One of the finest English rock bands of the moment CONCERTS Brits Wild Beasts play smart guitar music with a touch of summer theatrics; baroque art-pop with cleverly twisted melodies and the ethereal falsetto of lead singer Hayden Thorpe.

But in the end there was time to look out the window. And in the window is the Earth. And she is so fragile. The atmosphere from there is such a small, small layer. And our life on Earth is all in this layer. It seems that if you sneeze once, this life will no longer exist. The ocean from space is incredibly beautiful. In general, the Earth is surprisingly harmonious, there are no sharp contrasts. Everything is so smooth.

The second album of a promising English young man with a guitar. 19-year-old Bugg continues the tradition of just about everyone from Lennon-McCartney to Alex Turner: “Shangri La” is a weighty, hasty and very English song in terms of melody and intonation, which lacks both drive and heartfelt sincerity. Almost perfect music to play during the breaks of football matches or during the credits of an independent British drama about restlessness.

From Thu 12/12 The author of films about superheroes staged Shakespeare CINEMA The author of comic books, the film “The Avengers”, the series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and simply one of the main geeks in Hollywood, Joss Whedon, tired of large-scale film production, gathered friends at his home and filmed a masterful production of Shakespeare’s comedy on a digital camera. The result was a light black and white trinket in the spirit of American comedies of the 1930s.

Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies: “There will be wars, and there will be enough of them. The concept that Russia has adhered to since the time of Primakov is a multipolar world, the Russia-India-China bloc implies a free hand for military operations: after all, if everyone is equal, this means that no one can poke fun at you. This means that states will increasingly resort to force or be prepared to have force used against them.

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A resident of Bristol, whose writings are five years in the future, continues to insist on his method, in general, are already a thing of the past. “And it is a manifesto of electrofuturism, which at the moment already seems like retrofuturism: this is stereo flat and masterful electronics, based on broken rhythms and, moreover, often growing into full-fledged songs. If films based on Kir Bulychev were made in 2013, they could have been well scored with this music.

In 2005, Gorillaz made a splash with their holographic performance at the MTV Europe Music Awards; in 2010, the Japanese virtual singer Hatsune Miku appeared on stage in the form of a hologram (another concert incarnation for her, in general, is impossible). But the real sensation was the performance at the Coachella festival in 2012 by rapper Tupac, who was killed in 1996. The technology is already there, all you have to do is sort out the rights and you can collect Woodstock 1969.

Cost price 765 rub. for plastic plus 100 rub. per flashlight Printing time 8 hours Additional details Any flashlight for illumination from below, a small glass or piece of plastic to place the samples under study on, and four lenses from disposable film cameras. Such cameras cost around 500 rubles, but photo laboratories can give away used ones for free. Test results In Russia, disposable cameras are not common, so we were only able to get lenses of different sizes from different cameras.

The most fascinating scientific book translated this year: a book by Nobel laureate, Tversky’s co-author and Taleb’s admirer about how the brain works under conditions of uncertainty. It turns out that there are two thinking - fast (“intuition”) and slow (“hindsight”), one tries to control the other - conflicts are also possible. You can see how minds differ in choice experiments: Would you rather have a 61% chance of winning $520,000 or a 63% chance of winning $500,000?

Arctic30: WHO ARE THEY? GREENPEACE

With Denis Simachev brands gone out of sight, GJOE became the main Russian brand. Igor Isaev, designer and co-owner of the brand, sews winter jackets, jeans and knitwear in a post-apocalyptic style: “There has been no general trend for a long time. There is almost no division into subcultural genres or styles. Now it doesn’t matter at all who listens to what music and in what style they dress. Only the person himself, his erudition, his surroundings and the road he walks are important.

The first official exhibition of paintings by Boris Grebenshchikov EXHIBITIONS Boris Grebenshchikov is much better known as a musician than as an artist, but his works have a completely legitimate relationship with the circle of the St. Petersburg “New Academy”. In his youth, BG, like all Leningrad avant-garde artists of that time, simultaneously composed music and painted pictures, which were later exhibited at underground concerts.

Fri 06/12 The first performance of the renewed Taganka THEATER Andrey Stadnikov is the chief specialist in verbatim of the new generation. Having found himself together with other graduates of the Theater Leader School in an orphaned theater, he set to work, and this is the result: the performance is Taganka’s confession. Memories, hopes, doubts, beliefs - about freedom, dictatorship, brotherhood and service.

The Moscow indie orchestra is getting rid of the reputation of imitators of the Beirut group: button accordion, winds and other riches here perform an exclusively ornamental function, the main thing being the winding nebulae woven from guitar plucks and shimmering rhythm section.