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Sunday, September 05, 2021

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Australian Theatre under fire for whitewashing 'Little Shop of Horrors'

OnStage Blog: Imagine that you’re a Black performer in Melbourne, Australia and you see that a local theatre is preparing to perform Little Shop of Horrors. Even more encouraging, the theatre included a beautiful statement of wanting people from all backgrounds, gender, size, and ability, to come and audition. So you do.

9 podcasts that will make you more creative

www.fastcompany.com: The long commute may have been cut short for many of us, but the time Americans spend listening to podcasts is at an all-time high. So is the number of podcasts. With over 2 million to choose from, this is no easy task for those, like me, who want to know everything there is to know, especially when it comes to design.

STAR WARS Drone Show Lights Up the Sky at MLB Game

Nerdist: We’re old enough to remember when a fireworks show set to John Williams’ Star Wars music was the pinnacle of geekdom. But as cool as those are, they’re nothing compared to modern nighttime drone shows. And we’ve just seen a Star Wars-themed one that will blow you away like a Death Star without an energy shield.

Behind Hollywood glamour, an Instagram account highlights darker side for workers

www.msn.com: Last month, Ben Gottlieb, a 27-year-old set lighting technician, wanted to show his support for his union's campaign to improve working conditions on film sets so he wrote an Instagram post calling for an end to 12- to 14-hour shifts.

GUEST BLOG: krost: “You’re pretty good…for an Asian”

SoundGirls.org: I’m conflicted. I don’t know how I feel about being an “Asian American artist”. When I was in middle school, YouTube started getting popular and became a platform for a lot of Asian American artists. It was the first time I can remember interacting with media that truly resonated with me. It wasn’t necessarily that I thought it was impossible to be an artist at the time. It was more so that I had never really actualized the concept of being an artist in the first place.

 

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