What online creators will miss and not miss about home studios

55 years ago

The Billion-Dollar Adult Streaming Industry Is Fueled by Horrific Labor Abuses

Wired

The fantasy of the influencer economy is to find an audience for your content, be swept away on the winds of the algorithm, and live a glamorous life with all the money you’re making. But far from the dream of mansions and diamonds and luxury cars, a new report finds that webcam models are often making pennies on the dollar …

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5 months ago

The Hollywood production collapse’s latest victim: Why the reality TV bubble finally burst

LA Times

Celeste Diamos, a reality TV editor who has worked on “House Hunters” and “The D’Amelio Show,” has had trouble finding jobs recently amid a decline in unscripted TV production. “I thought because of the strikes there might be an uptick in reality TV because most of my jobs haven’t been union,” said Celeste Diamos, a TV editor who has worked …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Hollywood’s weak recovery is hurting jobs. The industry’s middle class is feeling the pain

LA Times

This year has been rough for the entertainment industry so far. “I feel like I’m in the worst ‘Twilight Zone’ ever,” Sullivan said, “where I wake up and I’m now 20 years old again writing spec scripts for free in my apartment.” All this raises the question of whether the entertainment industry is simply feeling the pains of the transition …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

Global Work From Home Day 2024: Date, Theme, History, and Significance

The Quint

Remote work existed long before it was introduced globally during Covid-19 pandemic. Global Work From Home Day is a day to recognize and celebrate the benefits of working from home, and to encourage more people to adopt this work lifestyle. The Industrial Revolution led to the introduction of factories and office buildings, which disrupted the traditional routine of traders, who …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Los Angeles filming activity still remarkably low in immediate wake of strikes

LA Times

Director James Cameron is seen filming “Avatar: The Way of Water.” Production levels this winter are not nearly as high as they were a year ago. Film and TV production activity in the Los Angeles area is still remarkably low in the immediate aftermath of the Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes, which brought filming to a near standstill during much …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Hollywood plunges into all-out war on the heels of pandemic and a streaming revolution

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “There’s a lot of ways to lose your house.” …

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1 year, 11 months ago

5 productivity hacks for people who work from home

Hindustan Times

Working remotely has become a common practice for many. This has led to a significant increase in the number of people working from home in recent years, as well as a shift in attitudes towards remote work. Working from home presents a multitude of advantages, including increased flexibility in terms of scheduling, reduced commute time and costs, improved work-life balance, …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Hollywood backlots remained nearly full during the pandemic. Here’s why

LA Times

Aerial rendering of how the Warner Bros. Ranch studio in Burbank will look in 2025 after a $500-million makeover. Hollywood’s soundstages remained nearly fully occupied throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic even as filming halted, highlighting the scarcity of studio space in the region, according to a new report. The average annual soundstage occupancy rate reached 94% in …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Best work from home essentials 2022, according to IndyBest editors

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Buy now Quay stranger unisex blue light glasses: £39, Quayaustralia.co.uk open image in …

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3 years ago

Lessons from a digital 2021

The Hindu

This is my last column for this year, and what a year it has been. The hope and euphoria that marked its beginning soon gave way to widespread chaos and despair as the second wave descended upon us. If online or hybrid is indeed the future, are we privileging just one month to load up as many hours of content …

3 years, 1 month ago

Metaverse: The world of tomorrow or a dystopia waiting to happen?

The Independent

When James Cameron’s groundbreaking movie Avatar was released in 2009, one cinemagoer who didn’t like it, famously joked that it had been made in 3D because Cameron couldn’t fit so much rubbish into two dimensions. It is an internet that you can actually interact with, like we do in the physical world.” open image in gallery Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen …

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3 years, 1 month ago

What do Disney possibly hope to achieve with Home Sweet Home Alone?

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It is the rabid pursuit of nostalgia that led to where we are now: the …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Best TV stands 2021: Wooden, retro and industrial designs

The Independent

Get our weekly Home and Garden email for tips, advice and interior inspiration Get our weekly Home and Garden email for tips, and interior inspiration Get our weekly Home and Garden email for tips, and interior inspiration SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy It’s no coincidence …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Home-like or Open Space? Companies Look to Reinvent Workspace of Future in Post-Pandemic World

News 18

The balance between work and personal life, the attractiveness of offices in large cities, management of hybrid teams made up of in-office and remote workers… the challenges of the workspace of the future are numerous. According to a PwC United States Remote Work Survey published in January, conducted with 1200 office workers, 55% of employees would like to be remote …

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3 years, 6 months ago

What COVID-19 rules are necessary in Hollywood right now? That’s still up for debate

LA Times

Rachel Brosnahan shields herself with an umbrella while playing with a dog in between takes on the set of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” It is an example of the precautions productions have taken to limit the spread of COVID-19. An agreement over sick pay, testing, masking and other safety measures lapsed June 30 without a new deal between the Alliance …

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3 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 Impact: Could the Lack of Fresh TV Content Spell Drop In Ad-Revenue?

