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"Amor Pedestre (1914) was part of a series of comic films directed by and starring Marcel Fabre as the protagonist, Robinet. In Amor Pedestre, he sets out on...

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Star Apps: David X. Cohen

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The Emmy-winning "Simpsons" writer and "Futurama" co-creator chats about his upcoming Moogfest lecture, his writing career, technology in the 31st century, and his favorite mobile apps.

When David X. Cohen was in graduate school, he had hit the proverbial fork in the road. Would the Harvard graduate, with a degree in physics, studying theoretical computer science at U.C. Berkeley, opt for an assured career in mathematics/computer science or take the gamble and become a comedy writer? Fortunately for "The Simpsons" and "Futurama" fans, he took the latter route. Now an expert in all three disciplines, Cohen will chat about the intersection of math, technology, and comedy writing at Moogfest 2014 (April 23-27).

Emmy-winning writer David X. Cohen will appear at Moogfest 2014.

Talk to us about your appearance at Moogfest 2014. We will be talking about the two coolest subjects imaginable, "Futurama" and mathematics. It could not get cooler than that [laughs] for me.

The genesis of this is a book that's out right now called, "The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets" by Simon Singh, and it also talks about "Futurama." I did an interview with Simon Singh about the book, and it so happened that one of the organizers of Moogfest heard that. This chain reaction started, and they asked if I'd be interested in going and doing something about math and "Futurama," because they're trying to expand the festival into more futurism and technology. So I said, "Sure. Why don't we get Simon Singh in to moderate the panel, and we'll get some "Futurama" writers in there, too? So it's going to be more "Futurama" themed, and it'll be both nerdy and funny, hopefully.

When you were still in school, did you know what you wanted to be when you grew up? Absolutely. I was 100 percent set on being a scientist. Growing up on the East Coast, it never would have occurred to me that you could make a living out of writing comedy. But on the other hand, it was a hobby of mine, where I wrote a humor column for my high school newspaper and stuff like that. So I always thought it was fun to try and make people laugh.

Since my parents were both biologists, I thought that's the way to go. I eventually became more interested in math and computer science, so I went that way, but I didn't go too far from the parent trees.

In college, at Harvard, I wrote for "The Harvard Lampoon" magazine, and only then did I realize that some of my friends there were trying to make that a career, and saw that as an option. So I went through a wrenching period where I had to decide what I was doing, but I thought it'd be wiser to go to graduate school before I forgot all the math and science I'd learned, and then I'd switch to writing later if I wanted to. But it'd be hard to go the other direction. So that's what happened. But I kept wanting to write, so I tried that for a while and have been on that path ever since.

At what point did you realize you could create a career in writing? I used to make drawings and make my sister buy them from me for one penny. So that was the beginning of my professional career. She was younger, so there was the threat that she would be beaten up if she didn't give me the money. [Laughs]

In graduate school, thinking I would try to make the switch, I was writing spec material and sending it all over the place and seeing if anyone would hire me. Eventually there was a lucky break. I had sent some stuff to David Letterman. Mike Judge, who had just created "Beavis and Butt-Head" was a guest, and he told the head writer that he needs to hire some really cheap writers, and the head writer said, "I really liked his stuff, but couldn't use him, so here you go." Mike Judge asked me to submit some ideas, and he hired me for a wage similar to the penny, but the show turned into a hit to my surprise. I wrote two episodes, so I now had a resume, and thought, "Maybe this will pay off."

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James Holden x Floating Points To Work With Moroccan Musicians

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The past few years have witnessed a raft of electronic producers exploring non-Western - particularly African - forms.

Think LV's 'Sebenza' project, or Scratch DVA's espousal of South African kwaito. Alongside this file Auntie Flo's stunning afro-futurism or 2562's experimental guise A Made Up Sound.

Now James Holden and Floating Points are set to go straight to the source. The pair have been invited to collaborate with Moroccan musicians as part of a project organised by the Dar Al-Ma'Mn centre for artistic residencies.

Running between March 24th and 31st, the project represents part of the closing week of the fifth Marrakech Biennale.

In all, James Holden, Floating Points, Biosphere and Vessel will work with several Moroccan musicians drawing on the Gnawa discipline.

As yet, an official release has not been confirmed although Boiler Room will broadcast two sets drawing on the project (March 28th - 29th).

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'Jupiter Ascending' trailer: Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum raise sci-fi heat

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March 26, 2014 | 5:28 p.m.

Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum take center stage in the new trailer for Andy and Lana Wachowskis latest sci-fi venture, Jupiter Ascending, and the clip offers some of the same mix of futuristic spectacle and existential exploration that catapulted the duo to international acclaim with The Matrix nearly 15 years ago.

Jupiter Ascending stars Kunis as Jupiter Jones, a young woman born on Earth whose genetic signature marks her as a target for the Queen of the Universe. Tatum, sporting guyliner, plays Caine, identified early in the trailer as a perfect hunting machine, who becomes Jupiters protector.

Sean Bean and Eddie Redmayne also have featured roles.

The film is the first from the Wachowskis after their audacious literary adaptation with Tom Tykwer, Cloud Atlas, which was based on the 2004 novel by David Mitchell and starred Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Jim Broadbent playing multiple interconnected roles across the centuries.

