Sentences with phrase «of unconventional ideas»

Considering its sheer volume of unconventional ideas, it's a good thing this Swedish Comedy relies on a conventional detective story framework to tell its quirky tale.

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While unconventional, the idea of reaching out to a single potential buyer proved a winning strategy for Whole Foods.

One of his first acts at Pixar, he told McKinsey Quarterly, was to track down the frustrated employees who felt their unconventional ideas were not getting enough credit, and have them make a movie together.

We love ideas and products that may seem unconventional at first, but in the long run, could make all of our lives much better.

In fact, much of Nussbaum's own rather unconventional view of democracy in this book derives from the Gandhian idea of Swaraj (self - rule), in which control of one's inner life and respect for other people create self - aware and engaged rather than passive citizens.

One examines how the presence of a prominent, established leader in a research field discourages new people from entering it and presenting ideas considered unconventional.

In the 1970s Barbour began publishing his ideas in respected but slightly unconventional journals, like The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and Proceedings of the Royal Society A.

The idea of using lethal toxins to make life - saving medicines may seem unconventional, but humans have been doing it for centuries.

The idea of replicating an embryo on the end of a mammal limb to regrow it is considered too unconventional by most peer reviewers.

Of course, not all controversial or unconventional research leads to breakthroughs, and many — probably most — ideas that appear crazy to critics quite simply are.

She said that the challenge was an extension of her father's legacy, as his ideas were often considered unconventional for his time, as well.

I chose a more unconventional path and simply drew up a list of eight scientists (working in almost every continent) whose ideas I found the most interesting, and wrote to all of them.

Check out Part 3 of this series for unconventional ideas to boost your vitamin D levels.

The goal of this blog is to inspire you within the four walls of your home and I hope my unconventional approach to fall will inspire you this season to do something a little different and to incorporate some of my ideas into your fall home!

Cruise along the Mississippi River on one of the city's riverboat tours for a romantic and unconventional date idea.

However, there is a stigma connected to the whole idea of dating such an unconventional way.

Madeline finds herself drawn to Adrian's unconventional sensibilities, but conflict eventually arises between the two when Madeline's eccentric clients don't meet Adrian's ideas of what art should be.

Pitt's conviction in the role of Beane, once a rookie player with potential that never developed into success, turns the volleys of negotiations over trades and verbal showdowns over his unconventional ideas into dazzling drama.

Grenville blithely leaves behind his idealism in favor of a more conventional idea of success, only to have his conscience pricked by Dalrymple's unconventional daughter, Charlotte, an activist for social justice, even as he's entering into a comfortable if passionless engagement with Dalrymple's other daughter, the passive, and much simpler, Emily.

Not too surprising that an unconventional idea would come from an such unconventional group of enthusiasts.

But guerrilla marketing — the idea of using a small amount of money to do something unconventional — should be a part of every writer's book marketing strategy.

Elsewhere in the world, the idea of «going negative» has gone from central banking taboo to just another unconventional policy tool, with Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz opening the door to negative rates last December and U.S. Fed chair Janet Yellen saying in May that she isn't ruling them out.

For a mutual fund company, Steadyhand takes an unconventional approach by offering low - cost funds, co-investing along with clients, hiring portfolio managers who make concentrated bets on their «best ideas», behaving like part - owners of businesses and promising to close its funds to new investors when the fund gets too large.

The next morning, I typed up a couple pages of solid coherent dream memory and other ideas that spawned from it — continuity, utilizing all the characters in an unconventional fashion, mini games — the works.

Toasty Games created an incredible spin on the unconventional weapon idea and developed a small western rhythm game, relying on the power of quick witted, quick drawing rock, paper, scissors to progress.

The raw aesthetic of Cass Corridor art also seemed most in tune with the conceptual ideas and attitudes of artists such as Eva Hesse, Tony Smith, Mark di Suvero, and Robert Rauschenberg, who used unconventional materials and produced unorthodox assemblages.

