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Sunday, January 30, 2022

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

What Are the 'Sunday Scaries,' and How Can You Beat Them?

lifehacker.com: You probably know the feeling: The night before you have to go back to work or school after being off for a couple of days (or longer), you start to feel anxious. You can’t focus, can’t sleep, and find yourself imagining all the stressful or annoying things that await you at work in the coming week. Welcome to the “Sunday Scaries.”

Euphoria's Costume Designer on Dressing Maddy, Cassie, Jules, Kat

Variety: The second episode of “Euphoria” Season 2 begins with a dreamy sequence in a luxurious walk-in closet as Maddy Perez (Alexa Demie) — the alpha of the show’s many catty, mean girls — plays dress up with a wealthy mom’s clothes while babysitting.

‘Encanto': Germaine Franco on Being the First Female Composer of a Disney Animated Feature

www.thewrap.com: “Encanto,” Disney’s latest animated musical, is having a moment. What’s so odd about this is that the movie was released back at Thanksgiving, but only now is reaching the kind of cultural critical mass that is usually associated with Disney’s most zeitgeist-capturing efforts. With the movie landing on Disney+ on Christmas Eve, its popularity exploded, particularly when it came to the songs by “Hamilton” mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda, which are now topping streaming charts along with the full album, featuring the lush original score by Germaine Franco.

This startup is turning nonrecyclable plastic into building blocks fit

www.fastcompany.com: In a world of disposable everything, single-use plastics continue to reign supreme. Every year, Americans generate about 42 million tons of it. And yet only 9% of that gets recycled, in part because the recycling infrastructure in the U.S. can’t keep up with the country’s plastic production, but also because some plastics simply can’t be recycled.

 

New dance performance features costumes made of spider silk

www.wallpaper.com: How do you make a substantial dance performance out of mist? That was the question that faced choreographer Damien Jalet, artist Kohei Nawa, and designer Sruli Recht as they developed their new project for Nederlands Dans Theater.

 

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