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Monday, January 28, 2013

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Underweight models BANNED in Israel to fight anorexia: New law forces women in ads to stay healthy (and faked images have to be identified too)

Mail Online: Ultra-skinny models are to be confined to history after the a law came into effect in Israel for the start of 2013. Only healthy looking models with a Body Mass Index of more than 18.5, such as the country's most famous export, Bar Refaeli, will be able to work there.
-- 12 comments here


Go Bionic With These Wearable Arduino Projects

Wired Design | Wired.com: The emerging field of smart textiles, known as "Wearables" or e-textiles, has gained considerable momentum in the past few years as enthusiasts continue to build more and more complex projects with microcontrollers that keep growing in power while shrinking in size. The LilyPad Arduino microcontroller board helped bring a large developer community into Wearables with its debut in 2007; since then it has allowed many of those who dream of blending technology and everyday clothing to build out their ideas.
-- 11 comments here


Interactive theatre: five rules of play from an audience perspective

Culture professionals network | Guardian Professional: Interactive theatre is not a new genre, but its popularity has exploded. Tricky to define but characterised by an active, physical relationship between audience and production, it often incorporates a site-specific venue around which the audience is free to roam. Shunt, arguably the daddy of this genre, has inspired countless other companies, all wrestling for space on the fringe.
-- 10 comments here


Ohio High School Fires Director for Staging Legally Blonde Musical; Creators and Parents Comment

Playbill.com: An Ohio high school that fired the woman hired to direct its musicals is reassessing the goals of its drama program after school administrators expressed concerns over a production of the Tony Award-nominated musical Legally Blonde. Loveland High School, located 20 miles northeast of Cincinnati, presented a November production of Legally Blonde, the 2007 stage musical based on the Golden Globe-nominated 2001 film of the same title.
-- 10 comments here


Video: George Lucas Talks Future of 'Star Wars' and Lucasfilm

Rolling Stone: After Disney acquired Lucasfilm last October, Star Wars creator and Lucasfilm founder George Lucas and president Kathleen Kennedy sat down for a series of interviews on the future of the sci-fi universe and franchise. The fifth and final part surfaced today, but the pair let slip revealing news as early as the first segment in October. Lucas has already worked out treatments for Episodes Seven, Eight and Nine, with plans for more.
-- 8 comments here

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