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Four years ago, CEO Balaji Krishnamurthy devised a jaw-dropping inverted-bonus plan at Planar Systems that put himself dead last when it comes to receiving extra cash: his policy rewards rank-and-file employees first, before moving up the management chain. Since then, this maker of flat-panel displays, based in Beaverton, Ore., has been bombarded with questions from other CEOs about the bonus system, which, Krishnamurthy claims, is a better incentive for every employee to create shareholder value. "Those with a higher capacity to influence the results of the company must first ensure that those with a lower...
...football stadium at Jerez, Spain, follows a similar pattern of broken linearity. The oval stadium seating is topped entirely by a corrugated metal covering, but has its lines interrupted by a pavilion that escalates above the surface. In contrast to the undulating planar surface, the pavilion is a jagged enclosure with the appearance of fractured rock...
...show. Edwin Forrest, an actor from the 1850s, was renowned for his portrayals of theater’s great heroic figures, and his huge twelve-inch-by-ten-inch daguerreotype reflects in faithful detail that summation of his character. Huge and hulking, his portrait seems to extend beyond the planar surface to surreally three-dimensional proportions and his face, slightly jowled and obstinate, demands nothing short of rapt attention. He must have been a commanding bull of a thespian...
...Guggenheim Museum, the S.C. Johnson Wax building, the Robie House, Unity Temple and more than 450 other buildings, each a lesson in poetic functionalism. And the buildings not only fulfilled his ideals, they also worked. Alas, his creations were decorative and quixotic in an era that preferred the planar and the abstract. If Wright's organic architecture did not spawn a movement, it is not because it was wrong-headed or impractical. It is because his vision was so personal, so deeply inhabited by him, that without him it had no breath...
...thing to take serious is the freedom theband attains. In a world of subtle electronicsound and jarringly sincere whining, a Black Grapeachieves escape velocity, fueling its rise withthe trends and taboos of musical ferment. Don'texpect a potpourri from "Stupid, Stupid, Stupid,"expect an intelligent, multi-planar bath inendearing irony