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Muse - Futurism | Live from Zepp, Tokyo (13/8/2013)
From a gig in Zepp, Tokyo on the 13th August 2013. This proshot recording was given as a christmas present to Muse fans on December 23rd 2014.

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PanARMENIAN.Net - As a Christmas gift to their fans, Muse have unveiled a live video of 'Futurism', filmed at Tokyo's Zepp back in summer 2013, Gigwise reports.

The song was a bonus track from the classic Origin Of Symmetry, and as such has become a cult favourite among fans. The performance in Toyko was the first time they'd aired it live in 10 years.

The video was sent out as a gift to Muse fans and can be downloaded here or watched below. The gig in question was packed with obscurities and rarities, and was dubbed by the band as 'their most amazing yet'. They later revealed that the show was filmed and it will be released in the future. Taking to Twitter prior to the gig, the band's long-time friend, collaborator and video director Tom Kirk promised that the gig at The Zepp would have a few surprises in store .

Meanwhile, the band have also been working on their 'heavier' seventh album with AC/DC producer 'Mutt' Lange - due for release in Summer 2015.

Muse are currently confirmed to headline many festivals across Europe in 2015 - including Download Festival.

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Dadaism, Bauhaus, and Futurism
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Pixelligent scientists prepare nanocrystals for use in LED applications. (Credit: Pixelligent)

Last week, Baltimore-based nanotech firm Pixelligent Technologies closed a funding round of $5.5 million to continue its development and growth. This marks a total of $23 million in equity funding the firm has raised to date, plus another $10 million its received in the form of government grants to develop its technology.

Pretty impressive, considering that the company was on its deathbed a few years ago.

Pixelligent was founded in the year 2000 by Gregory Cooper shortly after he received his Ph.D. in Physics. Cooper, who is currently the CTO of the company, was soon joined by two colleagues: Serpil Gonen Williams, a chemist, and Gene Chen, an electrical engineer, both of whom are still with the company.

The original vision of the company was to use its expertise in nanomaterials to develop composites for use in optical lithography, a process used for the manufacture of computer chips. However, the semiconductor business is a tough one, as the company discovered. Despite awards during its incubator phase, its attempts to raise enough money to develop its technology for the market failed.

The combination of this and a failed commercial partnership sent the company into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March of 2007. One year later, in March of 2008, the Court appointed Craig Bandes as the companys Chief Restructuring Officer. At the time, Bandes was President and CEO of Global Secure Corp. Prior to that, he had cofounded Focus Technology Consulting. Despite these successes, he didnt have an easy task ahead of him in rescuing the struggling startup.

I helped them work through process of reorganization, settling litigation with partner that didnt work out, and getting control of its IP, Bandes told me. As a consultant, I gave the company about a 10-20% chance of survival.

The company emerged from bankruptcy in April of 2009 with a plan for growth that involved moving away from the semiconductor market and a new President and CEO Craig Bandes. Bandes credits the successful emergence from bankruptcy to the companys strong foundation.

The only thing that didnt need to be turned around was the technology, he said.

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Sunrise at the edge of space captured by a World View test flight. (Credit: World View Enterprises)

On a commercial flight in October for its customers Tencent and Moon Express, World ViewExperience managed to capture a breathtaking video of the sunrise as seen from the edge of space, around 100,000 feet above the Earths surface.

World View, a spinoff of Paragon Space Development, is a space tourism startup that aims to take passengers high enough into the air over 100,000 feet to the edge of space where people are actually able to see the curvature of the Earth itself. The company will also be providing opportunities for companies and organizations looking to do research in the upper atmosphere.

The capsule itself is intended to be a luxury experience, featuring WiFi capabilities and an open bar. Passengers have no need to worry about their drinks floating away as there wont be any of the experience of zero-gravity. The capsule itself is lifted by a large balloon, which takes about an hour and a half to reach full altitude. The six passengers will then spend about two hours experiencing the Earth from that altitude before making the 40 minute return glide back to the surface.

