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Sunday, October 13, 2019

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Joaquin Phoenix's Comments About His Joker Weight Loss Aren't Good

The Mary Sue: As the Joker press tour continues, director Todd Phillips’ rants about woke culture killing comedy ia proving to be just one of this movie’s offscreen controversies. There are so many, it’s hard to believe the movie has only been out in wide release for less than a week. This latest tidbit from the press tour centers on star Joaquin Phoenix, and his preparation for the role–mainly how it required him to lose a great deal of weight, which he speaks about in an incredibly harmful way.

The Path Less Travelled: Successful Touring In Less-Developed Parts Of The World

ProSoundWebThe opportunity to tour off the beaten track sounds exotic and exciting, a chance to go to places that you’d never see otherwise and get paid for the privilege. While you’ll certainly have unique experiences and return home a more capable engineer, touring in developing countries can be extremely challenging. I’ve been touring in unusual territories for 15 years and I’ve just returned home from a tour of Southeast Asia with my current band, so I’ve picked up a few tips over the years. I hope sharing them here will help make your experience of touring off the usual circuit a little smoother.

Edible Apparel by Sung Yeonju Turns Vegetables into Cocktail Dresses

Colossal: “Tasteful dress” gets a whole new meaning in Sung Yeonju’s edible apparel. The Korean artist’s ongoing series, Wearable Foods, combines relatable materials with digital editing to form cocktail dresses, shorts, and blazers. Gracefully draped scallions, polka-dotted lotus roots, and subtly striped banana peels become unique ‘fabrics’ suited for a night on the town.


Why employers think you're 'overqualified' (and what you can do about it)

Advisory Board Daily Briefing: Being told you're overqualified for a new position can be one of the most "perplexing" and frustrating experiences for job applicants, Sue Shellenbarger reports for the Wall Street Journal. The challenge can affect applicants at varying career levels, from recent college graduates to former executives, but there are ways job seekers can overcome the label and land the job they want, Shellenbarger reports.

How projection design is reinventing the Broadway tour

Los Angeles Times: For weeks, Finn Ross had been tinkering with one of the most important elements of “Frozen,” then a Broadway-bound musical with a tryout run in Denver. Those seated for the initial preview performance back in 2017 surely adored the Disney movie; they knew every lyric, every character, every line. At that point, could anything about this story surprise them?

1 comment:

Mitchell Jacobs said...

After seeing Tiger At The Gates here at CMU, I have newfound appreciation for the capabilities of projection design. Mapping projections onto a set to create texture or magical effects can do so much to enhance a set and story without spending ridiculous time and money for other special effects. The portability of this technology and ability to recreate the same effects in different spaces makes this such a valuable resource for tours, which I certainly appreciate as an audience member because I live pretty far from any major theaters and so the only tours we get tend to be fairly low budget and nothing like the professional versions. It makes me really upset that a lot of people in my area don't understand the possibilities for theatrical design because what the touring companies have brought to the community until recently wasn't reflective of the fantastic design happening in professional theaters. I am just waiting for the time when projection technology is inexpensive enough that it can be utilized by any theater with technicians who can work the software. Maybe its even at that point already, which would be very exciting.