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Sunday, April 16, 2023

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Share Your Projects: Take Pictures

Hackaday: Information is diesel for a hacker’s engine, and it’s fascinating how much can happen when you share what you’re working on. It could be a pretty simple journey – say, you record a video showing you fixing your broken headphones, highlighting a particular trick that works well for you. Someone will see it as an entire collection of information – “if my headphones are broken, the process of fixing them looks like this, and these are the tools I might need”. For a newcomer, you might be leading them to an eye-opening discovery – “if my headphones are broken, it is possible to fix them”.

'Sex and the City': Costume Designer Explains Why Dressing the Men Was Challenging

www.cheatsheet.com: Sex and the City was known for its stunning display of fashion. The series followed Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), a fashionista and writer living her best life in New York City. The series chronicled her life and experiences along with her three best girlfriends, Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis).

Tuesday briefing: Is there really a crisis in theatre audience behaviour – or is this all overdramatic?

Theatre | The Guardian: Good morning. The next time you go to a play, you may find that the most shocking scenes are taking place off stage. That, at least, is the pattern in a spate of recent dramas in the stalls across Britain: from stories about an usher being punched after asking rowdy audience members to tone it down in Edinburgh to a heckler barracking a child actor at the Royal Opera House and illicit nude photos being taken of James Norton in the West End, there are multiplying worries that the traditional hush of the theatre is under threat.

10 Most Technologically Innovative Movies of the 2010s

collider.com: "Movie Magic" is often a term launched around when there's no better way to describe the brilliance of a movie. But what is that magic, and how do filmmakers achieve it? An obvious matter of opinion on multiple fronts, certain movies excite audiences from all walks of life with impeccable visuals or heart-wrenching performances.

How to Spot Signs of Burnout Culture Before You Accept a Job

lifehacker.com: It’s normal to feel overtaxed by your job once in a while, but when that feeling becomes persistent no matter what you do to pull back or redirect your efforts, you may be experiencing burnout—and the problem probably lies with your employer.

 

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