Sentences with phrase «disorienting experience of»

For instance, I wrote about the disorienting experience of gazing at a Hummer advertisement, in Manhattan, a week before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, here:

They are complex images that speak to the increasingly disorienting experience of modern urban existence.

Not exact matches

Clinton's New York victory, expected to be a foundational bloc for her winning campaign, was instead a cruel coda to the disorienting election night experience of an anticipated presidency suddenly vanishing.

Players are thrust into the loud, intense, and athletic experience of racing a car from the driver's perspective through the combination of perception based G - forces, the hyper reality of the cockpit view, and the all - new brutally disorienting crash dynamic.

By strapping a rocket to our hero, Will, Capcom has enabled a unique mix of on - foot and in - air combat that can swapped on the fly, providing for a rather unique — and sometimes disorienting — combat experience.

The experience is disorienting at first and it takes a few minutes for your eyes to adjust — not unlike the first time watching HDTV — but once you settle into it, it's really not that big of a deal (it certainly won't make you sick).

It's something of a mix between falling and flying, and it makes the game a uniquely disorienting, highly enjoyable experience.

They are viewed here as students with high - context learning experiences and expectations (Hall in Beyond Culture, Anchor, New York, (1976), and a collectivistic orientation, with a pragmatic, rather than academic way of looking at the world, who are marginalized and disoriented in US classrooms.

If a dog has been in a shelter or kennel, the stresses of such an experience may cause him to be confused and disoriented for quite some time.

While it starts off with a simple - yet - disorienting gameplay mechanic, Gravity Rush soon blossoms into an experience that makes masters of its children.

The amount of familiarity I felt at times was disorienting, since it extinguishes one of the central pillars of the Dark Souls experience: mystery.

Seeing the gameplay videos at E3, it seemed slightly odd but novel, but seeing it close up, being played by regular people in front of me, the experience was quite jarring and disorienting.

Since Spider - Man: Shattered Dimensions, it has been clear that developers have been trying to emulate certain features of Rocksteady's Arkham series, they just haven't been able to fully replicate it and adapt it for a Spider - man game so I think we can all agree that they should leave it to the masters, hopefully however, were Rocksteady Studios next project going to be a Spider - man game, they'd implement some of the fantastic combat features of 2008's Spider - Man: Web of Shadows which featured fantastic mid-air combat and impressive wall - combat, the only issue which it shares with The Amazing Spider - Man 2 game is that it wasn't executed as well as it could have been and resulted in players complaining that the experience was somewhat disorienting.

The sculpturesʼ stripe scheme not only invokes familiar patterns of the popular imagination, such as those on Barack Obamaʼs ties or 1970ʼs Hang Ten shirts, but also the headily disorienting reaction often experienced when facing the canvases of artists such as Bridget Riley or Kenneth Noland.

Located in the sauna of Stattbad Wedding, a turn of the century bathhouse converted into exhibition and studio spaces in 2009, Peaches» Berlin studio provides an experience not unlike one of her shows: disorienting, delirium - inducing, and full of the unexpected.

Through his thematic commonality of quadruple eyed animals, Weldon intentionally disorients the viewing experience by juxtaposing a subject that is impulsively attractive yet eerily disturbing.

Upon entering the room - within - a-room, the visitor is disoriented by the visceral experience of the fully saturated air, in which visibility is limited to less than two feet.

These works may employ disorienting illusions of depth and flatness, intensely affecting color, or synesthetic auditory and haptic stimuli to introduce new kinds of sensory experience that in some cases suggest a utopian vision of the future and in others embody critical or ambivalent attitudes towards contemporaneous reality — social, political, and technological.

The effect can be disorienting at times, but actually approximates the experience of Alice herself — a disorienting figure who reveled in getting people off guard, to see what they were really like beneath the polite façade.

This clip was the stimulus behind Wolfson's virtual reality work «Real violence» (2017, in which the manic brutality of a witness's iPhone video of real - life violence is translated into a heightened, disorienting, and contextless experience.

(She collaborated with Mr. Serra in 1974 on «Boomerang,» in which he videotaped her listening to her own voice echoing back into a pair of headphones after a time lag, as she described the disorienting experience.)

In 1974, she collaborated Richard Serra on «Boomerang», in which he videotaped her listening to her own voice echoing back into a pair of headphones after a time lag, as she described the disorienting experience.

The result is a fragmented view, a succession of various perspectives, which produces a dynamic experience of space that is at once alluring and disorienting.

Stimulating both reflexive experience and a reflection upon such experience, she prompts an unusual type of self - consciousness, a disorienting and discomforting awareness of the gaps between perception, cognition, and memory, the fluidity — and ultimate unreliability — of each.

In all, the pulsating light, sound and moving imagery of the video result in a near - hallucinatory experience for the visitor, similar to the transformative encounter that can occur when psychotropic plants are ingested — or the disorienting shift of the entire global perspective over the past fifteen years.

Philipsz deliberately selects particular pieces of music to reinterpret vocally and then separates the multiple audio tracks so that the «viewer» experiences different voices as they move through a space, creating a situation in which familiar music is heard differently and the human voice is understood in a radically different and physically disorienting manner.

Whatever the facts, Blachly and Shaw's roles as the delusional guardians of an almost certainly nonexistent archive have allowed them to employ a dizzying array of often contradictory strategies, layering irony, and apparent incompetence on sincere historical inquiry and emotion to create disorienting and comical experiences that leave viewers tantalizingly unsure as to the meaning or ultimate purpose of the Chadwicks» often Herculean efforts.

The psychedelic result suggests a disoriented ocular state that hints at the malleable nature of our reality — a reality that relies heavily on the conviction of our individual experiences.

It can be disorienting or confusing to encounter a photograph of something, but it can also usefully enlighten some little - perceived aspect of real - life experience.»

These stories and glimpses into the worlds of clients at the clinic may function as «disorienting moments» for law students who find that their conceptions of justice and the role of law in achieving social justice have been challenged through their clinical experiences.