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Sunday, March 09, 2014

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Feeling Burned Out? The One Change That Could Fix Everything

Fast Company | Business + Innovation: The first was director of special projects for Tim Ferriss, the bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body. Secondly, I was the co-founder of a profitable tech startup.
Both gigs had highly desirable qualities: I got to work on exciting projects, collaborate with talented people, and I was making good money. For a 25-year-old, I was living the dream.
But then I quit.

Here's How They Made The Hobbit's Amazing Barrel Escape Scene

Underwire | Wired.com: Of all the scenes in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, Peter Jackson cites the escape from the elves as one of his favorites. So in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the director went to great lengths to make Bilbo and the dwarves’ wine-barrel-enabled getaway from Thranduil’s realm into an epic seven-minute action sequence. How’d he do it?

An Affordable Full Body Studio Grade 3D Scanner

hackaday.com: Looking for a professional 3D scanning setup for all your animation or simulation needs? With this impressive 3D scanning setup from the folks over at [Artanim], you’ll be doing Matrix limbos in no time! They’ve taken 64 Canon Powershot A1400 cameras to create eight portable “scanning poles” set up in a circle to take 3D images of, well, pretty much anything you can fit in between them!

How To Use LEGOs To Manage Your Time Better

www.makeuseof.com: I think I’ve found the ultimate productivity tool: LEGOs. Don’t leave! Let me explain.
At the beginning of the day, it’s easy to look at your to-do list and feel overwhelmed. Every item on that list represents something you need to do, and you’re not sure you can get through it all.
But you have a resource for dealing with your tasks: time. And a to-do list does a really crappy job of representing that. Sure, you have a clock. And a calendar. But neither of those give you a tangible sense of how much time you’ve got for accomplishing things – how much time you have left today.
You know what does? LEGOs.

Will the shift to digital destroy movies as we know them?

io9.com: Digital movies are becoming more and more popular, but some people are saying the move could destroy movies as we know them. But it's not issues of film quality that have them worried — it's film preservation.

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