Sentences with phrase «as urban street»

Exploiting the creative potential of free association and past experience, he created deeply personal, often autobiographical, images by drawing liberally from such disparate fields as urban street culture, music, poetry, Christian iconography, African - American and Aztec cultural histories and a broad range of art historical sources.
Fitted with headsets, viewers are instructed to stand at a table and hold onto a railing as an urban street scene tumbles into view.
Exploiting the creative potential of free association and past experience, he created deeply personal, often autobiographical, images by drawing liberally from such disparate fields as urban street culture, music, poetry, Christian iconography, African and Aztec cultural histories and a broad range of art historical sources, a practice that is particularly evident in this work.
Just like mountains and valleys, buildings and pavement create their own distinctive environments — and none so distinctive as urban street canyons, the spaces between high - rises and above the streets that run between them.
The drive route for the preview included some highway travel as well as urban streets — and the Dart handled both extremely well.

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Its positions in Southern California, the Chicago region, the Northeast, as well as Florida place it within large population centers, which, according to the DEA, gives it access to «potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street - level drug distribution activities of urban organized crime groups / street gangs.»
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, the company's urban planning team, is set to pitch a proposal to rebuild part of a struggling American city as a new high - tech «smart city,» The Wall Street Journal reports.
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal blog Independent Street, she outlined Magic's qualifications, as summarized by reporter Kelly Spors: «He's started a string of successful businesses, could draw celebrity attention to a stodgy federal agency, cares about helping the disadvantaged and urban revitalization and aligns himself with smart people.»
The trend is also helping spur growth at other local online retailers such as Karmaloop.com, which sells urban streetware over the Web and is also considering a public stock offering move to Wall Street in its near future.
Rev Isaac set up his street pastor team in 2003 as a response to gun and knife crime in Britain's urban areas.
Churches increasingly see missions in the streets of American cities; segments of church membership stirring up controversy; urban congregations moving to the suburbs; such issues as birth control, draft resistance, rebellion.
But as the Lannis were mulling a second fast - casual concept in 2011, they saw a void for casual dining in the urban market and decided to shift gears, opening full - service Mexican street fare spot Bakersfield, which has eight locations.
They offer signature dishes such as the Urban Slopper and Xiangxiang Crispy Duck Wings to America's favorite street foods like burgers, steaks, tacos, pizza and more.
Prior to being appointed deputy mayor, Glen served as head of the urban investment group at Goldman Sachs and is often described by political insiders as the «bridge» between de Blasio and the Wall Street and business sectors.
In a subsequent interview, Gehl said he thought the absence of children on London's streets was not only surprising, but worrying, as it evinced a narrowing of the urban «public».
Street Beat had the audience on the edge of their seats, applauding and hooting with joy as they watched acrobatic urban dance moves accompanying the music.
The announcement comes as a coalition of affordable housing advocacy groups urge de Blasio to fire Glen on the grounds that she is bringing a for - profit investment model from Wall Street — she headed Goldman Sachs» urban investment division — into the de Blasio administration.
The Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, a swath of empty property south of Delancey Street, will get 450 affordable housing units as part of a major redevelopment project — and those units will remain affordable forever, city officials announced Tuesday.
The study also highlighted that green infrastructure has both positive and negative impacts on air quality at street levels, depending on the urban location it is in as well as its vegetation characteristics.
Gambale says the company is working on the urban angle in Australia with its Sydney Satellites project — a series of tests evaluating whether Locata can provide precise positioning for police, other emergency services and courier firms as they navigate the city's streets.
«In addition to cooling urban microclimates, these trees, which are integrated within dense urban street networks, also provide other benefits, such as reducing the risk of flash flooding and cleaning the air,» says Peter Edwards, Principal Investigator at the Future Cities Laboratory and Director of the Singapore - ETH Centre.
It is a sad irony that at the same time as Zaraska notes the value of urban trees in dealing with pollutants, a council contractor in Sheffield, UK, is busy cutting down hundreds of trees in the city streets.
In urban areas, moving the stops farther away reduces the amount of pollution transit users breathe, as long as the stop is not so far that it gets pollution from the next street, researchers said.
In many urban neighborhoods the most convenient places to shop are corner stores, such as the bodega down the street from the Bronx farmers market.
Engineers can build autonomous vehicles capable of cruising city streets without the aid of a human driver, as demonstrated two years ago in the DARPA Urban Challenge.
As principal - in - charge for urban planning, urban design, and campus planning, Ms. Scott Brown's work has included urban planning for South Street in Philadelphia, Miami Beach, and Memphis, Tennessee; programming for the National Museum of the American Indian; and, a plan for the Bouregreg Valley in Morocco.
I love all things visual and urban, and get really excited by street fashion with the city as its backdrop.
Some designers that worked the look are; Acne, Max Mara, Victoria Beckham, Adam Lipples and also hight street brands as Zara and Urban Outfitters.
