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Muse - Futurism live @ Tokyo Zepp 2013
hahahaa aaa this concert, i hate my life.

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Muse #39;s 2014 Christmas Present, enjoy! Get the latest Muse News on albums, gigs, competitions and more on http://www.muse.mu.

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Muse - Futurism live at Zepp Japan 2013
Muse Christmas present 2014 - Fantastic perfomance of this rarity!

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i-Italy|NY: Season 5 - SPECIAL Episode - FUTURISM IN NY - Trailer
Speciale Teatro MARINETTI IN NEW YORK Futurism between Manhattan and Brooklyn This special movie based on a solo play by actor and director Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, portrays Filippo...

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In 2013, the Times reached a zenith in onanistic trend pieces with a feature filled with futurism consultants who thought "Brooklyn is turning out to be the last three days of Burning Man." We worried that the paper of record would not reach those heights again this yearbut thankfully our fears were as unfounded as the reports that hipster baby boomers were encroaching upon "hip-hopping" territories. Whether they were lamenting the Sad Plight Of White Brooklyn or combing through the latest pubic hair trend, the NY Times was on it in 2014. Below, take some antacid and check out the best of the worst Brunch Hate Reads.

10. NY Times Picks Up Women With Real Life "Hitch": The Times profiled a Pick Up Artist (PUA) who resents the phrase PUA, and would rather be known as "a social development coach," dating coach, romantics professor, courage therapist, or interactions teacher. It was almost sweet, if you ignored much of the creepy subtext. But extra points for being a "life coach for young children."

9. The NY Times Is ON IT (Pubic Hair): Brunch Hate Reads transcend any one time and placethey can occur without warning in the middle of the week, but still carry with them the foul stench of Sunday morning coffee mingling with manufactured outrage. Anyone who opened the Thursday Style section the last week of January was greeted with just such a feeling upon reading the Times' dedicated pubic hair coverage. It was like listening to your grandfather talk about merkins.

8. Brunch Hate Reads: Having More Than One Job Is Hot New Millennial Trend: No, they're not talking about the millions of Americans struggling in this garbage economy and forced to take multiple part-time jobs just to get bythis is about precious young trendsetters reinventing a wheel that has been rolling downhill for decades.

7. Brooklyn Is Dead (Serious About Expensive Real Estate): The Times dug in to explore one of its favorite topics: the plight of well-off Brooklyn residents who are being priced out of Brooklyn by equally well-off Brooklyn residents.

6. NY Times Weekend Reaches Peak NY Times Weekendness: Long will we remember the weekend of August 16th/17th, when the stars aligned and the Weekend section gave birth to three beautifully masochistic trend pieces: a feature on mason jars (not a joke), an article about the indignity of adults living with roommates (the horror), and "Generation Nice," which included 33 uses of the word Millennial.

5. Brunch Hate Reads: Irritating People Discover Queens: The Times turned its terrible gaze toward Queens in a series of articles in the fall that confirmed that the "Toyota Corolla" of neighborhoods is finally getting respect from singularly irritating new gentrifiers. RIP Ridgewood, we hardly brunched in ye.

4. Sad Young People Lament The Plight Of Living On The Upper East Side: Some sad, financially-stable 20-somethings complained about the hardships they've endured by sacrificing their social lives to reside on the Upper East Side. Because, dear god, no one will visit them.

3. Young Rich People Are Aliens Infiltrating NYC With Cold Hard Cash: Reading between the lines, we finally understood how all these rich young people were able to afford prime Manhattan real estate while everyone else gets poorer: they're extraterrestrials in sweatpants.

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(Credit: ESA/Alexander Gerst)

ESA Astronaut Alexander Gerst spent his time from May to November of 2014 on the International Space Station. One of the projects he worked on while he was up there was taking thousands of photos of the Earths surface using ultra-high definition cameras.

After coming back to Earth, Gerst then took 12,500 of those photos and created a stunning timelapse video of the Earth and other interesting objects as seen from the International Space Station.

In addition to the Earths surface, there are also some incredible shots of the space station in action, including the solar panels in action, the stations robotic arm manipulating a SpaceX Dragon capsule, and an Orbital Sciences Cygnus capsule departing from the station.

And just after the three minute mark, you can also see stunning photos of the Milky Way from the station. To my mind, thats the highlight of the video.

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Astronaut Creates Timelapse Video Of Earth As Seen From The ISS

Biggest film of the year: Transformers: Age of Extinction.

Monkeys, raccoons and lizards clobbered the planet in 2014, helped by aliens, robots and fairies. It was not quite a terrible year for great films, but they just didn't stand a chance against the killer critters coming out of Hollywood or, to be accurate, out of large warehouses full of computers in Bangalore, Bristol, South Korea, Spain, China, Denmark or wherever the major special-effects houses set up their production facilities.

At least in that sense, the work gets shared around: thousands of worker bees around the world are now employed in the business of turning bad scripts into good money.

Cheerful: Australians' favourite film this year was The Lego Movie. Photo: AP

I have just spent an hour perusing the box office figures for 2014 and it is a depressing experience, from any angle. Not one of the top-10 movies at the box office, either worldwide or United States domestic, was a real-world story, in the sense of something that reflects the world we actually live in. Every film, on both indices, was a work of fantasy, if we define it widely.

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Guardians of the Galaxy, an adventure-comedy about space pirates fighting alien criminals, was the top film at the US box office, but only second on the international list. This was the film with the talking raccoon, and that might be why. What do the rest of us know about raccoons?

Worldwide, the biggest film of the year was Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth in a brain-melting series directed by Michael Bay, who brought us Bad Boys, Armageddon and Pain & Gain. What he doesn't know about dumbing down hasn't yet been discovered. Guardians was $US315 million ($387 million) behind, not even close. I realise a lot of children had Transformers toys as kids, but come on you're making us all suffer.

Real world: Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne in Gone Girl.

The next seven films in worldwide box office were Maleficent (with Angelina Jolie as the wicked witch from Cinderella), X-Men: Days of Future Past (a lot of good actors in silly costumes), Captain America: The Winter Soldier(ditto), The Amazing Spiderman 2 (rebooted, recast and regurgitated), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (rebooted and re-energised, with a talking monkey), Interstellar (space explorers, but a good movie), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (funny animation) and The Hunger Games: MockingjayPart 1 (dystopian futurism).

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Up fantasy creek, without a paddle: what 2014's box office tells us