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Its been more than a week since Missy Elliott became the breakout star of the Super Bowl, her old hits burning up the Spotify and iTunes charts, and shes still riding a wave of reignited stardom. After the performance, she said, she was getting offers to tour. Dont get your hopes up just yet she didnt actually confirm that shes going, but it appears new workis on the horizon.

On Tuesday, Elliott posted a picture of herself in a recording studio with Timbaland on Twitter.Timbalands the chief songwriter and producer for the FOX series Empire. Its possible that Elliott could have been recording a song for the show she missed the Grammys to work with Tim in the studio.

Katy Perry gave a colorful performance on the big stage during the Super Bowl halftime show. Rock star Lenny Kravitz and rapper Missy Elliott also performed. (AP)

Could something more be afoot? In a recent interview with Sirius XMs Sway in the Morning, Elliott was pretty cagey.

I dont want to say too much cause in this day and time, you say too much, boy, you say something, they will come back two weeks later like, Uhhh, where your album at? Elliott said. Okay, fine. But its worth noting that Timbaland and ASAP Ferg both posted new pictures on Instagram early Thursday morningwith Elliott in the studio.

In the late 90s, wewere obsessed with futurism just look at the videos for No Scrubs, 808, or Missys own song, The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly). Everything was forward-looking, but its rare to find work that can realistically make the leap to 2015 and still hang. Missys Super Bowl performance resurfaced that work, and evidenced just how forward-thinking she and Tim were. Work It and Get Ur Freak On still sound distinctive and modern. Years before natural hair took off as a major trend, Elliott had hairdressers sporting enormous fros in the background of the video for Work It, a song about female sex positivity in which Elliott is unambiguously pro-sex worker. Girls, girls, get that cash, if its nine-to-five or shaking your a, she rapped. Aint no shame, ladies do yo thang. Just make sure you ahead of the game.

Aside from her rapping and producing, Missy Elliotts calling cards were her customized track suits and her high-energy, complicateddance routines, which is why it might surprise you to see her rocking a goldlam Elizabethan gown, complete with high collar, in the video for Beep Me 911. Lady Gaga wore something similar crafted from red PVC to meet the queen of England both mixed elements of Elizabethan and Victorian-era costuming. Get a good look at Elliotts pink surrounds and the Barbie-like backup dancers. Who else spies a heavy visual influence on early Nicki Minaj?

And has anyone noticed the shocking similarity between the logo on the space suit Elliott rocks in Sock It 2 Me and the Gmail icon? Sock It 2 Me came out in 1997. Gmail lauched in 2004.

Hopefully her performance at the Super Bowl with Katy Perry is a signal that shes been able to overcome or at least manage her symptoms resulting fromGraves disease, anautoimmune disorder that affects the thyroid gland. Elliott was diagnosed with the disorder in 2008, and revealed that she experienced hair loss and mood swings as a result. At one point, she said in the Guardian, I couldnt write because my nervous system was so bad.

Its been 10 years since Elliott dropped her last studio album, The Cookbook.

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Black Radical Imagination II: Screening, Talk, & Reception Tuesday, Feb. 10, 6:30-8:30pm Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) 805 East Genesee St., Syracuse, NY

Black Radical Imagination I & II is a two-part screening of experimental film and video curated byErin ChristovaleandAmir Georgeexploring the aesthetics of afro-futurism and afro-surrealism. Both programs feature different line-ups, and are followed by a discussion with the curators. The conversation following Black Radical Imagination II will also include artists Ephraim Asili and Lewis Vaughn.

This touring program has visited many prestigious academic institutions, cutting edge film festivals, and contemporary art venues. This event marks the first time this program has been screened in Central New York. Featured artists include Cauleen Smith, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Cristina de Middel (BRI I); and Terence Nance and Sanford Biggers, Lauren Kelley, and Jeannette Ehlers (BRI II), among others.

Erin Cristovale is a curator based in Los Angeles focusing on film/video within the African Diaspora. She graduated with a B.A. from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Cristovales exhibition,a/wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster, iscurrently on view at the MoCADA Museum.She also works with the Native Thinghood collective, which promotes emerging artists of color.

