Morning rain had left splotches of mud on the ground.
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The pink splotches, called variegation, come from a genetic mutation.
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Cow parsnip stems are green but do not have purple splotches.
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Also fading were brown splotches I was told were blood stains.
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Two days after the killing, splotches of dried blood stained those tiles.
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One tip is that giant hogweeds have purple splotches along their stem.
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The spots look like dark splotches on the face of the star.
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The key is to look for imperfections like water splotches and asymmetries.
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Seeing red in the form of flushing, rashes, bumps, scaliness, or splotches?
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Lula said she would call the whitest kitten Snowflake, and we said we would call our little kittens Pumpkin and Cinder because Pumpkin had orange splotches in his white fur, and Cinder had black splotches in his white fur.
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Some rashes can look like red splotches and some look like pinpoint dots.
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Within three days, my dry, inflamed splotches chilled out and eventually faded away.
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In another area, sketches and splotches of color are hung up for inspiration.
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Dark splotches appeared in the same southern region of Europa every few months.
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She showed him pictures — angry red splotches on hands and arms and legs.
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Her breaths came ragged and gasping, the tears leaving splotches on that pink sweatshirt.
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The red splotches to its right show the hydrogen gas that's trailing behind it.
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Purple and orange splotches explode like land mines against a backdrop of whispering gray.
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White areas are experiencing normal temperatures, and those grey splotches show where there's insufficient data.
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The contrast between cheery floral prints and vibrant red splotches makes answering this question difficult.
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A few hikers on the coastal trail ducked splotches of foam the ocean snorted up.
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He pointed to pink splotches on his forehead while describing himself as a sunscreen user.
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Red and pink splotches are areas in which hurricane watches and warnings have been declared.
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Among Dawn's findings, the most unexpected were shiny splotches on Ceres — some 300 of them.
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The splotches of red and yellow showed combinations of frequencies that don't naturally go together — ever.
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Microscopic images show the macrophage immune cells (the colorful splotches) proliferating and working in cancerous cells.
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She wears her daughter's gray sweatshirt with white splotches, which Alyssa bleached in a laundry mishap.
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Nani Ma's kind face was marked with bright splotches of red, and she was mostly bald.
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We saw magnified pictures of green specks (cancer cells) and red splotches (cancer-related connective tissues).
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Shards of puff pastry explode off the plate, and whipped cream splotches out with every impact.
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There is also a small sheet adorned with the artist's jottings and splotches of explosive color.
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And then there's Venus' strange dark splotches, which were first detected by astronomers nearly a century ago.
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You'll also notice rainbow splotches on underwear to represent period stains that are often presented as shameful.
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The trees' leaves have bloody tendencies; autumnal or aflame, they erratically burst into inky splotches of red.
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Aside from some pink splotches in Bannon's cheeks, Trump is the only figure to appear in color.
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But it got splotches of blue when I rented Citibikes and pink for my monthly iCloud subscription.
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She stopped in front of a Kandinsky—"Black Lines" (1913), a jumble of Technicolor splotches—and gasped.
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From that height, the landscape was reduced to splotches of green atop a palette of dusty brown.
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There is an enormous variegated monstera with big white splotches, like the splatter on a painter's jeans.
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By 1998, the cancer had progressed to tumors, with scaly, itchy splotches spreading all over her body.
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If you've ever noticed orange splotches around certain streets in Google Maps, that's exactly what I'm talking about.
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An analysis of photos taken of the chamber after its discovery showed the brown splotches were already there.
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We see earlier forms peeking through the color, as well as splotches of paint dispersed across the surface.
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We love a good retinol product — what other magical ingredient fights wrinkles, dark spots, acne, and oily splotches?
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When Omalu and his team examined the scan, there were angry red splotches all over Fred McNeill's brain.
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Most of all, there are Red Admirals, the red splotches on their wingtips fluttering like drops of blood.
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Not because of the outlines of the continents; those are comforting in their hooks, tails, splotches, and whorls.
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Giant hogweed can grow up to 14 feet tall and has green stems with purple splotches and white hairs.
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Today, this research suggests, we can see these surviving microbial blooms as dark splotches in Venus's lower cloud layer.
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The photo reveals one circular splotch just below his chest, with a few lighter-brown splotches on his stomach.
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Get some red spandex to be sauce and cover yourself in cut-out yellow splotches as the cheese. 3.
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Also "look for what can best be described as 'black felt tip marker stains' or black splotches," he adds.
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They are really quite beautiful and mesmerizing, drawing in the eye to roam across each little island of splotches.
