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Coronavirus Crisis Forces Hollywood Studios to Assess Plans
Variety: As panic roils mainland China and fear escalates throughout globe over the spread of coronavirus, Hollywood studios and content production companies are ramping up their efforts to respond to the human and economic impact of a potential pandemic.
Project Zero Launches Zero Carbon Roadie
TPi: Ocean conservation organisation Project Zero HAS announced Zero Carbon Roadie, an innovative carbon calculator that is set to support touring musicians’ efforts to mitigate their carbon footprints.
This brand-new tool can be used by music artists to reduce their impact on the environment resulting from travel, haulage, power generation and other activities that are part and parcel of touring. The tool uses the latest greenhouse gas emissions data to calculate total emissions and provide a picture of a tour’s overall carbon footprint.
#PayUpHollywood Reveals The Industry's Lack of Diversity
The Mary Sue: Anything worth having doesn’t come easy. It’s an age old adage that is often true: if you want to succeed in competitive fields, you have to bust your ass to get there. Whether you want to have a good career, a healthy life, a functioning relationship, you have to put in the effort to achieve these goals. As the sage philosopher Britney Spears once said, “You want a hot body? You want a Bugatti? You want a Maserati? You better work bitch.”
The Great White Way. A Book of Woke Supremacy about Broadway’s White Supremacy
New York Theater: Are Broadway musicals covert vehicles for white supremacy? That’s more or less the argument that theater writer Warren Hoffman made in his 2014 book. The title apparently proved popular enough to allow a just-published second edition of The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical (Rutgers University Press, 285 pages), which adds a chapter on “The Book of Mormon” and “Hamilton.”
Court Allows Chooseco's Lawsuit Against Netflix Over 'Bandersnatch' To Move Forward
Techdirt: You will recall our previous posts about Chooseco, the company behind those "Choose Your Own Adventure" books from the 80s, and its lawsuit against Netflix. At issue is Netflix's Black Mirror iteration entitled Bandersnatch. The episode essentially runs a choose your own adventure scenario in streaming film, with the viewer being able to control the outcome of the narrative through choice.
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Sunday, February 16, 2020
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From the National Endowment for the Arts Chairman: Celebrating Black History Month
NEA: Here at the National Endowment for the Arts, we celebrate Black History Month because we know that you cannot tell the history of the arts in the United States of America without including the many long-lasting contributions of African Americans to the country’s cultural landscape. For example, even as 13 overseas British colonies were working to become an independent nation, an enslaved young woman in Boston, Phillis Wheatley, was creating work that ranked her among the best-known poets of the time.
Groundbreaking Weekend of Women+ allows space to learn and heal
UNCSA: “I am continuously amazed how often I have to stop myself and remember that it wasn’t until my late 30s that I got to experience rooms like this,” said Nicola Rossini, as she addressed a theater full of students, faculty and staff during the recent Weekend of Women+ at UNCSA.
AB5 backlash: California's arts community sounds off on new law
Los Angeles Times: AB5, California’s new gig economy law, has left the state’s performing artist community in a state of fear and confusion.
The law is intended to reduce worker misclassification, making it harder for companies to treat workers as independent contractors. It establishes a test to determine whether workers are employees who should receive minimum wage, paid sick days and other benefits.
Backdrops, front and center: These massive paintings by unheralded movie studio artists, which provided magical settings during Hollywood's Golden Age, are finding a new life
CBS News: They're just paint and canvas, but in Hollywood's Golden Age, painted backdrops played a vital role in the magic of movies, creating cities, sunsets, or anything else a director could imagine.
Art professor Karen Maness appreciates every brushstroke. "The backdrop is part of extending the world of the set," she said. "Often times it was just seen outside windows. But sometimes it even included the entire world of a set on a sound stage and creating that environment."
Costume Designers on Pay Equity Within the Guild
Variety: Costume designers have been fighting for pay equity for years, gearing up for their 2021 contract negotiations by establishing a committee highlighting the difference in pay between the mostly female Costumer Designers Guild and the primarily male membership of the Art Directors Guild Local 800. According to Amy Roth, who designed costumes on “Motherless Brooklyn” and “Madame Secretary,” those gender issues are at the heart of the matter.
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