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The much-anticipated Season 2 premiere of Mr. Robot made a surprise appearance on Sunday in the most unlikely place: Twitter.
With pretty much no warning at all, the video appeared on the show's official Twitter page Sunday evening. And this isn't a short preview or outtake, this is the entire first episode.
"We have released the #mrrobot season_2.0 Premiere early, but it won't be here long," reads the Twitter message accompanying the video. "Watch while you can, friends."
The original premiere date was promoted as July 13, but now that date has been reserved for the second part of Sunday's 44-minute premiere, which ends with the word "intermission." Read more...
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The week that began with our annual national celebration ended in a cacophony of charges and misdirected attacks and the prospect of more ugliness as the two most disliked candidates in our history seek an acceptance that keeps eluding them. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both came face to face with their deepest and possibly fatal flaws.![]("http://chimpfeedr.com/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fnybooks%2F%7E4%2FK2TGOzebY_0&width=540&mix=42dfe-culture")
“Am I staring…?” This neon-noir fantasia from Nicolas Winding Refn, the Danish director of Drive, Bronson and the Pusher trilogy, is a modern fairytale of beauty as a beast, a horror-inflected, high-fashion fable replete with wicked witches and big bad wolves ready to devour a flaxen-haired youth in the wild woods of Los Angeles. Less Prêt-à-Porter with teeth than The Company of Wolves from hell and in heels, it offers a bloody chamber of symbolic provocations (lunar cycles, occultist trappings) cooked up by a film-maker taking weekly tarot readings from the Chilean surrealist Alejandro Jodorowsky and driven by an intoxication with the superficiality of the photographic image.
Swooningly filmed by Natasha Braier, The Neon Demon puts overtly ludicrous flesh on a satirical script co-written with the playwrights Mary Laws and Polly Stenham, bringing a Jacobean Ab Fab edge (“sweetie, plastics is just good grooming”) to the poisoned apple proceedings on which Refn feeds as hungrily as any spellbound princess.
Related: Nicolas Winding Refn: 'I bring the singular, the narcissistic, the high art'
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a combination of mechanics and coding, the hamster-powered machine creates a drawing by running along a set path dictated by two large, circular cams.
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The geneticist on the joys of Alexander Calder and Nordic noir, plus virtuoso performances from Simon McBurney and András Schiff
The new Francis Crick Institute in London's King's Cross opens this summer, and by the time it reaches its full capacity later in the year will house 1,400 researchers and 400 support staff. Sir Paul Nurse, director and chief executive, describes it as “probably the biggest biomedical research laboratory building in the world”; others have affectionately dubbed it “Sir Paul's Cathedral”. Nurse, who was president of the Royal Society until last year, has become one of the most celebrated scientists in Britain. Born to a working-class family in Norfolk, his career has led him from a Harrow grammar school to some of the world's most prestigious biology and genetics laboratories and, in 2001, to the Nobel prize for medicine, for his work discovering “key regulators in the cell cycle”.
Continue reading...The geneticist on the joys of Alexander Calder and Nordic noir, plus virtuoso performances from Simon McBurney and András Schiff
The new Francis Crick Institute in London's King's Cross opens this summer, and by the time it reaches its full capacity later in the year will house 1,400 researchers and 400 support staff. Sir Paul Nurse, director and chief executive, describes it as “probably the biggest biomedical research laboratory building in the world”; others have affectionately dubbed it “Sir Paul's Cathedral”. Nurse, who was president of the Royal Society until last year, has become one of the most celebrated scientists in Britain. Born to a working-class family in Norfolk, his career has led him from a Harrow grammar school to some of the world's most prestigious biology and genetics laboratories and, in 2001, to the Nobel prize for medicine, for his work discovering “key regulators in the cell cycle”.
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Big skies, big stamens, big box-office… yet there are longueurs in this blockbuster retrospective
Daybreak over Texas, and Georgia O'Keeffe is out in the landscape, mesmerised by the vast skies above her. She paints everything her eyes can take in. The dawn becomes a luminous glow beneath the blue arches of her marvellous watercolour, a rising dome that hovers between the real and the abstract. The painting is small but it holds infinity.