The Idea Fund provides cash awards to artists at three distinct levels: Spark ($ 1,000), Catalyst ($ 4,000), and Stimulus ($ 7,000) artist - generated, or artist - centered projects that exemplify the unconventional, interventionist, conceptual, entrepreneurial, participatory, or guerrilla artistic practices that occur outside of the traditional frameworks of support.

Lee Tusman presents projects that straddle the intersection of ideas that are socially - based, urban in nature and that combine unconventional practices with contemporary visual arts and internet media.

For this reason, much of the work she has done has consisted in developing ideas and projects with artists to facilitate meetings points — whether these are in the form and space of exhibitions, events or printed matter — for audiences to experience art in unconventional ways.

In 1967 he published «Paragraphs on Conceptual Art,» his unconventional and fresh ruminations in which he wrote, «In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.

Dustin Yellin collects, manipulates and constructs three dimensional collage pieces suspended within a structure which both presents the clippings as sculptural objects and fragments of text and ideas, they assume a cohesion based on unexpected coincidences as well as the artist's careful collecting and unconventional collation techniques.

The weaving techniques she learned from her father are transformed through her use of these unconventional materials and geometric patterns, building upon her own cultural identity while commenting on the idea as a whole.

HK: The idea of curating exhibitions in unconventional spaces is not new in general.

In Light Giver Light Taker and Chalk Bike, Rhode expands the idea of what can be used as a drawing instrument by utilizing unconventional objects to make marks, here in sweeping, performative gestures, on the gallery's walls and floor.

Unconventional and politically engaged, his projects also challenge the idea of the artist as the exclusive creative force behind an artwork.

Drawing on unconventional means of transformation, such as alchemy and magic, as a way to examine the metaphysical changes that occur when materials are used to conceptualize complex ideas, Now You See It — which includes work by Walead Beshty, Alexandra Bircken, Ceal Floyer, Tom Friedman, Felix Gonzalez - Torres, Wade Guyton, Wolfgang Laib, Robert Morris, William O'Brien, Mitzi Pederson, Dieter Roth, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Anna Sew Hoy, Gedi Sibony, Rudolf Stingel, Lawrence Weiner, Jennifer West and Erwin Wurm — proffers the notion that visual recognition alone is insufficient to determine an object's materiality.

In contemporary practice installation art continues to provide a fertile playground for new ideas and the use of unconventional materials, from Martin Boyce's dystopic, futuristic staging, to Clare Barclay's manipulated materials, Nathan Coley's cardboard constructions and Jim Lambie's psychedelic floor designs.

Together, they revealed how Latham's ideas continue to resonate: from taking an unconventional approach to the reception and transference of knowledge to prioritising the role of the artist in society as an agent for change.

Bailey's exhibit at the Betty Cuningham Gallery provides a welcome respite from the kind of nasty energy and ideas Trump - like politicians spew — so different from the picture - perfect, yet unconventional, world to which Bailey transports us.

Finally, in the case of climate in particular, we think a contest will also be a good way finding unconventional ideas wherever they are in the world and helping channel the different points of view about this topic in constructive ways.

Inspired by the works of Buckminster Fuller and Yona Friedman, Cloud Cities offers an unconventional glimpse into how humans may situate themselves in between earth and sky, challenging ordinary ideas, boundaries and relationships with space and how it can be occupied.

Some things just aren't good ideas, like the below video of a highly trained person using an unconventional method to light his barbeque grill — liquid oxygen.

We love ideas and products that may seem unconventional at first, but in the long run, could make all of our lives much better.

Sure, it might sound unconventional — similar to the idea of Universal Basic Income or «Helicopter money» — but here's why it makes some sense.

There's a constant appeal to write your career story around all of the forward - thinking, enterprising and unconventional ideas you have generated.

One day Safdie got the idea of an unconventional way to illustrate, in a public way, the preservation efforts that were being undertaken.

In order to put the idea of professionalism in its full perspective, we need to consider many things, but we should acknowledge the unconventional nature of our business as it relates to other sales fields.

And the winner of his company's «Fresh Idea» award shared some of the unconventional principles he runs his business by:

I love some of the unconventional «wreath» ideas that aren't wreaths at all!