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Tuesday, September 04, 2012

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week (3 way tie for 5th)...

Pittsburgh reinvents itself as the new Hollywood

money.cnn.com: Once known for its steel mills and smog, Pittsburgh is fast becoming the Tinseltown of the East. A generous film tax credit, coupled with the region's diverse landscape and skilled labor unions, have made the city a hot destination for recent productions -- and the firms that cater to them.

Nakedness in Dance, Taken to Extremes

NYTimes.com: HOW do you react to the look of a naked body onstage? Thirty-four years ago, as part of a friend’s bachelor party, I went to a London strip club with a group of seven other men. We were all in our early 20s; most of them were distinctly upper-crust; some qualified as what the English call chinless wonders and Hooray Henrys.
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ASK PLAYBILL.COM: A Question About Who Covers for Absent Backstage Crew Members

Playbill.com: Question: It's familiar knowledge about how understudies and swings take over when an actor is out sick or on vacation. But what about behind-the-scenes crew? What about the stage manager, the soundboard operator and dressers?
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How Much Sleep Do You Really Need to Work Productively?

lifehacker.com: Everyone has an answer to "how much sleep do you need"? A common one—and one that I have given on many occasions—is to respond "Oh yes, I need my 8-9 hours of sleep every night, I know that." It turns out, that might not be true after all.
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Images For Olympics Opening Ceremony

livedesignonline.com: In early 2009, Crystal CG, an international creative agency, was appointed as the official digital imaging services supplier for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Slipknot | Corey Taylor Blames Stage Collapse On Pyrotechnics

Contactmusic: Slipknot singer Corey Taylor has blamed the band's onstage fireworks for his health scare in Texas last month (Jul12) after passing out during a concert finale. The rocker gave fans a scare when he collapsed at the end of the group's Dallas gig, part of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival tour.
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Inside Adam Savage's Toolbox

Wired.com: This work required a fine eye for detail—and tons of tools. By the time I moved to MythBusters in 2003, I had well over 300 items in my model-making kit. (Complete list here.) Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability. It’s a function of two particular parts of my personality.
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