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...about; and the showbiz impulse behind them drives big-name chefs, who all want to be the person that elicits that breathless gasp of wonderment. It's ego, yes, but it's also the urge of any artist. It's why we're not still eating beef wellington and clams casino. It's why food matters now in a way it didn't 20 years...
With more than 2,500 special-effects shots, the bulk of the man-hours on Avatar were spent not on a stage but in a dark viewing room in Los Angeles, in teleconferences with collaborating artists from Peter Jackson's Weta Digital studio in Wellington, New Zealand. The real world was being used to inform the fictional one: an energy map of the Pandoran forest was modeled on rat neurons; hours were spent getting alien sap to drip precisely right. (See the 10 worst video game movies...
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Despite only making a few appearances, the titular sorcerer is perhaps the operetta’s most memorable role, and Koven certainly delivers, blazing through the patter song “My Name is John Wellington Wells” and eliciting gasps of delight from the many children in the audience during his other numbers. As Koven seems to understand, the character’s distinctive combination of weird and respectable qualities exemplifies Gilbert and Sullivan’s preoccupation with juxtaposing the ironic and absurd...
...models in body paint, posing self-consciously at pretentious art-gallery happenings and product launches. But that feeble sort of wearable art has nothing to do with the Montana World of WearableArt, which goes by the entirely apt acronym WOW. Its award show, held annually over several days in Wellington, New Zealand, is a fabulous event that's equal parts couture, choreography and craziness...