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Editor, Roadrunner:

I love how our new lefty starts his rant by imagining a Utopian Society! Thats the dream of progressives, otherwise known as socialists. Yep, big government will fix it all, and we will sing kumbaya.

Leaning Left neglects to mention that our federal government already runs THREE single-payer systems: Medicare, the Veterans Health Administration and the Indian Health Service each of which is loaded with fraud, waste and corruption. Why would anyone want to turn over all of our medicine to these incompetent bureaucrats?

Rather than point out all the illogical statements in the column, I will mention the proper way to correct the finest medicine in the world: American medicine.

1. Get the consumer involved in the cost. When someone else pays, who cares how much it costs? Head to the hospital for a runny nose! We need Major medical insurance to cover serious illnesses etc, and a health savings account to take care of routine health care. End of the year, you dont spend it, you get to keep it, say, in your IRA. Heart attack? Insurance. Sniffles? Cmon. Empower individuals to control their costs.

2. Force all medical service providers to make PUBLIC their inclusive prices for ALL procedures. Transparency! Posting prices will force hospitals to become more competitive by becoming more efficient.

3. Remove regulations and policy obstacles that discourage choice and competition, and create a wide variety of plans and insurers to compete for my business. Allow me to choose a plan and my doctors, like I was promised. I dont need a plan that includes abortion and contraception since I am still male. Reform Medicaid and modernize Medicare.

Two quick stories to close: My old dentist now charges $245 for a cleaning and X-rays. My new dentist charges $99 for both. (I shopped with my wallet.) A friend in Australia needs a knee replacement; 50% of her paycheck goes to taxes, but she will get a free knee replacement once she gets to the top of the waiting list-about nine months. So you progressives can keep promising Utopia. Unfortunately, theres no such place.

BILL MACEY, Valley Center

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Letter to the Editor: UTOPIA, THE DREAM OF SOCIALISTS - Valley Roadrunner

Banking has always meant bankers, the people who arrange everything from savings accounts to synthetic collateralized debt obligations. But what if computer code could take their place? Thats the goal of whats known as decentralized finance, or DeFi, a movement thats grown out of a decade of experimentation with cryptocurrencies. A DeFi world could be one where money flows more efficiently and more fairly, its proponents say, pointing to platforms where users are boasting of hefty returns. Critics say that DeFi is more likely reinventing the hype, wild speculation and money-losing possibilities of crypto.

DeFi revolves around applications known as dapps that perform financial functions on digital ledgers called blockchains, a technology that was invented for Bitcoin but has since caught on more broadly. Dapps let people lend or borrow funds from others, go long or short on a range of assets, trade coins or earn interest in a savings-like account. The transactions are governed by rules embedded in the software called smart contracts. Many of these apps can also hook on to each other and work together to create complex financial services.

Its an if x, then y agreement. You could consider an automatic payment plan with a traditional bank to be a smart contract -- it will withdraw money to send to your mortgage company on the first of every month till its told to stop. DeFi contracts can be far more complex. And instead of making an arrangement with a central intermediary, DeFi apps are meant to work independently, directly connecting counterparties. Once smart contracts are launched, they usually cant be changed or tweaked by anyone. Many of these smart contracts run on a blockchain called Ethereum, which was designed to include more information and the kinds of transactions performed by dapps, unlike the original ledger invented for Bitcoin, which mainly keeps track of the transfer of coin ownership.

All DeFi apps work differently, but heres the most basic way: People can connect an account on a cryptocurrency exchange to a DeFi app and then lend some of their coins, or borrow against their collateral. Many common transactions are far more complicated, with people buying things like wrapped Bitcoin, a token used on Ethereum that represents one Bitcoin, to speed up DeFi transactions, and entering into complex arrangements using multiple DeFi apps to amp up their earnings.

There are companies that allow whats known as peer-to-peer lending, which routs capital from investors to borrowers without a banks traditional intermediation, but they are still companies overseeing the process. The makers of dapps seek to create a platform they step away from, on which counterparties interact directly.

