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One Arc Degree - Futurism [Under A Trillion Suns]
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Francisco Ribera and the Origen of Futurism
Monarchy of Israel 2 The Synagogue of Satan This video will briefly discuss the aspects of the origen of futurism and how this is the major theme of what is ...

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When we think about futurism, often we imagine cutting-edge technologies like bionic arms or weather machines for colonizing Mars. But if we really want to make it for another few centuries, we're going to need something that Iran has already got.

To understand Iran's breakthrough, we need to go back in time to 1993, when President Obama's science adviser John Holdren was trying to figure out how big the world's population could get before there was a major energy crisis. A respected environmental scientist, Holdren offered up a famous scenario based on the world's population at that time.

At that time, Earth held 5.5 billion people (compared to today's 7 billion), who consumed 13 terawatts of energy annually. Of course, they were not consumed equally: people in the developing world consumed on average 1 kilowatt per person, while people in the developed world consumed 7.5. Holdren suggested that given current population growth rates, the world would need 8 times more energy to fuel its 14 billion people by the end of the twenty-first century. Which would mean total collapse of the ecosystem, peak oil, and likely both.

That sounded crazily horrific, so Holdren asked what would happen if the population only boomed to 10 billion, and everybody had equal access to energy. Even if everybody only used on average 3 kilowatts, the world would still require 30 terawatts of energy annually by the end of the twenty-first century.

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Following up on Holdren's research, population biologists Paul Ehrlich, Ann Ehrlich and environmental scientist Gretchen Daily decided to reverse engineer the scenario. They wanted to figure out what the ideal population size would be, if we wanted people to have access to 3 kilowatts, without destroying the environment. In their calculations, they assumed a twenty-first century where people would adopt more carbon-neutral sources of energy, like solar. They also assumed that some animals would go extinct, but that enough would be brought back from the edge of extinction that our ecosystems would remain stable.

The result? The Ehrlichs and Daily found that the most the planet could bear at that level of energy use would be 2 billion people, roughly the world's population in the 1930s.

Confronted with numbers like that, it's tempting to throw up your hands and give up on humanity's future. How could we ever get the world's population back down to 2 billion from its current 7 billion? Actually, it can be done and it's been done before, on a smaller scale.

A few years before Holdren described his population scenario, there was already one country in the world whose leaders were deeply worried about the economic and environmental costs of rising population. In Iran, during the 1980s conflict with Iraq, the Ayatollah Khomeini instituted new government regulations that encouraged women to have as many children as they could to build a "Twenty Million Man Army." As a result, Iran's population grew from 37 million people in 1979, to 50 million in 1986. This was, according to journalist Alan Weisman, "the highest rate of population increase the world had ever seen."

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Atlanta's High Museum of Art is opening an exhibition of some of the rarest and boldest concept cars ever built. At a time when cars are getting plainer and plainer, and teens and twenty-somethings can barely be bothered to get a driver's license, it's a reminder why generations of Americans handed over 52 weeks of salary for a dream on four wheels.

Take the Lancia (Bertone) Stratos HF Zero. This metallic wedge is pure 1980s futurism, but it was actually built in 1970--thats the year after this seasons Mad Men takes place, for those keeping count. The Zero was designed by Marcello Gandini. If you think the Zero looks a bit like a Lamborghini, thats not so crazy. He also designed the Lamborghini Miura and Countach, the latter of which shares the Zero's aggressive, spear-like posture. But Gandini was no one-trick pony. He also design the remarkably groomed original BMW 5 series, the cooler-in-retrospect Citron BX, and a tiny, cubby bear of a car, the Innocenti Mini. Additionally, he invented those absurd and eye-catching scissor doors we associate with supercars to this day.

Only one Zero was made. The same is true for another car in the exhibit, the General Motors Firebird I XP-21. This thing is literally a jet on wheels. Its turbine engine spewed jet exhaust at 1,250 F. It was so sketchy that the driver was never supposed to push the throttle beyond 100mph. And you know what GM did with the Firebird I XP-21's co-creator Harley J. Earl after it came out? They didnt fire him. As the first top-level executive designer in American history, they basically gave him carte blanche, allowing him to introduce the world to both tailfins and the Corvette, too; later, he retired. (Its worth noting, Earl is credited with creating the original concept car as a way to build hype around design, the Buick Y-Job.)

