"We'll break the stage," says Taeyong, eyes glimmering with pride.
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From teal to glimmering gold, you can produce any shade.
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Consumer protection is a glimmering jewel in the EU's crown.
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He had a contagious smile, dark hair and glimmering blue eyes.
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First, you cut through the small, fast Dregs with their glimmering knives.
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SuperCam sits underneath a ventilator hood, glimmering inside a golden-metallic housing.
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Don't assume that glimmering chip on your card is a magic bullet.
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In November 1881, Das returned, the vision of Lhasa glimmering before him.
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She returned with a glimmering engagement ring, kept from a previous commitment.
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In the context of Sorrenti's brief, glimmering life, the photograph shudders with apprehension.
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Clarke paired the glimmering skin-tone gown with asymmetrical earrings by Jack Vartanian.
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Swathed in glimmering gold in every shot, Williams looks every inch a queen.
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Priyanka Chopra rocked a glimmering gown at Cannes, complete with a dramatic slit.
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The sun was setting on the glimmering beach, invoking neither divinity nor cure.
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Even office wear wasn't immune: Glimmering spangles covered pencil skirts and blazers alike.
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And now it's here, glimmering at the top of your inbox: the job offer.
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A good example would be a scene featuring sunlight glimmering off of the ocean.
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The weekend is a distant memory, Friday a glimmering hope far on the horizon.
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She also donned bedazzled, bootcut jeans, square-toed boots, and a glimmering heart belt.
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We're talking 1,650 Swarvoski crystals strong, each glimmering jewel hand-sewn to the dress.
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In part two of the tour, Siwa shows off her room, glimmering with rainbows.
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Instead, his glimmering music seems to question the limits — and the essence — of memory.
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It is a pulsating blaze of magenta and carmine, glimmering with lilac and cerulean.
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Japanese artist Shinji Murakami speaks emoji—his painted wooden sculptures are bright, glimmering, oversized pictograms.
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While at the Golden Globe Awards in 2009, Lopez looked radiant in a glimmering gown.
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Cloud shadows passed over cliffside hamlets glimmering in the evening light as chimneys spat smoke.
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Thank your lucky stars, because these glimmering lacquers are too damn good to choose just one.
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But a small accessory to the glimmering look was a bit distracting (in a good way).
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It's a waltz that builds from modest ukulele strumming and glimmering electronics to full cinematic orchestration.
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This was a day before donning a wig, makeup, and a glimmering outfit of pop superstardom.
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Disinterested, I stowed my phone and looked up to see my colleague Maya's eyes glimmering with excitement.
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Maisel, out December 5, treats Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) to a swath of glimmering new life prospects.
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Hall and her family smile for a photo, the phone's Kim Kardashian case glimmering in the background.
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Some look like oscillating palm fronds, while others are glimmering contours or latticeworks that look like waveforms.
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This 24-karat-gold-plated ashtray is lightweight and petite but glimmering with an infinite cool factor.
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Despite the views of glimmering, tax-free Dubai, the rooms are usually pretty easy to come by.
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Weren't we seduced by these glimmering, expensive lives and drawn deeper into how ugly they could be?
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Dark cashmere jackets, duffle coats in deep, charcoal hues, and heavy, glimmering cloaks line up at the entrance.
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With an illusion this glimmering, it took a while for Brown to notice what was really going on.
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Together, they captured the mountainous region of the South Island and the sun-soaked beaches and glimmering ocean.
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The city's biggest hotel, the Ville, which overlooks the glimmering Coral Sea, completed a big renovation in July.
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It's especially nice because the paraglider cycles through different colored lights against the glimmering green of the aurora.
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But as I continued to watch, reality began to show its cracks, breaking apart to reveal glimmering abstractions.
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It takes the glimmering Los Angeles myth and asks what would happen if a gangster fell for it.
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Glimpsed with peripheral vision, the curtain of glimmering trees appears bright, but it fades away on direct gaze.
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That's because Copenhagen's cathedral of literature is housed across two buildings, with a glimmering glass walkway connecting them.
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Posing for the camera against this glimmering backdrop, Patton looks like she's going to rocket into the sky.
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This Saturday night, the UFC will make its long awaited debut in glimmering New York City with UFC 205.
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Glimmering hunks of stone are all over the designer's immaculate new corporate headquarters in Austin, which opened this spring.
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Awestruck folks shared footage on Twitter of the strangely glimmering turquoise light, each equally as baffled as the other.
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The nerves are still there, but the hope is still there, it's still glimmering, and it's a little brighter.
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Six times as many lights — 300,000 in total — cover the glimmering trees and topiaries surrounding the attraction as well.
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In the glimmering future, just how much will humanity rely on robotics and artificial intelligence to prepare its sustenance?
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The words float onscreen, in Dickinson's handwriting, glimmering like a spiderweb—the best kind of message from beyond. ♦
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Their 2014 debut album Hypnotised, released on Sacred Bones, was a record bursting with primitive psych and glimmering electronics.
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These are the arty, elusive songs fans always wanted, gliding and tingling through gauze, glimmering with arch, wispy indirection.
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How else do you explain the glimmering northern lights, the phosphorescent glow of the mysterious sea creatures of the deep?
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These were the shoes, their glimmering, delicious red shocking the eyes, that had the otherworldly potential to transport her home.
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On her left ring finger, Turner-Brown wore a glimmering marquise diamond, which looks very much like an engagement ring.
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The glimmering vista of the ocean appears frequently throughout the film, reminding us of both infinite possibility and deadly limitations.
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Alcoholism makes memory more urgent by splintering it apart, placing it always just out of reach like a glimmering prize.
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Maybury was wearing a WHM thong of glimmering white material that exposed her vagina and cut between her ass cheeks.
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The camera pans around the clearing, then whirls faster, transforming the glimmering afternoon light into a kaleidoscope of blurred color.
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I found a Native American radio station; I heard rhythmic chants and flutes and poems to greet the glimmering dawn.
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It's a post-chemical-wasteland take on EBM, where human skin painfully sloughs off to reveal mechanical skeletons glimmering underneath.
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Mustashrik's glimmering visuals illuminate the song's rousing crescendos, luminous synth lines, and ethereal vocal track while maintaining his determined sentiment.
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Kalel was walking along a riverbank in the Crater of Diamonds when he saw a glimmering brown stone on the ground.
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He saw majestic mountains ribboned with snow, enormous glaciers meandering across the land, and undulating ice fields glimmering in the twilight.
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To commemorate the abrupt passing of the trailblazing animator, Spectacle Theater offers audiences a glimmering portal into the filmmaker's handcrafted worlds.
