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Friday, January 31, 2025

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Sunday, January 26, 2025

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8 Los Angeles Artists Reflect on the 2025 Wildfires

Artsy: To say the Los Angeles art community has been devastated by the wildfires would be an understatement. Artists in areas like Altadena and the Palisades have seen their workspaces gutted and livelihoods threatened as ongoing fires continue to wreak havoc across L.A. County.

Posted by David at 1/24/2025 11:59:00 AM

‘The Brutalist’ Director Speaks Out After AI Controversy Erupts

www.forbes.com: The Brutalist director Brady Corbet is addressing the backlash caused by the revelation that AI was used in parts of the film's creation. Corbet issued a statement following revelations by the film’s editor, Dávid Jancsó, in a Jan. 11 interview with tech publication Red Shark News.

Posted by David at 1/21/2025 12:02:00 PM

'Our ignorance and discomfort around disability and disfigurement:' Sebastian Stan delivers powerful speech at the Golden Globes, but his disabled fellow actor was overlooked

The Mary Sue: The movie A Different Man highlights the condition neurofibromatosis, where non-cancerous tumors appear on a person’s body. While Sebastian Stan is the lead actor of the film, and just picked up an award for his performance at the Golden Globes, the real star of the show is Adam Pearson, who actually has neurofibromatosis.

Posted by David at 1/20/2025 05:24:00 PM

Hit Play on OK Go's Mindbogglingly Choreographed Music Video Filmed with 64 Phones

Colossal: We’re more selective these days about how we use the word “meta,” but when it comes to OK Go’s latest release, the band has created—bear with us here—a music video using phones about videos made with phones.

Posted by David at 1/22/2025 10:33:00 AM

Against the Dying of the Light: Toward a Risky Theatre

AMERICAN THEATRE: Last October, I had the chance to attend the annual Freedom Awards, hosted by the National Civil Rights Museum. The 2024 honorees were civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill, civil rights leader Xernona Clayton, and filmmaker Spike Lee. In all of the remarks and speeches that evening, it became even clearer to me that for every movement, there must be a countermovement. This is how we truly balance the scales of justice in the United States of America. We put pressure on systems, and practices change, then laws follow suit. It is in alignment with the order of operations of the universe: Be, do, have.

Posted by David at 1/20/2025 01:02:00 PM

Friday, January 24, 2025

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Sunday, January 19, 2025

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Making Immersive Accessible

HowlRound Theatre Commons: Immersive theatre presents unique challenges to providing accommodation and accessibility measures for audience members, particularly in “sandbox-style” immersive theatre in which audience members roam through a curated environment throughout the performance. The physical and transitory nature of this form creates a significant roadblock to offering typical access options like listening devices, closed captioning, and wheelchair accessibility.

Posted by David at 1/17/2025 11:54:00 AM

CAPA graduate, CBS actor Carter Redwood launches his new foundation

New Pittsburgh Courier: On CBS’ “FBI: International,” the scripts are perfectly laid out for the actors. The actors learn those scripts, and then the magic happens; the actors perform their roles perfectly, and then in post-production, the television show is prepared for its airing on national television.

Posted by David at 1/14/2025 02:57:00 PM

Anthropic to Enforce Copyright Guardrails on AI Tools

www.hollywoodreporter.com: A trio of major music publishers suing Anthropic over the use of lyrics to train its AI system have reached a deal with the Amazon-backed company to resolve some parts of a pending preliminary injunction.

Posted by David at 1/14/2025 11:53:00 AM

Psychological Impacts of VR Experiences and Their Implications for Museums

AMT Lab @ CMU: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek details author Annie Dillard’s exploration of nature around her home near Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Her piercing contemplations on nature and life were lauded by critics, and in 1975, Pilgrim won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction. Many of Dillard’s deepest reflections throughout the book are preceded by the act of “seeing”; the narrator often begins by observing her surroundings with an unparalleled intensity until she seemingly gets pulled above her usual sphere of consciousness — and is then hit with a profound realization.

Posted by David at 1/16/2025 10:44:00 AM

California Economy Feels the Pain of Hollywood Studio Troubles

The New York Times: The struggles have become a painful, recurring story line in Hollywood. A script supervisor visiting a food bank every other week. The cinematographer who moved to Georgia for better filming opportunities. An art department coordinator applying for administrative jobs to cover rent.

Posted by David at 1/13/2025 11:52:00 AM

Friday, January 17, 2025

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Sunday, December 08, 2024

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Photo Captures Everyone Who Helped Restore the Notre Dame

mymodernmet.com: It’s been five years since a devastating fire heavily damaged the famed Notre-Dame cathedral, and now the Parisian landmark is finally about to reopen. Tourists and locals have long been waiting for the beloved church to return to its former splendor—something that couldn't have been achieved without hundreds of workers. To truly capture all the effort that went into this project, French president Emmanuel Macron shared a photo showing all the people involved in the restoration of Notre-Dame.

Posted by David at 12/06/2024 10:28:00 AM

Fleetwood Mac Producer Settles Lawsuit Over Broadway's ‘Stereophonic’

www.billboard.com: The creators of the hit Broadway play Stereophonic have reached a settlement to resolve a copyright lawsuit claiming they stole elements of the show from a memoir about the infamous recording of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours.

