Word: craftsmen
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...Friedman, president of Manhattan's Neon City, which has such clients as Bloomingdale's and Haagen-Dazs ice cream parlors. "It's becoming a necessity for business, especially storefronts." Most workshops cannot keep up with orders, and not only because their business is growing. The problem: finding enough skilled craftsmen. Neon cannot be mass-produced; each piece of tubing must be heated and then bent by hand. There are only a few hundred neon artisans left in the country, and their average age is 50. Now, however, a dozen schools have opened to train newcomers. Architects are turning to neon...
Peering through the vines and branches that enshroud the ruins, the Colorado team was awed by the handiwork of the ancient craftsmen. Slate-roofed towers jut from the mountainside, the possible burial sites of the elite. Below them are 16 round multistoried buildings constructed of slate, wood and mudlike mortar; many of the structures are decorated with stone carvings of birds, animals, geometric designs and human stick figures capped by feather headdresses. Colorful paint survives on some walls, and large swatches of fabric were found scattered among the burial sites. Terraced fields sculpted into the slope indicate sophisticated agricultural techniques...
Nowadays tapestry weavers try to make modern corporate headquarters look properly palatial. And where the Renaissance craftsmen typically copied famous works by painters like Raphael, most contemporary weavers follow the lead of those 20th century painters and sculptors who have worked in an abstract mode. Their credo is "honest" use of materials. It is "dishonest" to use fibers as if they were paint, to represent specific images...
...plant replicas were the brainchild of George Lincoln Goddell, the museum's first director, who in 1886 began seeking perfect botanical replicas for a natural history exhibit. The quest ultimately led him to a pair of craftsmen in Dresden, Germany...
...Gremlins has enough style and savvy to stand on its own as the summer's most original Hollywood picture. Like so many other recent works produced by the film-school generation, this is at heart a movie about movies, and about the innocent thrills a sophisticated team of craftsmen can elicit; it should give pleasure to stouthearted children, as well as to Ph.D.s in cinema studies, and in the bargain share the laurels of summer box-office smash with the inevitable Indiana Jones. This is what superior popular moviemaking is all about: using high technology and a cheerfully bonkers...