Today I am taking you off for an urban adventure as we visit the streets of Chicago.
I absolutely would love them because they look comfy and great to style with some urban and street styled inspired outfits I love your outfit as always and know you can pull them off with anything!
If you're a bit more urban and edgy, you might want to head to the coolest part of town and include some cool street art or pop up shops as a backdrop.
I'm all nature as well as, urban i.e. go from writing and playing in woods of VT to walking streets of NYC for culture and the human pace of diversity.
A low - key but powerfully affecting urban drama that tells a familiar story — of drugs, power and respect on the inner - city streets — with such unusual authenticity and dramatic force that it's as if we're seeing it for the first time.
Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Director: Jon Foy)-- An urban mystery unfurls as one man pieces together the surreal meaning of hundreds of cryptic tiled messages that have been appearing in city streets across the U.S. and South America.
His declaration comes a little while after I wonder whether he considers Chiron — the young hero of Jenkins» Moonlight, who suffers through many injustices of life on the streets of urban Miami as he grapples with his sexuality — to be, at heart, a romantic.
Scored to a thrumming Chemical Brothers score, Wright's direction has a stylishness that initially generates a mood of unreal fantasticality, his camera racing, spinning (as if falling down rabbit holes), and whip - panning through unnerving architecture and crowded urban streets, climaxing with a subway fight between Eric and four adversaries that boasts brawny single - take lucidity.
Tagged as Bradley Cooper, Charlie Tahan, Danny Cannon, Dax Shepard, Dredd, Ed Harris, Elisabeth Shue, Frankenweenie, Game Change, Hit & Run, House at the End of the Street, Jay Roach, Jennifer Lawrence, Jess Rowland, John Heilemann, John McCain, Julianne Moore, Karl Urban, Kristen Bell, Lena Headey, Mark Halperin, Mark Tonderai, Mary Shelley, Max Thieriot, Nicolle Wallace, Olivia Thirlby, Pete Travis, Sarah Palin, Sarah Paulson, Steve Schmidt, Tim Burton, Tom Arnold, Woody Harrelson
In last week's Dr. Strange # 384, Bellaire sticks to a palette of urban grays and browns as Stephen and Loki face off in the street, a drab backdrop for the bright pink and green used for their magic spells.
The new Netflix film has been touted as a gritty urban fantasy, where humans and orcs are entangled in a bitter species war on the streets of Los Angeles.
Agnès Varda's New Wave masterpiece about a famous singer / fashion model who abandons her blond wig and rediscovers her identity on the streets of Paris is jam - packed with vivid detail, an expressive graphic style, and an eye for urban chaos, and is at least as engaging and inventive as Breathless and The 400 Blows.
Let's start this review out on front street: Describing Urban Trials Freestyle without mentioning it's obvious creative template, Trials HD, is a fruitless endeavor, even going so far as to ignore the obvious reference in the name.
From director Benjamin Franzen, this acclaimed doc, which originally aired on PBS» «Independent Lens,» traces the rise of hip - hop from the urban streets of New York to its current status as a multibillion - dollar industry.
Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).
Also too good to pass up: Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable, a striking documentary profile of one of the strongest practitioners of urban street photography, directed by Sasha Waters Freyer, Apr. 15; Godard Mon Amour, director Michel Hazanavicius» cool, dramatized portrait of iconic French auteur Jean - Luc Godard (Louis Garrel), as told by Godard's one - time wife, Anne Wiazemsky, Apr. 15; and, from Japanese master Koreeda Hirokazu, The Third Murder, a chambered nautilus of a murder mystery, starring Fukuyama Masaharu and Yakusho Kôji, Apr. 6.
As one of four racing games in the Vita's launch, it's the only one holding the fort down for the urban street racing sub-genre, but it's completely lifeless and devoid of originality.
She's designated as the subservient voice of reason for the protagonist, Surly (voice of Will Arnett), a purple squirrel (apparently there really is one of these) who has led most of the park's rodent population to embrace the easy pickings in an abandoned nut shop across the street from their urban forest.
Less a city symphony than a muted impressionist painting of urban drifting, the film takes place within the shadowy side streets, modest corner bars, and nondescript 24 - hour diners of the eponymous northwest Portuguese city, where Jake is burning time as a manual laborer and flannel - clad somnambulist.
Rain washes an urban landscape, a sad - eyed man gazes into the night, a pensive woman wanders naked down the street as if looking for home; next scene: the yellow tape of a crime investigation.
He uses still shots of street life as the visual connective tissue between capturing meetings held by various minority groups: Columbians celebrating a World Cup victory and then taking their party to the pavement; a mature LGBT community circle discussing the venue for future meetings; a Halal butcher blessing chickens prior to slicing their throats and having their still - twiching bodies dragged through various grubby processing machines; a group of Hispanic activists gathering stories of small business being forced out of their premises due to unfair rent hikes; and even a group of Christian urban beautifiers who are seen descending into intense prayer when one of their number explains that her father is dying.
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