News 18

The decision of the Maharashtra government to stop all shooting impacts TV shows acutely, as compared to films or OTT series. Confirming that his show is shifting base, lead actor Siddhaanth Vir Surryavanshi of Kyun Rishton Mein Katti Batti says the entire team was tested for Covid on Wednesday and will be travelling on Friday. Trade analyst Atul Mohan says …

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3 years, 8 months ago

How will Hollywood get back to full speed? After the pandemic, some things may never return to normal

LA Times

In Los Angeles, Hollywood’s awakening from the COVID-19 pandemic has been visible to anyone walking city streets in the last several months. “Production is booming everywhere, and we are now already starting to find availability issues with crew, stages, not just in the U.K., but other places,” said Jeff LaPlante, Universal Pictures’ president of physical production. “People want to refill …

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3 years, 9 months ago

One year of Covid-19 pandemic: Companies fighting complexities of hybrid workspace

India Today

A year after the first Covid-19 case was reported, it is obvious that the pandemic’s impact on the future of work and workplaces is here to stay. With working remotely it has become even more important for employees to stay connected by attending virtual gatherings, maintaining a high level of enthusiasm, and highlight professional accomplishments. Remote work makes cybersecurity vital …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Lockdowns show we don’t need offices to work together

Wired

Getty Images / WIRED The year 2020 has taught us what’s really important in life: health, family and a stable internet connection. Business meetings can now be conducted via video conferencing, collaboration is possible from the comfort of our own homes, and teams have proved how they can work efficiently without the need to co-ordinate everyone in a physical space. …

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3 years, 10 months ago

4 Work-From-Home Tech Tricks I Learned From Twitch Streamers

Wired

Like many Americans in office jobs, I started working from home in March due to Covid-19, and I haven’t been back to the office since. With that in mind, here are four things I’ve learned about working from home from streamers: Be Aware of Your Stamina We’ve likely all heard about Zoom fatigue and our limited ability to watch a …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Why Sundance’s interactive New Frontier works are right for this COVID-19 moment

LA Times

The plump, mustachioed and vest-wearing Frank Bourassa looks genial enough, especially when he materializes as a tiny cartoon figure in your living room. Directed by Brett Gaylor, “Fortune!,” will be shown as part of the interactive and experimental New Frontier program at this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 28 to Feb. 3. “We had a more complicated …

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3 years, 11 months ago

COVID-19 pandemic causes 25-year low in L.A. filming

LA Times

A boost in production in the fall was not enough to keep 2020 from being one of the worst years for filming in Los Angeles in a generation. During the fourth quarter, production picked up considerably, reaching 7,348 shoot days, but was still down 25% compared with the year-earlier period, the report said. “With production paused for 87 days and …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Meet the online gadget show, a hall of mirrors to the future

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Every January, huge crowds descend …

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4 years ago

Interior design trends to look out for in 2021

The Independent

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4 years ago

COVID surge throws ‘essential’ Hollywood production plans up in the air

LA Times

As the surge in COVID-19 cases overwhelms L.A. hospitals, producers, film workers and their unions are still grappling with how and when to get back to work after a holiday pause. On Sunday the actors union and a group representing advertisers “strongly encouraged” producers of commercials and independent films to also delay their work as dozens of COVID-19 outbreaks were …

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4 years ago

COVID-19 left theater in crisis. Why Hollywood should save it

LA Times

The vast majority of my year was spent on the sofa. I’m not even counting live recordings of stage shows — the hit musical “Hamilton” on Disney+, the Broadway play “What the Constitution Means to Me” on Amazon Prime or David Byrne’s “American Utopia” on HBO — or the exciting innovations in virtual theater, including star-studded versions of classic texts …

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4 years ago

The things remote workers missed about their workplace in 2020

Live Mint

It hasn’t been easy but we have all somehow adapted to the fact that our homes have become our workplaces. Nearly 60 per cent of the people missed the interaction and company of their colleagues, and the office parties having free supply of beer in a survey about what they missed the most about their workspace. People were also wary …