Amir Georgeis a motion picture artist and film curator from Chicago. His video work and curated programs have been screened in festivals and galleries across the US, Canada, and Europe. In addition to founding The Cinema Culture, a grassroots film programming organization; Amir was founding programmer of Black Cinema House, a residential cinema space on Chicagos south side. Amir currently teaches and produces media with youth throughout Chicago.

Black Radical Imagination I & II is presented in conjunction with the exhibition of Jeannette Ehlers: Black Bullets at UVPs Everson Museum of Art venue and the exhibition of Cristina de Middels The Afronauts at CFAC. For more information and the complete program for each screening, please go tourbanvideoproject.com.

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Rammellzee - Gothic Futurism | Mo #39; Wax
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Odds are good that you're familiar with the work of Kenji Ekuan, even if you don't know his name. Ekuan, who died in Japan yesterday at the age of 85, was the force behind some of the most iconic industrial design of the 20th centuryand he said he was inspired to do it after the atomic bomb annihilated his home in Hiroshima.

If you've ever poured soy sauce from the tear drop Kikkoman bottle or pined over a 1960s Yamaha motorcycle, you know Ekuan's designs. The red-capped bottle, which Ekuan designed in 1961, was the epitome of sleek, futuristic world of 1960s Japana country that was just beginning to emerge out of the brutal post-War era and into an economic and cultural boom time. Ekuan also designed the Komachi bullet train, which hit the rails as one of the first high-speed bullet train in the world.

He was the voice behind some of the most compelling technologies of the 20th centuryJapan's answer to Raymond Loewywhose work articulated the speed and futurism of the modern age but never ignored the humans using it.

Images: The Yamaha YA-1, via Yamaha Community.fr; Komachi bullet train by ykanazawa1999/CC.

Ekuan said that the human-centered aspect of his work had its roots in the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. He was just a teenager when the bomb hit the city, killing his sister and father. In an interview from 2010, he describes how the horror and desolation of that time inspired him to become a designer:

When I decided to be a designer, I was in Hiroshima. The time was right after the war. After the atomic bomb everything became nothing. So there I am standing in the burned city, looking down at my house, but nothing. I was so shaken. And I decided to connect the material things, because for a long time, human beings have connected with material things. I thought to myself, we need something to bring back the material things to human life. To do something good for people, and good for myself. So I decided to be a designer.

So he studied to become an industrial designer, linking up with a group of like-minded fellow students and forming a company through which he would work for decades. That line of reasoningthat objects should be sources of comfort, of pleasure and joyran through his entire career, which ranged from motorcycles to sewing machines to trains to, yes, soy sauce bottles.

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Futurism Futurism was an art movementof 20th century Italy. Usingvarious types of medium, futurist artists usedemphasized themes of thecontemporary social issues of the time connecting specifically with the future. These themes included ideas based in the increasing speed of technology, automobiles and airplanes of the industrial revolution as well as youth and violence. Futurism focuses on the movement of the object within the piece, manipulating and overlaying an image several times to understand the motion and movement it creates. Colour, line and shape become very important in Futurist works, for the importance is on how the object moves throughout the canvas. Many futurist works appear abstract. Giacomo Balla Umberto Boccioni Gino Severini

Year 12 Observational Drawing Transformation to Futurist PaintingsUsing an observational drawing you've created. Think about movement and your lines. If your objects were in motion, what would they look like? What colours, shapes and lines would they product? What blocks of colour and abstracted shapes would be created? Use the above artists as an influence to your work and re-create your observational drawings as futurist works of art.

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SOMEWHERE NEAR EARTH Capt. Ali Luckhardt stands on the bridge of the starship Chaos, her four officers seated at their combat stations in front of her as she tracks a hostile ship on the main view screen.

Go to red, she orders communications officer Chelsea Czekalski.

All decks reporting red alert, Czekalski replies with practiced calm.

Permission to fire? asks tactical officer Randall Ortubia.

Not yet, Luckhardt replies. We want to talk to them first.

But the enemy chooses to talk with missiles and photon torpedoes.

Raise shields, Luckhardt orders. Fire!

Missiles away, reports Ortubia.

But things dont go well.

Fire anything else we have, Luckhardt orders, desperation creeping into her voice.

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