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In mania you see nothing but mad, brilliant, glimmering opportunity; in depression you are blind to everything except your own despair.
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The glimmering aluminum leaf bay, edged in amber and vermillion, accentuates the inlets that spread like frost on a window pane.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The display stands packed with glimmering sheet metal were smaller than usual and all-new models were scarce.
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Unfortunately, this is simply not enough for a card as historically important as the UFC's debut in glimmering New York City.
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The film turns chemicals and equations into a glimmering audiovisual feast, pairing each sequence with a fittingly light or dark soundtrack.
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Her dress featured a halter-style neckline with tons of glimmering embellishments, while her oversized white hat almost stole the show.
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Ware sets her psychological puzzle in a crumbling old mill on the Reach, where a marshy river meets the glimmering sea.
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The next week Nance and I were sitting in an alcove on her floor, the Hudson River glimmering out the window.
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Keenly aware of her glimmering image, Mr. Kanter, the show's creator, was reluctant to consider her for the demure Julia Baker.
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The 19-year-old actress is dressed in shimmery high-fashion looks meant to imitate the glimmering shine of fancy race cars.
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Like Hope, Shamir's latest album is raw and stripped back, much of it just his glimmering vocal spread over sludgy guitar strums.
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I imagine her in a glimmering dress on stage with her long, white gloves and back-up dancers shimmying to the beat.
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I won't be the least bit shocked when we get a glimmering profile somewhere else followed by a job announcement soon after.
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"Vote for team Miley," the blonde beauty said after blowing kisses in an Instagram video that showed off her dress' glimmering effects.
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Elle Decor reports that like glimmering, gilt property in New York City, Trump has added a lot of gold to the Oval.
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The internet has changed around Meishi Smile in the half decade and change that the glimmering electronic project has been releasing music.
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The soundtrack is full of glimmering, atmospheric instrumentals with narrations from Paul Whitehouse, and Orlando's voice sounds beautiful spread over a piano.
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The painfully adorable pup — I mean, I can't even with those glimmering eyes — instantly become an integral part of his new family.
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The film fizzled despite a glimmering cast, but in the swinging London of 1969, a Beatle's star power outshone all the rest.
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In the air is a new emotion for a city where the glimmering skyline once seemed to promise riches and opportunity: fear.
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In the air runs a new emotion for a city where the glimmering skyline once seemed to promise riches and opportunity: fear.
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"LesAlpx" starts out with muffled, heartbeat-like thumps, then overlays them with glimmering synth lines that are part Hackers, part The Knife.
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On Saturday night, the UFC returned to glimmering Las Vegas, Nevada with the finale of the latest season of The Ultimate Fighter.
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He has painted a whole world out of syrupy vocals and glimmering synths and lyrics that mean something—now let's all step inside.
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The Modern Family actress wore a glimmering Yousef Al-Jasmi, bedazzled with silvery sparkles in an art-deco pattern over a nude slip.
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Lebanon has been a glimmering country ever since the 15-year civil war began in 1975, and the reverberations from that conflict persist.
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Inside the premiere, guests will be photographed in front of a wall glimmering with Swarovski crystals, which will also line the red carpet.
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Sadly, McGrath's Lust 004 kit, which was the one all the stars used to achieve this glimmering red lip, sold out almost instantly.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads With a cascade of glimmering metal suspended in space, Paula Crown pauses an ephemeral moment of rainfall.
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But the long-term change, barely glimmering in the days of telephone modems, lay in the connection of every desktop to every other.
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A delegation of North Korean provincial leaders visited China recently to inspect major cities, where they saw glimmering skyscrapers and high-speed trains.
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"People always talk about how horrible old age is, but I couldn't disagree more," she said, the candlelight glimmering on her inclined face.
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It was the perfect pick: the glimmering towers were visible from all corners of the city, making them easy for me to spot.
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It includes a glimmering edible Golden Globe, perhaps a consolatiom prize for those attendees who won't end up walking away with the real thing.
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Here's what else is happening: WEATHER Another crystalline winter day, when the sun beams down, reflecting off the glimmering snow, and nearly blinds you.
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As we stood on one flat, mountain outcrop, Donahue pointed to glimmering shapes dotted through the trees on the other side of the river.
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It's a poignant, thoughtful documentary, and there's just no denying the appeal of watching the plating of glimmering sushi rolls scored to Philip Glass.
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The track maintains his glimmering, ethereal soundscapes, but just over halfway through wades into murky waters that swell and wane into a rousing finale.
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In celebration of International Fight Week, the UFC has taken over glimmering Las Vegas, Nevada with a whirlwind of three cards in three nights.
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It's glimmering, propulsive music, with hints of elegiac Spanish folk song, cool jazz from the 1950s and the Romantic modern jazz of the 1990s.
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The melody seems to simply roll off Jerry Garcia's acoustic guitar, with David Grisman's mandolin glimmering above it like reflections from a mountain stream.
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A black bird is flying through a glimmering heaven that Moufarrege graced with effulgent clouds, using silk, cotton and wool threads to dazzling effect.
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Gyms around New York were packed with what you'd expect: colorful leotards, belts cinched to show off womens' waists, legwarmers, glimmering tights, and jewelry.
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After a series of dramatic SNAFUs, however, the rematch ended up atop UFC 202, which went down Saturday night in glimmering Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Dilg's landscapes are poised on the edge — from moments of harmony with the elements to visions of glimmering orbs of sterility floating in the sky.
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In 2014, the duo transformed a forest into a projection-mapped wonderland, turning trees and leaves into dancing, glimmering shapes for their film bioluminescent forest.
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For between $69 and $79 (depending on seat size), you can have a vaguely Cattelan-inspired bathroom experience, with all the glimmering excess that implies.
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That was a glimmering, Disney-worthy look that our Kindergarten selves would've completely swooned over, but we're completely here for Blue's take on the tux.
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Then, as Mr. Hankey paused for a stretch, he spotted a glimmering black rock, about the size of a thumbnail, amid the dried out grass.
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But out of nowhere, with whatever glimmering, tiny patch of ATP left in her body, Diggins saw Nilsson getting fatigued and built up a stride.
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In the depths of New Zealand's Waitomo Caves, fluorescent larvae offer a glimmering constellation against the darkness like glow-in-the-dark star stickers incarnate.
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Still, perhaps because I sit in sweaty New York City rather than on a rise overlooking the glimmering Pacific, this imbalance strikes me as unfortunate.
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His "Ocean's" trilogy is decidedly higher-budget, with its casino set pieces, glimmering diamonds and, of course, names like Clooney, Pitt, Damon and Zeta-Jones.