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Even after nearly a decade of working with the material, the final swoops and splotches are always a surprise.
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That's why most variegated plants have stripes or splotches of different colors, rather than entirely white or pink leaves.
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More sketches and paint splotches than portraits, The Life of Pablo is a collection of ideas rather than songs.
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The old business card I used here was pretty worn and terrible looking, which explains all those splotches of gray.
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It&aposs a sea of yellow-clad Colombia fans with splotches of red for Poland supporters — a gigantic tailgate party.
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Hopefully there will be plenty more brown splotches and other exotic phenomenon in the months and years to come. [NASA]
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In other images, colored splotches appear on faces in family photos and class portraits from her childhood, obscuring their identities.
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Recent observations of the distant object indicate a very reddish surface—possibly even redder than the splotches found on Pluto.
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I was still sweating, but the fabric was wicking it away effectively enough to prevent dark splotches and clammy material.
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Elsewhere, plywood panels lean against walls, roughly painted in the manner of Southern yard art, with splotches, stars or lettering.
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She had studied bird droppings collected from Norwegian churches under the microscope, and the splotches on the paintings looked very different.
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These are still inferences based on fuzzy splotches, and there's still a lot that astronomers don't understand about how planets form.
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Looking at the 6-meter-wide target area and the dark splotches, it would appear that Hayabusa2 nailed the landing site.
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Decades of scratches, dust and splotches were cleaned up, and the now-pristine material was donated back to the war museum.
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Concerns emerged that increased levels of carbon dioxide and humidity were stimulating microbial growth, including some worrisome brown splotches on the paintings.
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The plane of the Milky Way runs horizontally across the middle, and the splotches at the lower right are the Magellanic Clouds.
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This year's first poppy harvest season has just begun, and the bright red flowers are garish splotches across the heavily irrigated landscape.
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In one image, titled Hypnotizing, red Laceleaf flowers protrude from a seltzer-bottle-turned-vase while red splotches splash about the frame.
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On the table idled a Chanel purse circa 1990, covered in Warhol-inspired splotches, the spoils of an apprenticeship to Karl Lagerfeld.
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Yet the camera is drawn away, and Thunberg recedes from view, her sharp features and bright magenta blouse reduced to indistinct splotches.
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The book's spot art of dragon scratch marks, dragon tracks and dragon poo splotches breaks up the text in a fun way.
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A food that makes a mess of a stovetop, with its multiple pots or pans, and splotches from mistimed pours of broth.
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Paint-dipping is a process for covering an object in swirls and splotches of color that would be difficult to achieve by hand.
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Below the chemical-saturated cotton strip circling his head, his face and neck are a map of pink splotches and angry red trails.
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Here, the growths of bacterial colonies shade an illuminated grid of agar-coated tiles with delicate, watercolorlike splotches of pink, yellow and gray.
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Tiny cut with disgust, watching the stubborn dirt and dandruff as if they had left indelible splotches on her, forever staining her soul.
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The splotches paid homage to YouTube makeup-contouring tutorials, evoking the moment just before blending tools transform a painted monster into a Kardashian.
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But you could only take one image every 15-20 seconds or so, and often the images were "noisy," with splotches and color casts.
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In this case, the analysis would reveal telltale x-ray scattering patterns unique to whatever substance comprised sample taken from the mysterious white splotches.
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Slowly, we began inch-worming our way up, passing bird nests and woodpecker holes, splotches of lichen and scars of long-ago lightning strikes.
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Although less dazzling, "Force Majeure" is more hypnotic, transforming 400 tiles coated with agar into a living, evolving painting of splotches of all colors.
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I enjoy the softest, fattest bits of myself, as I enjoy the dark circles under my eyes and the pink splotches on my cheeks.
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For years, they had been manufacturing a green, fireproof, latex-based paint to help farmers cover up splotches of natural browning on their trees.
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On closer inspection he realized—to his shock—that the splotches were actually three wild rabbits, clinging to the tops of sheep for dear life.
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I dipped my brush in and added splotches at random points over each nail, making sure some of the yellow could still be seen. 3.
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It shows a beaver building a dam and transforming the forest upstream into a marshy wetland filled with splotches of vegetation in shades of green.
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Today's findings show the writing on the wall: Neanderthals were clearly painting splotches and tracing their hands on caves long before modern humans showed up.
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These storms are awesome to behold, transforming from small splotches of cloud cover to fully formed, comma-shaped behemoths in as little as 24 hours.
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As an owl — or what I've been told was an owl — every quick turn of your head reduces everything to a blur of amoebic splotches.