World Views engineers recently made headlines as partof a joint project with Paragon that sent Google Google executive Alan Eustace on a record-breaking space dive. That project, World View CTO Taber MacCallum told me at the time, went a long way to helping develop the companys technology.

Right now, the company aims to begin flying in late2016. Tickets for flights are currently $75,000, and potential travelers arealready putting down deposits for tickets.

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Nice to Be Futurism // Artwork by Vincenzo Paccone

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In 2014, surprising artistic collaborations have become the norm in popular music. But the record label Ghostly International and the TV network Adult Swim were ahead of the curve: they worked together for the first time back in 2008, creating Ghostly Swim, a compilation album full of "exploratory dance and pop music." To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the label, the two creative entities are connecting again for Ghostly Swim 2.Today, Billboard is exclusively premiering a song from the album, Shigeto's "Tide Pools." Listen below.

Sam Valenti, who founded Ghostly International, says "the collaboration with Adult Swim came naturally. Being a giant Tim and Eric fan the bumps on Adult Swim were part of my psyche." After the success of Ghostly Swim, Valenti would "meet fans at shows, [and] many would say that it was their introduction to electronic music." That made him think a second volume would be well-received.

"For this one," he tells Billboard, "I wanted to focus on the internal, finding a meditative and reflective sound. The artists chosen included weren't on Ghostly Swim, and we sought out some new faces... like harpist Mary Lattimore from Buffalo and Swim Team's AceMo, plus newer Ghostly singings like Lord Raja."

Fitting with Valenti's plan for a more "meditative and reflective sound," the press material accompanying Swim 2 reaches back to Brian Eno, the English musician and producer credited as the primary pioneer of ambient music. That means listeners should prepare for soothing textures, loops, and subtle changes, which Shigeto's "Tide Pools" provides in spades. But the song also has a clear pulse: A gentle, pleasantly glitchy rhythm with chimes and soft bells that drift and wash.

As for Shigeto, he remembers the impact the first edition of Ghostly Swim had on him. "I had brought it home from the Ghostly office," he tells Billboard. "I had it on rotation in my car for years, literally years, so many good tracks on there." At the time, he was interning at the label. "I lasted three days," he jokes. "I could probably type 15 words a minute, and my only reason for being there was to pester them to put my music out." But the combination of his pestering and his production talent paid off, and he's "proud to be a part of a project from two platforms I respect so much."

The compilation Ghostly Swim 2 arrives Dec. 23. Check out the track list below.

1. Pascal - Holo 2. Shigeto - Tide Pools 3. Anenon - Grapevine 4. Heathered Pearls - Supra 5. Babe Rainbow - Don't Tell Me I'm Wrong 6. Dauwd - Kolido 7. Patricia - Spotting 8. Lord RAJA - Spilt Out In Cursive 9. CFCF - Oil 10. Feral - Mirror 11. Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler - I Only Have Eyes for You 12. AceMo - Futurism 13. Nautiluss - Lonely Planet

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Dropping into a skirmish in Petroglyphs Grey Goo for the first time felt like opening the door to my apartment on an otherwise normal day... and finding a swimming pool. Its a base-building RTS in the vein of Command & Conquer and all of its ilk. You gather resources and make little dudes to kill the opponents dudes and blow up their buildings. I figured I knew what to expect. And yet, I was taken by surprise by the very goo that lends its name to the title.

This particular interstellar war is set in a sci-fi future where humanity and a scrappy alien race known as the Beta are threatened by grey goo. It may sound like an unpalatable-but-not-life-threatening European sandwich spread. But the term actually refers to a hypothesis in science fiction and futurism which speculates that advanced, self-replicating nanobots could theoretically get out of control and begin converting all matter in the universe into more nanobotswhich may appear, to human eyes, as a sort of grey goo. Humans, Beta, and the Goo are all playable in the 15-mission campaign as well as AI skirmish and multiplayer. While the anthropoid factions build, expand, and fight just about how a veteran RTS player would expect, the goo the proverbial swimming pool in the room is a totally different animal.

