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Sunday, March 11, 2018

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

The Cost Of Broadway

TheatreArtLife: There is something to be said about the current price of a ticket to see a Broadway show. I had the humbling experience of attempting to buy my five-year old cousin tickets to what would be her first Broadway show, Frozen, and realizing the venture would cost me over $500.00.

What It's Like to Be a Cirque du Soleil Safety Diver in "O"

Sport Diver: My dive students don’t look like other Open Water Diver hopefuls. For starters, they show up wearing sequins. And they never assemble their own gear.

That’s because my newbies are trapeze artists and other acrobatic performers working in O, the water-themed Cirque du Soleil show performed five nights a week in Las Vegas.

The light stuff: High speed projection mapping taken to the next mind-blowing level

newatlas.com: Researchers from the University of Tokyo have made an incredible advance in the field of real-time projection mapping, creating a new system that can simulate the way light reflects off a nonexistent three-dimensional structure. The result is stunningly realistic dynamic projection that heralds a new generation of trippy performance art.

How to Never Run Out of Great Ideas

The Writing Cooperative: Have you ever gotten your car stuck in the mud or snow?

No matter how hard you push the gas, the car just won’t budge.

This is how engaging your creativity feels like at times. Sometimes, no matter how much work you put in, you don’t feel like you’re getting anywhere.

What Is An Inclusion Rider? Explaining Frances McDormand’s Oscars Speech

www.fastcompany.com: During her acceptance speech for Best Actress at last night’s Oscars, Frances McDormand dropped two words that left most people scratching their heads: inclusion rider.

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