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When seen from above, the melting sea ice looked like a field of white mottled with dark splotches where the ice had turned to liquid.
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No one admitted to whiting out Parrish's name in the jail records, though investigators had a lab analyze the splotches, which proved that someone had.
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Donald Trump's presidency has a Rorschach test quality, a series of splotches that could form a pattern if the viewer really wants to see one.
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In "Serrulata" (2018), the artist layers multiple vocabularies and processes — patterns, pours, splotches, and drips — without trying to order them into an all-over composition.
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Depending on the amount of radioactivity in the soil, the resulting images contain a few white dots or enough to create nebula-like white splotches.
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At first, astronomers figured the splotches, which appeared during Titan's northern spring equinox, were just clouds of methane, but further investigations revealed something far more interesting.
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The latter look like straightforward drawings of astronomical charts but the artist incorporates rainwater filtered through stencils to depict nighttime stars as splotches of negative space.
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Your head swells up, your heart starts pounding, you feel nauseous, you have trouble breathing, and you get red splotches and prickling sensations on your skin.
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The scan showed that Frøysaker's hypothesis was wrong: no trace of white pigments or calcium was detected, so the splotches most definitely were not from paint.
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There's a guide on how to spot the fake, which recommends that you keep an eye on teeth, "water-splotches," wonky backgrounds, and imperfections on eyeglasses.
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A sad-looking child sits alone among layers of dapples and splotches of various colors that blur both the child's form and the landscape around him.
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And each time, as I've waited for my face to lose its post-outburst splotches, I've wondered exactly why these emotional moments are considered so taboo.
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By 2050, places like Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Bangkok in Thailand and Mumbai in India will disappear from maps, replaced by splotches of blue.
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But here's something even weirder: Rust stains are allergic to both chlorine and oxygen bleaches, which will leave a sunscreen stain looking like orangish-pinkish splotches.
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The lower, heavy vector is anchored, like memory, to the bottom of the canvas and is densely packed with splotches of ochre, green, pink, and blue.
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Customers online voiced quality and safety concerns with the new product, alleging that they received damaged lipsticks with unknown black spots, white hairs, and mold-like splotches.
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The plant, which can grow up to 14 feet tall, has green stems that have "extensive purple splotches and prominent coarse white hairs," the conservation department says.
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What's more, the bright splotches just happened to occur over Titan's equatorial dune fields, strongly indicating that the spots were clouds of dust blown off the dunes.
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Mr Murthy built 11 watchtowers across the park, from which guards look out for the splotches of red light that poachers use to attract animals at night.
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There are lots of black splotches, puddles, and pools — oil and sewage, as well as the recurring motif of an ugly little hand signaling a thumbs-up.
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Don't bother trying to photograph anything in low light with the G or G Plus, either, as you'll only end up with big splotches of indistinct color.
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Gaping jaws stuffed with food, splotches all over the pages, frequent use of a typeface that looks like a scream from a locked cell — that's the design.
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I was clearly in need of assistance; I was crying and my coat and face were riddled with dried blood splotches from a cut on my finger.
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In both series, paintball-like splotches of cobalt powder punctuate the works, and wooden rectangles imprinted with ominous iterations of Samuel Beckett quotes enhance the poetic mood.
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Finally, slip a resealable pack of body wipes, like the Sea to Summit Wilderness Wipes, into your bag, too, in case any stray splotches of mud linger.
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The earliest work here, dating to 1988 and painted on a rare oval canvas, just barely depicts a quartet of trees as thick, dark splotches of green.
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Long relegated to the canvas or cartoon cells, at MASS MoCA they are realized as large furry heaps covered in black and white stripes with pink splotches.
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The 2005 version had the Spanish-only soundtrack, but the image still showed splotches, bad splices, and, most noticeably, a flicker throughout the film due to lab work.
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Back in October 2016, scans made by the Hubble Space Telescope suggested the object has a discernibly reddish complexion, similar to the reddish-brown splotches observed on Pluto.
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Alphas showed up as big splotches, betas as long curls a single pixel wide, muons as straight lines, and high energy light like gamma rays as single pixels.
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Swaths of canary yellow sky and splotches of pastel pink, tinged with notes of peach and honey, and reflective aquamarine swimming pools, combine to form bright, inviting gestalts.
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North of Piazza del Duomo at Pasticceria Savia, I had a great arancinu catanese (2 euros), a cheesy, saucy fried rice ball dotted with splotches of fresh eggplant.
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Brassaï and Gordon Matta-Clark have pictures that delight in a series of broken windows, serried ranks of angular splotches, like verse after verse of a ragged song.
