VFX Town Hall Turns Focus On IATSE As Unionizing Efforts Creep On
Deadline.com: When a VFX town hall was held back in March, the visual effects community was in a state of panic, unsure of how best to unite to battle subsidies, runaway productions, untenable working conditions and other issues endemic to the industry. A follow-up event held last night in LA (and online from San Rafael and Vancouver — watch it here) focused movement toward forming a VFX union, but it marked only slight progress for organizing efforts. With many LA VFX artists preoccupied by the work that’s draining away from the region to other subsidized cities, community meetings like this remain hung up on the kinds of nightmare stories of extreme work days and paycheck delays that keep circulating around the biz. “I bought my co-worker toothpaste because she didn’t have money to afford it,” said VFX artist Diana Marie Wells, late of infamous NewBreed VFX, who streamed in from Montreal where she’s been battling alongside other artists for payment owed.
Cool foldable worktable
Boing Boing: The Centipede Sawhorse is a foldable worktable that looks like a great traditional sawhorse replacement. It's an indiegogo project.
Watch actors perform their very own death-defying stunts
io9.com: Most Hollywood actors are forbidden from doing all but the simplest stunts, because of the studio's insurance policies. But some actors still demand to be in the thick of the action, while some comedians performed death-defying tricks before the term "stunt doubles" even existed. Discover who put themselves in mortal danger for your entertainment!
Can Injured Actors Be Fired?
Backstage: “I was not allowed back,” actor Melissa Errico wrote on her personal blog in May. In her post, she described her shock on hearing that Classic Stage Company terminated her contract for its production of “Passion” after her prolonged absence from the show due to vocal illness. While Errico never believed her job was in jeopardy, it turns out that the producers at CSC were well within their rights to release Errico in her uncertain condition.
Johnny Depp Wants to Fix Racism With Tonto
jezebel.com: Disney's The Lone Ranger is ripe with opportunity to point out the perils of putting a white dude— no, sorry, a part-something Native American dude— dressed as a white guy's interpretation of a stoic Native American nature fairy named Tonto. But you guys, Johnny Depp knows the pathetic state of the underrepresentation of Native Americans in film. He knows everyone has been doing it wrong, so he's going to do red face right.
Friday, July 12, 2013
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