HES Hog Factor Contest Triumphs at LDI 2018

PLSN: Three teams of lighting programmers battled at the Hog 4 console in High End Systems’ annual Hog Factor USA Collegiate Competition at LDI 2018, with team Sola Tartan from Carnegie Mellon University winning first place. The action took place live on Friday, Oct. 19 in the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Team Turned Rami Malek Into Freddie Mercury for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

Variety: The first time makeup, hair and prosthetics designer Jan Sewell met Rami Malek while prepping for “Bohemian Rhapsody,” she spent a lot of time studying his face. But she was also gauging how far the actor was willing to go to look like Freddie Mercury, the iconic rock star he plays in the Queen biopic from Fox, which opens in theaters Nov. 2.

Vectorworks 2019 - Interview with Dr. Biplab Sarkar

LightSoundJournal.com: Global design and BIM software solutions provider Vectorworks, Inc. have established themselves as industry leaders in design, calculation and visualisation software for a wide range of industries. With the release of Vectorworks 2019, the company takes their commitment to usability, intuitiveness and flexibility one step further.

Shifting Trends: Claire Foy in First Man

Clothes on Film: First Man (2018) is not a movie overly preoccupied with fashion, And why would it be? The focus of the story is astronaut Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) and his journey to become the first person to ever walk on the surface of the moon. Armstrong wears a lot of button down shirts, short sleeve checks, neutral slacks, the odd dark single breasted suit for formal occasions – largely dour attire for a dour man. He also wears a space suit, several of them. However, outside of Emilio Pucci’s involvement in designing the logo for the Apollo 15 flight in 1971, fashion rarely intersects with the requirements of surviving in space.

ASCAP hosts all-female songwriting camp to improve diversity

New Pittsburgh Courier: In a spacious recording studio in Nashville, two singer-songwriters, Priscilla Renea and Jillian Jacqueline, were working through a song idea, trading suggestions for lyrics and melody on the theme of resurrection.

Enraged by Their Times, Women of Ambition Seize the Stage

The New York Times: Polly Noonan doesn’t seem like the kind of character who would send you out of the theater emotionally rattled. A brash, foul-mouthed force of nature, she’s a tenacious Democratic dealmaker with a nerve as mighty as her passion, and if the spirit moves her to berate someone in service of the party, she absolutely will.

Daredevil Season 3’s One-Take Prison Fight Scene, Explained

www.vulture.com: At this year’s New York Comic Con, Daredevil’s new showrunner, Erik Oleson, made a daring boast. “Remember the hallway fight?” he told the huddled crowd at his show’s official panel. “Yeah, we top that.”

How construction robots can amplify workers' expertise

Construction Dive: Construction jobsites will one day be bustling with “terminator-type,” humanoid robots, according to Scott Peters, president and co-founder of Construction Robotics, but that future may be a long ways off for the industry.

For now, the Victor, New York-based company recognizes that human workers have unique expertise and problem-solving skills to offer, and that to increase productivity on jobsites, robots should first be used to augment those capabilities.

Take the Hell Out of Hell Week

AMERICAN THEATRE: “Hell week” doesn’t actually have to be hell. Sure, it can mean long hours in the theatre, with first tech runs that can make even the most confident practitioners question if it will all come together. But it still doesn’t need to be awful. What’s the key to a more humane tech? It can be as simple as remembering that everyone involved is human.

He Doesn't Mind That Some of His Costars Are Animals

Theatre Development Fund – TDF: W.C. Fields famously quipped that actors should "never work with children or animals." Yet Justin Edwards is doing both in his Broadway debut in The Ferryman. Jez Butterworth's breathtaking, three-hour-plus epic focuses on an incredibly eventful day for the Carneys, an Irish farming family grappling with loss, love and political turmoil in 1981.

The Blanket channels Passion plays and superheroes in its new production, The Christopher Williams Project

Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper: Pittsburgh’s dance-centric organization The Blanket lives up to its name as an organization covering a wide array of dance with its latest production, The Christopher Williams Project, October 26-28 at the New Hazlett Theater.