As the goo, you have no buildings. Rather, you begin with a large, mobile blob called the Mother Goo that serves all the functions of a well-stocked base of operations. This maternal pustule of destruction parks itself over any of the resource nodes scattered around the map and begins to gain mass. Once a certain amount is acquired, it can split off a part of itself, reducing its health and size, to create either another Mother Goo (to slither off and found an expansion base), or an amorphous lump called a Protean that can morph into a variety of military units.

While most RTSes these days make an effort to introduce asymmetrical factions with unique resource-gathering and base management mechanics, the goo are probably the most mold-breaking army Ive ever gotten my hands on. Regardless, its the first time Ive been able to switch my faction and almost feel like I was playing a totally different game. No part of your army or economy is ever fixed to one spot, and it takes some mental gymnastics to get into the rhythm of what you should be doing at any given point in a match especially if your mind is pre-wired for more traditional RTS gameplay.

Apart from the oozing originality of the goo, there are some other, cool innovations stuck to the formula. Maps feature obscuring brush not unlike that in Dota and League of Legends, which blocks vision of units within to any player who doesnt have a spotter unit inside the brush themselves. It also serves as a twist on the traditional air-vs-ground struggle, as air units flying over brush are unable to get a read on whats inside without ground support. Many can cut loose blindly on anything that looks like a tree with the hopes of decimating whatevers lurking below, but a clever opponent can bait your aerial fire into an empty grove while the real army marches around to your back door.

The goo are probably the most mold-breaking army Ive ever gotten my hands on.

The three campaign missions available in the preview told the tale of the alien Beta having their homeworld invaded by technologically superior humans. Said humans were, presumably, fleeing from the Grey Goo, the origins of which were not revealed. But Im pretty sure it was the humans fault. Campaign maps and objectives were not particularly outstanding, but the story presentation is just about as polished as anything else in the genre. Full CGI cutscenes introduce key narrative points, and the principal characters are well-acted and animated. The Beta, portrayed by a talented cast of South African voice actors, were particularly endearing.

Well all be able to see the rest of the story of Grey Goo unfold on January 23. The remaining campaign missions will launch alongside ELO-based matchmaking for 1v1 and 2v2, as well as custom games and a map editor. I, for one, am looking forward to it. But Ill probably try to wear gloves next time.

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Dropping into a skirmish in Petroglyphs Grey Goo for the first time felt like opening the door to my apartment on an otherwise normal day... and finding a swimming pool. Its a base-building RTS in the vein of Command & Conquer and all of its ilk. You gather resources and make little dudes to kill the opponents dudes and blow up their buildings. I figured I knew what to expect. And yet, I was taken by surprise by the very goo that lends its name to the title.

This particular interstellar war is set in a sci-fi future where humanity and a scrappy alien race known as the Beta are threatened by grey goo. It may sound like an unpalatable-but-not-life-threatening European sandwich spread. But the term actually refers to a hypothesis in science fiction and futurism which speculates that advanced, self-replicating nanobots could theoretically get out of control and begin converting all matter in the universe into more nanobotswhich may appear, to human eyes, as a sort of grey goo. Humans, Beta, and the Goo are all playable in the 15-mission campaign as well as AI skirmish and multiplayer. While the anthropoid factions build, expand, and fight just about how a veteran RTS player would expect, the goo the proverbial swimming pool in the room is a totally different animal.

As the goo, you have no buildings. Rather, you begin with a large, mobile blob called the Mother Goo that serves all the functions of a well-stocked base of operations. This maternal pustule of destruction parks itself over any of the resource nodes scattered around the map and begins to gain mass. Once a certain amount is acquired, it can split off a part of itself, reducing its health and size, to create either another Mother Goo (to slither off and found an expansion base), or an amorphous lump called a Protean that can morph into a variety of military units.

