Tag: Created
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From an Unassuming California Bungalow, She Created a ‘Micro Versailles’
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Bonnie McIlvaine has lived in three homes in San Diego County, all on the very same spot. The first was an unheated concrete-block house she bought in 1973 for $32,000. A newly divorced schoolteacher, Ms. McIlvaine wanted a break from urban living. She found herself in a small, hilly town with stretches of undeveloped brushland…
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First they created a world. Then they gave ‘Poor Things’ a sky
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For “Poor Things,” Robbie Ryan’s second Oscar-nominated collaboration with “The Favourite” director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone, the cinematographer explored new 35-millimeter film stocks, techniques and equipment. Also, surreal ways of visualizing Victorian Europe through the eyes of Bella Baxter, Stone’s pregnant suicide whom a mad scientist reanimates with her infant’s brain. Ryan’s camera,…
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How ‘Oppenheimer’ created the sound of the Trinity nuclear test
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Over the course of four decades, Oscar-winning sound designer Richard King has accumulated a library of tens of thousands of thuds, thwacks, clacks and other original recordings, yet he’s still always searching for something new. “I’m a big fan of found sounds, things you might find on YouTube, any sort of natural phenomena, like volcanoes,”…
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Feline Loving Interior Designer Created An Elegant Cat Tree
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Toronto-based interior designer Vazken Karageozian’s work has primarily focused upon residential, retail, and hospitality projects across the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and North America, designing various custom furniture pieces along the way. It was while searching for cat furniture for his two felines, Grayson and Ella, the designer realized he would need to apply some…
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Welcome to Hochatown, the Town Created by Airbnb
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The tiny town of Hochatown, on the shores of Broken Bow Lake in the southeast corner of Oklahoma, was created exactly one year ago. And it’s almost entirely thanks to Airbnb. “Airbnb built this town 100 percent,” said Dian Jordan, the mayor of Hochatown. Last November, Ms. Jordan and 128 fellow residents successfully fought to…
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How We Created Our Seascape Gallery Wall…Since We Couldn’t Make ANY Mistakes
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For the second time in my life, I attempted the “no wrong holes” strategy towards the always intimidating gallery wall. Sure, I’ll typically lay it out on the ground, and then try my best to recreate it on the wall, but there are always some hole mistakes (usually hidden behind a piece of art so…
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Jimmy Buffett’s laid-back party vibe created adoring ‘Parrotheads’ and success beyond music
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Jimmy Buffett celebrated slackers before the word existed, even though he was hardly one himself. Why Pfizer is still a top stock pick “Wastin’ away again in Margaritaville,” went the chorus to his most famous song, which became an international singalong. But Buffett was actually an astute, ambitious, aggressive businessman. A statement posted to Buffett’s…
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Jimmy Buffett’s laid-back party vibe created adoring ‘Parrotheads’ and success beyond music
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Jimmy Buffett celebrated slackers before the word existed, even though he was hardly one himself. “Wastin’ away again in Margaritaville,” went the chorus to his most famous song, which became an international singalong. But Buffett was actually an astute, ambitious, aggressive businessman. A statement posted to Buffett’s official website and social media pages announced his…
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How — and why — scientists created a see-through squid : NPR
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Scientists have genetically engineered a squid that is almost as transparent as the water it’s in. The squid will allow researchers to watch brain activity and biological processes in a living animal. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For most of us, it would take magic to become invisible, but for some lucky, tiny squid, all it took…
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Tar-like pavilion created to challenge notions of blackness in design
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References to the tar pits of Los Angeles and community well-being characterise Black – Still, a pavilion by local design studio enFOLD Collective at Craft Contemporary in LA. Created through the initiatives of arts non-profit Materials & Applications, Black – Still comprises a 12-foot-tall black box clad in wood lath and mortar. EnFOLD collective created…
