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Sunday, February 22, 2015

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

This Fake Street Sign is a Public Art Masterpiece

The Creators Project: Once in awhile, a public artwork comes to the aid of public service. A building in Toronto, for instance, is currently a reactive surface visualizing the plight of the homeless. A galloping horse projected from a mobile movie theater is helping expose rural Thailand to cinema. In the case of artist Richard Ankrom, the civil contribution came in the form of Guerrilla Public Service, an art project that saw Ankrom installing fabricated markers onto existing freeway signs without permission. But this was neither a spiked critique á la Luzinterruptus' LED-infused syringes, nor a crowd crystal-type experiment like Sebastian Errazuriz's yawning billboards in Times Square. No, Ankrom's reasoning behind for Guerrilla Public Service is much simpler: "A North panel and 5 shield were fabricated and attached to the existing overhead sign because the information was missing."

Forget Hollywood: These 7 cities are becoming film hotspots

Urbanful: One of the biggest dramas being staged in Hollywood right now has nothing to do with a script or a set. It’s the real life struggle to keep movie making in Hollywood, as productions are fleeing for the greener pastures beyond Tinseltown.

It’s been an issue years in the making. Tax incentive programs have been implemented in cities and states around the country, rolling out the red (or should we say green) carpet to attract film and tv productions.

15 little-known facts about the Oscars

Las Vegas Review-Journal: Oscar night is almost upon us. And short of watching all the nominated films to be able to make reasonable arguments for why so-and-so was snubbed, what better way to get into the spirit than reading up on some of the fascinating, bizarre and little-known trivia from throughout Oscar history?

Here are some facts sure to make you look like the smartest person on the couch this Sunday evening during the Academy Awards (Sunday, 5:30 p.m., ABC).

'The Phantom of the Opera' chandelier is prepped to meet its fate in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A spectacular chandelier is as crucial to “The Phantom of the Opera” as the man behind the mask or Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Music of the Night.” So when the touring company now at the Benedum Center was redesigned for the next generation of phanatics, the company went big and with a nod to the original.
 

Race Matters in Three Off-Broadway Productions

Cultural Weekly: Race matters, as Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor recently wrote. Some thought, with the election of a black president in 2008, all our prejudices would magically disappear and America would become a post-racial utopia. A trio of current Off-Broadway plays painfully and incisively documents the real state of relations between majority and minority groups in our polarized land and the world at large.

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