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Sunday, December 03, 2017

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Are Smartphones Keeping Us from Appreciating Art?

www.artsy.net: According to recent estimates, by 2018, there will be 2.59 billion smartphone users on planet earth. That’s around a third of the world’s current population. Yet despite their ubiquity, what smartphones do to our brains over the long term remains murky.

6 Job Interview Mistakes You've Probably Made

TheGrindstone: You’re on time. You look great. Your resume slays. That doesn’t mean you aced your job interview. Here are four things to watch out for and avoid when you’re trying to get hired.

Disney's "Mulan" Finds Its Lead Actual Chinese Actress

The Mary Sue: Yesterday, The Hollywood Reporter announced that the live-action adaptation of Disney’s Mulan finally found its lead in Chinese actress Liu Yifei, also known as Crystal Liu. Even more impressive, the people in charge of casting went out of their way to ensure that they got an ethnically Chinese actress.

Inside the Production of the Massive Miniature Models Used to Film Blade Runner 2049

ArchDaily: You may not have guessed that the dystopian state of Los Angeles filmed in Blade Runner 2049 is a real place, just smaller. The scenes, from Los Angeles to the Trash Mesa and Wallace Tower were built to scale in Wellington, New Zealand by Weta Workshop, the massive ‘miniature’ sets were then filmed by cinematographer Alex Funke.

Production Designers Conjure Past and Future on Oscar-Vying Films

Variety: Historical accuracy is vital to a period film, but invariably reality must be bent to serve not just narrative expediency and budgetary limitations, but also the artists’ personal vision, as a sampling of this year’s awards contenders demonstrates.
For director Christopher Nolan’s World War II drama “Dunkirk” (pictured above), production designer Nathan Crowley went to great lengths to be true to the historical record.

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