Collateral levels locked up in "dapps" show the scale of DeFi transactions, in dollars

Source: DeFi Pulse

Since many smart contracts require counterparties to post collateral as a guarantee, analysts track the growth of dapps by looking at the amount of money effectively locked in the DeFi ecosystem. In late August, the total amount of collateral people have poured into DeFi applications exceeded $7 billion, according to tracker DeFi Pulse. That was up from less than $1 billion at the end of May. (Even with that surge, DeFi is a drop in the $360 billion overall cryptocurrency market.) There are more than 200 DeFi applications, with more making their debut weekly. The first dapp to catch on broadly was MakerDAO, which has been evolving since 2015.

Several DeFi apps such as Compound debuted this summer with promises of triple-digit returns that pushed scores of speculators to dive in. Longer term, with global economies in turmoil amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the idea of global financial services independent of banks or other companies that can fail is gaining in appeal.

More than 1 billion people around the world still dont have access to even basic banking services. DeFi holds the promise of offering anyone with an internet connection and a mobile phone access to a full array of banking services -- and to earn a return on their savings, however small. One group in particular that turns to dapps is the so-called miners of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies -- mining is a computational process used to verify a currencys transactions thats rewarded with grants of the currency. Miners are often unable to get loans through traditional financial institutions.

Like everything else in the realm of digital currencies, or software in general, DeFi accounts can be vulnerable to hackers. Even buggy code can destroy value. Take Yam Finance, which quickly amassed $750 million in value -- and then crashed days after launch when a bug in its code made it impossible for the app to function properly. Speculators can also hype up a service -- and when they bail, bring an apps value down. A dapps internal logic can also potentially contract or expand supply, changing a coins value. Thats what happened with Ampleforth, whose coins market capitalization cratered by nearly two thirds in less than three weeks this summer. Theres no deposit insurance for DeFi apps, though that could change as teams like Nexus Mutual are building ways to provide a kind of insurance to the DeFi ecosystem. Users wiping themselves out by accident is dismayingly common, too.

Since there are no banks or other intermediaries to hold their hands, users of DeFi applications have to be very careful in everything they do: Their transactions cant be reversed. DeFi users had also better understand exactly how a particular service works, by perusing related white papers and tutorials -- or risk getting many unpleasant surprises. Another source of risk: many DeFi ideas are so new, its unclear whether they comply with existing regulations.

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Why 'DeFi' Utopia Would Be Finance Without Financiers: QuickTake - Bloomberg

All In: The Fight for Democracy

In the new documentary, Stacey Abrams examines rampant voter suppression across the United States. Referring to voter suppression as the new Jim Crowe 2.0, the documentary focuses on Abrams 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race, where voters were faced with five-hour lines, mismanagement, and gerrymandering. Abrams says in a clip, Thousands of people were told, No, and didnt have the authority to demand better. Now, the people are making demands. (September 18th)

Blackbird

Susan Sarandons character a family matriarch asks her family to behave as normally as they possibly can. Even in good times, that can be an impossible request to adhere to. But the occasion for which they are all gathered makes it even more difficult to do so. After battling ALS, Sandersons character has decided to end her life. The date has been set, and though shes made her peace with it, the rest of the family is still working on it. (September 18th)

Coastal Elites

This new HBO film is the first of its kind a socially distanced satire. Sarah Paulson,Bette Midler,Issa Rae,Kaitlyn Dever,andDan Levy all-star as the so-called coastal elites, as they go through living in isolation in either Los Angeles or New York City. Filmed remotely, the characters divulge their lives in largely confessional styled-shots. As Paulsons character suggests, Take a deep healing breath and imagine that youre not even on Twitter or Facebook or Xanax. (September 12th)

Death on the Nile

Detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) returns this time, to investigate a murder thats taken place during a picture-perfect Egyptian steam-boat vacation. I ask you, he says in a voiceover, have you ever loved so much, been so possessed by jealousy, that you might kill? Based on the Agatha Christie novel of the same name, the film is Branaghs follow up to Murder on the Orient Express.(October 23rd)

On the Rocks

For her latest feature, director Sofia Coppola focuses on Laura (Rashida Jones), who thinks her marriage is in a rut. Her husbands job is demanding more trips away, and shes starting to feel like a living daily planner. It isnt until her father Felix (Bill Murray) comes back to town that she starts to suspect the worst from her husband. After all, over drinks her father tells her that infidelity is part of a mans very nature: Males are forced to fight, to dominate and to impregnate the female. Felix, a womanizer himself, feels sure that he knows all the tricks Lauras husband could be pulling. Together, they set out to catch him in the act. (October)

