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Sunday, March 10, 2024

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Edinburgh festival slashes ticket prices to increase youth participation

Edinburgh festival 2024 | The Guardian: Nicola Benedetti, the Edinburgh festival director, has slashed ticket prices, increased youth participation and added more “beanbag concerts” in a renewed effort to broaden the art festival’s appeal.

Baker Realizes The Cake She Made Was Actually For One Of Taylor Swift’s Music Videos. – ‘I couldn’t believe it.’

TwistedSifter: All artists have their own fanbases, but few have fans as “fervent” and “passionate” as Taylor Swift. From trying to use numerology to decode hidden meanings in her instagram captions to breaking into her old house in Paris, the Swifties are on a whole other level. I know Swifties who would pass out knowing that Taylor had once eaten at the same restaurant as them!

Costume Design of Dune: Part Two: Austin Butler, Florence Pugh Looks

www.hollywoodreporter.com: Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two, starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, had a blockbuster opening weekend in North American theaters. Veteran costume designer and five-time Oscar nominee Jacqueline West — whose nominations include Dune and (most recently) Killers of the Flower Moon — talks with The Hollywood Reporter about her work creating 4,000 costumes for Villeneuve‘s latest installment of the film franchise based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel.

SawStop to release patented technology to public

Woodworking Network: SawStop, manufacturers of one of the wood industry’s most widely used safety technologies, announced that one of its key patents will, in the future, be made open to the public. The action, announced on Feb. 28, was taken in response to a proposed rule by the Consumer Product Safety Commission that would require all table saws sold in the U.S. to have active injury mitigation (AIM) technology to make them significantly safer.

Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed found guilty of involuntary manslaughter

NPR: A jury in New Mexico has found Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer for the film Rust, guilty of involuntary manslaughter. During the criminal trial, prosecutors successfully argued that her negligence and recklessness led to the death of the film's cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, in 2021.

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