Mythical Animals Made of Straw Take Over a Field in Japan

mymodernmet.com: With the arrival of fall, comes the start of the harvest season. In Niigata prefecture, in Northern Japan, this means rice is ready to be picked—and the rice straw, known as wara, is set to be discarded. Some farmers feed it to animals, while others use it as fertilizer. But after a particular surplus of wara in the mid-aughts, they came up with a creative alternative.

Look at the Gorgeous Practical Miniatures Guillermo del Toro Used on 'Frankenstein'

gizmodo.com: We’re two weeks away from finally getting to see the film Guillermo del Toro was born to make, Frankenstein. It hits theaters on October 17 before its November 7 drop on Netflix, and the Oscar-winning director just shared some really beautiful behind-the-scenes photos.

COMING SOON: Midnight High: A Night At The Oxhead

by NoPro Newswire | Sep, 2025 | No Proscenium: Houston is one of the underrated immersive centers in the United States, a slow burn of a scene that has produced some truly top-tier experiences (we’re looking at you Strange Bird) and is home to its own Meow Wolf. That said, the immersive theatre part of the equation has only ever had fits and starts, even though the ingredients are all there.

KAWS and Labubus To Take Over Hong Kong For “Water Parade”

mymodernmet.com: Next month, Hong Kong will welcome a unique sight. Local creative brand AllRightsReserved will bring the first ever “Water Parade” to the world-famous Victoria Harbor, featuring some beloved characters such as Labubus, Grimace, Doraemon, and Elmo from Sesame Street with a KAWS twist.

Immersive play ROOM 204 takes over a NYC hotel room every Thursday

www.timeout.com/newyork: Few places are as dramatic or revealing (or, unfortunately, filthy) as a New York City hotel room. But this fall, you can rest assured that the filthy part won't be part of a new immersive play that will unfold in very close confines behind a hotel room door.

Spectacular play of light and rain in Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Luzia’

DC Theater Arts: A clown falls from the sky, buoyed by a parasol, and finds himself in a field of marigolds. A large key, as if from a music box, sticks out of the ground, and, unable to resist, he turns it. Behind him, the sun appears to rise, and a woman with gauzy monarch butterfly wings falls into a sprint, a giant metal horse galloping behind her, as dancers in elaborate hummingbird costumes flit around the stage. At this moment, every person under the Big Top is locked in and ready to be awed by Cirque du Soleil’s Luzia.

This World-Class Cosplayer Makes Amazing Pop Culture Cakes

Nerdist: I have a few talents. For one, I always know the perfect sized container needed for any amount of food. I also know how to cut a mango perfectly. And….uh….well that’s about it. Just those two, really. Impressive? No. No, obviously not. But that doesn’t mean I’m jealous of people with real talent. If I were, I wouldn’t be telling you about Grace McClung,

Ann Foley on 'mission suit' secrets in Godzilla vs. Kong costume design

hiddenremote.com: A veteran of designing wardrobes for smash-em-and-bash-em films and television series, costume designer Ann Foley admits to inserting a fair share of fandom-inspired Easter eggs into the Godzilla vs. Kong costume design, with every character, she says, having their own “mission suits.”

Meow Wolf | CEOs Ali Rubinstein, Carl Christensen & Jim Ward

blooloop: Meow Wolf, the art collective that transformed into a multimillion-dollar, award-winning Arts Production Company, is under new leadership. As Vince Kadlubek steps back as CEO, the role has been taken on by three people already involved in the leadership structure: Ali Rubinstein (Chief Creative Officer), Carl Christensen (Chief Financial Officer) and Jim Ward (Chief of Content).

Designing Eye-popping Costumes for the Black & White 'Mank'

Awardsdaily - The Oscars, the Films and everything in between.: Imagine working with David Fincher on a film about 1930s Hollywood featuring star Marion Davies, billionaire William Randolph Hearst, and screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz. Imagine having the opportunity to recreate the looks for Hearst and Davies’ famed parties featuring some of Hollywood’s biggest names and most exotic apparel.

