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Monday, October 14, 2024

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Art Shaped as Beer Cans Are Mistaken for Trash by Museum Staff

mymodernmet.com: Many artists have long found inspiration in contemporary, mundane objects. Much like Marcel Duchamp‘s upside-down urinal titled Fountain or Andy Warhol‘s Campbell's Soup Cans paintings, the boundaries between art and item continue to be explored by artists.

Joker 2's failure is exposing a major Hollywood hypocrisy

The Mary Sue: This weekend, Joker: Folie à Deux opened in the American box offices with an incredibly lackluster $37.7 million. To put that in perspective, the infamously awful Morbius made $39 million during its opening weekend in 2022. Joker 2‘s box office bomb is even more distinct because it cost Warner Bros. $200 million to make.

Five-sided LED cube is 'standout' exhibit at telco's tech hub

www.avinteractive.com: A five-sided LED cube supplied by Alfalite is one of the standout installations at a new technology meets entertainment hub opened by the tech arm of Spanish telephone company Telefónica

Sonic Visualization: Is A Picture Worth A Thousand Words In Audio?

ProSoundWeb: A graphical depiction can often convey an idea better, and quicker, than a whole bunch of words. This is because our brains are mainly image processors, not word processors; the part of our brain that processes words is actually very small in comparison to the part that processes visual information.

CMU Drama prepares for 22nd annual Playground theater festival

The Tartan: Preparations for the 22nd annual Playground theater festival are well underway in Purnell. Playground is a student-created festival that started 22 years ago at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama. Participation in the festival is not limited to drama students. The festival is open to people in the Pittsburgh area, regardless of whether they study theater or are a student at Carnegie Mellon.

 

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