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The cover of the section gives a broad view of the region it was printed for, with heavy splotches of black fading to gray farther from city centers.
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Everything looked normal there, but in the stomach he saw patches of tissue densely dotted with tiny red splotches, like bits of blood caught just below the surface.
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"This is ISIS on Election Day," Mr. Trump said to reporters, pointing to one map, marked with red splotches that he said represented territory held by the extremists.
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A sexy robot, with chrome curves, whose voluptuous metal figure makes the light reflected onto her surface resemble something lurid, like splotches of bodily fluids, on her gold pumps.
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"The people have spoken," she wrote, sharing a close-up photo of her left inner thigh covered in red splotches, with light-colored stretch marks visible near the top.
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"Whatever it's about, it's looking pretty ugly," said Peter Mayer, a German visitor, as he also examined splotches of red paint on the ground that looked like blood stains.
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One was an abstract, composition of fuzzy shadows and white splotches, like a Jackson Pollock viewed under a microscope: in fact, a recent NASA image of the moon's surface.
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Splotches of old chewing gum speckling a dirty concrete floor became "an everyday creative masterpiece" that drew inspiration from the celebrated Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and her polka dots.
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Urs Fischer goes site-specific with a beautiful expanse of trompe l'oeil wallpaper that replicates drywall patterned with splotches of glue and interrupted by exposed beams and electrical conduit.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — Alun Williams is a barmy British bloke who roams the backstreets of cities and towns, stubbornly signifying historic citizens with slapdash splotches.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads All you need to dance is a beat, but sometimes more will do: juicy textures, electronic nuggets, decorative splotches, maybe even a melody.
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Another cool thing about the photo is that we can literally see temperature variations on the star; the white areas represent the hottest areas, while the red splotches are cooler.
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Yi and her team swabbed these bacteria samples from Koreatown and Chinatown, but the point is that the bewitching splotches could stem from anyone, not just Asian Americans or Asians.
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The top-floor showroom, once a minimalist white cube, is swathed in hand-painted wallpaper and fabrics with Mr. Ruby's signature mix of bleach stains and red-and-blue splotches.
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The hearts of major cities like London, Las Vegas and Tokyo are white hot on the atlas, while their neighboring suburbs are covered in splotches of orange, red, magenta and pink.
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It's been bleach blonde, it's been baby pink, it's been yellow and pink, it's been blonde with red splotches, and now Kanye West's hair is, well, every color of the rainbow.
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Daubed with splotches of color, and vaguely alphabetic "writing" and irregular lines made by rubbing onto an ink-covered sheet placed against their surfaces, many of Baron's collage works resemble palimpsests.
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Traditional spot treatments can be messy and flaky — just ask anyone who has ever skipped zit cream to avoid sliding into bed with their partner sporting a face dotted in white splotches.
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A silvery picture of a sea-side cliff merges with what could be the pockmarked surface of the moon; a forest, perhaps at dusk, now features a border of blossoming purple splotches.
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Layered on top of these are screenprinted and acrylic splotches of the Himalayas, where the startling white paint highlights snowcapped peaks against the orange shadows and two large zones of black paint.
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The man, however, seems to have receded deeper into the shadow in which he was painted, with one cheek marred by dark splotches and his black hat almost indistinguishable from his hair.
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To heighten the mottled, Pollock-like splotches of "Landscape Study II, Gold" (2015), he added a layer of gold leaf, a technique he learned over a few weeks from a local gilder.
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But step back, tilt your head, and squint: you'll see that even all the splotches taken together do not in fact put a stop to the tax games that multinationals presently play.
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The morning sun lends a soft light from the balcony, highlighting the playful splotches of color around the room: paintings of vegetables along the walls, throw pillows, and a bright pink rug.
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What seem to be arbitrary abstract shapes and printer splotches arranged in a shallow geometric picture plane, like a desktop, turn into wobbly figures and unusual forms the more you look at them.
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"The Rules of the Game" is screened in a dreadful copy of sub-YouTube resolution, with the night sky over Octave and his wealthy friend Christine pixelated into splotches of grays and black.
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"I go downstairs to get something for her brother for two seconds and she paints her room purple with nail polish," lamented Kardashian West, showing off North's mini vanity covered in splotches of purple.
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This is a place for those craving dishes like schnitzel atop fusilli pasta with a few splotches of ketchup-spiked tomato sauce and plus-size plates of currywurst, which is better than you'd think.
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I've spent the past few weeks trying to remedy the damage — that is, attempting to soothe the red-tinged bags under my eyes (courtesy of dehydrating apartment heat) and irritated splotches on my cheeks.
