Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
AI Is Changing the Future of Acting
nofilmschool.com: Meta and other AI companies hired actors during the Hollywood Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes to train AI with their expressions, movements, and voice, paying as little as $300 to use the data collected "in perpetuity."
REX creates "holy grail" combination of performance spaces in Providence
www.dezeen.com: New York architecture studio REX has completed the "most automated" performance building in the world at Brown University's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. Called The Lindemann Performing Arts Center (The Lindemann) the 101,000 square-foot (9,383-square-metre) structure consists of a shoebox theatre with a long bridge-like walkway.
How Some Film Schools Are Getting More Woke
www.thewrap.com: “Take a good look, my dear. It’s a historic moment you can tell your grandchildren about—how you watched the Old South fall one night.” That’s perhaps not the most famous line from the 1939 classic “Gone With the Wind,” but it’s possibly the most cutting example of the complicated legacy contained within it.
How Counter Culture & Communism Created Renaissance Fairs
The Mary Sue: The first Renaissance fair (or faire, if you’re into it) in the United States took place just outside of Los Angeles in 1963. The creation of the faire was a direct result of the communist witch hunt headed up by Joseph McCarthy, which inadvertently created a community of progressively-minded creatives in the neighborhood of Laurel Canyon, California.
SAG-AFTRA Forced To Clarify They Don't Actually Care What Actors' Kids Dress Up as on Halloween
The Mary Sue: SAG-AFTRA released some “tips & tricks” last week for celebrating Halloween during the strike and caused a bit of a stir among its members. A lot of actors and even the former president of SAG-AFTRA, Melissa Gilbert, had something to say about the guidelines. The union instructed members to avoid characters from struck work this spooky season. That includes no Barbies, Kens, or Oppenheimers in their futures.
