Elena

The studio behind The Walking Dead and Humans has announced a boldly titled new series, On Becoming a God in Central Florida. Even more than that intriguing name is the news that the show will pair director Yorgos Lanthimos with lead actress Kirsten Dunst.

The plot will reportedly centre on one woman’s pursuit of the American Dream during the early ’90s. Set in Orlando, Dunst’s character, Krystan Gill, is a widowed water park employee working minimum wage who proceeds to scheme and con her way up to the top of Founders American Merchandise – the very same cultish pyramid scheme which reduced her to ruin in the first place.

Lanthimos work is known for its surreal tone, with Dogtooth, Alps and, most recently, The Lobster, each more hilariously disturbing than the last. For her part, Dunst has enjoyed something of a mini-resurgence on the small screen of late, winning acclaim for her Golden Globe and Emmy nominated turn as Peggy Blumquist in Fargo.

On Becoming a God… sounds even more up our street, and with Lanthimos on board we’re fully expecting it to reach the same eccentric heights of that successful Coen brothers spin-off.

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Bob Dylan et Allen Ginsberg sur la tombe de Kerouac

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This week’s featured exhibitions:

Frances Stark at Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Heji Shin at Real Fine Arts

Viola Yeşiltaç at David Lewis

Fred Lonidier at Silberkuppe

Tobias Rehberger at Gio Marconi

Miguel Ángel Cárdenas at Andrea Rosen

Peter Wächtler, Sam Pulitzer at House of Gaga and Reena Spaulings Fine Art

Mai-Thu Perret at Simon Lee

Solange Pessoa at Mendes Wood DM

Megan Francis Sullivan at Mathew

Henry Gunderson at 247365

Group Show at Misako & Rosen

Have an excellent week.

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We’re not yet capable of building humanoid robots that are indistinguishable from biological humans, but that doesn’t mean we’re not trying. Here are 10 real robots that are helping us achieve this futuristic milestone.

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017 Trailer

The sixth and final chapter in the “Resident Evil” franchise has just come out in theatres, and you may as well start there. The films are best enjoyed out of sequence, with no prior knowledge of the plot. Your bafflement will spice the feast. Who is this woman with the pair of shotguns and the tight pants? What’s this undead beast that wants to eat her face? When did Washington, D.C., get turned to rubble? Be patient, my friend, and nothing much will be explained.

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Ayelet Waldman is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and activist, but to many she is best known as the author of a Times piece, from 2005, in which she stated that she was more in love with her husband than with her four children. (“Her eyes were close set, and she had her father’s hooked nose,” she wrote dryly, about her newborn daughter. “It looked better on him.”) The essay, which inspired her tenth book, “Bad Mother,” was blunt, unapologetic, startlingly candid, and funny. In an age of video baby monitors, it was also heralded as blasphemous, and an awkward fallout lingered. Being contrarian is easy, but provoking the like-minded is a heavy gift. Waldman, whose fans had known her as a parent since she began publishing a mystery series with an overcommitted mother as a sleuth, found herself subject to a gantlet of domestic criticism, hate mail, and “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”

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Just before President-elect Donald Trump met with leaders from Apple, I.B.M., Amazon, Facebook, and other tech companies in mid-December, the transition team made a somewhat puzzling announcement: Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, SpaceX and SolarCity, who would be attending the session in Trump Tower, had been named to the President’s Strategic and Policy Forum, a new committee intended to advise the President on economic policy. The appointment seemed odd chiefly because Musk’s political views—he has been pro-immigration and against the Keystone XL Pipeline while supporting a carbon tax on businesses and expressing passionate concern about climate change—would seem to veer far from Trump and his party.

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The most cogent argument for electing Donald Trump was made not by Trump, or by his campaign, but by a writer who, unlike Trump, betrayed no eagerness to attach his name to his creations. He called himself Publius Decius Mus, after the Roman consul known for sacrificing himself in battle, although the author used a pseudonym precisely because he hoped not to suffer any repercussions. In September, on the Web site of the Claremont Review of Books, Decius published “The Flight 93 Election,” which likened the country to a hijacked airplane, and argued that voting for Trump was like charging the cockpit: the consequences were possibly dire, but the consequences of inaction were surely so. Decius sought to be clear-eyed about the candidate he was endorsing. “Only in a corrupt republic, in corrupt times, could a Trump rise,” he wrote. But he argued that this corruption was also evidence of a national crisis, one that could be addressed only by a politician untethered to political piety. The author hailed Trump for his willingness to defend American workers and America’s borders. “Trump,” he wrote, “alone among candidates for high office in this or in the last seven (at least) cycles, has stood up to say: I want to live. I want my party to live. I want my country to live.” By holding the line on unauthorized immigration and rethinking free trade, Decius argued, Trump could help foster “solidarity among the working, lower-middle, and middle classes of all races and ethnicities.” Decius identified himself as a conservative, but he saved much of his criticism for “house-broken conservatives,” who warned of the perils of progressivism while doing nothing in particular to stop it. Electing Trump was a way to take a stand against both ambitious liberalism and insufficiently ambitious conservatism.