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Think white puffa onesies or glimmering jackets and pants given a metallic sheen with a micro-thin coating of aluminum, and bright orange under-layers.
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His mane, wet, is the color of dark wood, glimmering with beams of honey, and falls just past where his barn door shoulders stop flexing.
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Image Credit: Cassini Radar Mapper, Cornell, JPL, ESA, NASAThere's something glimmering on Titan's surface, and the truth behind the cause could be crazier than we expected.
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Throughout Lucky and his primary collaborator—producer Dernst "D'mile" Emile—craft this impossibly vibrant, overstuffed and expensive-sounding combo of glimmering melodies and complex studio trickery.
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Superb (a multi-dimensional bronze), Fairly Precious (a shimmery, high-shine Champagne), Oh, Darling (a next-level metallic gold), and Rosy Cheeks (a glimmering blue-fuchsia).
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Songs like "Black Rainbow," which is streaming here, offer glimmering piano parts and celestial strings alongside the more grayscale instrumental passages, a placidity amidst the turmoil.
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Time presents itself spatially here: the allure of the glimmering future and its counterpoint, the decaying past-ness, spread out as the geography of the present.
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Every July for the last six years, the UFC has taken over the glimmering combat sports Mecca of Las Vegas, Nevada with its International Fight Week.
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Arts | Connecticut Thirteen-hundred glimmering spheres float on the pond below Philip Johnson's Glass House, in the Lower Meadow on the renowned architect's 21980-acre estate.
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Despite his star-worthy shades, glimmering gold Rolex and loping gunfighter gait, Mr. Theroux moved freely among the half-clothed 20-somethings lounging in the grass.
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His glimmering dark fantasy world began fulminating in Mexico, where he was born, and continued in San Diego, where his family moved when he was 9.
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It was one of the first warm days of the year, and from the office window I could see sunlight glimmering on the silver Gateway Arch.
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And with that Sapphire Blue handset, an eye-catching X pattern on the device's back panel adds a glimmering visual effect that's both mesmerising and memorable.
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Beneath the glimmering façade of opportunities that abound in "the land of the free," the brutal living conditions, poverty, and abuse of workers are quickly exposed.
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The blacks and darker shades of gray have been pushed to the sides, leaving the whites and light grays of the substrate glimmering in the center.
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You may have seen the Hubble Deep Field image—the telescope pointed to a seemingly dark spot of sky, only to reveal it glimmering with distant galaxies.
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How my cares melted away — but what was important become crystal clear — as I rode atop a ferocious wave, hair glimmering, smile broadening, feet angled just so.
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So when we see girls dressed as the inspirational women depicted in Hidden Figures, we take that as a glimmering light at the end of the tunnel.
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Appropriately named Unicorn's Heart, the company's new glimmering, pastel illuminator retails for $9 and features stripes of lavender, crystal blue, mint, canary yellow, and baby-pink pigment.
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With the help of some friends, Minerva was able to polish them over the last couple of years into these, glimmering, mystical, and beautiful dance-pop tracks.
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More captivating to the kids was the iridescent synthetic fabric Towns layers throughout the story quilts to form the night sky, glimmering with metal and glass beads.
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In spite of this ominous political backdrop, the 11 rising star LGBTQ artists featured at The Center present works that convey a glimmering hope for the future.
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Staged in mid-September at the capital's Central Youth Hall, glimmering for the occasion, it was attended by government functionaries, festival delegates and representatives from various embassies.
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It's also constantly rotating to always face the sun's beam, which becomes the glimmering signal allowing people on Earth to see the station with the naked eye.
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Wealthy Chinese businessmen in particular prize the fish — with its large glimmering scales, sage-like whiskers and aggressive personality — for its resemblance to the mythical Chinese dragon.
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But shortly after Phoenix put on one of the glimmering dresses, Brett — dressed in a suit — made his unexpected entrance and revealed himself to be the mysterious volunteer!
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Beneath this glimmering facade is a harrowing truth: All of these legendary starlets were subject to the abuses inherent in the restrictive contract system that existed until 1943.
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The moment that stuck was in a quiet grotto, where a woman in a glimmering bathing suit asked a group of five of us to make a wish.
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They paused, as in reverence, at the doorway, taking a quizzical glance at the striking metallic installations (industrial sculptures, in a sense) glimmering on the bare concrete floors.
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"Dig," a ghostly waltz, is where introspection can carry her: from banjo picking to distant roaring electric guitars to glimmering thumb-piano plinks, from isolation to sweet intransigence.
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She recounted the day she got to try on a glimmering miniskirt once worn by Cher: a minuscule mirrored garment held in place by only a G-string.
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T-Pain is bent over an iPad, dancing and tapping the screen to send glimmering electronic beats through huge speakers and out into the hallway of his home.
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Images of a thick smog hanging low over the city were in stark contrast to the scenes of lights glimmering in Ayodhya, about 400 miles southeast of Delhi.
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It will not celebrate because it has a batch of glimmering new arenas that it scarcely needs, or because the World Cup has been bent to Putin's will.
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Wearing it, I got a taste of the kind of confidence that's suggested when you see those models gliding down the runway, beads glimmering in the midmorning sun.
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Its emollient tone suggests that in both quarters, there is a glimmering of acceptance that displays of strident Orthodox piety in high places do not please all Russian citizens.
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I imagine it'd be a good way to disappear from this world for a little bit and just have our senses and thoughts blown off by the glimmering lights.
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The sea's glimmering water, the beauty of lush, green hills, and Mimi's steady storytelling — her calm, reassuring presence — clash with the anguish of her childhood stories, suggesting psychological alienation.
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For most people, a trip to a glimmering, adrenaline-spiking theme park is a great time, but at the end of the day, going home is a welcome respite.
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Despite its glimmering skyscrapers, it appears like a sleepy village compared to the British capital, with travel times to its international airport from the city center only 15 minutes.
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While I found these canvases underwhelming compared to the rest of the work, I was captivated by the glimmering, neatly-packed sea of broken crystals in the room's center.
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Across Cairo, giant billboards advertise luxury compounds aimed at the rich: gated compounds with lush grass, glimmering glass and decidedly un-Egyptian names like Palm Hills or Hyde Park.
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Van Dusen's ("The Circus Ship") sleekly painted lake is a midsummer day's dream: saturated greens, glimmering blue water and little red boats you're dying to take for a spin.
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The timing is interesting because Hailey's birthday was just 5 days ago, and the Biebs got his wife a glimmering diamond watch ... which we're told set him back $70k.
