using Infants in ‘A Doll’s House’
NYTimes.com: Hattie Morahan, who stars as Nora in the acclaimed production of “A Doll’s House” now at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, has won the kind of rave reviews any actor would envy.
But for about two minutes during each show, she has found herself upstaged by a performer who doesn’t have any lines and, in fact, doesn’t seem to be acting at all.
Grass Printer
DudeIWantThat.com: Designers Prof. Doh Han Young, Jeong Koo Hee, and Kim Min Hong recently won a Red Dot Award for their Grass Printer. As you might have guessed, the Grass Printer is a device that prints stuff in grass*. It literally mows graphics into your lawn based on images you sketch into its touchscreen.
Pulling All-Nighters May Actually Give You Brain Damage, Sleeping in Isn’t Lazy, It’s for Your Health
Geekosystem: If you’re thinking about pushing everything until the last minute and then pulling an all-nighter to cram for that midterm and eating chocolate covered espresso beans all day to stay awake for the test (don’t question my delicious methods), you might want to come up with an alternate plan that doesn’t cause brain damage.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
NFTRW Weekly Top Five
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