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4 years ago

China may save global cinema from final curtain, expert says

China Daily

Theatergoers watch a Chinese film in Shanghai on October 16. Also serving as director of the Film and Culture Research Center of Peking University, Dai is one of the major initiators to found the country's first major in movie history at the Beijing Film Academy in the 1980s before she was transferred to the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture …

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4 years ago

Personal tech in 2020: The year of chaos, innovations, bans and unfulfilled promises

India Today

At the beginning of each year, analysts and experts sit down to predict how the industry will evolve over the next 12 months. And, as we move towards the final few days of what has been a forgettable year, there are few unfulfilled promises tech enthusiasts would complain about. Here is a look at 2020, a year of chaos, innovations, …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Shaken studios. Empty theaters. What Hollywood lost during the pandemic

LA Times

Wayne Price cleans handrails in a movie theater on Sept. 3, 2020, the first day back in business at Reading Cinemas Grossmont in La Mesa, CA. “It’s the biggest thing to happen to the movie industry in my lifetime.” Direct-to-consumer platforms, including Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+, have clearly benefited, though not every streaming service succeeded under …

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4 years, 1 month ago

The pandemic is changing Hollywood, maybe forever

Associated Press

NEW YORK — “No New ‘Movies’ Till Influenza Ends” blared a New York Times headline on Oct. 10, 1918, while the deadly second wave of the Spanish Flu was unfolding. Last month, the Walt Disney Co. experimented with the $200 million “Mulan” as a premium buy on its fast-growing streaming service, Disney+ — where the Pixar film “Soul” will also …

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4 years, 1 month ago

The coronavirus pandemic has forced millions to work from home — and the office will never be the same

ABC

Hours of video-conferencing, long queues at suburban coffee shops and packed lunchtime bike paths; for millions of Australia's workers, 2020 has been very different. Key points: Workers are slowly returning to the office after months of working from home The change has prompted some businesses to structure their work days differently, including by imposing forced breaks away from the computer …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Cinemark signs Universal deal for early home video releases

LA Times

Cinemark Theatres, the third-largest cinema chain in the U.S., has reached an agreement with Universal Pictures to allow early home video releases for the studio’s movies, marking the latest crack in the traditional theatrical window during the COVID-19 pandemic. The deal follows a similar agreement in July that Universal made with AMC Theatres, the world’s biggest movie house circuit — …

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4 years, 2 months ago

The biggest unknowns in a post-pandemic work world

BBC

The biggest unknowns in a post-pandemic work world Emmanuel Lafont For those who are able, remote work has allowed people to do their jobs in secluded areas outside of cities. With many workers asking the same thing, several big companies have already answered: “Why not?” Just this month, tech giant Microsoft announced that it would offer staff the option to …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Covid-19: Cinemas to roll out the red carpet with hit reruns

Hindustan Times

Seven months after being completely shut down owing to the raging Covid-19 pandemic, cinema halls — both big screens and multiplexes — are ready to glow back to life in Delhi, starting Thursday. With safety of their patrons, while ensuring compliance of all SoPs, still remaining their prime concern, the management of various cinemas across the state have another, probably …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Center Theatre Group, facing yearlong closure, creates a Digital Stage

LA Times

Los Angeles’ largest nonprofit theater company, Center Theatre Group, said at the end of March that it hoped to stage live performances by fall at all three of its venues: the Ahmanson, the Mark Taper Forum and the Kirk Douglas. They include playwright Dominique Morisseau; Chicano performance artist, writer and social activist Luis Alfaro; solo theater performer and comedian Kristina …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Bringing Comedy Back to Live Space an Uphill Battle, Let the Climb Begin: Abish Mathew

News 18

One of the most recognised faces of Indian comedy, and the mind behind talk show ‘Son of Abish’, Abish Mathew says that COVID-19 forced a lot of creators to go completely digital and it will be difficult for the comedy industry to come back to the live space. What that means is, this pandemic will blend the digital and live …

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4 years, 3 months ago

What will offices look like in the post-pandemic future? This Hollywood space offers a preview

LA Times

Christiane Maertens, founder of DoGoodery, left, in a coworking pod with Evelyn Guerrero at Second Home, a work-share space in Hollywood. “This,” says Silva, “is what architecture might look like post-COVID.” Rohan Silva, cofounder of Second Home, inside one of company’s garden studios. “The spaces are very functional, well proportioned,” he writes, “and very well interrelated around a courtyard that …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Opinion: I spent $40 to watch ‘E.T.’ at a drive-in. It was the best money I spent all summer