Light Coming on the Plains III (1917) is one of the purest and most radical images O'Keeffe ever made. But it is not in this exhibition. I mention it as an image to hold in mind when walking around the blockbuster at Tate Modern, something to weigh against all the kitsch skull and flower pictures and mechanically abstracted mesas that have made her the most famous and most oversold female painter in American art.
O'Keeffe's oil paintings turn out to be dull, matte, evenly layered. They have no touch, no relish for paint
Related: The wild beauty of Georgia O'Keeffe
Continue reading...Wordplay games and interactive exhibits that recreate the worlds inside the playful mind of Dr Seuss, one of the most popular of all children's writers, are to be unveiled later this month in east London.
A year-long exhibition celebrating the work of the American creator of The Cat in the Hat and The Lorax will form the entire basement floor of the revamped venue, Discover in Stratford, from 23 July.
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composed of 10,000 laminated paper bats, the gradated installation serves as art piece and screen for video and light installations.
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The Teapot appears to be pouring to the right, its spout represented by the stars Alnasl and Kaus Australis
Mars remains the most conspicuous object low in Britain's S sky at nightfall where it stands below the Moon on Thursday. Saturn, 17° to Mars's left and fainter, is 6° above Antares in Scorpius.
By midnight BST it is the quaintly named Teapot that hovers just above our S horizon. The Teapot is an asterism, being the most prominent part of the constellation of Sagittarius the Archer which is also identified as a Centaur a human/horse hybrid.
Related: The Large Sagittarius Star Cloud - picture of the day
Continue reading...This month, a new festival will boldly go beyond the same old weekend lineups with a boundary-breaking blend of science, music, technology and comedy
With the vast Lovell telescope as its backdrop, the first ever Bluedot festival will take place later this month, in and around the Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire. The three-day event will combine a weekend music festival with an interdisciplinary scientific symposium, scheduling big-name musicians alongside prominent scientists and technologists. Taking its name from the Pale Blue Dot photograph of Earth made famous by Carl Sagan, Bluedot's unusual programme hopes to inspire the sense of curiosity and wonderment suggested by its surroundings. “Bluedot offers an experience unlike any other,” says festival director Ben Robinson, “with over 300 cutting-edge artists pushing the boundaries of live performance.”
The festival will be divided into several different areas, each one programmed according to different themes. The Nebula stage, “where new stars are born”, is the arena for up-and-coming musicians; the Roots stage, situated in nearby woodland, covers folky and acoustic acts; and the Lovell stage, directly behind the famous telescope, will host the headliners, all of whom have a certain scientific flavour. These include French electro-pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre, famed for his majestic, hi-tech concerts; the shape-shifting Canadian innovator Caribou; and the brainy, maths-flecked Manchester rockers Everything Everything.
Continue reading...Thanks to the enlightened thinking of Brent council and Alison Brooks Architects, a notorious London estate that featured in Zadie Smith's White Teeth is now the site of some of the best housing in the neighbourhood
Once upon a time, goes a well-worn story, cities were made of streets. People were happy. They loved their neighbours and looked out for each other. Kids played outside. You knew where you stood: a house looked like a house and a street looked like a street. You could put out flags and tea kettles for a royal jubilee. Then ideological modern architects, in league with control-freak local councils, ripped it all up. Streets were insanitary, they said. Their residents (they thought but didn't say) were too unruly. So they had to be corralled into soulless blocks, human battery farms, gulags, surrounded by open spaces that no one wanted or owned and so became colonised by gangs and drugs.
The story is oversimplified. You don't have to look far into the literature of the past to find that alienation, dystopia and misery could flourish in good old streets. There are several ways to create successful shared spaces courts and communal gardens, for example as well as streets. Not everyone wants a house and private garden. One of the strengths of Britain's big cities is the multiplicity of ways to live that they offer, including that reviled modernist housing, some of which turns out to have qualities of its own.
Brent council's Richard Barrett remembers both ‘camaraderie' and the fact that taxi drivers would refuse to go there
Continue reading...“Try to own a suburban home,” said an advertisement by the British Freehold Land Company in the 1920s, “it will make you a better citizen and help your family. The suburbs have fresh air, sunlight, roomy houses, green lawns and social advantages.” It perfectly summarises the ideal behind suburbia, which is where most people in Britain live today.
Related: Metroland, 100 years on: what's become of England's original vision of suburbia?
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