Sentences with phrase «fillip on»

About eight months ago I spent a Friday Fillip on the TED video of Maira Kalman, an illustrator and writer perhaps best known for her New Yorker covers.

I had a number of positive comments about my last Friday Fillip on computer bags and Squidoo.

About a year ago I mentioned Pandora in the course of a Friday Fillip on Etta Baker; this was the website I used to listen to popular music, blues, jazz and other non-classical ditties.

I continue to make amends for that foolishness, one amend being today's Fillip on the work of a marvellous illustrator.

In a way, it doesn't count if you get to make them up; but a fillip on names would be remiss if it didn't cast at least one or two glances at the man who coined Pecksniff, Gradgrind, Uriah Heep, and Abel Magwitch, and who named his lawyers Grimwig, Tulkinghorn, and Sampson Brass.

Now that has got a fillip on the back of news about Amazon having poached a smartphone expert who has rendered 2 decades of service at Microsoft.

Not exact matches

«Construction work on venues and transport links has been underway for several years already, and is unlikely to provide a significant fillip to the U.K. economy this year,» said Moody's in a May report.

That could provide a major fillip for brands targeting the world's top luxury spenders, though who benefits most will depend on which brands are able to lure in China's big - spending youth - now the driving force in the market.

Amid OPEC supply compliance, WTI markets are focusing on dwindling inflow of Crude from Canada to Cushing due to limited accommodation on the Keystone pipeline.The disruption is providing a fillip to WTI prices while the stronger dollar has Brent prices falling and narrowing the WTI - Brent spread.

WISE OLD OWL This might be another good one to start on, since it's fairly simple in design, with no added fillips to arouse young tempers.

And that gives further fillip to the fact that the hands of the military establishment is tenaciously still holding on to Nigeria and won't want to be relegated to the background over who gets what anytime soon.

Available in both petrol and diesel variants and being the only SUV in the segment to come with 7 seats, Honda is betting big on the product to provide a fillip...

Available in both petrol and diesel variants and being the only SUV in the segment to come with 7 seats, Honda is betting big on the product to provide a fillip to its dwindling sales.

Use of tablet devices in sports would get a major fillip when Phoenix Suns uses the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet for its sessions both on and off the court.

Taking its title from Wayne Koestenbaum's 2007 book Hotel Theory (a philosophic enquiry into the hotel state of being), this is the fourth title in Fillip's ongoing Folio Series presenting writing by critics, artists and curators that engages specific and recurring questions on international contemporary art.

His writing has appeared in publications such as C Magazine, Canadian Art, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Fillip, Little Joe, No More Potlucks and Cinema Scope, as well as in many books and anthologies on artists such as Daniel Barrow, Candice Breitz, FASTWÜRMS, Luis Jacob and Andy Warhol.

Meanwhile, Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope have spurred on this year's competitors, describing how last year's victory has been a fillip for their work.

Her selected recent publications include, among others: Economies of Common Infinitude, Vancouver, Fillip Publishing (2012); Six Problematics on Artists and Their Work, Warsaw, Bęc Zmiana (2011); Eccentric Space, Utrecht, Expodium, (2011); Architectural Space as Agent, Vancouver, Fillip (2011); Testify: The Consequences of Architecture, Rotterdam, NAi Publishers (2011), and other.

Her writings on history, Indigenous art, and vernacular architecture have been published by MIT Press, BlackDog Publishing, Revolver Press, New York University, The Fillip Review, Canadian Art Magazine and the National Museum of the American Indian, among others.

Her writings on history, art, and vernacular architecture have been published by MIT Press, BlackDog Publishing, Revolver Press, New York University, the Fillip Review and the National Museum of the American Indian, among others.

