Sentences with phrase «one's childhood fascination»

I have wondered at times whether it isn't this old anticipation of the Kingdom that explains Keillor's childhood fascination with radio (a subject he returns to frequently in his New Yorker stories, published recently by Atheneum under the title Happy to Be Here).

Portland, OR About Blog The Pitcher Plant Project is Sarracenia curious childhood fascination of carnivorous plants that has grown to be an intense journey of wonder, creativity and growth.

This e-publication reflects a strange, imaginative world of fantasy reminding us about childhood fascinations.

A Westinghouse finalist's childhood fascination with fossils turns into a career in paleontology

In 1989, while dividing her time between substitute teaching and her three children, Schweitzer steered back toward her childhood fascination with dinosaurs.

That childhood fascination was so great that he gave up a promising law career to become an astronomer.

From a childhood fascination with cactus plants, to field work in Brazil tracing the wild progenitor of the cassava plant, to learning the subtleties of rice cultivation from an expert farmer in the highlands of Thailand, evolutionary biologist Barbara Schaal has found science to be «just so much...

Just one biology class convinced Congdon that he could make aliving pursuing his childhood fascinations.

From a childhood fascination with cactus plants, to field work in Brazil tracing the wild progenitor of the cassava plant, to learning the subtleties of rice cultivation from an expert farmer in the highlands of Thailand, evolutionary biologist Barbara Schaal has found science to be «just so much fun.»

A childhood fascination with space exploration eventually led to a full - time role at NASA for a health physics professor.

Joe Parker's childhood fascination with insects led him to a position as an assistant professor of biology at Caltech.

In this inspiring TED Talk from Avatar director, James Cameron, he shares his «childhood fascination with the fantastic — from reading science fiction to deep - sea diving — and how it ultimately drove the success of his blockbuster hits Aliens, The Terminator, Titanic and Avatar.»

In it, the filmmaker details his childhood fascination with the occult, and how he decided to pair that with a recurring image in his mind of a young, alone, female foreigner working in Paris.

I was 12 when it was released, but I still recall the film's ability to tap into my childhood fascination with UFOs, which Spielberg had previously connected with when he made Close Encounters of the Third Kind (fingers crossed that I get a review copy of that upcoming Blu - ray release too).

We spent many hours playing Robbo on Atari 130XE and we want to give you similiar experience on modern PC, to bring you that childhood fascination, that made us pursue the life of Game Developer.

Considered as one of the most significant British sculptors of the 20th century, the work of Barbara Hepworth was inspired by her childhood fascination with organic systems and textures.

Throughout his career, Yamamoto has often returned to animals, particularly birds, as a subject, reflecting his childhood fascination with the creatures and his eternal commitment to the unity of humanity and nature.

Soft Landing developed from Alario's childhood fascination with comic books during the 1980s and»90s.

Max sees his studio as a laboratory where he can reinterpret the memories to which he has strong emotional connections — such as his childhood fascination with monsters and the decorative surroundings of his southern upbringing in Atlanta, Georgia.

He explains that hired experts allow him to achieve the fluid and professionally packaged quality that he associates with animation — a childhood fascination of his.

The detailed minutiae of each artwork also points to a childhood fascination with the strange, small and seemingly trivial.

He had a childhood fascination with mass media: movies, television, magazines, and comic books, which continues to influence his art.

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Oliveros is the founder of «Deep Listening,» which comes from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert music with composition, improvisation and electro - acoustics.

Drawing, in part, from his childhood fascination with cartoons, Therrien reduces images such as bows, feet, duckbills, smoke signals, and snowmen to their simplest form.

These large - scale works negotiate intimately autobiographical traits with formality, as they recall the artist's childhood fascinations with these toys, while confronting and pushing forward the boundaries and possibilities of formal painting.

Best known for her biomorphic creations carved out of stone, she was inspired by her childhood fascination with organic systems and textures.

In the work Corsair, a visible reference to a specific, almost mythical aircraft is established in the context of contemporary art as motif, and the painting becomes a field where a current interest in blue finds a childhood fascination with a specific visual memory and plants it solely in an art context.

Other explorations include Mark Dion's travels to the Komodo and Rinca islands inspired by a childhood fascination with the Komodo dragon and Iñigo Manglano - Ovalle to the Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaíno, where he was inspired to create an installation that emphasizes the natural beauty and ecological importance of the area in addition to raising awareness of the industrial development that threatens it.

Informed by his training in perceptual psychology and a childhood fascination with light, Turrell began experimenting with light as a medium in southern California in the mid-1960's.

His childhood fascination with destruction has culminated directly into his adult focus on the breaking down and building up of materials, fragments, pieces, and the cycle of Life explored in this current body of work.

Taking inspiration from his childhood fascinations as well as the show's surrounding Bowery neighborhood (which still houses many wholesale lighting stores), Fitzpatrick asked contemporary artists to brighten up the gallery with artistic lamp creations.

A kitsch ceramic model airplane on the wall pays tribute to his childhood fascination with jets.