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...isolate and extract text from an image. The more experienced shutterbug will rejoice in the detailed manual control settings offered by this camera. Aperture Priority allows more depth control, and Shutter Priority ensures that fast motion will be easily captured. Photographers of all abilities will appreciate the large viewing window. A satisfying click of the shutter is accompanied by a Continuous Shooting mode for consecutive shots. Is little Johnny bouncing a basketball for the first time? You'll have your choice of archiving the milestone in a movie version, or with accurate quick-motion still shots, cropped in to your...
Allan: Walking along Bourbon Street, I stopped at the Court of Two Sisters and pointed: "John," I said, "around the corner is the hotel where your mother and I first stayed. We could order drinks right through our window." I enjoy telling him about his mother. She was a very special person...
Jean Nouvel is standing in midair with his arms held high. O.K., he's not really in midair. He's standing on a window. Well, not exactly a window. It's a 5-ft. by 10-ft. plate of glass that's set into the floor of a long corridor of his new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minn. It's the corridor that's in midair. Actually, it's not simply a corridor. It's more a kind of covered bridge to nowhere that cantilevers 178 ft. across and 60 ft. above the city's West River Parkway. And then...
...would if Savalas had been somebody who could use a word like polysemous to explain those electronic chimneys. (That means they have more than one meaning.) While anyone who can come up with polysemous speaks perfectly competent English, Nouvel's is a bit idiosyncratic. As he indicates a large window that looks over the river, he says, "We want to keep it open so you can feel the noise of the river...
Then again, he may mean just what he says about feeling the noise. Paradox, disassociation and derangement of the senses are things Nouvel loves to play with. That window, for instance, is set in a deep recess of mirrored stainless steel. Look up and you see, reflected in the upper panel, the cars on the roadway beneath you. Look down and the lower panel reflects the sky. Up, earth; down, sky. His Cartier Foundation in Paris is a glass-walled structure with a freestanding glass wall situated a few yards in front of it. The effect is to create multiple...