Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...quality contemporary form. The album’s a logical progression for the band. Their music has been headed this way since they first experimented with static on 2003 track “Noisy Summer,” whose opening blast growled threateningly through the background of an otherwise bouncy and adorable chant. From the first ominous rumble out of Foo’s bass on “Aly, Walk With Me,” it’s clear that the tight, swinger style of 2005’s “Pretty in Black?...
...French café mix played in the background, lending a dreamy quality to proceedings as students clambered onto a scaffold for a better view of the eclipse. Colorful paintings and photographs of outer space covered every inch of the walls, lit only by the skylight and a few dim, red lights...
...Have you ever written for the silver screen? Is it something you want to explore further? CME: I have written some, but I haven’t had anything produced yet. I have done a lot of script readings but my background is more strongly in drama. [...] It is a form I am really fascinated by and it shares so many qualities with playwriting. Each form helps me to think in the other one. The tools you need for dramatic writing cross over between the media, but the actual media is very different. You have to think in images...
...read “in perpetuity through the end of time” is representative of a character that is shallow, but delightfully so. Keiller’s performance is masterful; her character is in total control of her huge catalogue of barbs and imposing enough to silence the background music herself without saying a word.Other highlights include enlightened discussions on Breakfast at Tiffany’s (“The movie, not the novella”), guidelines for coming out of the closet as a public figure (“Are you British? Are you knighted...
...days, with the only major difference between the sequences being the time of day. He then strung seventy-five of these segments together to create a work that is nearly fourteen hours long. Over time, the actors gradually recede out of the viewer’s mind, while the background eventually becomes the focus, inverting the viewer’s normal perception of people and their environment.The most recent work in the exhibition is “Sections of a Happy Moment,” a sequence of 180 black-and-white photographs capturing a single moment. A Chinese family...