These are incredible cars. And theyre on display at the museum May 21 to September 7, 2014.

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[Images: Courtesy of Atlanta's High Museum of Art]

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We know two things for sure about the guys over at Brooklyn's Pop Chart Lab: they love drinking, and they love good graphic design.

Their latest poster is a tribute to the entire history of the latter: The gridded, black-and-white poster is a cheat sheet to the history of graphic design, beginning with the Victorian era.

Start at the top, left-hand corner, of A Stylistic Survey of Graphic Design, and read from left to right. Each era (say, Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau) is represented by a rectangular box that includes several squares that graphically represent the style described. The Modern movement, one of the largest movements depicted here, includes Bauhaus, Vorticism, De Stijl, New Typography and Istotope, Constructivism, Suprematicsm, and Futurism. Pop Chart creates, within each stamp-sized box, a visual representation of that particular style, with the design elements that prevailed at the time. So the Constructivism box echoes the intense Soviet Party posters from the 1920s, the Futurism box has a bold, attention-grabbing arrow on it, and so on.

It's telling that certain eras--eras that were niche or short-lived, or which are still emerging--get just one box. (This includes Dada, Digital, and Street Art/Guerrilla.)

Scan down to the bottom for a sampling of todays reigning design philosophies. Are they right? Theres data visualization, theres the twee, chalkboard-loving school of handcrafted, and theres flat design. But where's skeuomorphism? Each box is efficiently packed, providing an at-a-glance answer to any designer who might ask: What, again, were the defining elements of the Late Modern Polish School era? For the rest of us, it's just nice to look at.

Pre-order A Stylistic Survey of Graphic Design for an early bird price of $23, here.

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Morgan Spurlock: Inside Man - Futurism
Morgan Spurlock enters the brave new world of extreme life extension, embarking on a life-prolonging regimen and trying everything from genome hacking, to creating an avatar and uploading his...

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Pre-Neo-Futurism THE BRICK AND THE ROSE (part one)
final 4mins are here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2upON_47dU THE BRICK AND THE ROSE by lewis john carlino presented by Texas A M University - Corpus Ch...

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William Kurk Enterprise - "Futurism"
A live performance from the "Jazz #39;n On The SouthSide" series on 23 April 2014; the opening tune from the "Pop Fusion" album (William Kurk), featuring the WKE...

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Roxy Music, Roxy Music (Island)

Roxy Musics debut-album caught most people off balance. The music was a burlesque and eccentric brew of nostalgia and futurism. Wrapped in a glossy, striking cover that flirted with the pin-up girls and glamour of the 40s and 50s.

In 1972 that didnt go down well among the politically correct, they found it provocative and uncomfortably decadent. The sight of the snarling cover-girl Kari-Ann Muller (who later married Chris Jagger, Micks brother) made me drool. Now what was this all about?

The inner spread of the gatefold sleeve gave me another shock. Were these guys for real? It was glam pushed completely over the top with an androgynous Brian Eno as the absolute eye-catcher. Many bought the disc without even bothering to listen to it first. Thats what I call a strong wrapping.

The music sure lived up to it, though, even if it didnt exactly take you to the places that the come-on expression of the cover-girl suggested. It was prog rock, it was pastiche, it was lyrics seasoned with quotes from classic movies, it was way out synth, a wizard on guitar, a saxophone player that wouldve gone down a storm in the circus ring, and there was Bryan Ferry, the crooner from the abyss. All nailed to your brain by a thunderous and precise rhythm section. What a treat! And they didnt even bother to include the wonderful, staccato hit single Virginia Plain.

The American edition did include it though, so when the imports arrived I bought the album yet again. I kept both versions, thats how much I loved the beast.

It was recorded in a single week, and was produced by Peter Sinfield of King Crimson fame. At the time Roxy Music didnt even have a record contract and their managers financed the recording.

On its arrival it sounded fresh as an ocean breeze.

Released: June 16, 1972

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Italian Futurism at the Guggenheim: Historical Context
To learn more, visit http://exhibitions.guggenheim.org/futurism Guggenheim curator Vivien Greene describes the historical context of the Italian Futurism movement, from its inception with...

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