A Question Of Aesthetics Versus Engineering

ProSoundWeb: A book I read a few years ago and reviewed for the AES Journal got me thinking about the blend of art and science we face regularly in professional audio.

The book, “Audio Production and Critical Listening; Technical Ear Training” by Jason Corey (Focal Press/CRC Press), is a very comprehensive work and covers every conceivable approach to ear training for mix engineers.

‘Relic’ Haunted House’s Production Design Used Power of Suggestion

Variety: Australian production designer Steven Jones-Evans was tasked with creating a haunted house that would tell a tale of family horror in Natalie Erika James’ directorial debut, “Relic,” now at drive-ins and available on demand July 10.

Inside Worlds of Fun's "Sparkle Factory" with Costume Designer Shellie Jeffrey

Coaster101: “I wanted people to know that I wasn’t actually at Haunt, but I’m back where we do stuff,” Jeffrey said. “I thought to myself ‘we need a check-in name like you would have for your house or a friend’s house.’ One of the first things that came to mind was, ‘how about the Sparkle Factory?’ I had just created the witches’ costumes and there were sparkles all over the floor.

The Activity Production Design for Made In America Festival 2019

www.livedesignonline.com: The Activity once again was involved in the overall production design of the Rocky, Liberty, and Freedom stages. “Our duties primarily include the design of lighting, video, scenic, and staging as well as the scheduling management of guest artist technical teams’ programming times between onsite previsualization time and time on the actual rigs,” explains Patrick Dierson, president of The Activity.

Looking Ahead to the 2019 IAAPA Expo with North American Vice President John Hallenbeck

Theme Park University: Theme Park University has covered the convention in Orlando for years now and it’s always a great way to stay on the pulse of the attractions industry! Recently we got a chance to catch up with Jon Hallenbeck, Vice President for IAAPA North America and what he’s looking forward to in this year’s convention.

Why Do Employers Lowball Creatives? A New Study Has Answers

KQED Arts: Larissa Archer has been asked to perform for free so many times she's lost count.

Despite her years of training, impressive resume and credibility as the founder of San Francisco Bellydance Theater, she often finds herself turning down invitations to dance for a few wrinkled dollar bills.

Costume, Production Designers on ‘Nutcracker and the Four Realms’

Variety: The calculated use of color and texture helped create the lavish look of Disney’s live-action version of a classic Christmas story in “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms,” which debuted Nov. 2.

Key contributors to the film’s aesthetic, which grounds fantasy in a palpable reality, were costume designer Jenny Beavan, a multiple Oscar nominee and two-time winner, and production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas, a two-time nominee.

Suspiria’s Costume Designer Explains 10 of the Film’s Looks

www.vulture.com: If you’re a film lover with a soft constitution, there are a few scenes of virtuoso violence in Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria that might warn you off the picture entirely. But we encourage you to at least try and gut out (pun definitely intended!) this 2018 remake of Dario Argento’s signature film from 1977, because not only is it a timely, provocative horror picture about an entirely feminine micro-society that revolves around dance and witchcraft, it’s also about 150 minutes of straight-up clothing porn.

WI Moves 40-45 Audiences 360 Degrees Around Venue

www.livedesignonline.com: Creative engineering specialist WIcreations has designed, developed and installed a unique, bespoke wireless laser-guided system to move eight enormous seating tribunes holding audiences watching Studio 100’s ground-breaking “40-45 Spektakle Musical” around the performance space.

The enduring influence of Frankenstein on fashion

Vogue Paris: Imagine it. June 1816. A villa in Italy. A season soon to be dubbed “the year without a summer” already well underway – the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia the previous year playing havoc with the heavens. A ragtag set of writers and friends looking for ways to occupy themselves during endless storms. Intense nightly discussions of medicine, literature, poetry. One night, a challenge set by a member of the group, Lord Byron: the devising of ghost stories. A terrible nightmare suffered a few days later by the then 18-year-old Mary Shelley, there with her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and their child. The bones of a book constructed from this nightmare. A book later to become one of the best known Gothic novels in the English language: a proto-science fiction epic depicting the destructive consequences of a doctor who plays at God and builds his very own being…