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Image courtesy of Nicolas Cambier The glimmering yet darkened environment of a quartz mine is the setting for a new short, AutoQuartz, by London-based French filmmaker Nicolas Cambier.
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On your way to or from OMI, hop over to Hudson, where you can see stunning views and the glimmering natural light that has influenced painters from the region.
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In between all that setup, though, we also get big bursts of color and humor, in the form of glimmering CGI underwater creatures and copious wisecracks from Momoa, respectively.
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Until recently the most striking image of Mr Kim was against the glimmering skyline of Singapore, where he celebrated an extraordinary coming-out party with President Donald Trump last year.
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Jackie Fields, Beauty Editor: The Orange Is the New Black actress may not have taken home a Golden Globe, but Uzo Aduba won my heart in this glimmering black gown.
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"I can guarantee you there have been women before me who were more deserving of the position than I was," she said, the badges she's earned glimmering on her uniform.
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"SDIAH," teased as "Shittiest Day In American History" on Twitter in the Spring, is a sparse song, yowled by Vernon over a glimmering keyboard line, embellished by a sax solo.
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On Wednesday we saw this rotation go from glimmering to glaring with large caps and regional banks bumping up against their 52-week highs, while tech stocks were getting slammed.
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There were zip-up palazzo pant jumpsuits and zip-up bomber jacket tennis-skirt suits, both in patterns of pixelated polka dots; easy drop-waisted dresses and glimmering trapeze shifts.
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The only decoration came from a black top bristling with a techno fringe and a series of metal SpaghettiO-like rings glimmering from a steel-toned silk satin slip dress.
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With "Just Dance," that motivating mental state is one of pure fantasy, an escape into a '50s-style candy store or an ever-changing, glimmering cityscape or outer-space confections.
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Blooming from grainy noise, the record finds its rhythms in the gutters that run along the roadsides of techno fetishists and dancefloor futurists, glimmering in this beautiful and heavy way.
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I first found my way to Miller's suburban home southwest of Denver, the snow-capped Rockies glimmering in the distance, after reading about him in The Denver Post in 2017.
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There are glimmering, party-ready getups, geared toward, say, cocktail parties or New Year's Eve, as well as cozy-looking knits and oversized separates destined for Netflix marathons and dessert comas.
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Its massive hall, designed by Georg J. B. Carstensen and Charles Gildemeister with a colossal cast-iron frame supporting thousands of glimmering glass panels, was packed for its July 14 debut.
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Painted HillsPhotographer: Nicholas Roemmelt (Germany)With very little light pollution, the glimmering stars of the Milky Way bathe the colourful layers of the Painted Hills of Oregon in a natural glow.
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Here, the glimmering white sand beaches were always the most desirable pieces of real estate, and decades of redlining, segregation and general discrimination kept many black Miamians away from the water.
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The pack (which comes in other shades besides the classic red I wore), includes a liquid lipstick and glitter pot, so you have everything you need to get the glimmering effect.
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The images of the Promenade where the bodies were strewn share the same background as the photos of my own children counting pebbles on the beach, ponytails glimmering in the sunlight.
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Postcard From Saratoga Springs SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — The Belmont Stakes winner Creator skipped over the racetrack like a school kid, his gray coat glimmering as if he were beneath a spotlight.
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It's only at the end of the season that we see something else that's been going on with the Guy, a story that's been glimmering beneath the surfaces of the season.
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Advantage: Elizabeth In this opulent, Emmy-winning HBO mini-series, Helen Mirren's glimmering, faceted performance emphasizes both Elizabeth's majesty and her vulnerability, suggesting her political dominance comes at a personal cost.
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The Wide Awakes threw wild parties and donned unmistakable uniforms: glimmering jet-black robes, long flowing capes, top hats, and 6-foot torches often emblazoned with their logo, an open eyeball.
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Such is the case with Cunningham: at moments, as in the gorgeous restaging of Merce Cunningham's 1958 Summerspace, which features a pointilist set designed by Robert Rauschenberg, it's a glimmering gem.
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At the "Villa Pesquera de Vietnam," a gathering place for the area's fishermen, customers lined up for fried fish sandwiches, the glimmering waters of the bay just a few feet away.
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In this light, I, Tonya reads like a prologue for the current status quo of media coverage, which revolves around glimmering spectacles that draw in public attention, and gain traction over time.
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Standing in front of the 40-by-30-inch "Untitled," in which darkish patches tend to drift toward the edges of a glimmering yellow-gold ground, I thought of a fish tank.
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On top of this, some of the challenges were essentially incomprehensible to me: strange glimmering blocks I couldn't interact with, purple icons I couldn't parse, a ladder hanging just out of reach.
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Our critic mused on the genius of the comic actor, who died Monday at the age of 83: glimmering eyes, diction "as crisp as a potato chip" and a barely suppressed lunacy.
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As a child, Armstrong would dress up in her glimmering silver pieces, including turquoise-inlaid rings and a bola necklace — a spherical pendant with a soft chime that expectant mothers sometimes wear.
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And no way would I allow Midtown — that sterile patch of office towers and Prets A Manger — to erase the oasis of Bryant Park, or the glimmering trash hole of Times Square.
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Though it's clearly one of the singer's most autobiographical songs, there's something about its glimmering, winking quality that makes "Slow Burn" feel like a soothing balm prescribed for your own individual soul.
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In the glimmering glass high-rises of the European Quarter, the country's leaders are asking themselves how security forces that blanketed the city for months still let the bombers slip through the cracks.
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" The design mimics a picket-fence reminiscent of America's good ol' days of sock hops and segregation (when "America was great"), plated in a glimmering gold that speaks "to Mr. Trump's decorating taste.
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Shoulders, collarbones, legs, abs... If there was an exposed area of skin last night, it was almost as if the red carpet committee had deemed it must be covered in glimmering champagne shimmer.
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There's nothing worse than loading up a cart-full of gorgeous, glimmering beauty products (and feeling pretty damn pleased with yourself), only to internally sob when the total sum flashes on the register.
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Sure, the accessories differ a bit, with the Scream Queens star in an elaborate choker (also by Fedner) and light pink-framed shades — and Rihanna in a glimmering headscarf that matched her gown.
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Miller wasn't impressed with Iraklion, which is a two-hour drive from Chania, along an often-dramatic two-lane road that winds along bluffs above the glimmering Aegean on the island's north coast.
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"The tiny rhinestones that float in the dark shadow show the perfect amount of hope glimmering through," she continued, "AND they help her eyes not fall into complete darkness in our moody lighting."
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The adhesive they used on her skin was shockingly cool, sticky, and she couldn't help but stare at the careful way they wound the scales around her legs and arms in glimmering ribbons.
