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Sunday, March 14, 2021

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

These legendary female Imagineers helped create iconic Disney World attractions, images

www.clickorlando.com/news: Imagineering was never just a man’s club at Disney World. Some of the most indelible and iconic images guests know from the Magic Kingdom and beyond were created by women. For many decades, theme park and resort design was largely seen as a boy’s club. This was never the case for Disney’s Imagineering. Some extremely gifted female Imagineers were among the first generation recruited by Walt Disney.

Indigenous Artists Tell Us What They Think About Land Acknowledgements

www.vice.com: In the past few years if you’ve attended a progressive event—especially an arts event—chances are that it started with a Land Acknowledgment. Someone at the front of the room address the crowd, letting them know that the concert, book launch, play, or public gathering is taking place on Indigenous land. The intention of the statement is to recognize the unique relationship between Indigenous people and their traditional territories.

SF Opera Develops New COVID-19 Singing Mask for Rehearsals

NBC Bay Area: In a strange marriage of arts and science, The San Francisco Opera costume department teamed up with doctors from UCSF to create a mask that will allow the company's singers to safely rehearse together -- while greatly diminishing the chances of spreading COVID-19.

Do I Still Know How To Do My Job?

SoundGirls.org: My last mixing FOH for a real audience was January 8, 2020. For some reason I feel a necessity to write down a year as well, being afraid that if this stand-still stays longer than we all hope I’ll still be able to track down to my last real show. I only wish we won’t get in the scenario of those memes where there’s a senior person being led by a young kid saying “my 2020 gigs were rescheduled again” and the youngster answers “let it go granny, it’s 2063 already”.

How ‘Generation’ Costume Designer Shirley Kurata Created Each Of The Teen Characters' Style

www.nylon.com: “Fashion on teen shows has a big impact on so many people,” admits Shirley Kurata, the costume designer behind the new HBO Max series Generation, which premieres on Thursday. The show follows a group of high school students from Southern California as they grapple with sexuality, identity, and relationships in an always-connected world. While some teen shows highlight fashion through an aspirational (Gossip Girl) or edgy (Euphoria) lens, Kurata, along with the co-creators 19-year-old Zelda Barnz and her father Daniel, made a point to dress Generation’s cast as realistically as possible.

 

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