NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Guy Spends Three Years Making an Ultra-Realistic LED Candle That Even Puffs Smoke When Blown Out

gizmodo.com: Candle technology hasn’t changed much in thousands of years—you add fire to a wax-soaked wick, and it provides light for hours. It’s simple, it’s effective, and it doesn’t need an upgrade. So of course someone on the internet spent three years redesigning the candle from the ground up with digital guts—while managing to preserve its old-school usability.

Posted by David at 3/21/2019 11:36:00 AM

Backstage theatre workers 'pushed to breaking point due to lack of work-life balance'

News | The Stage: Backstage theatre workers are being “pushed to breaking point” due to a lack of work-life balance, with a “regular expectation to work 15-hour days”, industry bodies have warned. Unions BECTU and Equity and professional associations for stage managers and lighting and sound practitioners have argued that “excessively long working hours” are leading to “burnout and serious mental health issues”.

Posted by David at 3/20/2019 11:00:00 AM

Subtle Differences in Costumes, Design, Music for Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’

Variety: “Us,” Jordan Peele’s second outing as a director, following his 2017 critical and box office success “Get Out,” revisits similar psychological horror-thriller territory. But this time the stakes are, well, doubled. In the new film, to be released by Universal on March 21, Adelaide Wilson, played by Lupita Nyong’o, returns to her childhood beachside home with her husband (Winston Duke) and their two children (Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex). Suddenly they find themselves clawing to stay alive, as four people who look just like them seem hell-bent on killing them.

Posted by David at 3/19/2019 01:57:00 PM

Creating Stage Blood Recipes

Dramatics Magazine: Zombie Prom! Macbeth! Carrie! Sweeney Todd! These shows run the gamut of setting, theme, and tone, but they have one thing in common: the need for spectacularly bloody stage effects. In my experience, audiences love blood and guts. But with all the places to use blood onstage, you could easily spend hundreds of dollars on blood makeup alone.

Posted by David at 3/21/2019 11:32:00 AM

USITT Will Bring All Facets of Technical Production to Louisville

Stage Directions: Record Attendance Expected as Live Entertainment Industry’s Backstage Takes Center Stage USITT’s 59th Annual Conference & Stage Expo will bring more than 5,000 members of the technical production and live entertainment industry and plenty of action to the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, March 20-23, 2019.

Posted by David at 3/19/2019 02:04:00 PM