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Sunday, September 07, 2025

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

How OK Go used robots and mirrors to make 2025's most incredible music video so far

Creative Boom: In a cavernous Budapest train station, after 36 failed attempts and with time running out, take 37 finally captured what many thought impossible: a perfect single-take music video featuring 25 robotic arms moving in precise synchronisation with OK Go's latest track, Love.

Free Broadway Previews? A Theatrical Fantasy Worth Dreaming About

OnStage Blog: Picture it: Times Square at 6:30 p.m., a line curling around the block, buzzing like the overture before a big number. Tourists in sneakers, locals in work clothes, theatre students clutching Playbills before the ink’s even dry. And when the doors finally open, they all sweep inside, without paying a dime.

Sphere’s ‘Wizard of Oz’: Hollywood’s Dazzling Future or Dark Warning?

theankler.com: Tonight, Dorothy Gale is getting a makeover. Not a reboot, not a sequel, not a Wicked-style spin-off — but a high-resolution, AI-assisted re-rendering of The Wizard of Oz inside the $2.3 billion Las Vegas Sphere, the world’s most extravagant immersive entertainment venue.

A Highly Subjective List of the (So Far) Best Plays and Musicals of the 21st Century

Broadway & Me: Like all lists, this one says more about the people making the list than it does about the films on the list. But it got me thinking about what a similar list of the best plays and musicals that have opened over the past 25 years might look like.

Opinion | I Banned Phones in My College Classroom. Students Loved It.

The New York Times: I’ve taught the same course to a class of undergraduate, M.B.A., medical and nursing students every year for over a decade. While I didn’t change my lectures or teaching style, somehow the students’ evaluations of last year’s class were better than ever before: “This course taught me more than any course I’ve ever learned at Penn. …” “The best course I have ever taken.” “Amazing class!!”

 

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