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...this virtual virtuosity right from the start, in a flashback that shows young Speed (Nicholas Elia) in maybe third grade, bored with and addled by the test paper in front of him. Its complicated questions blur into "blah blah blah" as the boy loses focus; then he daydreams that it reads, "All drivers to your places, please" - and we see a Formula One-type race as it might be animated by an eight-year-old in the corner pages of a flip book. Later, as Speed reaches manhood and drives in "real" races, the visuals get wildly sophisticated...
...administrative decision to blur the line between two educational eras, however, seems less like an easygoing brand of understanding and more like a collective vote of “no confidence” in the much-heralded replacement to the broken Core. What is more, this freedom of choice may banish our new enrollees to bureaucratic quicksand, as a rocky curricular transition will likely leave them with neither substantial course selection nor the guidance to make essential academic decisions...
...paint people since “I’d make them look more architectural, angular.” Which, he adds, is paradoxical. “I try to make a clock have a little bit of human emotion,” he says. His tendency to blur lines is evident as he compares his painting of architectural lamps to flowers and the side view of a clock to a cityscape. Eighty percent of painting is the preparation, according to Powers, who will spend up to a week making the canvas for a piece. “The worst...
...backward percussion that make the listener wonder whether those words convey love or just paralyzing fear.“We Carry On,” the most manic of the 11 tracks, begins frantically, with factory beats and soundboard wails that carry the song forward into a hypnotic blur, before Utley erases it all with a decayed guitar riff that revives the last minute. This gives way to the album’s single anomaly—the totally out of place ukulele tune “Deep Water,” whose relatively breathable atmosphere serves as a pleasant...
...buildings don't usually wear. His 2005 Torre Agbar in Barcelona is a cylindrical tower covered in a gridwork of painted metal panels. Windows turn up all around, seemingly at random. The entire tower is then surrounded by a membrane of fixed glass louvers fritted with ceramic dots that blur your view of the multicolored surface behind them...