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The other, using blue-toned paper and two plates — one inked with dark pigment, the other with a pale yellow — transforms the scene into a nighttime valley glimmering with specks of reflected moonlight.
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Wawrinka was far from his glimmering best, but Sandgren still had to contain his composure over the best-of-five match against an experienced champion who could have roared back at any point.
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Throughout the show, she and the other tap dancers wear gold shoes — halfway, she changes flats for heels — and her glimmering feet are reflected on the base of two round platforms behind her.
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Mr. Jammeh's announcement came as a blow to many Gambians, who feared that it would catapult the nation into tumult and even violence after several days of glimmering hope for a new beginning.
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If you're a child of the '80s and '90s, the passage of time has probably eroded the memory of the Disney Channel 1993 original movie Hocus Pocus down to a nugget of glimmering nostalgia.
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A glimmering, shirtless bro pops up and pogos in front of me during a pitched-out minute or so of "Where Are Ü Now," then turns around and wanders away to nowhere in particular.
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The track—a glimmering slice of sad synthpop—is actually about what many LGBTQ folk experience when they're young: the search for sexual company among people who are old enough to be your parents.
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In New York at Its Core at the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY), an 18th-century ankle cuff unearthed in Manhattan's Hanover Square is installed alongside a glimmering 1770 silver coffeepot.
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He had been riding a wave of good news: He had put a police crisis behind him and was offering glimmering new projects that his advisers hoped would attract supporters beyond his liberal base.
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In "Biergarten at Night" (22014), dozens of characters—some realist, including a self-portrait; others fanciful, such as an androgynous figure passionately kissing a death's-head—hoist brews in velvety shadow and glimmering light.
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Omaha, which has more residents than Miami or Minneapolis, has a growing population, a stable economy and a busy downtown with new developments and a glimmering baseball stadium that hosts the College World Series.
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Hearing Turnbloom croon "Marylou, I feel sick inside / I feel lonesome tonight" over the plush guitars and glimmering bells on "Suncoast Digest" while stuck in self-isolation, well, it's hard not to feel that.
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Unfortunately, Gabby Douglas wasn't there (she was in the hospital earlier this weekend), but Simone Biles, Laurie Hernandez, Aly Raisman, and Madison Kocian swapped their glimmering, Swarovski-encrusted Olympic leotards for red-carpet worthy ensembles.
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"I am so lucky alive to be alive in this day and age," Brinkley told Fox News under the glimmering white tents of her Social Life Magazine cover party in Bridgehampton, New York, on Saturday.
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" Wolf demonstrates this contemporary dance music philosophy throughout the mix, particularly on TRAILS' glimmering edit of "Never Be Like You" by flume, and his own candy-painted mashup/edit of Billboard's "Heatwave" & Troye Sivan's "Youth.
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Lest anyone confuse the Access with a plain old watch that just tells time, the smartwatch also advertises its digital soul with animated dial options, featuring continuously moving images, like a glimmering cascade of gems.
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They could be Juliet swoony, in silvery tulle and bronze leather sequins atop sheer chiffon, or regal, in glimmering taffeta bedecked with a tapestry of unicorns (that one took 110 hours to paint by hand).
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The Minneapolis arrangement of "Tangled Up in Blue" that opens "Blood on the Tracks" — switched to first-person, transposed to a higher key and ornamented with glimmering guitar strumming — doesn't telegraph the troubles to come.
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But last season, the city was turned on its head with glitter-splashed eyeliner glimmering from the catwalk at Halpern, slapdash pastel eyeshadow at Erdem, and "troll" inspired hair embellished with rhinestone pins at Ashley Williams.
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"North Korea's traveling media delegation -- dressed in matching black -- followed Kim through Singapore documenting throngs of fascinated onlookers during an impromptu late-night tour to inspect examples of the glimmering city-state's economic development," Bloomberg reported.
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Most recently, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star shimmered in a sheer catsuit covered in glimmering crystals when she joined sisters Kourtney Kardashian, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner at an Oscars afterparty on Feb. 24.
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Nintendo Switch + Free MicroSD Card for $300 ($25+ off) Nintendo Switch Console for $255 ($55 off) Like a mysterious merchant lurking in the dark, Sony's opening up its coat to reveal a host of glimmering goods.
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The first sound on "Dangerous"—the opening track—isn't a droning guitar line or and the throb of an 808, but a glimmering horn line, like a herald announcing the arrival of low-key pop royalty.
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But it also conveys the "sinuous, glimmering energy of recovery" as Jamison attends AA meetings, reading the Big Book "with another woman over night-discounted muffins" even as she secretly concocts a plan to keep drinking.
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It is, instead, a hard-won inquiry into how we seek out the truth of ourselves and others in ways that often, by necessity, aren't straightforward, that arrive in our lives in glimmering bits and shards.
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Behind the high, pristine voice and symmetrical melody lines of Megan James, she and her duo partner, Corin Roddick, still merge steady, glimmering Minimalist keyboard patterns with the bass undertow and stop-start percussion of trap.
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The title track is upbeat and colorful, trumpeting the feelings at first gasping breath of a new relationship ("Time stops when I'm with you"), but even this track's glimmering synths have an undercurrent of cold distance.
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She never made a face at Pierson—only Anderson Cooper, on CNN, rivals her arctic deadpan—but her eyes lowered slightly, the corners of her mouth rose, and her suspicion became visible, glimmering under the surface.
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Luckily, this store delivers: embroidered cropped jackets, delicately beaded crop tops, and glimmering satin pants are all on the menu here — just waiting to be paired with those gold heels we all have languishing in our closets.
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It's a perfect pairing to the song—glimmering, stark, and chaotic (just wait for the overdrive to kick in around the two minute mark), with an undercurrent of unease that makes it all the more strangely satisfying.
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There are soaring songs about depression ("I've Got Love"), glimmering tracks about security in a relationship ("Just The Same"), and an extraordinary ballad that admits the relationship isn't perfect, but she'd repeat it all the same ("Again").
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"I hit bottom in a fancy Manhattan hotel room, with the morning light glimmering on another decimated minibar and a phone notification to check into my flight home to Los Angeles," Ms. Krans wrote in an email.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On Saturday, the otherwise unremarkable fourth-floor bathroom in the Guggenheim Museum saw an artistic intervention whereby the currently installed, stock white toilet was completely enveloped in coarse, glimmering gold yarn.
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The feature — a glimmering prism into the life of a man pondering the nature of relationships, time, and the ways they intersect — is told through a multitude of lenses, among them video, cartoons, and stop-motion animation.
