Sentences with phrase «like fictional world»

The illusion has to be consistent, just like a fictional world.

Like Iglesias's more recent large - scale installations, this early work conjures a theatrical environment, a dream - like fictional world within an existing space.

Not exact matches

Bench Accounting asked candidates who they would most like to befriend in the fictional world of Westeros.

let alone the god they present, one who could have created any kind of world he wanted, like an author who has complete control over what shows up in a fictional work; why would god then giddily create / allow so much pain and evil?

Tatooine A commonly used epithet for Kepler - 16b, the first confirmed circumbinary planet, meaning it orbits two suns like Luke Skywalker's fictional desert world from Star Wars.

Played by Michael B. Jordan with a juvenile ardor, rage boiling under his skin, Killmonger is a beautiful fictional creation, the embodiment of this passage from German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk's Rage and Time: «The person who is en - raged in the highest form enters the world like a bullet enters the battle... Wherever rage flames up we are dealing with the complete warrior.»

A decade ago, a character like her would've sprouted a garden of think pieces and handwringing about the long history of representation of black women as loud, no - nonsense, and mean, the fictional equivalent to the Tiffany Pollards and NeNe Leakes of the reality TV world.

Even Altman's practice of shooting much of his action with two cameras can be linked to Renoir's TV - inspired use of multiple cameras in the late 1950s, while his tendency to keep these cameras moving (resulting in a prowling effect that harks back to The Long Goodbye) adds to the Renoir - like feeling that more is going on in this fictional world than one could possibly encompass.

They worked on concepts like compromise and mutual benefit when it came to creative decisions — ultimately there was a very real - world feel to what was happening in this fictional digital world.

Young people like the fictional characters Ludovic and Tris might then find a world that is more accepting, and we could only benefit from the creative possibilities when young people are allowed to be who they are.

The character, Mitch Albom says, was inspired by his real - life uncle, Edward Beitchman, who was also a World War II veteran, who also died at 83, and also lived a life like that of the fictional character, rarely leaving his home city, and often feeling that he didn't accomplish what he should have.

But I do like to shift fictional landscapes, so I decided to use a different pen name for each world.

I write a couple of different series — the Baba Yaga series, based on an updated version of the Russian fairy tale witch; the Veiled Magic series, about a witch - cop in a fictional world much like ours; and my new Broken Rider series, which is a spin - off from the Baba Yagas.

If there are fictional elements that don't have a real world counterpart — like a magic ring or a faster - than - light spaceship — are these things presented in a way that allows us to understand what they do and how they're supposed to work?

However, for a fictional universe, the lack of connection between these worlds does feel like a mistake and missed opportunity, rather than a deliberate parallel.

It almost seems like it is a necessary component of success in the indie world is to write in one fictional world or in a very narrow genre.

This is why it is far easier to mount a narrative on the backbone of something like Grand Theft Auto, where the player is presumed to be an anti-social ne'er - do - well (or rather, that they will act as such in the fictional world!).

The imaginative practices of Dungeons & Dragons, which allowed a group of players to create dramatic stories around a tabletop using dice to resolve combat and certain tasks, immediately spawned successors — both in fantasy settings like Chaosium's 1978 classic RuneQuest, and in all kinds of other fictional worlds.

Last year, during its initial reveal, we learned that Far Cry 5's fictional Hope County, Montana has come under control of the Project at Eden's Gate an aggressive, militia - like cult that believes the end of the world is around the corner.

Once players created their friends, family or fictional characters to their liking, or a little bit over the top if they feel like it, they get thrown into a world where they interact with one another.

In the world of online gaming a lot of players like engaging in lengthy campaigns with a fictional character, generally from some distant planet with a fascinating history, and most of the times an ev...

Add to that a laundry list of customization features, a redesigned career mode, and 32 tracks ranging from fictional fan favorites like Maple Valley to historic locales like Monza and Le Mans, and there simply isn't a bigger racing experience in the world right now.

I may have had my eyes and ears wrapped up in Ragnarok's vision, but trudging as I was with the analog stick — swiveling my head to catch glimpses of nearby trees or distant mountainous shots with my own head, there were times where my legs felt pushed, compelled, into the World like my whole body was entering the fictional realm.

With many different media and contexts, characters, like Breitmore and Ruby, collapse the distinctions between their fictional narratives and the lived world and could be considered part of a larger project of women alias.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

In ink, acrylic and tea, on paper and on canvas, Frohawk, born Umar Rashid in 1976, creates a fictional world that looks quite a bit like our real one.

Ackroyd's work is vital in today's chaotic world, offering us modes of survival in dream - like fictional landscapes, informed by tough realities.

Twitter - spoofing: This underused bit of mischief works like this: Come up with some fictional statement that you can falsely attribute to a friend, enemy or whomever, and then serve up a phony re-tweet as follows: RT@ScottGreenfield Just got out of Social Media Ninja training, ready to take on the world!

Your TV probably has a similar feature, which makes actors on - screen look like they're walking around a soundstage instead of their fictional world.

Ready Player One's futuristic dystopia is different from our world today, but familiar touchstone like Twitch or Wired magazine act as a calming salve even within a dire fictional world.

That is, they score higher on questions like, «It is important for me to write, create, or build something that will exist after my death;» insecure people do not show this tendency.6 In the fictional wizarding world, immortality is a bit more literal (ghosts and living portraits of the deceased), whereas in our world, we leave inanimate remnants behind (like diaries or photographs) to symbolize an eternal existence.