Like their Matrix films, Cloud Atlas distinguished the Wachowskis as superlative visual storytellers, and Jupiter Ascending appears to continue that tradition, with eye-popping space imagery rendered on a grand scale.

Jupiter Ascending is set to arrive in theaters July 25.

What do you think of the latest Jupiter Ascending trailer? Leave your thoughts in the comments section below.

Gina McIntyre | @LATHeroComplex

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Museums seek a new generation of donors

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Already anticipating this generational changing of the guard, some museums are racing to pursue younger donors and trustees.

At the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, 75 percent of the board membership has turned over in the last seven years. That has brought new life to the Walker, which focuses on modern and contemporary art. But it has also meant the loss of several stalwarts who could be relied on for big checks and sage advice.

"Most of the oldest generation has completely gone off," said the Walker's director, Olga Viso. In its place, Ms. Viso said, a group of trustees in their 50s and 60s has moved into senior leadership roles and begun giving at higher levels, while a younger group of trustees in their early 40s and even late 30s has joined the board.

Among the more youthful members Ms. Viso has recruited of late are John Christakos, founder of the furniture company Blu Dot, who is in his late 40s and serves as the Walker board's treasurer, and Monica Nassif, the founder of the fragrance and cleaning companies Caldrea and Mrs. Meyers Clean Day.

As well as being proactive, another way to attract young donors and trustees is to be a cultural powerhouse. Many prominent art museums in major metropolitan areas, in particular, are so far navigating this transition with ease.

"The very big institutions are doing very well," said Ms. Robinson of the Museum Group. "They have a gravitational field."

Take the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which has well-oiled machinery for cultivating young patrons and turning the exceptional ones into trustees at MoMA or its sister institution, PS1.

"We've been doing this since 1949," said Todd Bishop, MoMA's senior deputy director of external affairs. That was the year that it set up the Junior Council, a group for young patrons. MoMA refreshed the effort in 1990 with the founding of the Junior Associates, a membership group open to those 40 years old and younger.

At a recent Junior Associates event, about 50 young patrons gathered to sip white wine in the museum's lobby after work, giant Brice Marden paintings looming over the makeshift bar. The occasion was a private tour of MoMA's retrospective of the German sculptor Isa Genzken, hardly the most accessible show.

After 45 minutes of schmoozing, the Junior Associates dutifully followed Laura Hoptman, the curator, on a walk-through of the sometimes jarring exhibition. Ms. Hoptman spoke of Ms. Genzken's "physicalization of sound waves" and the artist's battles with depression.

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San Franciscos Hunters Point: A Wasteland Repaved

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Candlestick Park is proof that San Francisco can get nostalgic about anything. A strange monument to a bygone peoples failed futurism, the former home of the Giants and 49ers is built of old-time patronage and reinforced concrete, located near an abandoned shipyard turned Superfund site. A few turns out of the stadium parking lot and youre in Bayview-Hunters Point, a long-neglected, predominantly black neighborhood where pollution from the Navys radiological lab and a local power plant have resulted in high rates of cancer and asthma. Candlestick was the backdrop to my childhood, says Kevin Epps, a local filmmaker who first documented the neighborhoods struggles in 2003s Straight Outta Hunters Point. But its like a one-sided relationship. The Niners got all the love, but in terms of opportunities for the community, there was none.

Isolated on the southeastern tip of San Francisco, the flatlands and repurposed barracks of Hunters Point were largely unaffected by the citys late-1990s boom, its Third Street artery dominated by liquor stores and shuttered windows. Epps began noticing changes along 3rd as he filmed his 2011 sequel. In 2007, the city linked the neighborhood to the rest of San Francisco with light-rail service, sprucing up Third with palm trees and public art. The first new grocery store in decades opened two years ago. It looks weird, Epps says. Its like some people are still trapped in time as the scenery is changing.

The thing about gentrification is how intuitive it appears in retrospecthow the answer was always nearby, as soon as that first person looked at a warehouse and saw somewhere to live. There are more bars, cafs, and young professionals, Epps jokes, from Boston and New York. Plans are under way here for the citys most ambitious redevelopment project since 1906, when an earthquake decimated San Francisco. Over the next decade, waterfront condos, retail space, and parks will go up where Candlestick once stood. The toxic and long-abandoned Hunters Point naval shipyard will finally be decontaminated and replaced by environmentally responsible development. Those who move into the 10,000 new mixed-income residential units will know this place by a new name: the San Francisco Shipyard.

San Francisco is too expensive for ruins. The last time I went to a 49er game, a friend showed me a shortcut to Candlestick. As we approached from the southwest, it felt like we were cutting through unmapped lands: fields of flagging reeds, a maze of dirt-lined back roads. It was like driving into the past. Even as the city had changed, tailgating before a Niner game still drew an eclectic multitude, from tech oligarchs perched on crates of wine to acid-casualty bikers to the melting pot of slangy young smokers. It felt like one of the last places in the city where the rich and the poor sat next to each other, everyone holding their phones to the sky in search of a signal.

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