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There's no message or moral here; just a global pop sensation who's also just a 24-year-old human girl, scattering pieces of her psyche across a glimmering chord progression, daring us to make sense of them.
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In the center of the gallery, two rows of hand-crafted haute couture ensembles donned by the models themselves are on display, revealing hidden sex scenes beaded into costumes and glimmering weaponry, among other painstakingly intricate oddities.
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You won't lose this glimmering stick at the bottom of your purse: Dab the translucent peachy-gold formula down the bridge of your nose and above the cupid's bow to add the prettiest final touch to your look.
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If you thought she couldn't top that glimmering Swarovski crystal-embellished catsuit (with over 100,000 sparkling gems) that kicked off the Revival Tour, wait until you see the new, edgy pieces she just added to her onstage wardrobe.
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"Big Dreams" © Graham Fink Now complete with glimmering steel structures like its "vertical city," the 2,073' Shanghai Tower, along with a growing population of around 24 million, it's been a few decades of major change for Shanghai.
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The diabolically inventive trombonist-composer Matt Barbier, who played "Sequenza V" at that event, participated in the "Dies Irae" clamor in Ojai; Scott Worthington, a double bassist who creates spare, glimmering soundscapes, handled the electronics in the Nono.
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These days her sartorial flair is distinct, girlie with an added edge, carefully documented through candid selfies, glossy photoshoots, and behind the scenes snaps of Dua in glimmering tiaras, shiny dresses, ornately adorned jackets, and thigh high boots.
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It was after hours at the Hayden Planetarium, at the American Museum of Natural History, and the triangular moon rock was held in a vise, under glass: chicken-nugget-size and light gray, with glimmering specks of crystal.
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Charlotte's generally favorable weather, well-connected airport and glimmering city center have helped it build a reputation as a reliably sturdy site for major gatherings, leaving some city leaders stunned by the heated opposition to hosting the convention.
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As I climbed, inhaling air scented with resin and thyme, I was rewarded with stunning views of vineyards ribboning the island, olive groves undulating from green to silver in the wind, and the glimmering blues of the sea.
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In Mr. Martins's emotionally penetrating ending — on a stage, lit to perfection as a glimmering lake — Odette parts ways with an inconsolable Siegfried in floor-skimming backward steps, disappearing through paths of swans that close in on her.
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Their account's cohesive color palette and glimmering products became the foundation of "Cool Girl Makeup," developing a cult following of people who want to wear a natural face and dedicate as little time as possible to achieve it.
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Today, Aguadilla has 211 city-owned restaurants and a city-owned hotel, a water park billed as biggest in the Caribbean, a minor-league baseball stadium bathed in floodlights and a waterfront studded with dancing fountains and glimmering streetlights.
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In context of the series, the episode stood out as the glimmering, softly-lit tale of warmth among a collection of frankly horrifying explorations of all the ways modern society and technological advancement are going to end the world.
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Lifted from Rothman's forthcoming record, which features Angel Olsen and Kim Gordon to name a few, "H" is a sliver of glimmering noir-pop accented by Rothman's wine rich tones, and underscored by Sigismondi's precisely detailed world of weird.
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The marriage of the glimmering emotion economy and the traditional healthcare system doesn't come without privacy concerns, especially when the technological capacity to measure emotions via someone's face or tone of voice is in the possession of private businesses.
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With the heroic era of the civil rights movement glimmering to a close in 1966, the Black Panthers showed that a more radical struggle for racial justice could be photogenic, even if it was less palatable to the mainstream.
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And while Turner dazzled in a classic, Paco Rabanne silver, chainmail dress, Joe played devoted husband on the sidelines as he stepped out of the photo with his wife to try and capture his own photo of the glimmering beauty.
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Despite the maritime glamour of Cookie's glimmering, shell-encrusted bras and lazily swaying fins, the core of her message surfaces with striking clarity: Being a mermaid is all about finding peace with yourself and your past — and celebrating that journey.
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A scene in which he tells a story about his wasted youth to his adoring older friend, Scottie (Jim Broadbent), and another in which he waits silently for the results of an H.I.V. test, demonstrate his inventiveness and glimmering energy.
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Inspired by diverse acts including DJ Shadow, Hall & Oates, and Lee "Scratch" Perry, Parks explores a variety of textures from ominous and crunchy to light and glimmering, with his deft drum work serving as a subtle supplement to these sounds.
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Cameron, a glimmering cherub who seemingly manifested from some dark spell involving a cow and a husk of corn, was an absolute delight in her first mainstream gig (the actress's claim to fame is starring in Disney's sitcom Liv and Maddie).
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MEMPHIS — Drive just a mile or so from the old Lorraine Motel — its sign glimmering in the spring sun, the nearby sidewalks offering quick strolls to a barbecue joint and a gelato shop — and arrive in this poor city's poorest part.
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J.C. Hercules & Love Affair, Andy Butler's ever-evolving studio project, enfolds Sharon Van Etten's clear voice in a richly glimmering electronic track: cloudlike, ephemeral chords appearing and dissolving around an intermittently twitchy dance beat, later joined by orchestral horns and winds.
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And even after facing some thousands, I'm never bored to see that speckled silver beast glimmering on my cutting board, and I openly smile every time the wildly counterintuitive scent of fresh watermelon wafts up when you split it open.
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Tennis, too, is a sport where it has become routine to see Roger Federer — a native of Basel, Switzerland, the home of Baselworld, the world's biggest watch fair — flashing a glimmering Rolex each time he lifts a Grand Slam trophy.
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The Minnesota Vikings' new football stadium, with its sharply tapering facade, glowing plastic roof, humongous hinged doors, and glimmering glass walls, is a beautiful example of contemporary architecture—a spectacular testament to the incredible things humans can create with new techniques and materials.
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He has a way of conjuring impossibly bright patches out of his chosen electronics, which cast their glimmering god rays across the smattering of other instruments found here: some singing bowls, djembe, rainsticks and the hazy voice of the Canadian composer YlangYlang.
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Then, after a segment on a healer who activates the "higher brain" causing people to flop like dolphins, Mercado would swoop in, always draped in jewel tones, illuminated by glimmering lighting, and decipher the stars with an exuberant wave of his hands.
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A job at Barneys New York once represented a glimmering opportunity in a challenging retail landscape — the kind of chain where sales associates might work for decades, earning competitive salaries as well as commissions, while honing expertise in fine jewelry and designer apparel.
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He saw the endless pasture of the future available to Usama and to me — the college degrees, the jet-set summers, the glimmering reputations — and then he saw the dim, decaying patch of grass that was to be his lot in life.