Founded in 2016 by Caitlin Scranton and Matt Pardo, the The Christopher Williams Project is the second for the fledgling organization and is stylistically light years from their first, 2017’s minimalist Lucinda Childs: The Early Works.

Little Lake's 'Sherlock Holmes and the West End Horror' is a bit of a nightmare

Pittsburgh Current: A theater critic has been murdered! And it’s going to take all of Sherlock Holmes’ super sleuthing skills to locate someone who feels bad about it.

Just kidding! Holmes takes up the case and must traffic in the most evil, degraded and degrading world he’s ever visited— Victorian London’s theater district.

Stage Presence: Schwartz Returns To Coach Student Cabaret

www.cmu.edu: Celebrated Grammy and Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz returned to his alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University, to accompany School of Drama students in the ninth annual Singer-Songwriter Cabaret at Greer Cabaret Theater on Oct. 19.

Schwartz, who graduated from CMU's College of Fine Arts in 1968, is the first of the composers in this series to return to work with junior music theater students on songs from his repertoire, including "Morning Glow" from "Pippin"; "For Good" from "Wicked"; and "The Spark of Creation" from "Children of Eden."

Don't make these 3 mistakes with your LinkedIn profile

www.fastcompany.com: If a picture is worth a thousand words, your LinkedIn profile picture is worth a lot.

Sure, you may have invested a lot of time capturing job descriptions, collecting solid recommendations, and identified tangible (and impressive) professional achievements. Those things are all critical and definitely showcase your professional track record. However, your profile photo also contributes to the first impression you make on a potential employer, recruiter, investor, or partner.

As 'Wicked' flies into San Diego again, co-creator Stephen Schwartz chats about show's lasting popularity

The San Diego Union-Tribune: Stephen Schwartz remembers exactly where he was when “Wicked” opened on Broadway 15 years ago this month. And it wasn’t anywhere near the Emerald City.

“I was already in Vermont,” says the composer-lyricist behind the smash-hit musical prequel to the “Oz” saga, noting that he has a longstanding tradition of not attending his own opening nights in New York.

MTC Will Hold 'Trans Visibility In The Theatre' Panel, Following Performance of THE NAP

www.broadwayworld.com: Manhattan Theatre Club will "Trans Visibility in the Theatre," a panel directly following the Sunday, November 4th matinee of The Nap. Come to an open discussion about increasing trans presence in the theatre, with panelists including Alexandra Billings (The Nap, "Transparent"), Kate Bornstein (Straight White Men, "I Am Cait"), Will Davis (India Pale Ale, Men On Boats), Alexa Fogel ("Pose" Casting Director), Bianca Leigh (The Nap, Transamerica), and Marquise Vilson (Charm). They will discuss how the arts industry can sustain and further the current push for greater trans presence and representation.

LGBTQ Characters Reach Record-High TV Representation

Variety: LGBTQ characters have hit record-high representation numbers for the 2018-19 television season, GLAAD’s annual “Where We are on TV” report for 2018 finds.

LGBTQ series regulars on broadcast have hit 8.8% (75 characters), with 50% of those characters being LGBTQ people of color.

Husky 1500 lb Capacity Portable Workbench - Bench And Router Table On The Go

homefixated.com: Like many, I struggle with one of the most fundamental aspects of “doing things”. That is, having surfaces to actually do the things on. I’m often forced to dig out the inadequate saw horses or my undersized folding workbenches (or even work directly on the ground).

Student at Catholic college called into Title IX meeting after he criticized drag show

The College Fix: A student at a Catholic university was called into a meeting with the school’s Title IX coordinator this week after speaking out against the university’s cross-dressing drag shows, claiming that they represent “an assault on the dignity of the human person and the divine gift of ordered sexuality.”

We Need to Talk About Non-Consensual Audience Participation

Dance Magazine: Some of my favorite experiences as both an audience member and a dancer have involved audience participation. Artists who cleverly use participatory moments can make bold statements about the boundaries between performer and spectator, onstage and off. And the challenge to be more than a passive viewer can redefine an audience's relationship to what they're watching. But all the experiences I've loved have had something in common: They've given audiences a choice.