While most RTSes these days make an effort to introduce asymmetrical factions with unique resource-gathering and base management mechanics, the goo are probably the most mold-breaking army Ive ever gotten my hands on. Regardless, its the first time Ive been able to switch my faction and almost feel like I was playing a totally different game. No part of your army or economy is ever fixed to one spot, and it takes some mental gymnastics to get into the rhythm of what you should be doing at any given point in a match especially if your mind is pre-wired for more traditional RTS gameplay.

Apart from the oozing originality of the goo, there are some other, cool innovations stuck to the formula. Maps feature obscuring brush not unlike that in Dota and League of Legends, which blocks vision of units within to any player who doesnt have a spotter unit inside the brush themselves. It also serves as a twist on the traditional air-vs-ground struggle, as air units flying over brush are unable to get a read on whats inside without ground support. Many can cut loose blindly on anything that looks like a tree with the hopes of decimating whatevers lurking below, but a clever opponent can bait your aerial fire into an empty grove while the real army marches around to your back door.

The goo are probably the most mold-breaking army Ive ever gotten my hands on.

The three campaign missions available in the preview told the tale of the alien Beta having their homeworld invaded by technologically superior humans. Said humans were, presumably, fleeing from the Grey Goo, the origins of which were not revealed. But Im pretty sure it was the humans fault. Campaign maps and objectives were not particularly outstanding, but the story presentation is just about as polished as anything else in the genre. Full CGI cutscenes introduce key narrative points, and the principal characters are well-acted and animated. The Beta, portrayed by a talented cast of South African voice actors, were particularly endearing.

Well all be able to see the rest of the story of Grey Goo unfold on January 23. The remaining campaign missions will launch alongside ELO-based matchmaking for 1v1 and 2v2, as well as custom games and a map editor. I, for one, am looking forward to it. But Ill probably try to wear gloves next time.

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Strange how one epithet of a word, uttered in confusion, can grow to have a life of its own. Ironic, too, that the perpetrator of such mischief could be the most influential critic of the time.

One such word was the cubeand one such critic was someone named Louis Vauxcelles. He first heard the word from Matisse, the reputed rival of Picasso, who told the critic, Braque has just sent in[to the 1908 Salon dAutomne] a painting made of little cubes. Matisse was referring to a painting that depicted simplified, boxy shapes of houses with deconstructed perspective. Braque and Picasso had worked so closely that the latter had described their relationship, thus: We were like mountaineers roped together.

Thence in an exhibition of Cubist works, the critic disparagingly described them as bizarreries cubiques. And thus the term Cubism came to be.

Cubism became the first abstract style, characterized by its rejection of perspective and its emphasis on a multiple perspective.

The Cubists wanted an art that recognized the changing world, now reflected in the advancement of photography and cinematography. The invention of the telephone, the motor car and the airplane destroyed the boundaries of communication and travel.

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The impact of Cubism was felt by artists in Germany, Holland, Italy, England, America and Russia. In Italy, an outgrowth of Cubism was called Futurism, which celebrated speed, violence and the mechanization of the modern world. In America, the Cubist practitioners depicted the New York landscape of soaring skyscrapers, speeding automobiles and wide-spanning iron bridges.

Alas, after a little more than a decade, Cubism quickly fell into disrepute. An art historian, Paul Johnson, wrote, Being the first form of fashion art, Cubism itself was soon abandoned by all its abler practitioners, who moved on to new styles. By 1930 there was no artist so out-of-date as a Cubist. It had however a curious persistence in the works of countless artists of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, who wished to paint in a figurative manner but who also wished to identify themselves as modern. Indeed, while Marcel Duchamp was referring to a painting, he might as well be alluding to an art movement, when he said that after 40 or 50 years, a picture dies, because its freshness disappears. I think a painting dies after a few years like the man who painted it. Afterwards its called the history of art.

In the Philippines, one such artist was Vicente Manansala, whose name became most closely associated with the term Transparent Cubism. Like the original Cubists, Manansala favored the still life. Thus he fragmented the forms of fruits and vegetables, kitchen and domestic scenes, and later, human figures such as beggars, candle vendors, sabungeros, and Mother and Child.

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