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Welcome to World of WearableArt — World of WearableArt (WOW) is a unique combination of the world’s leading wearable art competition and a spectacular stage show held in Wellington, New Zealand. WOW attracts cutting-edge talent from across the globe, from garment designers to the show’s dancers, aerialists, musicians, and performers. The creative team spends around 18 months bringing together each bespoke WOW Awards Season. The world of WearableArt Awards Show is New Zealand’s most significant theatrical production. It is a not-to-be-missed event for around 60,000 people and a coveted competition for international designers working at the cutting edge of fashion, art, design, and costume alongside students and first-time entrants.
posted by Roverlaw at 9:32 PM PST - 8 comments

“the California dream is still alive and well,” the state’s 40th governor said in a Zoom interview a month before his probable reelection. The truth is that California outperforms the US and the rest of world across many industries. That’s especially relevant with renewable energy, the fastest-growing business in California and Germany. The market capitalization of California companies in this business increased 731% the past three years, or 1.74 times more than their German counterparts, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
posted by folklore724 at 9:30 PM PST - 29 comments

RIP to a brilliant radical reporter with a novelist’s eye and a historian’s memory. [more inside]
posted by Ahmad Khani at 6:42 PM PST - 38 comments

Understood from the perspective of China, Hong Kong has not just seen the tactics of co-option and threat, developed for a gentler takeover, turned to the service of a far more draconian one. It has also seen the perfection of methods of co-opting businesses and academics, infiltrating institutions like universities and funding pro-party propaganda on social media which can be used farther afield.
posted by blue shadows at 6:38 PM PST - 9 comments

stridulating mammal of the day (15 second imgur video) [more inside]
posted by aniola at 6:14 PM PST - 21 comments

Intriguing behind-the-scene look at a film sequence from Athena, directed by by Romain Gavras. The film has earned kudos for its cinematography and long sequences with minimal cuts. Another scene. [more inside]
posted by madamjujujive at 3:20 PM PST - 9 comments

In a surprise move, it was revealed today that filmmaker James Gunn and producer Peter Safran have been tapped to lead DC’s film, TV and animation division. This comes shortly after corporate rival Marvel released the trailer for Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 3:00 PM PST - 34 comments

Dave Karpf takes a critical look back fifteen years later on the classic Kevin Kelly essay Thousand True Fans, on what it got right and the various things it got wrong or never grappled with to begin with.
posted by cortex at 1:51 PM PST - 61 comments

"The London restaurant menu at the time of writing includes a slimy little asterisk; ‘Bluefin tuna is an environmentally threatened species – please ask your server for an alternative’: sashimi with a sauce of cognitive dissonance...(f)or many diners at Nobu, though, the asterisk is presumably not so much a deterrent as a victory flag: it’s their scarcity that makes eating them so visceral a thrill." [more inside]
posted by mreleganza at 1:46 PM PST - 23 comments

On October 18, Republican Rep. Mike Johnson introduced the "Stop the Sexualization of Children Act", apparently designed to "protect" children from "sexually explicit material". In practice, it is a federal anti-LGBTQ bill which threatens to defund any federally funded institution which provides LGBTQ-supportive material to children under 10. It defines "sexually-oriented material" as images, descriptions, and simulations of sexual acts, genitalia, or "any topic involving gender identity, gender dysphoria, transgenderism, sexual orientation, or related subjects." This includes "any exposure to transgenderism", which may cover the very existence of trans people in those spaces.
posted by fight or flight at 1:46 PM PST - 27 comments

"Debbie fought the contractions at first, hoping to reach Europe and a hospital, but it soon became clear that her baby would touch down before the plane did." -- What happens to babies born on planes? [more inside]
posted by bondcliff at 1:39 PM PST - 17 comments

When the MMO Glitch died in 2012, it released its code and its many assets into the public domain, and since then, several groups have tried to resurrect this charming game. Children of Ur and Eleven ended up combining forces and then stalled out; the last announcement from either of them was in 2019. Odd Giants, however, is up and running today for you to play for free in alpha. [more inside]
posted by fiercecupcake at 12:55 PM PST - 18 comments

Tricia Hersey, founder of the Nap Ministry, sees rest as a revolutionary way to push back on America’s obsession with productivity at all costs. (gift link) [more inside]
posted by praemunire at 12:13 PM PST - 11 comments

NY Times: Climate Activists Throw Mashed Potatoes on Monet Painting “After throwing mashed potatoes at a painting by Claude Monet, on exhibit in Potsdam, Germany, the climate protesters each glued a hand to the wall“ [more inside]
posted by beesbees at 10:44 AM PST - 151 comments

Fiona Apple Claims Maryland Officials Blocked Access for Court Watchers Over Pretrial Detention Suit: The singer-songwriter, who's been observing court proceedings for a couple of years, was one of several people to file an affidavit in support of plaintiffs suing over allegedly unlawful system
posted by Etrigan at 8:35 AM PST - 12 comments

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posted by jacquilynne at 8:33 AM PST - 30 comments

How the Mountain Jews of Azerbaijan Endure By a river in the hills near the Russian border, a 300-year-old community of multilingual Jews keeps 'Europe's last shtetl' alive [more inside]
posted by NoMich at 6:34 AM PST - 14 comments

Since it is the season, at least in the USA, why not take an hour to see how politics are done in Louisiana? Or at least, was done up to 1991. [more inside]
posted by BWA at 5:07 AM PST - 7 comments