The sci-fi imagery of the Hype Williams-directed video inspired West to take his music in a more futuristic direction.
With new names like Alero and Intrigue, the suggestion is that Oldsmobile is headed in a futuristic direction.
If you see a kid with earbuds on, chances are she's working to figure out whether Kendrick's new Afro-futuristic direction on the record's first half is cool with her, or whether the more traditional second half, filled with jams like "Hood Politics" and "How Much a Dollar Cost," is her speed.
This is the more experimental and futuristic focus of the Consortium.
"The direction is correctly futuristic," Botstein says, "but if it were up to me, I would start with more modest measures".
The insights on the relationship between grain structure (and strength) and deformation mechanisms are envisaged to be important in providing a new direction for the futuristic design of high strength-high ductility NG/UFG materials such as austenitic stainless steel and twinning induced plasticity steels.
It also describes a number of techniques to use for thinking strategically, such as designing visions, becoming entrepreneurial, and engaging in creative and futuristic exercises to evaluate possibilities for program direction.
Instead, there's Kelis, who brilliantly integrates her futuristic R&B hits with her new retro-soul direction: Trick Me now comes interpolated with the brass line from Dawn Penn's aged reggae anthem No No No; Milkshake is transformed into a kind of lop-sided skank, provoking a mass singalong.
It's hard to classify Lionel Shriver's latest novel, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047, as futuristic dystopian fiction if for no other reason than the present direction and momentum of the U.S. could bring us something like Shriver's vision in a decade or so.
