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New Nissan Frontier Promised For 2015, May Arrive With An SUV Sibling

Posted: April 21, 2014 at 5:40 pm

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The Nissan Frontier is well-ripe for a redesign and the company says it's finally coming next year. I wouldn't expect Murano levels of futurism, but Nissan planning to prioritize styling while staying close to the current truck's dimensions. Since the Xterra sits on the same F-Platform, it's logical to assume the SUV will be reshaped soon as well.

Nissan's global marketing guy Andy Palmer told Australia's Drive; "one-ton pickups are fairly generic in terms of their overall dimensions. I think it's about what you deliver on fuel consumption, what you deliver on styling these are the key differentiators for that kind of pickup market."

So the next Frontier will stay small, look slick, and get good fuel economy. Sounds like they're on the right track.

With all the diesel teasers and spy shots we've seen at this point I think we're all getting pretty antsy about Nissan's future in trucks. The offerings from Ford, Ram, and GM are all stronger than ever and while Toyota is quietly crapping out the same Tundras, Tacomas, and 4Runners on the assumption that their badge will sell itself Nissan has been jumping up and down waving a Cummins flag for what feels like forever.

They've done a pretty good job delivering on their promises of wild styling with their SUVs, so I'll stay faithful for now. According to the Aussies, Nissan is going to tell us more about their small truck "in a few weeks," so stay tuned.

Whether the new Frontier's SUV accompaniment would be the next Xterra or another vehicle altogether remains to be seen. I suppose there's also the possibility that Nissan might castrate the Xterra into a monocoque as they did with the Pathfinder. But that would destroy the last truly off-road oriented SUV you can buy in America with a manual transmission that's not a Wrangler, and such an idea is just too much for my heart to bear.

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Town Futurist Sessions Promo – Video

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IN THE STUDIO // FUTURIST // BLACKSHEEP ARMY – Video

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FUTURIST performs "Blacksheep Army" LIVE at Galaxy Smith Studios in Brooklyn, NY. engineered by Dave Brandwein film by Dani Barbieri.

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Tribeca Film Festival: Filmmaker and Futurist Jason Silva On How Humans Are Hardwired for Story and Cinema

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As part of Tribeca Film Festival's "Future of Film" series, tomorrow, April 22, filmmaker and futurist Jason Silva (dubbed the "Timothy Leary of the Viral Video Age" by The Atlantic) will muse about how humans are hardwired for story and cinema.

"Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else."

Despite technology, isn't it still about storytelling?

Diana Slattery writes thatImmersionis a "necessary precursor for any kind of interpersonal persuasion or transformation to occur".. Janet Murray writes that we "long to be immersed" and that we "actively metabolize belief in story"... because we are effectively narrative beings.

I'm fascinated by the liminal spaces we enter when we are absorbed by cinema: that magical borderland between dreams and reality, the space of archetype, of myth, of madness and ecstasy, the landscape of the imagination, freed from the constraints of time/space/ distance.

Art is the lie that reveals the truth, as they say. During the talk, I will talk about the lust for immersion we have, the moment we forget ourselves and become part of the movie consciousness and we leave our own consciousness behind.

We want to hold up a mirror to ourselves. Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else. A film allows us to enter the world of somebody else and the mind of another. I'm such a fan of that power that cinema has. I just find it endlessly inspiring.

My short films, which I call "Shots of Awe" are trailers for the mind-- they explore these topics and many more.

Watch a couple of Silva's short films below and find out more about Silva here.

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FTB Monster Ep. 28 – Starting my Space Station! – Video

Posted: April 20, 2014 at 4:44 pm


FTB Monster Ep. 28 - Starting my Space Station!
Please leave a like if you enjoyed the video! This is my multiplayer lets play of the FTB Monster modpack! It is a private whitelisted server and we are not ...

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Space Station Live: Walking in Space to Fix a Computer – Video

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Space Station Live commentator Amiko Kauderer interviews International Space Station Operations and Integration Manager Kenny Todd about the failed Multiplex...

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Alien Planets Like Earth [2014 Documentary] NEW – Video

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Alien Planets Like Earth [2014 Documentary] NEW Habitable alien planets similar to Earth may not be that rare in the universe, a new study suggests. About on...

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SpaceX Launches Cargo Mission to Space Station, Reusable Rocket Test | Video – Video

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The Falcon 9 rocket carrying Dragon lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on April 18th, 2014. Its first stage has retractable legs...

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Space Station Live: Satellites Connected to Smartphones – Video

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Space Station Live: Satellites Connected to Smartphones
Lori Meggs interviews SGT Inc., project manager Chris Provencher, from the Intelligent Robotics Group at Ames Research Center about Smart SPHERES. By connect...

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Raw: Space X Launches to Space Station – Video

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On it #39;s second attempt this week, The Space X company launched Friday from Cape Canaveral to ferry supplies to the International Space Station. (April 18)

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