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Sunday, October 22, 2017

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Your Idea Will Never Be Ready

lifehacker.com: A large source of my creative procrastination comes from this notion that my idea “just isn’t ready yet,” like it’s fruit ripening on a tree. But you know what? That’s bullshit.

Katy Perry gets stuck in mid-air during Tennessee concert

BBC News: Katy Perry was left dangling above fans' heads when a floating platform malfunctioned on her world tour.
The star had just performed Thinking Of You, perched several storeys above the audience on a model of Saturn.
But the prop refused to return to the stage, leaving the star stranded.
"This is the first time I've been stuck in space," she joked.

They Don't Make Theatre Sets Like they Used To

www.messynessychic.com: Just take a look at that stage from the Broadway debut of George Gershwin’s groundbreaking opera “Porgy and Bess” in 1935. On the rare occasion that I take myself to the theatre these days, what I look forward to seeing the most is always the set. I find myself willing the show to keeping moving on to the next act just so I can start inspecting the new set change. And you can imagine my disappointment when the curtains open and the production has decided to go with an abstract, minimalist, “modern interpretation” of the set.

This genius optical illusion stops people from running in the hallway

INSIDER: Last month, a unique carpet design from French retailer FNAC went viral on Twitter.

Now, a similar floor design from tile company Casa Ceramica is baffling people online for the same reason: Both designs are optical illusions that make a flat floor appear as a bumpy surface.

What It's Really Like to Be a Woman in Entertainment

The Mary Sue: These frank testimonials may ring familiar with women in many other industries, too. Yesterday, a Facebook friend of mine who works in film and TV production began a thread that prompted, “being a woman in the entertainment industry is …” and then she and her friends and colleagues began to fill in the blanks in the comments.

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