Sentences with phrase «small flat object»

Most of the time, you can easily crush them with a small flat object (I use the top of a juice bottle which is about an inch in diameter) because they usually won't leave if you approach them head on.

Not exact matches

Within fractions of a second, the structure can snap from its mostly flat conformation to one that can grip a small object and hold it without constant external force.

If money was no object I might still stay in the small hotels or apartments, but you better believe I would fly business class so I could lie flat, all all 6 ′ 3 ″ of me.

In addition to the regular menu of wares, the first in the series flaunts small toys like the ones found in Cracker - Jack boxes and gumball machines, beer bottle caps, marbles from the artist's childhood and pins of revered music groups from his engagement with the punk music scene since he played with the band Destroy All Monsters in the early 1970s, Memory Ware Flat # 1 is a special survey because of they way it pulls together the artist's influences, often - used materials, objects from his daily life and personal memorabilia.

The small photograph Night Jam, 2013, is a study in color contrast, depicting gently creased strips of variously hued photographic paper arranged on top of a paper guillotine, bringing to mind series such as «Lighter,» 2005 — , for which Tillmans turns flat pictures into three - dimensional objects by bending, folding, or creasing photographic prints and exhibiting them in Plexiglas boxes; or the famous «paper drops,» 2001 — , for which he takes pictures of photographic paper gently furled into drop - like forms.

So I started working smaller again, and on stretchers that had a thinner profile, and I found that I got a better object / painting correlation that was maybe analogous to a flat screen TV, or some of these other tricked out tech things that we are all surrounded by.

Reinhardt describes these paintings as: «A square (neutral, shapeless) canvas, five feet wide, five feet high, as high as a man, as wide as a man's outstretched arms (not large, not small, sizeless), trisected (no composition), one horizontal form negating one vertical form (formless, no top, no bottom, directionless), three (more or less) dark (lightless) no - contrasting (colorless) colors, brushwork brushed out to remove brushwork, a matte, flat, free - hand, painted surface (glossless, textureless, non-linear, no hard - edge, no soft edge) which does not reflect its surroundings — a pure, abstract, non-objective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relationless, disinterested painting — an object that is self - conscious (no unconsciousness) ideal, transcendent, aware of no thing but art (absolutely no anti-art).»