The easiest way to level-up your film and television career

Venture: There are world-class sound stages here, amazing set locations, and top-tier talent with transferrable skills perfectly suited for working in the film industry. At any one time throughout the year, there will be countless shows and films of all kinds being shot in and around the city.

AutoCAD How to Remove Border From Images - Plus PDFs & A Quick Trick!

2 Minute Tuesday | CAD Intentions: Hey Everybody! Brandon here with yet another 2-Minute Tuesday, extending the continuous streak to somewhere over a dozen in a row! In today’s video we are taking a quick look at the various commands in AutoCAD to turn on / off or remove borders from images, ole objects, pdfs, and wipeouts!

How To Relieve Stress And Restore Energy

www.lifehack.org: You didn’t get to where you are in life without learning how to relieve stress along the way. But just because you’ve “been there, done that” doesn’t necessarily mean it is going to be easier this time around. Granted life experience will likely have taught you the old refrain, “this too shall pass” but that same life experience will also likely have taught you something about the active role you need to take to combat stress from time to time and how we could all stand to benefit from a stress-busting reboot.

How to stop procrastinating with your online work

Big Think: If you take classes online, chances are you probably procrastinate from time to time. Research shows that more than 70% of college students procrastinate, with about 20% consistently doing it all the time.

How to Use Multiple Types of Reverb in a Mix

Pro Audio Files: Is it okay to use multiple types of reverb in a mix? My answer is yes, probably. Thank you for reading this article. Jokes aside, I’ll see this question come up every once in a while, and I understand there may be people on both sides of the argument. Before we dive deep into my reasoning, let’s quickly cover what the different types of reverbs are, and how I may typically use them when producing and mixing.

Combat Fatigue With the Army's 'Aggressive Napping' Strategy

lifehacker.com: After more than a century with an image problem, napping is getting a rebrand, courtesy of the U.S. Army. Many of our perceptions of naps—and the kind of people who take them—go back to Victorian times, when women were seen as physiologically weak and frail and prone to fainting, requiring periods of rest and recovery to get through the day.

Mic Technique: The Ultimate Analog EQ

Church Production Magazine: Most of us are used to reaching for the EQ as soon as we notice something we don't like or something we feel that we need to add. If we can't get the job done with the built-in EQ on the channel strip we can even insert a 10-band EQ on top of that to get more surgical. We essentially have endless ways to carve out the sound we are after. I've walked up to consoles and seen engineers have two EQ's inserted on a channel, that then goes to a group that has an EQ inserted on the group. At some point you begin to work against yourself and you are just lowering (or raising) overall gain.

Simple ways to make meetings better

www.fastcompany.com: Meetings, am I right? As the world has adapted to remote life, there’s nothing quite as soul-sucking as seeing your calendar lined up with a day full of back-to-back Zoom meetings. Part of the dread is that you don’t even know if they’re going to be a good use of your time—or worse, you know they won’t be but still feel like you have to show your face.

10 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know Fusion 360 Can Do

Fusion 360 Blog: One of the best problems we have on the Fusion 360 team is making sure you all know about the shiny new features and functions we put into each update. Oftentimes since so much gets packed into each release (here’s proof), features can easily get forgotten about or overlooked. I work here, and it even happens to me from time to time! (Editor’s note: is that just your bad memory, Paul?). To help add to your Fusion 360 toolkit, improve your workflow and perhaps even spark some new ideas, we’re kicking off this series of things you (probably) didn’t know Fusion 360 can do.

We Commit to Anti-Racist Stage Management Education

HowlRound Theatre Commons: From tragedy to uproar, America is being held to account. There is much work to do during this pause. We are two educators and stage managers who lead the MFA programs at Yale School of Drama and the University of California, San Diego. We identify as women—one Black, and one White—who share an intentional commitment to practicing and teaching anti-racist stage management. We are engaged in inquiry and self-assessment, as well as conversation about how the production of live performance will be transformed and how we can prepare stage managers to lead an authentically equitable theatrical process.

