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Sunday, September 26, 2021

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Giant Inflatable Moon Cannot Be Stopped as It Rolls Away

Nerdist: In a turn of events Monty Python could’ve written, a giant, inflatable Moon recently tore loose from a Mid-Autumn Festival in China’s Henan province. It flew down a city street as officials chased it. The Guardian has a glimpse of the hilarious getaway in the video below, which seems to have been wholly harmless. Although if the incident looks familiar, that’s because it’s happened before.

Coordinating is harder than doing

Woodworking Network: As you’re turning off the lights and shutting everything down at the end of the day, you see your finished product sitting by the shipping door. You look at it and think to yourself, “It’s five pieces of wood put together into a box with two doors on it, how could this possibly take so long?”

IATSE Members Brace for Possible Strike Against Hollywood Studios

Variety: As contract negotiations stall between the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, crew members have taken to social media to share their support for a possible strike action and for the terms that IATSE is demanding in the next deal.

Ann Roth: The Person In The Mirror

Costume Designers Guild, I.A.T.S.E. Local 892: Like any great story, the hero has a drive and motivation the audience never sees. Following her CDGA win for Period Film and recent Best Costume Oscar for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Communications Director Anna Wyckoff spoke with Roth and her long-time colleague, fellow costume designer Carlo Poggioli. “I want to say something about our friendship, our experiences together, and the Ann people don’t know,” he confides. In conversation, we gain insight into the mind that commands the fitting room and conjures characters from a looking glass.

Costume Design Plagued By Gender Bias & Pay Inequality

www.refinery29.com: It’s been 73 years since the first Oscar for Best Costume Design was awarded. Back then, the category was divided into two awards — for black-and-white and color films — with Roger K. Furse winning the former for Hamlet and Dorothy Jenkins and Barbara Karinska taking home the gold statue for Joan of Arc. While their names went down in history, these costume designers did not enjoy the celebrity of today’s pros like Sex and the City’s Patricia Field and Gossip Girl’s Eric Daman.

 

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