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...development stage, another associate effects supervisor, Habib Zargarpour, studied how waves break and froth by leaning out of a helicopter and sailing on choppy seas with a video camera. "First we found out it's all about foam," says Zargarpour. "Then we found out it's all about mist." Reality was then simulated by ILM's software creators, fluid-dynamics expert John Anderson and programmer Masi Oka. Given variables like wind velocity, for example, the program could determine the size of a wave or the magnitude of a splash. ILM artists would often test hundreds of variables for a single...
...manager of a store in Milwaukee, Wis., that employs 12 instructors to teach 25 classes on the pastime. Anything from ticket stubs to playbills to corsages to diary entries can go into scrapbooks. Processing them in the approved way, however, has come to involve acid-free markers, "archival mist" (a spray that preserves objects), stickers, borders, circle scissors, paper cutouts and a host of other products by art suppliers formerly beholden to the whims of kindergarten teachers and Halloween revelers...
...competitive spirit will fade with maturity. As William Wordsworth (whose brooding peregrinations of the Lake District constitute perhaps the original Ironman sport) wrote, "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?/ Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" Someday even my daughter, or her daughter's daughter, will mist over at the memory of the androgen-swollen, coach-garroting, endorsement-besotted free agent ridiculing his teammates after a tough loss. Like today's purists who long for the bunt, the pick-and-roll and touch tennis, they too will pine for the good old days...
Would-be clients will have to compete with a cloud. Diller and Scofidio's next project is a space for Swiss Expo 2002 that will sit high above a lake in Yverdon-les-Bains, shrouded in mist created by 15,000 high-pressure water nozzles...
...chill mist hung over southern Chechnya late last week, bringing fresh misery to masses of refugees huddled in muddy camps and to many thousands of Russian troops hunkered down in jerry-built bunkers. But the vaporous air lent aid and comfort to the ghostlike Chechen guerrillas, who are successfully using stealth and guile to turn the tide...