"Acquiring Preemptive Knowledge About Emerging Technologies Is The Best Way To Ensure That We Have A

"Acquiring preemptive knowledge about emerging technologies is the best way to ensure that we have a say in the making of our future." — Catarina Mota, TED Talks +++ A selection of future technologies featured in films Personalized virtual billboard advertising via retinal scanners (Minority Report) Candy-colored fast-food chains with advanced 3D food printers (Cloud Atlas) Holographic multi-touch dynamic interactive presentations (Prometheus) Anti-gravity cocktails in upscale restaurants (Upside Down) Designer-label body modification scanner pods (Elysium) Full-scale aquarium with sushi bar in luxury locomotives (Snowpiercer) Avant-garde transformative fashions (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) Relaxing weightless sleep in outer space colonies (Gravity)

Ben Cohen a.k.a. my dream sports husband <3

"As random and as subjective as this award is, it means a great deal in a year of extraordinary, yet again, extraordinary performances by women... And thank you to the audiences who went to see [Blue Jasmine] and perhaps those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences. They are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people!" — Cate Blanchett on championing women in cinema during her 2014 Oscar Best Actress acceptance speech. +++ Various fierce and flawless heroines in female-centric feature films Audrey Tautou as Amélie Poulain (Amélie) Quvenzhané Wallis as Hushpuppy Doucet (Beasts Of The Southern Wild) Björk as Selma Ježková (Dancer In The Dark) Jamie Chung as Eden (Eden) Greta Gerwig as Frances Halladay (Frances Ha) Tilda Swinton as Emma Recchi (I Am Love) Léa Seydoux as Emma + Adèle Exarchopoulos as Adèle (Blue Is The Warmest Colour) Zhang Ziyi as Sayuri Nitta (Memoirs Of A Geisha) Brit Marling as Sarah Moss/Jane Owen (The East) Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander + Élodie Yung as Miriam Wu (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)

"In feature films, the director is God. In documentary films, God is the director..." — Sir Alfred Hitchcock +++ Various scenes from documentary feature films on arts and entertainment Bill Cunningham New York Cutie And The Boxer Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel Exit Through The Gift Shop Imelda Jiro Dreams Of Sushi Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present The September Issue The Electric Daisy Carnival Experience When Björk Met Attenborough

Some of my favorite facial expressions/reactions from the characters of Snowpiercer.

OF COURSE Thor and Steve would be in Gryffindor and Loki and Bucky would be in Slytherin. I support this perfectly. Because there's no Hogwarts ship better than two Hogwarts students from two enemy Houses.

Thorki and Stucky 4 EVA!

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