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Sunday, April 12, 2015

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

The Man Who Makes Hollywood's Smallest Sounds

priceonomics.com: In the first episode of season four of Breaking Bad, Gus, the boss of a large drug operation, enters an underground meth lab, where his cooks, Walt and Jesse, are quietly seated. Slowly, Gus descends -- clank, clank, clank -- his shoes tapping against the metal stairs. Without speaking, he walks to a dressing area, meticulously removes his suit jacket, ring, and eyeglasses, and zips into a biohazard suit. The room is dead silent.

Should all university lectures be automatically recorded?

theconversation.com: Universities across the world are considering whether to start automatically recording lectures. Some students are voting for it. And the IT industry has created some seductive products to record lectures, a process also known as “lecture capture”. Some onlookers expect a hesitant response from the higher education sector, which is often portrayed as cautious about taking up educational technologies.

Q2Q comics artist makes theatre's backstage his front page

DC Theatre Scene: The drive to Frederick was long, but the destination was worth it. Not just because Frederick may be the most adorable town in driving distance of DC, but also because that town is home to Maryland Ensemble Theater and their go-to sound guy Steve Younkins.
 

Times Square Is Now A Heat Sensitive Camera

The Creators Project: Times Square will become a giant, heat-sensitive camera every night this month, from 11:57 PM to midnight. Created by artist Peggy Ahwesh, City Thermogram unveils both NYC's electrical grid and the heat signatures of the human bodies that crowd its streets onto many of the largest billboards in the area.

Backstage workers feel ‘underpaid and exploited’ – survey

News | The Stage: Three quarters of backstage theatre workers think their rate of pay is too low and employers could afford to pay them more, according to a survey by union BECTU.

Alongside a widespread dissatisfaction with pay among workers at venues represented by UK Theatre – predominantly those outside London – the results also reveal that almost half rely on money earned from working overtime in order to attain “a decent level of income”.

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