Time

Twenty years into her husbands six-decade-long prison sentence, Fox Rich relentlessly campaigns for his release. The mother, entrepreneur, and abolitionists ongoing video diaries craft a portrait of perseverance and fierce love as she tries to keep her family intact while having to navigate through the United States prison industrial-complex system. (October 23rd)

Utopia

Set to R.E.M.s Its the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine), a group of comic book fans realize that the plots theyve read over and over are actually coming true in the real world. Dismissed as fanatic fans, their warnings are mocked. However, as a deadly pandemic takes hold, they mobilize to take action. Expect bio-warfare, a seemingly sinister corporation, and a band of unlikely heroes. (September 25th)

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Trailers of the Week: On the Rocks, Time, Utopia, and More - Rolling Stone

TYLER MITCHELL, Untitled, 2019. | Tyler Mitchell

ALLURING, JOYFUL, AND TIMELY, the photographs of Tyler Mitchell center the Black experiences he didnt see represented in media when he was growing up. The images Mitchell came across focused on attractive white models at leisure and at play, having fun. Shifting how Black people are traditionally seen and represented, his empowering photographs emphasize freedom and hope, pleasure and delight, Black beauty, style, and individuality.

Tyler Mitchell: I Can Make You Feel Good, a newly published exhibition catalog, explores the concept of what the photographer calls a Black utopia. The fully illustrated volume documents Mitchells first U.S. solo exhibition. Currently installed at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, the survey, also titled I Can Make You Feel Good, presents a selection of his recent photographs, videos, and installation works.

I feel an urgency to visualize Black people as free, expressive, effortless, and sensitive, Mitchell said in the introduction to the exhibition. I aim to visualize what a Black utopia looks like or could look like. People say utopia is never achievable, but I love the possibility that photography brings. It allows me to dream and make that dream become very real.

I feel an urgency to visualize Black people as free, expressive, effortless, and sensitive. Tyler Mitchell

Mitchells pictures of Black possibility, wonder, and everyday mundane include scenes of hula hooping; a couple relaxing in a meadow; a close-up focusing on the hands of two young men in white shirtsleeves as one helps the other button his cuffs; and a beach shot, a nearly abstract composition that frames a womans sand-covered back and blue swimsuit in dramatic light and shadow. The latter image is called Untitled (Heart). Look closely, the area of sand covering her back is heart-shaped.

Tyler Mitchell: I Can Make You Feel Good, by Tyler Mitchell, curators Mirjam Kooiman and Isolde Brielmaier, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Deborah Willis (Curator-at-Large, ICP),(Prestel, 206 pages). | Published Aug. 4, 2020 UK / Aug. 25, 2020 US

The title of the artists first major monograph (and the exhibition) comes from a 1982 song by Shalamar. Contributors to the volume include Deborah Willis, chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Hans Ulrich Obrist, director of Serpentine Galleries in London, conducted an interview with Mitchell. ICP Curator-at-Large Isolde Brielmaier curated the exhibition and contextualized his work in the fully illustrated catalog.

In an essay titled, A Marvelous Mundane, Brielmaier described Mitchells Utopian images. She wrote that they exude a seemingly straightforward tranquility and blissfulness.

She continued: Throughout the history of our imaging, this sense of limitless possibility is all too unique. It is something that is rarely represented with Black people as its protagonists. So often we are seen struggling, striving, pained, defeated, and surviving. While these states of being reflect aspects of our realities and experiences, Mitchells work offers us another necessarily human dimensiona critical prospect in which to envision ourselves. His compositions are considered, complex, and multilayered, yet tightly framed and always intentional. They are comprised of very specific signs, symbols, and motifs.

Mitchells work offers us another necessarily human dimensiona critical prospect in which to envision ourselves. His compositions are considered, complex, and multilayered, yet tightly framed and always intentional. Isolde Brielmaier

Speaking to the complexity of Mitchells images, a group shot of young black shirtless men with their backs to the viewer represents community, trust, and frivolity in a natural green space. At the same time, one of his subjects is wearing a thick chain-link necklace, conjuring references to prison chain gangs and enslaved bodies.

Titled Boys of Walthamstow (2018), the photograph covers the catalog. Set in an overgrown field with a thicket of dense trees nearby, the image is easily associated with the American South, but was captured in North East London.

Mitchell recently returned to the UK capital and spoke to Christiane Amanpour of CNN about the new book (see video below). The wide-ranging conversation covered the arc of his career.

TYLER MITCHELL, Sosa with Orange Hula Hoop, 2019. | Tyler Mitchell

The Brooklyn-based photographer and filmmaker grew up outside Atlanta in Marietta, Ga., where he got his start in image-making filming skateboarding videos with his friends. Mitchell earned a BFA in film and television from NYUs Tisch School (2017), where Willis was among his instructors.

A year later, Mitchell gained widespread recognition when he was tapped to photograph Beyonc for the September 2018 cover of American Vogue. Published since 1892, the worlds most prominent fashion magazine had never hired a Black photographer to shoot a cover before. Mitchell made history at age 23.

A 2020 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellow, Mitchell talked with Amanpour about growing up middle-class in the suburbs. He identifies with the freedom and physical, intellectual, emotional, and psychological space represented in his images.

A suburban existence is about having space. Theres a big front yard. Theres leisure and a lot of the things in the pictures that I had growing up, he told Amanpour. And those kind of experiences and kind of freedom, I started to understand as I grew up more, was luxury. Having a summer to kind of think about what I wanted to do with my life, those things are freedoms that Im kind of posturing or gesturing or suggesting all Black folks should have.

Having a summer to kind of think about what I wanted to do with my life, those things are freedoms that Im kind of posturing or gesturing or suggesting all Black folks should have. Tyler Mitchell

Amanpour said she was fascinated with his contention that photographing Black people at leisure is radical. Why is that? she asked.

Mitchell responded: Well, it has to do with denied histories. Right? And this idea that visualizing and making images and projecting those and stating that visualizing Black folks enjoying their lives is important. Right? Whats central to that in my work is that existing in public space for Black folks in America has been denied. Psychically in our minds at any moment that freedom or that enjoyment that we are having or that pleasure could be taken away or stripped away. To me, this book stands for a beacon of that. CT

The exhibition Tyler Mitchell: I Can Make You Feel Good debuted last year at Foam, the museum in Amsterdam. In New York, it opened at the International Center of Photography (ICP) on Jan. 25, 2020, coinciding with the inauguration of the museums new space, and was scheduled through May 18. A few months after the exhibition opened, ICP temporarily closed in March due to COVID-19. The museum currently remains closed and the exhibition has been extended to Dec. 31, 2020.

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CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour interviews photographer and filmmaker Tyler Mitchell about his new book I Can Make You Feel Good. | Video by CNN

TYLER MITCHELL, Untitled (Toni), 2019. | Tyler Mitchell

TYLER MITCHELL, Still From Idyllic Space, 2019. | Tyler Mitchell

TYLER MITCHELL, Untitled (Park Frivolity), 2019. | Tyler Mitchell

TYLER MITCHELL, Boys of Walthamstow, 2018. | Tyler Mitchell

FIND MORE Tyler Mitchell has collaborated with fashion, brands, corporations, and a variety of publications. A selection of projects includes photographing Spike Lee for Office magazine, Toyin Ojih Odutola for i-D magazine, and the student gun-reform activists from Majorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., for Teen Vogue; shooting American Vogues June 2019 cover of Zendaya, American Vogues April 2020 cover featuring a trio of models from around the world for its Beauty Without Borders issue, and GQs May 2020 cover of Kanye West; photographing the Fall/Winter 2019 campaigns for the fashion brands JW Anderson and Loewe, and directing and photographing the campaign for Copper, the unisex fragrance from Comme des Garons

BOOKSHELFTyler Mitchell is featured in The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion and his work also graces the cover of the exhibition catalog. In 2015, Mitchell self-published El Paquete, documenting his experience in Cuba. The limited-edition of 200 copies is now out of print.

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Finding Joy in the Everyday Mundane, Tyler Mitchell's Photographs 'Visualize What a Black Utopia Looks Like, or Could Look Like' - Culture Type

Made through Dennis Kelly, Utopia changed into the first transmission withinside the UK in mid-2013 and had a prompt effect. With a profoundly secretive trick plot, a setting and instinctive design, and an exciting encounter of dark humor, Utopia has become a faction hit, simultaneously as furthermore blending discussion in view of its fierce nature and stunningly darkish subjects.

The perfect world changed into dropped after seasons on a cliffhanger finishing, paying little heed to fans and Kelly himself, each plotting a couple of sorts of continuation to wrap up the story.

Amazon is yet to declare a genuine dispatch date for their Utopia change. Anyway, a couple of key data were uncovered. Initially, Utopia season 1 will incorporate nine episodes, as in sync with Amazons series request from April 2018.

Moreover, the recording is by and by progress, with on-place shoots expressed via web-based media as recently as an extreme month.

Since helping strong people had been regardless of being presented in May, in any case, obviously fabricating isnt generally close of whole basically, however. With recording, post-fabricating, and elevating in any case to come, fans can expect Utopia through mid-2020.

Javon Walton (Grant)

Farrah Mackenzie (Alice)

Rainn Wilson (Michael)

Dan Byrd (Ian)

Ashleigh Lathrop (Becky)

Desmin Borges (Wilson)

Christopher Denham (Arby)

Sasha Lane (Jessica Hyde)

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The Utopia Experiments. The community decide to accordingly meet in individual after one in everything about cases to have a copy of an unpublished continuation comic, anyway it on the double transforms into evident that there are rare sorts of people who will visit breathtaking and deadly lengths to pick up the composition and now no longer essential to avoid spoilers releasing on the web.

Pursued through gifted killers, the conversation board people urgently attempt to find the insider facts and strategies of the original copy, fundamental them to a perplexing association alluded to as The Network, who concur with that extraordinary measures should be taken en route to holding the predetermination of humankind, and the Utopia funnies keep up the key.

New showrunner, Gillian Flynn, has just announced her motivation to situate her own exact stamp on Dennis Kellys unique Utopia. That is pondered withinside the recognized new strong people, particularly Josh Cusacks character. Given the fate of the British series, it potentially also would not be startling if Amazon took an extra smoothed out, reachable procedure to the change.

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Utopia On Amazon Prime: Release Date And The Casting Details Shared For The New Series - NationEditions

The new feature film Bill & Ted Face The Music was in development for more than a decade. The third movie in a trilogy that started in 1989 with the sleeper hit Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure hits VOD and American theaters on Aug. 28, but its faced a long road to screens, and a series of studio changes and necessary revisions along the way. One of the most significant: director Dean Parisot tells Polygon that the filmmaking team had to scrap a sequence involving a computer-generated re-creation of George Carlin.

In the original Bill & Ted, teenage burnouts Bill S. Preston (Alex Winter) and Theodore Logan (Keanu Reeves) are emerging from a Circle K convenience store when theyre confronted by Rufus (Carlin), a time traveler from 2688 who tells them theyre meant to unite the world with their rock music. To help out, he introduces them to their own time-traveling selves, and sends them on a trip through time to help them pass a history class. In Bill & Ted Face The Music, the doofy duo realize theyre middle-aged musical failures who still havent written the song thats supposed to bring about world peace and a magical utopia, so they head out on a new time-traveling trip to solve the problem. Parisot says that journey was supposed to include a jump back to the Circle K, where they would ask Rufus for insight.

George Carlins death in 2008 was a limiting factor on that plan, but as of 2018, original Bill & Ted co-writer Ed Solomon was still talking up plans for a scene that used excised footage from the 1989 movie to let Winter and Reeves interact with their past selves, and with Rufus. But Parisot said the plan had to change because of the films budget and shooting schedule.

We probably could have afforded to build the Circle K set, he says, but we were using footage from the original Bill & Ted. We would have had to create a CG George Carlin, which is incredibly expensive, and very difficult to pull off in a convincing way. We didnt have the time or the money. But we had a great scene where they went back to talk to Carlin.

Parisot says the scene was intended both as a tribute to Carlin and a way to launch the quest that forms most of the movie. From a story point of view, theyre theyre trying to figure out what happens, right? he says. How do we solve this problem? Because nobody really knows the future, and they dont know whats coming. So initially, theyre going back in time to ask questions.

Ultimately, Parisot is philosophical about having to lose the sequence, which ended up being replaced with a plot device Bill and Ted wind up with a keepsake of Rufus that holds the same advice he would have given them in the cut scene. From a story perspective, it didnt change all that much, Parisot says. It was a bittersweet moment between them and Rufus. It was sweet, and I think it would have been fun but, you know, things fall by the wayside.

And he points out that the movie still includes a brief Rufus cameo. They still got to see Carlin! he says. The actor appears as a hologram, created with archival footage, and with a line of dialogue provided by animation voiceover artist Piotr Michael. It isnt exactly the emotional reunion Solomon envisioned, but it does nod to the past without kicking off the kind of uncanny-valley debates that followed other recent CGI actor re-creations, like the appearance of Peter Cushing and young Carrie Fisher in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

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Why Bill & Ted Face the Music scrapped its CGI George Carlin cameo - Polygon

Welcome to a brand new series from Android Authority where we get you the biggest, baddest, and most exciting streaming trailers as new ones are released!

This week, we got our first look at some compelling new titles coming to Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, and other streaming services. Theres a Ridley Scott sci-fi TV series thats looking killer in a new trailer. Sherlock Holmes has a sister and shes on her first detective mission. The DC FanDom virtual convention gave us the Justice League Snyder Cut trailer to feast our eyes on. And finally, we got our first glimpse at Princess Diana in the new season of The Crown.

Check out these eight new streaming trailers of the week below.

Netflix dropped the trailer for Enola Alone spelled backward Holmes this week, and the cast alone has us pretty kicked about this upcoming movie. Its the story of Sherlock Holmes younger sister played by Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown. The senior Holmes is played by none other than Superman Henry Cavill and his brother Mycroft by actor Sam Claflin of the Peaky Blinders fame. The energetic trailer follows the free-spirited Enolas mission to find her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) who has disappeared without a clue. She runs away from the care of her brothers and proves herself a super-sleuth outwitting even the mighty Sherlock.

Belief in the unreal aka religion has destroyed the Earth and two Androids are tasked with raising atheist children on a virgin planet. All goes as planned until a colony of humans land on the mysterious planet for refuge. Its humans versus robots in this upcoming Ridley Scott sci-fi thriller series on HBO Max. Catch the trailer below.

The drama between former director of FBI James Comey and US President Donald Trump unfolds in this two-part Showtime limited series. Its based on Comeys book A Higher Loyalty, and chronicles the controversial events panning the 2016 presidential election, including the Hilary Clinton email controversy and the Russian interference in the elections.

Related: The best Showtime TV series you can watch right now

Brendan Gleeson portrays president Trump, and Comey is played by Jeff Daniels. Check out the new trailer below.

The Snyder Cut, as its popularly known, is a version of the 2017 movie Justice League as put together by director Zack Snyder. Snyder had stepped down during the last stages of the production of the film due to personal reasons. This is his chance to prove that his take on the superhero film is better than the original!

Also see: The best DC movies and shows on HBO Max

Zack Snyders Justice League will stream on HBO Max in four one-hour-long installments. The trailer shows us some unreleased footage of Cyborg and The Flash. It also gives us our first good look at Darkseid!

Come November, your favorite royal family is back on Netflix. The date announcement trailer for season 4 of The Crown gives us our first glimpse at Princess Diana (Emma Corrin). It also introduces Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson) and together, the duo join Olivia Colmans Queen Elizabeth II. This season youll see the Queen struggling to safeguard her line of succession as tensions arise between her and Britains first female Prime Minister. But the tiny first look below wont tell you all that. Youll just have to wait for a longer trailer to see all season 4 characters in action.

Peacock has released the trailer for its upcoming six-part thriller miniseries Departure. A passenger aircraft vanishes mysteriously over the Atlantic Ocean, leaving but one survivor. Its now up to investigator Kendra Malley (Archie Panjabi) and her mentor Howard Lawson (Christopher Plummer) to figure out what happened. Not familiar with the streaming service yet? Check out our Peacock review here.

Also read: Tired of Netflix? Here are 14 great alternatives to try

From the writers of Gone Girl and Sharp Objects comes this new Amazon Prime Video original series with a smashing trailer cut to REMs hit song Its The End Of The World As We Know It.

