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Sunday, April 06, 2014

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

A community art project made from 6,000 used CDs: Mirror Culture in Varna, Bulgaria.

www.slate.com: In this clever community design project, 128 volunteers attached 6,000 used CDs to a giant custom knitted fishing net stretched between pillars at the entrance of the Sea Garden public park in Varna, Bulgaria, on the Black Sea. The project, dubbed Mirror Culture, was visited by some 50,000 people last summer, as part of the city’s bid for European Capital of Culture in 2019.


Concept designers at Lego

Dezeenjobs architecture and design recruitmentDezeenjobs architecture and design recruitment: As concept designer your key responsibility will be to gather, analyse and translate insights into fun and inspiring play experiences that foster creative play for girls. You will be working with the whole design process ranging from ideation of concepts – over prototyping and ensuring handover to the next development phase.


Jim Henson's Creature Shop Brings You the Joy of Monster Making

io9.com: Jim Henson's Creature Shop, debuting tonight on SyFy, allows ten up-and-coming creature designers to put their ideas and technical skills to the test in weekly monster challenges. We talked to judge Kirk R. Thatcher and contestant Melissa Doss to find out what's in store.

Where Films Shoot, Tourist Dollars Follow

Variety: The revived Fox series “24: Live Another Day” is shooting all 12 of its episodes in London through June, and although the Kiefer Sutherland starrer portrays the British capital as a city in the grips of terrorists, Adrian Wootton, CEO of government promo org Film London, is optimistic that the show will encourage more tourists to visit


"How Do I Stop Saying 'Um'?" and Other FAQs About Presentations

lifehacker.com: Anyone who wants to be successful needs to learn how to present. It doesn't matter if you're sharing information online using software like join.me or if you're speaking to a large crowd — you should always feel confident and prepared. Of course, that's easier said than done. If you were captain of the debate team you may have been born ready, but if you were the math nerd who never presented in class, you probably need some practice.


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