Mon. 02/08 - A Live Animated Stage Production... Wait, what?

How the Royal Shakespeare Company is using live motion capture to animate a virtual show in real time. A case study of a California town who has this whole pandemic response thing down. A 3D printed house has hit the market on Long Island. And there’s actually still more to say about Four Seasons Total Landscaping? Plus some related recommendations.

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Links:

• Is this an avatar I see before me? Audience takes to stage in virtual Shakespeare play (The Guardian)
• Remote actors thread (Brendan Bailey, Twitter)
• Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company)
• A California University Tries to Shield an Entire City From Coronavirus (NY Times)
• A 3D printed house is for sale in New York. Builders say it will cut housing construction costs (CNN) 
• A 3D-Printed Home Just Popped up on Zillow for a Cool $300,000 (Gizmodo)
• Biggest 3D Printed House in America ALMOST COMPLETE Part 3 (Jarett Gross, YouTube)
• At Foggy Pine Books, Customers Like Tom Hanks Know Every Book Is An Adventure Waiting To Happen (The Late Show, YouTube)
• Opportunity Knocks | Fiverr Big Game Commercial Extended Cut (2021) (Fiverr, YouTube)
• Inevitable Four Seasons Total Landscaping doc to be titled Four Seasons Total Documentary (A/V Club)
• My Recent Media Diet, the Still Isolated Edition (Kottke)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter