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A model displays a creation from Japanese designer Teppei Fujita's 2015-16 Autumn/Winter collection during Tokyo Fashion Week on March 21, 2015. AFP PHOTO/Toru Yamanaka

From sharp futurism to wool-and-denim casuals, the finale of Tokyo Fashion Week put the spotlight largely on menswear, aiming to promote the most dynamic area of Japanese clothes design.

"What happens here is probably the future of men's fashion," said Antonio Cristaudo from Pitti Immagine, a collection of fashion industry events in Italy.

"There's individuality, they want to be different," he told AFP. "It's important for all the fashion world to see what's happening in Japan."

Such innovation is nowhere more evident than on the streets of Tokyo, from the vintage and skater styles of Ura-Hara to the slick suits of the Marunouchi business district.

With sharp tailoring and eye-catching accessories, from hats and bags to shiny shoes, the get-up of Tokyo gents is striking to the first-time visitor.

"The menswear is just so much more exciting than womenswear here," said Misha Janette, an American fashion journalist based in Tokyo, who suggested the tendency for women to cover up meant their clothes could be "a bit shapeless."

For the men, meanwhile, "it's ok to do your hair, be into fashion, use skincare," Janette said. "They like to be proper in Japan."

Although Tokyo's dandies shine at home and start trends that travel abroad, the success of Japan's own designers has been limited overseas.

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Monica Jansen Luca Somigli - Futurism on the Threshold of Modernity and Tradition

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Muse - Futurism (Live @ Newport Centre, 19/03/2015)

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We here at Brunch Hate Reads have seen every permutation of terrible in the weekend pages of the NY Times, from the hungover futurism consultants who are so over Brooklyn to the 22-year-old creative souls just trying to find a multi-million dollar place to hang their giant portraits of themselves. We've definitely seen some shit in our daybut we're happy to report we haven't become jaded by all the mason jar trend pieces. As we learned from a piece today, we still have the capacity for dumb-struck awe at their ability to hold up a mirror to modern New York and only notice 1% of the reflection.

This one really is a doozy.

Before we go any further, you should get yourself a glass of champagne and read the PSA below.

PSA: The NY Times has a weakness for self-parodying trend-baiting, masochistic Millennial obsessing, and the perverse lifestyles of the filthy rich. If a reporter with the Real Estate, Style or Weekend sections approaches you about a story, just smile gently and run in the opposite direction. No one is forcing you to become representative of everything that everyone hates about New Yorkers.

The NY Times Presents: Brunch Hate Reads is proud to bring you the story of .1%ers who have trained their children to help them buy multi-million real estate around NYC. "In New York, teens and preteens are becoming savvy connoisseurs of real estate," the Times writes.

No, they are not. There is nothing savvy about being able to functionally use a website.

Here are a few real sentences from the article:

Still, for a lark the couple strolled over to check out their sons find, which, in addition to the pool and an expansive terrace, had bedazzling views of the Hudson and the Palisades. We looked at each other and said, This is unbelievable, Mrs. van Merkensteijn recalled. The idea that you could own a place like this in New York City was amazing.

Skye came along to the closing a few months later.

"They choose where they and their parents are going to have dinner or where theyre going to go on vacation," Stuart Moss, an associate broker at Corcoran, told the Times. "So why shouldnt it extend to where theyre going to spend several million dollars for a residence?" Maybe because (follow us with this one) they are... children? I know this sounds crazy, but maybe children shouldn't be responsible for millions of dollars and major household decisions? We know rich people live entirely different lives than everyone else, but mixing money & kids generally hasn't worked out in the past.

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Brunch Hate Reads: NYC Kids Choose Multi-Million Dollar Apartments For Their Parents

Satellite tracking of development at Olympic stadium in China. (Credit: Digitalglobe/Orbital Insight)

Orbital Insight, a company that provides data analytics of satellite imagery, announced this week that it had closed an $8.7 million Series A round led by Sequoia. Bloomberg Beta, Google Ventures, citizen.vc and Lux Capital also participated in the round. Sequoia partner Bill Coughran of Sequoia will be joining the board of Orbital Insight as part of the deal.

Orbital Insight was founded by Dr. James Crawford, an artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur who has experience building intelligent systems for NASA and other organizations. He was also previously the Engineering Director of Google Books, an experience that helped lead to the idea for his new company.

What this company really is is a Google Books like pipeline that is, an automated AI pipeline designed for understanding and processing satellite imaging at scale, Crawford explained to me.

The past few years have seen an explosion of satellite imaging companies. Older companies like DigitalGlobe continue to put up satellites and produce reams of detailed data. However, theyve been joined by a number of startups such as Planet Labs, Skybox and more who are putting up a myriad number of satellites.