Posted by David at 12/05/2024 12:57:00 PM

IATSE Joins Workplace Misconduct Reporting Platform MyConnext

www.hollywoodreporter.com: Starting Tuesday, the crew union IATSE is offering the tool to some 85,000 U.S. members who work across television, film and commercials. MyConnext, created to address calls in industry surveys for a tool to record bad behavior in the workplace, provides users with a means to log these experiences with a timestamp for their own personal use, with employers and/or their unions.

Posted by David at 12/04/2024 10:31:00 AM

Viewpoint: Pittsburgh needs to step up for the performing arts

Pittsburgh Business Times: One of the best-kept secrets in Pittsburgh – though ironically not among the rest of the national or global performing arts scene – is the extent to which our region punches far above its weight as a haven of theater, music and dance. Ask any professional performer who makes a stop here, and they’ll tell you. Our venues, our talent, our education programs and our productions rank just a tick behind New York, Los Angeles and Chicago in their renown, amazing given that our population is only a fraction of theirs.

Posted by David at 12/03/2024 10:54:00 AM

How Do You Manage?

AMERICAN THEATRE: In November 2022, Lisa Smith was weighing whether to continue stage managing or to scale up her part-time job at a gardening center into a full-time gig. She’d been stage managing in the Twin Cities for 20 years, 15 of those as a member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), when the forced break of the pandemic reminded her what a full night’s sleep felt like. When theatres opened again and she returned to stage management, she grew wary of some companies’ plans for reopening and their failure to create contingency plans for any personnel but performers. Understudies are great—but what happens if the stage manager gets Covid and there is no backup?

Posted by David at 12/02/2024 01:54:00 PM

Friday, December 06, 2024

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Monday, December 02, 2024

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CMU launches Pathway Program to expand education accesibility

The Tartan: Carnegie Mellon has launched the Carnegie Mellon Pathway Program, a new initiative designed to make its renowned education more accessible to students from low and middle-income families. Announced on Nov. 20, the program guarantees tuition-free education for undergraduate students from families earning $75,000 or less annually and eliminates loans from financial aid packages for those with household incomes below $100,000.

Posted by David at 11/28/2024 11:28:00 AM

TV Writers Found 139,000 of Their Scripts Trained AI. Hell Broke Loose

theankler.com: Whenever AI came up during last year’s WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, it was a contentious issue, but one that seemed to exist as an abstraction, fodder for pithy picket signs. But last year’s theoretical fear became a real, deeply personal one with last week’s discovery by The Atlantic of more than 139,000 TV and film scripts in a data set being used to train AI.

Posted by David at 11/29/2024 11:30:00 AM

‘Les Misérables’ Returns Home

The New York Times: Globally, it’s the most famous French musical. One hundred and thirty million people have seen Jean Valjean face off against Javert, in 22 languages; its downtrodden characters have taken to the barricades in London’s West End nearly continuously since 1985. Everyone knows “Les Misérables.” Everyone — except the French.

Posted by David at 11/28/2024 01:53:00 PM

IAAPA Expo 2024 sets new attendance record

InPark Magazine: IAAPA Expo 2024 successfully wrapped up last week at the Orange County Convention Center, concluding a week that brought together 41,429 attendees and 37,066 verified attendees from across the globe. This year’s event set a new attendance record. Reflecting the growth and innovation in the industry, IAAPA Expo 2024 featured more than 1,100 exhibitors and approximately 27,000 buyers from more than 20,000 buying companies.

Posted by David at 11/28/2024 11:27:00 AM

Three years after fatal shooting on set, Alec Baldwin’s film ‘Rust’ has world premiere with dedication to cinematographer killed

PBS News: Alec Baldwin’s Western “Rust” had its world premiere Wednesday at a film festival in Poland with a dedication to cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was fatally shot in an accident on the set three years ago. Organizers called for a minute of silence before showing the film, which opened to a full house at the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage in the city of Torun.

Posted by David at 11/26/2024 10:42:00 AM

There are no bad ideas

Friday, January 31, 2025

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Worth a Look

8 Los Angeles Artists Reflect on the 2025 Wildfires

‘The Brutalist’ Director Speaks Out After AI Controversy Erupts

'Our ignorance and discomfort around disability and disfigurement:' Sebastian Stan delivers powerful speech at the Golden Globes, but his disabled fellow actor was overlooked

Hit Play on OK Go's Mindbogglingly Choreographed Music Video Filmed with 64 Phones

Against the Dying of the Light: Toward a Risky Theatre

Friday, January 24, 2025

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, January 19, 2025

Worth a Look

Making Immersive Accessible

CAPA graduate, CBS actor Carter Redwood launches his new foundation

Anthropic to Enforce Copyright Guardrails on AI Tools

Psychological Impacts of VR Experiences and Their Implications for Museums

California Economy Feels the Pain of Hollywood Studio Troubles

Friday, January 17, 2025

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, December 08, 2024

Worth a Look

Photo Captures Everyone Who Helped Restore the Notre Dame

Fleetwood Mac Producer Settles Lawsuit Over Broadway's ‘Stereophonic’

IATSE Joins Workplace Misconduct Reporting Platform MyConnext

Viewpoint: Pittsburgh needs to step up for the performing arts

How Do You Manage?

Friday, December 06, 2024

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Monday, December 02, 2024

Worth a Look

CMU launches Pathway Program to expand education accesibility

TV Writers Found 139,000 of Their Scripts Trained AI. Hell Broke Loose

‘Les Misérables’ Returns Home

IAAPA Expo 2024 sets new attendance record

Three years after fatal shooting on set, Alec Baldwin’s film ‘Rust’ has world premiere with dedication to cinematographer killed

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