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A typical scene in the old-fashioned-looking shop, with its glimmering chandeliers and yellowing posters of drivers in Borsalinos, has customers peering into the mirrors and occasionally grinning as they pull down the brims of homburgs or Open Road cowboy hats.
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Yes, downtown and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport are glimmering under a global spotlight, and the city, rightly proud of its hospitality tradition, is eager to show it can be the flawless host of a Super Bowl it worked so hard to earn.
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As pop music goes, Honey is the future without the sounds of futurism; interesting, balmy beats (a sonic portrait of Ibiza and the beach transitioning to the dancefloor, for example) paired with lyrics that lay Robyn's, at times, sore but glimmering heart bare.
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It wasn't always fun, but it was glimmering with possibility and emotion and endless expanses of time—an idea 13 Reasons Why utilises and amps up throughout, with music that is pushed to the forefront of each scene like the sudden flush of hormones.
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The Northern Lights streaking across the night sky over the lagoon at Jokulsarlon, Iceland on Valentine's night of 2016 With very little light pollution, the glimmering stars of the Milky Way bathe the colorful layers of the Painted Hills of Oregon in a natural glow.
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On Monday, Ashish invited us into a dream for his spring 2018 show, centered on glimmering hope in darkness, but for those who can't quite afford his stellar catwalk designs, the designer is teaming up with River Island on a more affordable capsule collection.
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François-Henri Pinault, chief executive of the Kering Group, the brand's parent company, held the event among the plaster nudes and glimmering oil paintings in honor of both the 50 years of the brand and the 15th anniversary of its creative director, Tomas Maier.
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Our first Halloween in LA, we had been out at a party and were coming home at like 3 AM. There was a giant shirtless man who was glimmering in the moonlight, looking super sweaty, who was incredibly ripped and just walking in the alley.
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It veered from hippie flares patchworked in denim, suede and velvet (also python, chintz and leopard), silver flowers and Navajo beading writhing up the sides, to elaborately embroidered silk kimonos and fringed capes, and an entire souk's worth of tiered, exotic-print, glimmering maxi dresses.
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The music, almost all of it produced by her invaluable collaborator Phoelix, is filled with the chord progressions of jazz and R&B, elaborately casual beats that always seem to be taking their time, and glimmering keyboards and warm synthesizer tones that echo Stevie Wonder.
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A D.I.Y. crafts-class staple in the 1970s, this old-style decoration (a perforated pine tree-shaped shell with a single bulb at its core, stuck with glowing Lite Brite-style plastic pegs) is having a glimmering moment again after years in the attic.
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Both parties are equally represented on the track—Vindata's glimmering chords, Mija's hints of happy hardcore—but the sonic highlight is the song's namesake vocal sample ("just keeps getting better") that's as saccharinely reassuring as a carton of ice cream after a bad breakup.
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In "Self," Khalid strives to balance self-doubt — "The man that I've been running from is inside of me" — and self-preservation; the track, produced by Hit-Boy, lurches forward on a boom-bap beat and surrounds Khalid with glimmering keyboards and echoey vocals.
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Like a Halloween haul of glimmering treasures with a pale band of Necco Wafers waiting at the bottom, Thor: Ragnarok is an entertaining gem full of treats and surprises that can't quite obscure one sad problem: The film's main villain, Hela, is a disappointment.
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Before AI YoungBoy dropped, it was evident that his skillset was one beyond his years and that would have probably gotten him far enough, but it's the depth of emotions and introspection that add a glimmering light to what the Baton Rouge teenager may end up becoming.
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Across the five short pieces, there's moments like the surreal vocal warping of "Kyrie," or the chattery found samples that underpin "O" that offer wrinkles to the more placid moments of their labelmates—getting lost in darkness before finding a way back to more glimmering passages.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Adrenalin-fueled heist films are a beloved genre, and usually revolve around grand theft auto or bank robberies, the latter of which promise the visual thrill of glimmering gold bars and endless stacks of green-tinted cash in purportedly impregnable vaults.
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He picks up a packed lunch prepared by a company chef and at precisely 753 o'clock, with stars still glimmering overhead, he boards a bus emblazoned with the letters C.G.N. — China General Nuclear, a state-owned behemoth that owns the biggest Chinese project in all of Africa.
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The real enigma isn't the glimmering, matter-warping nature of Area X, despite how intoxicating it looks on screen — it's the darkest part of the human heart, that desire to break ourselves open, even if it's just a little bit, in rebellion against our animal instincts toward self-preservation.
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These are paintings, based on the human body, botanical forms, and other sources, that sublimate a storm of emotions into transcendently formal terms, none more than Ross Bleckner's "Count No Count" (1989) in oil and wax on canvas, a glimmering memorial to those lost to the AIDS epidemic.
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She seems just as comfortable in club music contexts—I first saw her give a show-stopping performance at a particularly sweaty rendition of New York's long-running (but still forward-thinking) party GHE20G0TH1K—as she is offering tight verses on rap tracks that shout out glimmering genital piercings.
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Redskins 221, Giants 255 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Odell Beckham Jr.'s bushy platinum curls posed a stark contrast to the deep red scratch still glimmering above the corner of his right eye socket Sunday evening, as he stood in the Giants' locker room minutes after a hard-fought defeat.
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As someone who almost always makes a username as close as possible to my real name — with the exception of the glimmering AIM years and a stint on OKCupid for which I channeled deep-cut references to '90s comedies — I find the Reddit names in this thread positively thrilling.
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The dozen of us on the trip had already swum several miles a day through astonishing turquoise waters off Kas, a remote village on Turkey's southwest coast, where cliffs soar up from the sea, the soft air is scented with jasmine and views of the glimmering bay are downright therapeutic.
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So when seeing Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, it's best to just take in all the glimmering wonders of Newt Scamander's suitcase and shrug off the stories until the franchise picks them back up again — or in other words, to take the same approach as the movie itself.
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We also see how the flickering lamps along the foggy Thames in James Abbott Whistler's "Nocturne: Grey and Gold, Westminster Bridge" may have influenced van Gogh's glimmering gaslights and their aqueous reflections in the 1888 painting "Starry Night," on loan from the Musée d'Orsay, depicting a view of the Rhone in Arles.
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A symbol of the possibilities of sovereignty when it was begun in the mid-222s, the parliament was supposed to have a clear line of sight to the glimmering domes of the revered Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, barely two-and-a-half miles away as the crow flies.
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Think of smoked trout, tabbouleh salad and angel food cake whipped out of a kayak on the glimmering shores of Yellowstone Lake; thermoses of hot cocoa (spiked with mint schnapps, optional) and homemade chocolate brownies extracted from the trip leader's backpack at the icy blue summit of Harding Icefield Trail in the Kenai Peninsula.