The result of this influx is that between the various companies watching the planet from above, its possible to see changes being made in particular parts of the globe over time, and to track and monitor those changes. Those changes, in turn, can be used to inform decision makers and investors about the status of the economy, agriculture production, and more.

To analyze these images, Orbital Insight has developed machine learning programs that can be taught to find and analyze data points of interest. During its seed phase, for instance, the company used a human to tag cars in parking lots while the program observed it. After a few hundred tags, the program learns to identify cars in other parking lot images without the human being involved.

This wasnt an idle exercise, either. Once Orbital Insights deep learning program learned how to count cars, the company was able to determine a mathematical relationship between the number of cars in parking lots of retail stores in a quarter to the stores revenues that quarter. That type of information is definitely valuable to investors. But for the company, its a proof of concept that will allow it to pursue other kinds of data.

This funding round is geared towards utilizing satellite images to find other sources of useful data. One project, for example, is examining the shadows of buildings in China over time. Using those shadows and a little trigonometry, the company aims to be able to figure out the rate of construction in China to see if its speeding up or slowing down.

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Orbital Insight Raised $8.7 Million To Use AI To Analyze Satellite Data

William Gibson: The different modalities of Pop Futurism
William Gibson describes the different types of Pop Futurism that flourished in the late 70s and early 80s. This is an excerpt from "William Gibson: Technology, Science Fiction the Apocalypse."...

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Jun Tanaka - Futuristic Archaism or Archaic Futurism
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Las Vegas has a habit of reinventing itself time and again to toss out the old and bring in the flashy and new. For the Bellagio, that means a new Italian restaurant from Julian Serrano, the Michelin-starred chef who already serves French fare at the resortsPicasso andtapas at Aria.

Serrano opens Lago, his spin on small plates with a Milanese twist, overlooking the Fountains at Bellagio in April.

Based on the renderings, the space takes on an Italian Futurism look with an entrance wrapped in a 100-foot mosaic with an aerial map of Milan. Colored backlit glass panels symbolize Milans roadways.

The bar area features a glass-and-chrome counter for the bartenders and a white marble-top bar. The back bar mimics Emilio Pucci designs.

In the dining room, arched windows look out on the fountains. The hottest seats will be on the patio framed by a glass-enclosed green wall sitting on the 50-yard line of the resort.

Already the restaurant teases its menu of sashimi, seafood such as shrimp-stuffed calamari and octopus, a one-pound bone-in rib eye, whole roasted suckling pig, baked cannelloni with pulled short ribs, mushroom risotto with tripe and pizzas.

Lago takes over the former Osteria del Circo space from New York restaurateur Sirio Maccioni. The now-shuttered restaurant featured a European carnival tent designed by Adam Tihany.

Serrano has two James Beard Foundation Awards for Best Chef Southwest in 2002 and Best Chef California in 1998. His restaurant Picasso opened 15 years ago at the resort with original pieces of the master's art and pottery decorating the space.

Info: Lago, (702) 693-7111

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The biggest restaurant opening this spring in Las Vegas: Lago by Julian Serrano

Muse - Futurism (Cover)
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Bush Foundation recipients, from left, Trista Harris, Jennifer Almanza, Sarah Bellamy and Kashif Saroya

Trista Harris will travel from her hometown of Burnsville to California's Silicon Valley and the think tanks of Washington, D.C., to discuss the future of philanthropy.

Futurism isn't a new art, but tapping current trends to chart the destiny of the nonprofit industry is, and Harris -- the president of the Minnesota Council on Foundations -- will be at the forefront, thanks in large part to a grant of up to $100,000 from the Bush Foundation.

The St. Paul-based Bush Foundation was established in 1953 by 3M Co. executive Archibald Bush and his wife, Edith. For 50 years, the foundation has awarded sizable grants to residents of Minnesota and the Dakotas who have already enriched their community and aim to take their leadership skills to the next level.

The foundation on Tuesday was to announce 23 recipients of its 2015 Bush Fellows program. Chosen from among 625 applicants, each grant winner will receive up to $100,000 and 24 months to further his or her leadership abilities through formal education or self-guided research. The leadership fellowship is considered one of the most flexible of its kind in the country.

"It's a leadership development program, but we allow the fellows to articulate what they need to increase their leadership capacity and then provide them the resources to make it happen," foundation spokesman Dominick Washington said.

The fellowship does not require recipients to take time off from work, but many do.

"Some people stay on their job," Washington said.

In addition to Harris, three other Bush Fellows hail from the Twin Cities east metro area.

Jennifer Almanza of Inver Grove Heights will use her Bush Fellowship to pursue a doctorate of nursing practice in midwifery. Almanza researched the birthing experience of women living on the Leech Lake Reservation in north-central Minnesota and served as an instructor and charge nurse in the Regions Hospital Birth Center.

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4 Bush Foundation grant recipients hail from Twin Cities