Sunday, November 05, 2023

Worth a Look

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

As the 'Hollywood of the South,' Atlanta has boomed. Its actors and crew are now at a crossroads

AP News: For more than a decade, work had been nonstop in Atlanta’s booming film industry thanks to Georgia’s extremely generous tax break. Dubbed the “Hollywood of the South,” metro Atlanta became a ubiquitous backdrop for huge projects, including Marvel films and Netflix’s “Stranger Things.”

 

Nightshade "Poisons" AI Art Generators to Help Defend Artists

mymodernmet.com: In history, the nightshade plant was used to poison kings and emperors. So it's only fitting that a new tool used to poison AI art generators is named Nightshade. Created by Ben Zhao, a computer science professor at the University of Chicago, the tool is designed to help artists combat copyright infringement by AI art generators that are trained using their artwork.

 

AI is on a collision course with music — Reservoir’s Golnar Khosrowshahi thinks there’s a way through

The Verge: You might not have heard of Reservoir, but you’ve definitely heard of the artists it works with. Everyone from A-ha and John Denver to Evanescence to Joni Mitchell and even legendary film composer Hans Zimmer. What makes Reservoir different is that Golnar built the company through acquisitions.

 

Robert Brustein Raised the Bar for Us All

AMERICAN THEATRE: You could not ignore Bob Brustein. His admonitions were in your face, in your ear, in your mailbox. If you were young and ambitious and desired all the things that the young and ambitious desire—fame, fortune, glittering prizes—Bob was your conscience. To be Bob’s student or colleague or friend (I was all three, and for more than 50 years our lives were intertwined) was to be always held to the strictest moral standard.

 

How Corinne McFadden Herrera has Maintained Wicked's Choreography and Staging for 20 Years

Dance Magazine: Unlike lyrics or lines preserved in scores and scripts, a show’s movement is ephemeral, passed from body to body with every new cast. Ensuring that the choreography and staging stays true to the original is crucial to the integrity of a show. Such is the task of Wicked’s associate choreographer Corinne McFadden Herrera, who has been with the production from its inception in 2003.

 

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