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If last year’s holiday hangover and rush to remove the Christmas decorations produced a twisted, tangled ball of lights, you may be more inclined to just toss them and head to the store for a new set. Instead of giving up and making waste, make an early New Year’s resolution that this year you'll store your Christmas lights the right way. You’ll only need a few clothes hangers (depending on the number of light strands) and some duct tape to ensure smooth storage of the Christmas lights.

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1. Take inventory of your Christmas light stock. Whether you're working with brand new sets or you're fishing lights from storage, take stock of how many strands you currently own.
   
   • Unplug strands that have been plugged in together. If you made one extremely long strand, it will need to be undone, as it will be far too long for storage. Separate the strands so that the end strand has a male and female end.
     
   • Untangle each strand if necessary. Put the kids to work and see if they can unravel tangled strands. Note—–test the light strand before spending time trying to untangle the ball of lights. No use untangling lights that don’t work.
     
   • Re-evaluate your decoration scheme. Whether you’ve moved or have changed your home décor, you may be in the market for new lighting. If last year’s multi-colored lights aren’t doing it for you this year and you want to go all white, think about whether you want to keep the old strands and/or reuse them in other ways. Donate lights that you no longer want.
     
2. Stock up on hangers. You’ll need heavy-duty hangers to hold each light strand, so flimsy wire hangers won’t cut it. Think about how you plan to store your lights too—–hanging them is an option with this method, so you may want to go with a more decorative hanger.
   
   • Purchase or find enough hangers to accommodate each light strand. Unless you want to purchase new hangers each year, consider investing in a stronger hanger.
     
   • Buy or gather enough hangers to hold each, individual light strand. For the neatest storage system, dedicate one hanger per string.
   • Consider using wooden or heavy-duty plastic hangers. Wooden hangers may cost a little more, but they'll withstand the test of time and keep light strands in place.
     
3. Wind each light strand around the hanger. While there’s no specific technique, there are some tips to ensure ease of winding:
   • Tape one end of the light strand at the lower right or left hand corner of the hanger. Use duct tape to ensure the strand stays in place when beginning your project.
     
   • Wind the strand around the hanger, pulling tightly to avoid slack. The more slack in the strand, the more likely it will be to either fall apart of become tangled.
     
   • Duct tape the tail end to the hanger. You can also wrap a rubber band around the bottom if you don’t want to use tape.
     
4. Store neatly. Place the wound-on lights inside a box that has plenty of space for the lights without squashing them. For layering, consider tearing off sides of cardboard boxes and placing on the top of each layer before adding the next layer––this will prevent any entanglement between layers and helps ease any crushing of the lights. Don't have too many layers per box––additional boxes is better than one large one (easier for you to handle too).
   
   • Store the light sets in a cool, dry area, preferable in an individual box or storage bin.
     

EditTips

• Label the storage boxes so that it's easy to locate the lights each season.
• Consider using the hanger portion to hang sets in a designated storage area. That will ensure the lights aren’t crushed by other items and remain pristine.

EditWarnings

• Use this opportunity to discard lights that have frayed, broken or are otherwise spoiled. Badly maintained lights can be a safety hazard when used.

EditThings You'll Need

• Suitable hangers (more can be easily purchased from hardware/department/storage stores or from thrift/charity stores)
• Duct tape
• Helpers (optional)
• Storage boxes

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• Make a Wreath
• Put up Christmas Lights Outside

• Make Decorative Storage Hangers

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Manchester by the Sea

Silver hair never goes out of style. It's chic, it's fresh, and it's sure to turn heads. Unfortunately, attaining true platinum blonde hair is also a long, difficult process, and you will need all the help you can get.

