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Futurism exhibition at Tate Modern

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Dispensationalism - Jesuit Futurism (SOP)
"Throughout Christendom, Protestantism was menaced by formidable foes. The first triumphs of the Reformation past, Rome summoned new forces, hoping to accomp...

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If you don't know, now you know: We are big fans of sublime East Bay electronic bummer pop outfit James & Evander. We also tend to like other musical projects that J&E's Glenn Jackson and Adam Myatt get involved in -- like the brand-new group Pale Blue Dot, a trio that specializes in what the members call "Carl Sagan disco." Think of space disco, but with a heavy dose of retro-futurism and a distinctly optimistic tint to the songs' slowly unfolding electronic layers. Pale Blue Dot's debut EP, available on Bandcamp (as well as limited edition cassette, natch), will appeal to fans of easygoing ambient electronic music in the vein of Tycho, as well as anyone coming down from a Todd Terje high:

Pale Blue Dot is pretty new, but the group has a show at Noise Pop opening for El Ten Eleven on Friday, Feb. 28, at the New Parish in Oakland. We expect good things from these three.

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The last day of New York Fashion Week kicked off with strong-shouldered power-suits in white and cool gray at Ralph Lauren. Then cameJ. Mendel and Calvin Klein, with their breakdown of '90s minimalism, followed by threeASFOUR, which presented a futuristic collection heavy on crisp winter whites. But it was at Marc Jacobs where the trend of space-age futurism was sealed. Click on to see all of our favorites from the last day of NYFW.

It was unclear whether it was a utopia or dystopia that Marc Jacobsconveyed a creepy, spoken-word soundtrack by Jessica Lange signalled the latter but the clothes itself were a warm and inviting collection of modish, simplified separates in neutral tones that hinted to life on some distant space station.

Calvin Kleinpresented a collection that riffed on many themes of the '90s (other than the brand's traditional minimalism). Black combat boots with white contrast laces gave way to ladylike shapes, but the runway was dominated by grungy textures of matted mohair and raw-boucl tweed.

ThreeASFOUR did not disappoint with a spacey futuristic collection of all-white looks. Our favorites were the mille-feuille white organza dresses in stranges shapes that gave off an unusual cloud-like effect.

Gilles Mendel ofJ. Mendelisknown for his fur and evening gowns and on Thursday he presented a collection of maroons, deep greens, and grays. Our favorite was a dripping, hunter-green charmeuse dress draped in an unusual way around the bodice.

Ralph Laurenwas a wash of pale neutrals, offset with mauves and pinks. The first looks were reminiscent of early '80s power-dressing, and made all the more improbable and luxurious in winter white.

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Futurism - Farse Daniel Buzdugan

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dreDDup - Futurism (live at Kunigunda Festival) SLOVENIA
dreDDup live in Slovenia. Kunigunda festival. 2013. support the band - http://www.facebook.com/dreddup.

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Brooklyn smelled like bleach yesterday, at least within a one-mile radius of the Duggal Greenhouse or the Navy Yards, whichever was easier for your Uber driver to put into his GPS. Several models took a "quiet" moment (as quiet as Alexander Wang's backstage can be) and "relaxed" by sitting back and having their eyebrows bleached. The theme was weird, boyish futurism. As Diane Kendal for NARS Cosmetics explained, the makeup with its monotone face and slightest hint of NARS Matte Multiple as an eye contour (out in spring 2014 inAltai, Vientiane, or Cappadoce) was "futuristic, but still boyish for Alex. "Cries of "no, weirder. Guido [Palau] wants the hair to be weirder," were a constant refrain backstage.

Guido Palau, creative director for Redken, explained the "weird" hair this way: "Alex showed me his fashion illustrations and this hair was drawn on. I wanted it to look fake and unreal, so it has a weird boyishness kind of thing. He wanted it to feel pulled together in a simple way and not too normal." Makeup was put on the hairline to make it look completely monotone. Redken's Control Addict 28 and Shine Flash were both used to mold the hair into a stiff ponytail, with a severe rectangle front that was shaped to cut sharply across the forehead. In the finale, a select group of models, such as Candice Swanepoel and Anne V, stood on a rotating platform. Their hair was sprayed black on the top and left natural on the bottom. Nails were given a coat of Alexander Wang's favorite colors, Essie's cement-colored Sand Tropez, topped with a coat of Mademoiselle and a matte topcoat in Mad About You, for the slightest feminine kick. Welcome to tomorrowland beauty.

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dreDDup - Not From Here Futurism (live CK13) 2014
dreDdup live in CK13 club, February 1st 2014. Enjoy! support dreDDup here http://www.facebook.com/dreddup.

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From the time of the Ancient Greeks, theater as an artistic expression has taken many forms and shapes. Despite more than 2000 years of history, that evolutionary tradition continues to this day. One of the newest forms of theater is called neo-futurism, and is being performed by theater students at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. We invited five of them to talk about this new form of expression. They are: Tyson Cole, Jeffrey Bennett, Emily Speight, Amanda Wales and Ryan Wiechmann. For Bennett, a term often used for neo futurism is disposable art.

It is creating new art without focusing too much on what has come before by creating new and exciting things right in the space that they are performed, he explained. There are no characters. There is no setting. Every piece takes place on the stage with the people who are performing those particular pieces. Another term oftentimes used to describe this movement is honest art, which Wales thinks is a good description for it.

One of the coolest things I found with neo-futurism is that all of the performers use their own names. So youre never doing a character, youre never acting as someone else, said Wales. When you actually put on the neo-futurist pieces, the lines will say whoever they were actually written for. Then when you perform you substitute the name of the actors youre using. You are just being yourself in different situations. Youre not putting on a persona.

Since most theatergoers are accustomed to plays where someone can be identified as the author, one wonders who really writes these neo-futurist pieces.

The different members of the neo-futurists write it, said Cole. They often write from their own personal experiences. That is why it is honest theater because they are talking about themselves, they are talking about what they have gone through and how that relates back to the art. There is no question that this form of theater is wide open for creativity. I asked if the SIUE students had observed this type of theater elsewhere, and were they inspired by it. Wiechmann said that he has seen such performances.

Normally the neo-futurists do 30 short plays in 60 minutes, said Wiechmann. I have seen a 15-minute production with seven plays in high school. And then I have seen YouTube videos. We all watched them when we were preparing for the show. It is really interesting to see how different ages and different groups of people will interpret the pieces and their quality of production. But if the approach to performing is so different, what about the themes of the shows?

There was one we did in the full show called Rape and it was really serious and played with the idea of people using the word rape in a lighthearted way, said Wales. For example, if someone were to say, That test raped me, they point out how serious it is and how terrible it can be to compare a small not very tragic event with something as tragic as rape. Then there are also pieces that are very silly like Danger Can. There are really hard hitting personal scenes and then there are pieces that are meant to be ridiculous and make the audience laugh. With such diversity of approaches, one expects that they may even get the audience to participate.

There is a piece called Do What You Will. It gives the audience permission to do whatever they want on the stage, said Cole. We talk for about 30 seconds and the rest of the time the audience is invited to come up and do whatever they want.

This type of theater, added Speight, tries to invite people into theater. It tries to build a relationship with the audience, she said. It tries to get them involved as much as possible and just let them experience something different that they have never experienced before.

In their first show these students performed 40 pieces in 80 minutes. The question is how these students from a midsize university in the Midwest became interested in such an avant-garde art form in the first place.

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Futurism Practice - Lee Coxon
More practice needed, but its a start.

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