Word: concepts
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...employees and despised by their bosses. First is the return of the obscure Christian holy day of Whit Monday as a national holiday, just four years after it was demoted to a regular working day - one, in fact, for which employees wouldn't even be paid. That strange concept was introduced in 2004 by a previous right-wing government, which wanted the proceeds from a worked (but not remunerated) Whit Monday to fund care for the elderly. Earlier this year, France's conservative government reversed the universally disdained measure...
...what I study and think about.”Hays chooses not to comment on the body of her recent project, and says simply that the idea sparked in March 2006. Since then she has worked on her pieces in the grander scheme of pursuing one extraordinary concept. Hays focuses primarily on installation and video art, with materials that range from expansive embroidery to large Plexiglass boxes.Installation, Hays says, emphasizes the relationship of objects to one another rather than a single object itself. This kind of art takes into consideration the space and context in which the object is situated...
...indie pop sound in which The Pixies meet OK Go, they can pretty much pull off whatever they want. And what they seem to want now is to chronicle the odyssey of two coconuts through an embroidered world. But don’t be dissuaded by this cross-stitching concept. The music video still comes complete with lions, flamingos, hot-air balloons, and hula-hooping monkeys. Even if they’re only composed of yarn, they don’t lack in entertainment value. In fact, for the full three minutes of “Like...
...directed research at Harvard—says of the scene, “Izzy decided, ‘Just a minute. I’m going to follow that ambulance.’ It could be a plausible narrative thread as much as something else. It challenges the concept of the narrative...
...that long-term weather-forecasting was all but impossible, the discovery chagrined weathermen. But his underlying idea--that even the most minute aberrations could have vast repercussions on larger systems--gave birth to the modern field of chaos theory. He captured the public's imagination with the elegant concept in a 1972 paper titled "Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" Though Lorenz initially used a seagull as his example, he settled on the more poetic creature, giving rise to the term butterfly effect...