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EditPreparing Your Hair

1. Stop dyeing your hair. Ideally you should not have dyed your hair for a year, but 6 months will do if you are feeling impatient. If your hair was dyed less than a year ago, you may find it has an orange tinge at the ends after bleaching.^[1]
   
2. Condition your hair. For best results, you should get a professional deep conditioning treatment. If this is out of your price range, use a couple deep conditioning hair masks in the weeks leading up to bleaching.^[2]
   
3. Stop washing your hair. Your body’s natural oils will help protect it from the bleach. Your hair will inevitably be damaged by the bleaching process, but going into it with freshly washed hair can make it a lot worse.^[3][4]
   

EditGetting Your Hair Professionally Bleached

1. Find a good salon. Attempting to dye your hair platinum blonde by yourself is a bad idea.^[5] The process tends to be very long, and involves a lot of chemicals that can seriously damage your hair if you don’t know what you’re doing. You may be able to go blonde out of a box, but to achieve truly silver hair you should enlist a stylist’s help. This can get expensive, but it’s not something you want to skimp on unless you want to risk ending up with fried, orange hair, and a burning scalp.^[6]
   
   • If you have very light blonde hair to begin with, you may be an exception to this rule. In this case, a quality toner applied to your hair may be enough to get silver hair. Even so, if you have never used toner before, it is highly recommended that you go to a stylist the first time around, so they can show you the ropes.^[7]
2. Bring a photo. You might be surprised at how many shades of white and silver there are. Bringing in a photograph to show your stylist will help ensure you get exactly what you want.^[8]
   
3. Have realistic expectations. It will probably take a few sessions to get your hair truly silver. This is especially true if you have dark hair to begin with. You should also be prepared for the process to be painful, as the bleach often creates a burning sensation on the scalp.^[9][10]
   
4. Set aside a decent chunk of time. Don’t expect to be in and out of the salon in an hour. Keep your schedule free on the day of your appointment, and be prepared for it to take a while.^[11]
   

EditDoing It Yourself

1. Consider carefully. If your hair is short, straight, light in color, undamaged, and neither very thick nor very fine, you may be able to successfully bleach it at home. If your hair does not meet all these criteria, you can certainly attempt to bleach it yourself, but you should be aware that the odds are significantly against you, particularly if you have never bleached hair before. Whatever kind of hair you have, if you decide to bleach it at home, you should be prepared for the possibility that it will go very wrong. If having fried, yellow hair for a while would make you feel awful, it’s best not to attempt this.
   
2. Get your supplies. You will need a powder bleach (like L’oreal Quickblue), developer (ideally the same brand as the bleach), toner (Manic Panic is a popular brand), a plastic mixing bowl, a plastic spatula, a plastic rat tail end brush, deep conditioner, a few pairs of rubber gloves, some old towels, and a friend to help you.^[12]
   
   
3. Mix the bleach. There is no universal rule for how to do this. You will need to follow the instructions on the bleach you purchased.
   
   
4. Apply the bleach with your rat tail end brush. Use the tail end to section off very thin segments of hair, and the brush end to spread bleach onto both sides of your hair. Start at the crown and work down through the sides and back.^[13]
   
   
   • Begin applying bleach at the tips of the hair rather than the roots.
   • The parts of your hair that already have bleach on them will begin to lighten as you work. If you notice any spots you missed, reapply bleach to those areas.
5. Let the bleach do its thing. Consult the instructions that came with the bleach to determine how long you need to wait. Check your hair as you go. It will not be platinum blonde yet, as you have not yet applied toner. The important thing to look for is lightness. You don’t want orange hair, but yellow is fine. If you do wind up with orange hair, it’s time for an appointment at a salon. When your hair is very light (and likely very yellow), hop in the shower, rinse out the bleach, and deep condition your hair.
   
   
   • You will feel itching and burning on your scalp. This is natural, but if you are in serious pain you should rinse it out and make an appointment at a salon, rather than burning your scalp.
6. Apply toner. There are many brands you can buy, and the application will vary based on which one you select. The broad strokes are that you will comb it into your hair and let it sit for a while. When the right amount of time has elapsed, hop back into the shower and deep condition again.^[14]
   
   

EditTaking Care of Bleached Hair

1. Use purple shampoo and conditioner. These often smell a little funky, and the color can be scary at first, but purple shampoo and conditioner will help keep your hair that striking white color, without developing brassy tones. The concept is similar to when people with blotchy skin use green face powder to reduce the redness of their complexion; because purple is the opposite of yellow, it counteracts those unwanted hues, and keeps your hair looking silver.^[15][16][17]
   
2. Touch it up with toner. This will help keep your hair that pristine white color. Some toners are also purple, like shampoos and conditioners designed for bleached hairs. The application process will be different for different toners, so follow the instructions on the box.
   