The Difference Between Constructive Criticism and Bullying

lifehacker.com: In the midst of “cancel culture” and living in an extremely politically polarized society, it’s not uncommon to receive feedback from other people. In fact, even the term “feedback” feels euphemistic, given that so many exchanges now—whether on social media or in person—can be heated (to put it mildly). And though it typically doesn’t feel great to be told you’re doing something wrong and/or could improve in some way, there’s a difference between getting constructive criticism from someone, and being bullied.

AutoCAD How To: Custom Layer Properties for Specific Viewports using Overrides

2 Minute Tuesday | CAD Intentions: In today’s 2 Minute Tuesday x Tuesday Tip Post, we take a look at a super useful yet underutilized feature within AutoCAD called Viewport Overrides. VP Overrides allow us to customize layer properties like color, linetype, lineweight, and even transparency on a viewport to viewport basis. By changing these settings in an override, the actually object properties remain the same in every other layout/viewport as well as in the model space.

Top 5 Rookie Mistakes Lighting Designers Make

Church Production Magazine: After teaching student lighting designers for over twenty-five years, I have witnessed hundreds of errors, many of them quite silly. When my editor assigned me this article, I thought, “Great! I am sure that I have countless stories to share with my readers concerning common mistakes that young lighting designers make.” However, after compiling several dozen, I quickly realized that even the most experienced lighting designers with hundreds of productions behind them still make mistakes. I believe that the difference between the rookie and the professional is that professional knows how to survive the mistakes.

Most important résumé hack for job search success

www.fastcompany.com: If you’re currently on the hunt for a new role, you’ve probably read the same old résumé tips over and over again. “Focus on a clear structure.” “Keep it short and snappy.” “Focus on results, not responsibilities.”

But I’ve worked in recruitment for years. Often, candidates follow all of the advice above, but fail to pick up on the single most important résumé tip of all time: tailor your résumé to your target role.

Layout Tools in AutoCAD: Tuesday Tips With Frank

AutoCAD Blog | Autodesk: Ask anyone who knows me, and they’ll confirm I’m a big fan of AutoCAD’s Express Tools. Not only are they major time savers, but they also serve as inspiration for this AutoLISP coder. I’ve written about numerous tools, but today I’m going to focus on a particular group: the Layout Tools in AutoCAD.

6 Ways Church Techs Inadvertently Blow it with Leadership

Church Production Magazine: So, you know you did something. You just don’t know what.

You aren’t invited to meetings. You feel like people are going around you.

You are left out of major decisions and are pretty sure the Executive Pastor is actively ducking you.

How About a Few New Myths about Creativity?

The Creativity Post: Bloggers and journalists can’t seem to resist discussing the many misconceptions that exist about creativity. Try googling “myths of creativity” (“4 Myths of Creativity”, “10 Myths of Creativity”, “7 Myths of Creativity”...) and you will find any number that have pretty much been debunked.

7 top project management methodologies: Which is best?

monday.com/blog: Kanban, PMBOK, Scrumban…no, these aren’t the names of villains in the newest Star Wars movie, but are rather some of the world’s top project management methodologies.

We’re not fans of clunky project management tools. Many of these products treat people as a resource, a byproduct, or a secondary consideration that gets lost in a web of hierarchies, dependencies, and endless subtasks. That’s a grave mistake—you don’t manage projects; you only ever manage people.

How to Optimize Your Résumé for Online Job Boards

twocents.lifehacker.com: While you’re perfecting your résumé and cover letter with the hiring manager of your dream company in mind, you may be interested to know that they may never even read your application, because a robot will have discarded it before they had a chance.

A Designer's Eos Toolkit: Why build a template file?

et cetera...: Being a freelance Lighting Designer can often feel like being a mountain climber. Every month (or couple weeks, if you’re a workaholic), you’re walking into a theater that you may or may not have worked in before, with people you may or may not know well, and attempting to put up a show in, usually, no more than a week. Hopefully you reach the summit, you celebrate a well deserved opening, and – not long after – you find yourself behind another tech table, at the base of another mountain, staring up at the peak, starting a new climb all over again.