NFTRW Weekly Top FIve

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

How the Redwood Design Team Created a Forest on Broadway, Complete With a Giant Tree

Playbill: The California redwoods are one of the most spectacular natural sights in the world. After all, it inspired a Broadway musical currently starring Tony winner Idina Menzel, who plays a woman who finds healing by climbing a gigantic redwood tree. For the show's design team, when it came time to visualize how the musical would live onstage, the objective was clear: they had to bring a redwood forest onto the stage of the Nederlander Theatre.

How music affects productivity and your brain

Fast Company: Music is everywhere—playing in coffee shops, on hold lines, in Ubers, behind YouTube ads, and of course, in your earbuds while you work. It’s so constant, we often treat it like harmless background noise. But the brain doesn’t.

25 most Oscar-worthy stunts of the 2000s

GoldDerby: The Academy has officially (finally!) announced the creation of a Best Stunt Design category, just in time for the 100th anniversary of the Oscars in 2028. To many, the award is long overdue — after all, how many of our favorite scenes in film history stick out thanks to harrowing, entertaining, or mind-bending stunt work?

The Only Constant: Why Are We So Resistant To Change?

ProSoundWeb: If you’ve been able to survive in the live music production business over a few decades as I have, you would certainly have to concede that the 2000s and the years leading into it have been a fascinating ride for our industry. If you were to fly up high enough and gaze down on it all you might likely fall in line with one of two mindsets: “Awesome industry! Incredible people! Incredible technology! We’ve have never experienced better results. Shows have never sounded better.”

Do Any Swiss Army Knives Come With A USB Drive?

www.slashgear.com: From the battleground to the boardroom, Swiss Army Knives have evolved to fulfill modern needs. And one unexpected way that it manages to do it? Adding a USB drive into its arsenal. While USB flash drives are typically used for storage, they can do a ton of other nifty things as well, like act as a password manager, boot operating systems, and even act like digital keys.