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...like rubber and plastic. More recently, Alexander McQueen has expressed a ghostly romantic vibe with fine spiderweb netting. Francisco Costa has been playing with perforated latex and stretch scuba at Calvin Klein. And at Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld reintroduced the idea of rubber, pleating it around evening columns like a sci-fi mummy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miuccia Prada's Material World | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...Sci-fi films have always portrayed the house of the future with sleek lines and magically appearing appliances capable of performing the most onerous of household tasks with just the simple touch of a button or a voice command. And while there still may not be a way to get out of actually scrubbing your tub, smart-home technology is giving the homeowner a level of automation futuristic enough to make George Jetson envious. Technology research firm InStat/MDR predicts the global market will grow from its current level of $1.3 billion to nearly $10 billion by 2010. A recent study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall-to-Wall Wiring | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...read mostly sci-fi fantasy and I’m obsessed with maps,” protested Zackheim...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Embracing Your Inner Geek | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...sci-fi films deal effectively with the Cold War, Hoberman says “the place where you have to go to see movies about Vietnam is Westerns.” He ascribes a similar ability to construct strong metaphors to the Western, but he cautions that some cultural anxieties overload the films that try to deal with them...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hoberman Reveals Cinema’s Cold War Secrets | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...begins with a vainglorious earth-bound photo shoot, followed by frontman Murphy’s opening of a door labeled “SPACE (outer),” which kicks off this epic adventure. Utilizing funky lo-fi effects, the video brings new meaning to low budget sci-fi; clay-like floating orbs abound, and tin foil is king in this distinctly sixth-grade-diorama setting. As supertitles like “target acquired” and “we have an anomaly on the space radar” flash across the screen, band members rock...

Author: By James F. Collins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: LCD Soundsystem - "North American Scum" | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

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