Word: transients
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However street art is transient, technically ‘vandalism,’ and pieces are often removed mere hours after their creation. Its documentation is therefore of high value, as captured on film these images often outlast the pieces themselves...
...film, although an important artifact of this transient genre, is also a critique of street art. “Exit Through the Gift Shop” takes a tragic plunge when, after eight years of gathering footage, Guetta abdicates the camera and begins to create his own street art. Re-naming himself Mr. Brainwash (MBW), Guetta begins to organize his own exhibition of street art, “Life is Beautiful,” despite his relative anonymity...
...creative peak is “Sailing to Nowhere,” which takes a number of surprising turns, beginning by oscillating back and forth between two different riffs until a swell of cosmic synth noises emerges, climaxing in an explosion of strings and an electric guitar solo. The transient nature of “Sailing to Nowhere” makes it one of the most captivating songs on the album, and shows what other tracks could have become if the group had taken a few more risks...
...When Tilikum was wild, he was a transient, not a resident," says Russ Rector, a former dolphin trainer who is now a fierce opponent of keeping any dolphins or whales in captivity. "Resident whales are the kind that live in a fixed place, like Puget Sound. Transients travel the world, eating dolphins, fish, other whales, basically anything that gets in their way." Such animals need to be particularly aggressive, both to establish territoriality when they're passing through and to hunt such a wide range of large prey. Those are traits that don't go away...
...diagnosed him with Combat Operational Stress Reaction (COSR), an Army term to describe typical and transient reactions to the stresses of warfare. COSR is not a condition recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV, the bible of the psychiatry profession, something the Army is well aware of, since it doesn't even consider COSR an ailment. As one Army journal article puts it, "Those with COSR are not referred to as 'patients,' but are described as having 'normal reactions to an abnormal event.' " Thus Marrs, believing Green's psychological state to be normal, prescribed...