CNN

Editor’s Note: Frank Pallotta is a media reporter for CNN. Rooftop Films, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization that hosts film festivals, helped create the Queens Drive-In with the borough’s Museum of the Moving Image and New York Hall of Science once the coronavirus took hold. Yes, I know I’m likely in the minority here — some people would rather watch movies …

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4 years, 4 months ago

How organizations should reboot, reinvent, and repurpose after Covid-19

India Today

Ever since the coronavirus has put every economic activity on hold, and has been declared a global pandemic, organizations have taken a step back to readjust, relaunch, and recover from the after-effects. In uncertain times, creating a viable strategy and using versatile tools and techniques will help organizations respond quickly to inescapable change in their business environment. Normalize work from …

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4 years, 4 months ago

The new era in filmmaking

BBC

The new era in filmmaking Getty Images After being shut down during the pandemic, film and TV shoots are now starting up again. “We needed to wait until it was safe to shoot, but we also didn’t want to lose any cast or key crew to other projects.” The BFC guidelines – an evolving document that was first released on …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Covid-19 impact: Curtains for some cinema screens

Live Mint

A large number of India’s 10,000-odd cinema screens may never light up again, as more than four months of closure and uncertainty over reopening prompt many of them to down shutters forever. “The film exhibition sector is in a mess, thanks to the combination of an indefinite delay in making films, in addition to the absence of clarity on a …

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4 years, 5 months ago

The feel-good HGTV series you’ve been waiting for: Orlando Soria’s ‘Build Me Up’

LA Times

There’s a touching moment in Wednesday night’s episode of HGTV’s “Build Me Up,” in which interior designer Orlando Soria brings Eileen, a Huntington Beach single mom whose son is preparing to leave for college, to tears. I’m so excited for the next 20 years.” Following a month of grim COVID-19 headlines for California, Soria’s new home-improvement series is an uplifting …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Zoom and hold: working from home is here to stay, researchers find

Dutch News

More home working and meetings by video link are likely to be trends that outlast the coronavirus pandemic, researchers say. The proportion of people working from home has dipped to less than half since the lockdown restrictions were eased at the beginning of May, but 45% of people said they were doing more work from home than before the crisis. …

4 years, 6 months ago

Will COVID-19 push people into buying homes?

The Hindu

Like every other sector, real estate too has been severely impacted by the pandemic. The general home buying sentiment is also guided by cheaper home loan interest rates, which are today in the 7.15% to 7.8%, range,” says Prashant Thakur, Director & Head of Research at Anarock. “If the government increases the deduction limit of interest on home loans and …

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4 years, 6 months ago

Working from home polarizing; 25% hate it, especially managers

NL Times

Opinions in the Netherlands are divided on working from home. Especially managers and supervisors are finding the home office a dissatisfying experience, according to a survey by Arbo Unie, BNR reports. According to Jan van den Hoogen, those who don't like working from home mainly miss the social aspect of going to work. This requires new policies - working from …

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4 years, 7 months ago

Films in the time of COVID-19: Scarce crews, PPE kits — what will the industry look like post-lockdown?

Firstpost

From the doubling of budgets to account for masks and sanitisers, to more projects being released directly on streaming platforms, the very face of Bollywood is likely to change in a post-lockdown world A small indoor scene is set up for a fruit juice My first time on a set was the result of a favour to a friend who …

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4 years, 7 months ago

Webinar on challenges before job industry as coronavirus becomes new normal

India Today

Coronavirus and work culture will definitely be different post lockdown. Therefore, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Department of Liberal Arts will host an online conference for Employees and Human Resource Professionals tomorrow on May 30, 2020, on the topic ‘Employee Engagement and Welfare In the New Normal of Work-From-Home, Post Covid-19.’ The event is open to the public. Speaking about …

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4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus Outbreak: Hollywood studios, unions seek expert advice to develop guideline for safe resumption of film, TV shooting

Firstpost

The coronavirus shutdown has taken a severe financial toll across the film industry, as well as on cities such as Los Angeles that benefit economically from production. The coronavirus pandemic has prompted producers, movie studios and workers’ unions to seek expert advice on how to safely reopen film and TV sets, which shut down worldwide in mid-March. Perry’s 330-acre self-contained …

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