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When: May 3–7 / Wednesday–Sunday: 11am–83pm ($30) Where: Skylight Clarkson Sq (550 Washington Street, Hudson Square, Manhattan) This year, the LAB at Rockwell Group wants visitors to Collective Design to feel like they're walking on the red carpet — except it'll be blue and you'll travel down a tunnel made of glimmering foil.
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There is no shortage of suggestions on Instagram for achieving a radiant complexion: the hashtag #glowingskin alone has more than three million posts that recommend a multitude of shimmery products — from gold-flecked highlighters to glimmering bronzers to glitter-laced gelées — all of which, when layered on the skin, can create a lustrous effect.
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If different people take different lessons from Johnson's impeachment, one is unforgettable: Impeachment is a constitutional process meant to restore good government and thus our faith in it; in so doing, impeachment suggests hope, the glimmering hope of a better time coming, and a means for making that happen, peacefully, reasonably and with dignity.
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Primarily with the Anthropocene film in mind, he spent a morning in Lagos taking video at a surreal multibillion-dollar complex called Eko Atlantic, where developers were dredging sediment from the Gulf of Guinea to construct a four-square-mile peninsula—the first phase of their plan to build a glimmering, privately run city.
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Visually, these playful, colorful renderings of the cultural phenomenon draw more from centuries past, closer to the days of colonialism when the nation was first marked by the Atlantic slave trade, than the gorgeous glimmering, feathered version of Carnival we see today, but they are nevertheless imbued with a sense of joy that I was immediately drawn to.
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As if, till then, he had been inhabiting a little doll's house, and misled by its neat veneers had mistaken it for the world, until with a splintering crunch its sides and front were broken off, and it proved to be standing all alone in the forests of the night; inches high, among silent, huge, glimmering trees.
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Viewed from the pebbly sand of Kitsilano Beach, the skyline of Vancouver, the actual built substance of the place, can seem on occasion like a glimmering mirage, a seam of mirrored glass suspended between what lies above and below, a recent and provisional thing, reflecting what is permanent around it: the sky and mountains, the endless sea.
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More than 237,236 nattily-attired watch lovers, retailers and journalists (yes, even the journalists dress up) representing more than 210 countries stroll a shopping mall-size exhibition hall to check out the latest glimmering wares from hundreds of brands in lavishly appointed booths (that is, "booths," since some could double as upscale boutique hotels outfitted with Ginza-worthy lounges).
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In one glimmering, mirage-like afternoon, I learn to look out for elevators, to spot access ramps sans binoculars, to smile in placating gratitude at anyone who offers small conveniences, and most importantly, to not scream at people who treat us as if we are obstructing half the world, instead of half the sidewalk, with Emily's sweet kid.
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A glimmering and sleek advancement on prior models, Galactic's UNITY rolled into a massive hangar full of giddy nerds in the desert behind a triumphant-but-casual Richard Branson, who blew kisses at the audience from atop a Range Rover like he was Zaphod Beeblebrox himself, as a fittingly stratospheric piece of electronic music filled the room to the rafters.
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"Emotions are too much for me, so I spread my love through likes / I didn't even leave my house last week, but I know what you did last night," she sings over sensual, glimmering keys and a slow electronic beat, neatly summing up how being on your iPhone can make you feel super lonely but surrounded by people at the same time.
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On Time BASEL, Switzerland — You can't be too rich or too thin, and Bulgari clearly has the rich part down, as evidenced by glimmering signature pieces like its Serpenti Secret high jewelry watch for women, a diamond-encrusted snake in 18-karat white gold that sinfully envelops the wrist like the serpent in the Garden of Eden (priced only upon request).
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Sure, it's not like seeing the full opera played out on the stage, but you can compare the glimmering wardrobes of the Queen of the Night, the unexpected influences like Hockney in 1991 borrowing the Metropolitan Museum of Art staircase for his Great Temple, and appreciate the incredible whimsy played out through costumes like Jun Kaneko's colorful and geometric concoctions for the San Francisco Opera.
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As did the confusion of a collection that added many pointless flaps and straps to otherwise elegant tailoring, mixed an old newspaper comic strip ("Little Nemo in Slumberland," from 1905) with pajama suiting (for men) and Fortuny pleats (for women), threw in some gingham and potholder weaves, an old Lanvin cartoon print that apparently depicted bathers but looked like an unexpected takeoff on a Kama Sutra plate, hairy sneakers and metallic "Pharoah Loafers" (don't ask), and then culminated in lovely short Grecian gowns, glimmering with gold.
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She melded deep jewel toned velvets and crystalline sequined capes that glimmered like the walls of an emerald mine; spliced a short black cape jacket to a white shirt; trapped flyaway nude silk chiffons with hammered silver breastplates; sent necklines soaring like satin stalagmites Men's narrow overcoats were pavéd in the same silver sequins and beaded peacock feathers as the gowns (though the men still seem like accessories to the women, rather than equals); trench coats lined in starlight; thin black turtlenecks and cigarette pants layered under glimmering bustier dresses with petal skirts.
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IN HIS workshop on Eel Pie Island near Twickenham, glimmering with light from the Thames outside, Trevor Baylis kept wrenches, pliers, cables, hammers, gear-wheels, lengths of piping, light bulbs, massed coat-hangers, tubs of washers, wing-nuts, screws and nails, books, chisels, old St Julien tobacco tins full of bits and bobs, saws, hacksaws, cross-saws, balls of string, a splendid metal lathe which neighbours would pop in to use, sheets of foil dropped in the war by German bombers, all his dead domestic appliances (for disassembly and cannabilisation), and last but not least his boyhood Meccano sets, their instructions held together with yellowing Sellotape, out of which he would still make little clockwork vehicles that buzzed along the worktops in a determined way.
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So do song structures depart from convention, and for every rap/chorus/rap hook machine there's a through-composed vocoded rant-confession over sedative beats at halftime, or a song that swerves in the middle and never returns to where it started, or a skewed fragment of a song glinting at the edges where it broke off from something larger — as when "Through the Late Night" rides a shiny, glimmering trancebeat that inspires much inarticulate, electronically filtered moaning while perpetually circling back to the same rousing chant ("Sleep today then we play/all through the late night/uh uh uh uh uh uh/all through the late night"), or when "Sdp Interlude" builds three minutes of impossible poetry from nothing but glittering synthesizer and the repeated command "Smoke some drink some pop one," at once oddly meditative and oddly catchy.
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