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Monday, February 09, 2015

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Scappoose designers built Katy Perry's golden lion

www.kgw.com: One of the highlights of the Super Bowl halftime show was the giant, gold lion singer Katy Perry rode on to kick off her performance. A Scappoose team of 40 designers worked on that secretly for weeks.

Employees at Michael Curry Design say when Perry first met the lion, she called it the "dopest thing she's ever seen."
 

The Weinstein Company Has Sold — Yes, That’s Correct — an Unpaid Internship for $25,000

Flavorwire: There’s very little that hasn’t been said about the injustices of unpaid internships — the way they privilege the privileged, the way they present themselves as invaluable “learning experiences,” the way they insure the immobility of post-graduates, etc.

I saw the future. And it was BroadwayCon!

The Producer's Perspective: Well, it took awhile.

Back in 2011, I blogged about the “con” revolution. You know, ComicCon, EmeraldCityCon, DragonCon, ILikeHungarianCabinetMakingCon, and so on. With all the different “cons” out there, I had to wonder why there was no BroadwayCon.
 

Photo Gallery: Jim Henson's Creature Shop

Tested: We were extremely privileged to visit the Los Angeles branch of the legendary Jim Henson Creature Shop, where fabricators, animators, and puppeteers carry on the craft made famous by Henson. Our video interview with the shop's Creative Supervisor explored puppeteering history and some cool new modern technologies, but I wanted to give you guys a sense of the scope of workshop. It really is a fabricator's paradise, with tools for machining, moldmaking and casting, electronics work, and of course, puppet building.

Mental health issues affect 20% of showbiz professionals, survey finds

News : The Stage: One in five people working in entertainment has actively sought help for mental health issues, new research has found.

The survey, which was open to everyone in the sector and completed by more than 5,000 people, found that 46% of those who answered a question about the state of their mental health described it as either poor or average, and that 20% had actively sought help about their mental well-being.

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