Friday, June 12, 2009

Worth a Look

No comments, no quiz - class isn't in session. But here are some posts from the other page that are definitely worth a look:

What does the director of an animated movie do?

Slate Magazine: "The new Pixar movie Up, about an old man who ties his house to a bunch of helium balloons, hit theaters Friday. Its director, Pete Docter, also directed the animated film Monster's Inc. What does the director of an animated movie do, exactly?"

How Regular Movies Become "IMAX" Films - Imax movies

Gizmodo: "Pretty as it is, 70mm film has been deemed too expensive for shooting Hollywood productions. So this is how IMAX preps finished movies for the up close and personal demands of IMAX."

Casting The Tempest

Steppenwolf Theatre Company Blog: "Hello – Tina here, the director of The Tempest. I’m thrilled that this conversation is being had on our blog – so thank you to all of you who have contributed.
I’d like to respond with a general account of how I cast this play and why, and then by addressing some specific comments."

White actor's refusal to kiss black man turns into a race row in South Africa

The Guardian: "A theatre production designed to promote inter-racial harmony in South Africa has been hit by recriminations over an onstage kiss between a white and a black actor.
Carolyn Forword walked out of a production of The Pied Piper of Hamelin after being directed to kiss fellow cast member Unathi Dyantyi repeatedly on the lips."

Kushner to critics: Please don't review my new play; Critics to Guthrie: Thanks for mishandling this

TwinCities.com: "Playwright Tony Kushner has asked that no national reviewers critique the Minneapolis production of his world-premiere play at the Guthrie Theater — a sign he feels his newest work is not ready for the national spotlight and a potential blemish on the theater's celebration of the Pulitzer Prize-winner."

Make Your Speeches Shine with Acrobat Presentations

MakeUseOf: "I’ll be the first to admit I’m biased on the subject of presentation software. I think PowerPoint is terrible. I hate it, I hate how people use it, and I avoid it at all costs. There are, however, times when I’m required to give a presentation. For a while, I was using Google Docs to create my presentations – it was all well and good, but there had to be a better option out there, right?"

What plagiarism looks like

Orange Crate Art: "Some enterprising readers (faculty? student-journalists?) have gone through the dissertations of Carl Boening and William Meehan, highlighting every passage in Meehan's that can be found, word for word, in Boening's."

Musical Coraline even stranger than the book

Reuters: "Neil Gaiman's acclaimed children's novel makes an uneasy transition to the stage in this off-Broadway musical adaptation featuring music by acclaimed indie rocker Stephen Merritt (Magnetic Fields). Although this version of 'Coraline' is unlikely to have the widespread appeal of the recent hit 3-D animated film, those with a taste for the decidedly offbeat could well turn it into a theatrical cult hit."

$39.5M August Wilson Center opens doors Downtown

Pop City: "The brand-new August Wilson Center for African American Culture hosted a community open house on Saturday to celebrate the building’s near-completion. The Center, at 980 Liberty Ave., will be open with limited access throughout the summer, and its final look will be unveiled at a gala on Sept. 19."

What makes a theme park attraction? A conversation with the creative team at Thinkwell Design

Themepark Insider: "A couple weeks ago, I drove over to Burbank to visit with the brain trust at Thinkwell, an attraction design firm run by several former Universal Creative designers. Thinkwell's the current home of Dave Cobb, who joined us on Theme Park Insider a few weeks back to talk about his work on Universal Orlando's Men in Black Alien Attack. Dave was there for my short trip to Thinkwell, and we were joined by CEO Cliff Warner and Chief Creative Office Craig Hanna."

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