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Sunday, November 04, 2018

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Actors are digitally preserving themselves to continue their careers beyond the grave

MIT Technology Review: From Carrie Fisher in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to Paul Walker in the Fast & Furious movies, dead and magically “de-aged” actors are appearing more frequently on movie screens. Sometimes they even appear on stage: next year, an Amy Winehouse hologram will be going on tour to raise money for a charity established in the late singer’s memory. Some actors and movie studios are buckling down and preparing for an inevitable future when using scanning technology to preserve 3-D digital replicas of performers is routine.

Photo Coverage: 30 Designers Show Off PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Masks

www.broadwayworld.com: The Phantom of the Opera celebrated its unprecedented 30th Anniversary in New York City on January 26, 2018. To mark the occasion, 30 designers were tasked to transform the look of the iconic Phantom mask -originally designed by Maria Björnson and realized by milliner Rodney Gordon - in their own aesthetic vision for a one-of-a-kind mask.



Make Theatre, Not Waste

AMERICAN THEATRE: Around the world, hurricanes have grown in intensity and heat records are being hit on an annual basis. These extreme weather events, powered by climate change, has not spared theatres. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival had to cancel numerous shows and lost $2 million worth of revenue because of local wildfires, which get worse every year. The Alley Theatre suffered $18 million worth of damages from Hurricane Harvey.

How to Work with Different Communication Styles in the Office

www.lifehack.org: We all have our own unique way of communicating with each other. This is true in our personal lives as well as at work.

We all have run into people at both work and play that we just don’t seem to get. Not only do we not hit it off with them, we honestly have a hard time understanding the point they are making. It can be very frustrating interacting with someone when it seems like we are miles apart in the understanding department.

How to Network So You'll Get Way Ahead in Your Professional Life

www.lifehack.org: Networking has been around for a very long time. From the early days of the Royal Society in the late 1600s when gentlemen gathered together to share scientific discoveries and make connections with like-minded people, to today where people connect to advance careers and share knowledge and career advice. It has been a way for humans to learn, discover and advance for hundreds of years.

1 comment:

char said...

All the tips listed in this article are pretty useful except the ‘bonus tip’. I can understand the writers point when they say, “Don’t post your politic or religious affiliations on social media because there will always be someone who doesn’t share them”. Facebook Is the way most of us ‘network’ now a days, but Facebook remains a personal platform, I don’t want my facebook profile to be my work portfolio, precisely because of that. The current politicians, campaign through social media. And with the shit show that the politics of this country have turn to, it is important to discuss politics. There are other platforms for professional networking, and if you don’t want to groom another profile, email works just fine. Personally, I don’t have any of my bosses on facebook or people whom I worked with and wouldn’t be able to discuss my opinions. If I simply want to stay in touch, I send them emails every now and then, just to stay on their radars.