   • Consider having this done professionally the first time around if you have never done it before. Your stylist can teach you some tricks to make sure you are comfortable doing it on your own.^[18]
3. Baby your hair. Bleaching does an incredible amount of damage. It will need to be treated with extra care.
   
   • Only wash it a 3 or 4 times a week, and apply a hair mask every time you do.^[19]
   • Blow dry and curl it as infrequently as possible, and use products designed to protect hair from heat when you do.
   • Use only sulfite-free products, to avoid damaging and yellowing your hair.^[20][21]
   • Once or twice a month, apply liquid coconut oil to the ends of your hair, wrap it in a towel, and let it sit for a few hours.^[22]

EditVideo

EditRelated wikiHows

• Choose the Right Hair Highlights
• Add Colored Tips to Platinum Hair Without a Color Cap
• Henna Your Hair Without It Going Patchy
• Highlight Blonde Hair
• Put-a-Streak-of-Color-in-Your-Hair
• Do-a-Strand-Test-Before-Dyeing-Your-Hair
• Take Care of Blonde Hair
• Fix Brassy Hair Color
• Get Red Hair to Blonde/Platinum
• Care for Bleached Blonde Hair

EditSources and Citations

• Videos provided by Tasha Leelyn

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When I woke up this morning I had no clue that today would be the day I discovered my new Favorite Gif of All Time.

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Carrie Fisher watches her mom, Debbie Reynolds, on stage at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, 1963. Rest In Peace.

Chris Pratt is in space. On board a massive spaceship in space. Only his sleep pod has opened too soon in space. The other passengers are still fast asleep in space. But Chris Pratt is wide awake in space.

Chris Pratt grows a beard in space. He befriends a robot bartender in space (played by Michael Sheen in space). But Chris Pratt is very bored in space. He longs for human contact in space. What’s a red-blooded male to do in space?

Jennifer Lawrence is also in space. She catches Chris Pratt’s eye in space. Doesn’t she look lovely in space? Chris Pratt is on the horns of a dilemma in space. But really he’s just got the horn in space. This is all starting to get a bit creepy in space.

Jennifer Lawrence is confused in space. Why is she now wide awake in space? At least Chris Pratt is here in space. He seems like a nice enough guy in space. Maybe they’ll get past second base in space?

Michael Sheen spills the beans in space. Which makes Jennifer Lawrence very angry in space. It seems there’s trouble in paradise in space. She’s seen Chris Pratt’s true colours in space. She punches him right in the face in space.

Jennifer Lawrence is very sad in space. She lets out an agonising scream in space. But no one is around to hear her scream in space. Only Chris Pratt is here in space. And she can’t stand the sight of Chris Pratt in space.

Jennifer Lawrence is still very angry in space. When will Chris Pratt take the hint in space? Or maybe he just needs to give her space in space? But space is the last thing she needs in space. Those dinosaurs were nothing next to a woman scorned in space.

Chris Pratt has made his bed in space. There’s no turning back the clock in space. But what if Jennifer Lawrence needs help in space? Perhaps he could come to her rescue in space. Chris Pratt could still save the day in space!

Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence are still in space. Everything has fallen neatly into place in space. They share a tender embrace in space. A happy ending is on the horizon in space. Which really does leave a sour taste in space.

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How to Survive an Atomic Bomb, 1950

this government-promoted book suggested that men wear wide brimmed hats to protect against the heat flash when the bomb exploded. 

Earlier this year we reported that Bill Murray is playing a dog in Wes Anderson’s next film. Well, the project now has a title, Isle of Dogs, as revealed by the director himself in a short video teaser. The director also gives a quick rundown of the frankly insane cast list, which includes Jeff Goldblum, Bryan Cranston, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, F Murray Abraham, Harvey Keitel, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand and Yoko Ono alongside Japanese actors Kunichi Nomura, Akira Ito, Akira Takayama and Koyu Rankin. And not forgetting another Anderson regular who makes a brief cameo in the above announcement…

This (very) brief first-look footage suggests that Anderson is channelling the tactile charm of his only other stop-motion animated feature, 2009’s Fantastic Mr Fox. Which is absolutely fine by us. With the film currently in production in England, no release date has yet been set, but excitingly Anderson is offering one lucky fan the chance to not only visit the set but also voice a character in the movie (barking, howling and whimpering may be required). That’s right, Wes Anderson wants you for his next film, in exchange for your support of The Film Foundation, a charity started in 1990 by Martin Scorsese dedicated to preserving our shared cinema heritage. Watch the clip and head to crowdrise.com/wesanderson to find out more

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