Sunday, October 08, 2017

Worth A Look

Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...

Las Vegas shootings raise doubts about safety of live entertainment

www.usatoday.com: Is live entertainment safe in the era of mass shootings, concert-hall bombings and terrorism of all sorts? Some security experts are ringing alarm bells — again.

But could even the best emergency preparedness plan have prevented what happened in Las Vegas or ameliorated the chaotic aftermath? Some security consultants think the tragedy at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival might have been a one-off.


Why LeBron James Doesn’t Own the Rights to His Tattoos

www.artsy.net: LeBron James has three NBA championship rings, a house with a bowling alley, and sponsorship deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But does “King James” own the rights to the tattoos on his own skin?

That question is prompted by an ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit in New York, one of only a few suits to raise the legally murky issue of whether companies like movie and video game studios must pay to license the the work of tattoo artists the way they would pay for using a pop song, even if that tattoo is permanently inked on a person’s body.


Women to Watch 2017: Women Behind the Scenes

THE INTERVAL: Last year, we did a feature called “Women to Watch” where we asked women who had been featured on The Interval to recommend some emerging theatre artists who they thought deserved more attention. When thinking about how we wanted to do the feature this year, we decided to switch our focus and spotlight women working behind the scenes in theatre. From publicists to agents to literary managers, it takes a village to make a piece of theatre happen, and there are many talented women in those positions that deserve to have their work in the spotlight.


Staples Center to Offer Complimentary Sensory Safety Kits For Guests

Amplify: Staples Center is offering kits to fans with disabilities to improve the experience at the venue. The Los Angeles arena has created sensory safety kits for individuals affected by autism, PTSD or other sensory-related issues.


Watch Aaron Draplin design a logo in 15 minutes

Boing Boing: It's fun to watch an A-list designer like Aaron Draplin (creator of Field Notes notebooks) how he goes about designing a new logo. Here, he was challenged to design a logo for a concrete foundation company. He starts by just writing the name of the company with pencil and paper (not on a computer) and sees what the letters suggest.

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