We swam in the sea, it got misty and we couldn't tell what time it was anymore, Peter Amby Gallery, Copenhagen Statements, with Chert, Berlin, Art Basel, Basel POST, curated by Jacob Fabricius, Antechamber, North galleries, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen At Night They Leave Their Century, Chert, Berlin Drugstore Beetle II, Special Collections Library, California State Universty, Long Beach, California 2011 Adobe, San Francisco, California The Discovery Award, Arles Photography Festival, Arles Room 129, commissioned by Fillip Magazine, Fair, Vancouver, British Columbia 2010 Carry On, Galerie West, Den Haag 2009 Believe Inn, Chicago, Illinois Public Space One, Iowa City 2008 To a Sunset in Palos Verdes, siteLA, Los Angeles I Will Go Somewhere and Send You Something from There, Right Window, San Francisco

If that creates a sufficient connection to one of SLAW's themes of legal research then I have justified the true purpose of this Friday fillip: Immediately go to http://www.simpsonsmovie.com (and click «Enter the Site») and click on the link to create your own Simpsons character (or «avatar») using simple - to - use online tools.

Ever thoughtful, I've got just the solution: a Friday Fillip that will keep on giving for perhaps three or four hours.

With Simon F being in Spain and all, it seems we fell down a bit on one of our regular editorial items — the Friday Fillip.

This fillip should be bookmarked, because it can give and give and give throughout the week and on...

End of the month and time to clean out the Fillip Folder on my machine — which means it's a six - pack today, apropos for (what should be) the long weekend, perhaps.

Near the top of this fillip I said that the fuss about vocal fry contained a number of threads, only one of which was about women's voices; to hear a broader discussion of fry and why some folks are irked about it, listen to the recording of a broadcast on National Public Radio.

Must be the Zeitgeist, because at roughly the same time Alex Iskold of Read / WriteWeb reported how podcasting is on the decline, losing steam to video, among other things — and I'd teed up a sound file as today's fillip.

We've looked a poetry before on Slaw — «Law Firms Sponsoring Poetry ``, «The Lawyer as Poet ``, «Creative uses for law reports ``, and another Friday Fillip about doggerel — so I thought that this might be of interest to the poetasters among us.

I seem to think I go on a lot about food on the Friday Fillip — but that's not the case, I discover.

... comes on a Thursday this week, because tomorrow, Good Friday, is a holiday and, I suspect, no one will be reading Slaw, even a Slavian fillip.

Those of you who read the Fillip for leads to «interesting stuff» I've found on the internet needn't fear: I'll lift a theme out of each episode and interpolate notes on fresh findings that touch on that theme.

On behalf of the CBA staff here in BC, please enjoy whatever comes next (and I'll continue to watch for those Friday Fillips!)

I'm also going to gather the accumulating episodes on another website, so that people coming late to the Fillip can catch up with the story.

(I enjoy his work and did a fillip just over a year ago on another of his projects.)

This fillip, then, is a meditation on cricket, but not the serious game, which calls for rather more concentration than a fillip should engender if you want to understand the rules.

The fillip today lies explicitly on the juncture between words and pictures: it's an online visual dictionary.

The Oxford University Press Blog, home to much that catches my attention, has a piece on «How gut bugs affect brain health.,» a trifle earnest for a Friday Fillip, I'll admit.

Usually I toss»em; occasionally I read»em and toss»em; but for some reason I accorded the last one a place on my hard drive — where I found it today when browsing through the oddments section looking for a Friday Fillip.

Followers of the fillip will know I often like to get away from words on this weekly indulgence, and this is one of those times.

Each day except Saturday there'll be a post under the rubric Today: Summaries Sunday will present precis of Maritime Law Book case summaries; Monday's Mix will offer half a dozen excerpts from leading Canadian law blogs; Tips Tuesday will give you a brief bit from the prior week's advice on SlawTips; Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII continues the feature that's already in place; Thursday Thinkpiece will publish a long excerpt from a recently published book or journal article; and the Friday Fillip promises to be once again light - hearted.

But this fillip isn't really an essay on wordplay.

But that one might be on the cusp of polite conversation for a Friday Fillip...