Also read: The 16 best original series on Amazon Prime Video

Utopia is a comedy conspiracy thriller based on a UK series by the same name. A group of young comic book fans believes that their favorite comic Utopia is real and predicts large-scale events such as pandemics. They then embark on an adventure to save humanity using what they uncover from the comic. The series stars John Cusack, Rainn Wilson, and Sasha Lane, and hits Amazon this September.

Netflix has released a short, but crisp trailer for its upcoming limited TV series The Queens Gambit. Based on a Walter Tevis novel, the show is centered around the coming-of-age story of Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy), an orphan and a chess prodigy with a penchant for narcotics. The series is directed and co-written by two-time Academy Award nominee Scott Frank and will certainly make for an interesting watch in October.

Now that youre all caught up on the new streaming trailers of the week check out the links below to discover great streaming content on your favorite streaming services.

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Aarhus School of Architecture's Drawing of the Year 2020

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For the last seven years, Aarhus School of Architecture has celebrated architectural drawing through the international drawing competition for architecture students, Drawing of the Year. The competition is a joint collaboration with Schmidt, Hammer, Lassen Architects, Vola, and The Danish Arts Foundation and offers prizes from 1,000 to 5,000 (1st prize).

The aim of the competition is to celebrate the architects oldest and most important tool, and to continuously explore new tendencies in architecture through architectural drawing. The drawing process eventually leads to new thinking and to development of ideas for the one who draws.

We strongly emphasize that the competition is run, judged and completed professionally, and that the winners are recognized with decent prices. Further, the competition is followed up by an exhibition, and for three years in a row we have documented the 100 best annual drawings in a publication.

After years of focusing exclusively on digital drawing and mixed media, this year's competition treasures handmade entries only, celebrating the art and skill of traditional representation methods. We want to encourage mastering of hand drawing, and emphasize the relevancy of communicating ideas through hand drawing.

From initial year's themes such as Engaging Through Architecture (2013), Transformation (2014), Habitation (2015) and Sustainability (2016) to recentyear's more theoretically and societally engaged themes like Everyday Utopia (2017), Shaping New Realities (2018), and Post-Human Metamorphosis (2019), the competition has persistently addressed current architectural issues.

We claim that sketches and drawings are the bones of any architectural design, the DNA of architecture, expressing and combining the interaction between the architects mind, hands and eyes. In addition, drawing has always been a practice that differentiated architecture from other disciplines. Eventually, it is an artistic discipline, what unique drawings by many great architects show. Every architect has his/her own style, that cannot be taught or copied, only developed and raffined through practice. In the spirit of many great architects of the past, from Palladio and John Soanes, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, to contemporary architects like Lebbeus Woods, late Zaha Hadid, Tatiana Bilbao, Jeanne Gang, and Eva Prats, architectural hand drawing has evolved into a platform of reflection and exploration of how artistic drawing continues to advance and qualify the art of architecture today.

In the light of the global Corona crisis, we encourage architecture students worldwide to submit proposals that not only revives the hand drawing but also proposals that contribute to knowledge on how the world moves on from here.

What to Submit: The drawing can either be an initial sketch (dream), a project drawing (process), or a definitive drawing (reality). An initial sketch is one of the purest forms of architectural drawing, and could be a simple design concept, or lots of details concerning a much bigger composition. The project drawing holds all the reflections, trials and errors of the process, where the definitive drawing is an elaborated drawing, close to reality. The drawing must describe the unique process or moments that a computer is unable to create.

All kind of drawing tools - such as pens, watercolour, paint, ink, led - can be used.

Entries will be judged on originality and artistic expression, architectural composition, technical skill, and success in communicating an idea. The drawing must be followed by a short text and a title.

The drawing must be scanned in high quality, 300 DPI, and uploaded as PDF, maximum 100 MB.

Announcement of Competition: SEP 1st 2020Submission: NOV 1st 2020Announcement of winners: NOV 27th 2020Exhibition: NOV 27th - DEC 18th 2020

This competition was submitted by an ArchDaily user. If you'd like to submit a competition, call for submissions or other architectural 'opportunity' please use our "Submit a Competition" form. The views expressed in announcements submitted by ArchDaily users do not necessarily reflect the views of ArchDaily.

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Aarhus School of Architecture's Drawing of the Year 2020 - ArchDaily