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As the spacecraft's scientific instruments collected data on Jupiter's interior and its magnetic field, JunoCam was busy snapping images of cool cyclones and weird dark splotches that the public had selected through an online portal.
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These features, very scientifically dubbed "splotches," are tilling the upper few inches of the lunar regolith at an extraordinary rate, result being that the entire surface gets a face-lift every 81,000 years or so.
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The most common bacteria on the purple spots, surprisingly, were Gammaproteobacteria, mostly the salt-loving ocean kind, according to the paper published today in the journal Scientific ReportsImage: Luciana MiglioreSo, how did the splotches form?
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Arranged in a tense jumble of colorful shapes and splotches forming the rough shape of buildings and people, the work of Syrian artist Tammam Azzam evokes the broken cityscapes and refugee throngs from his homeland.
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He quickly traced the contours of the mansion and the wall, and laid out some cool blue shadows and warm patches of light, hints of the first green leaves, splotches of curtain in the windows.
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I loved seeing the splotches of bright colors, from Pelosi's hot pink dress to A.O.C.'s gleaming white suffragette-inspired suit, in a chamber that was once a monochromatic sea of men in gray pinstripes.
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Three more untitled "Baum" paintings (numbered 249, 21980, and 264, all 22000) are structured around a central tubular shape that vertically bisects the canvas, crisscrossed by horizontal "branches" and frenzied streaks and splotches of watery paint.
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Now, research from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) suggests the brightest of those shiny splotches—located within the enormous Occator crater in the northern hemisphere—is even more interesting than we thought.
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Many art historians theorized that the artist had painted this canvas outdoors—old photographs show him painting in the snow, with just a wooden shed for shelter—and the splotches were droppings from birds flying overhead.
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"PTSD" and "All My Heroes Are Cornballs" construct mesmerizing electronic vacuums, looped keyboard splotches that sound somehow hermetic, as if Jpegmafia is rapping in an airless room; the songs move, but they're also frozen in place.
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With its high-definition camera, the satellite shows our blue marble with its wisps of white clouds and splotches of green and brown in vivid detail better than NOAA has seen with its weather satellites before.
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The manual process is done by 'informal emptiers' – usually men who show up with buckets to chug the goo into containers, dropping splotches of repugnant gunk around the yard for her egg-laying hens to peck at.
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Not the Trump/Pence kind, the Louis Vuitton-by-Nicolas-Ghesquière kind, dressed up in little silk dresses with maxi shoulder impact, printed with splotches of robots and classical statuary like rips in the space-time continuum.
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Of all 14 Nike team looks, this will likely be the most controversial; a canvas of forest green, mustardy gold and white slashes and splotches that looks sort of like animal print meets modern art landscape painting.
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She uses charcoal, pencil and ink to employ a range of styles; splotches of yellow oil saturate the opening pages, which depict a visit to her estranged, alcoholic father, as if to express the mess they're in.
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"I go downstairs to get something for her brother for two seconds and she paints her room purple with nail polish," lamented Kardashian West, showing off North's mini vanity covered in splotches of purple in a Snapchat video.
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This news, when publicized at all, tended to be accompanied by NASA's map of the world, overlaid muddily with orange and red splotches denoting temperature increases; otherwise there appeared stock photographs of sunbathers on beaches or icicles melting.
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As the varnish comes off, so too will much of the paint from previous restorations — including, Ms. MacBeth and Ms. Baer hope, the splotches on the man's face, and another section of retouching on the wall behind the woman.
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On the way there I wished I had put on my white gown with menstrual blood splotches, but then was happy I didn't — it would've been rude to call that much attention to myself at a gathering of solidarity.
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The prototypical Boer is white with a brown head and neck—although they can also come completely brown or "paint," meaning with color splotches on the rest of their body—ranging in color from a rich russet to soft caramel.
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These white pieces of foam are called "magic" for a reason: The most unsightly bits of our homes — from grease spots on the kitchen counter to those horrible splotches around bathtub drains — swiftly vanishes with a bit of light buffing.
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Philippe's study is an Art Deco-luxurious screening room; the opera's omnipresent nostalgia is echoed in flickering splotches of old celluloid; stage-filling close-up projections capture frozen tears on Élisabeth's cheeks and Carlos with a gun to his head.
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Abstract Expressionism changed the terms of painting, and in doing so, created its own kind of intellectual capital, in which Pollock's splotches of color became a new language that was necessary to understand in order to be considered visually literate.
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It was not long before everyone knew, more or less, the Rorschach protocol: A psychologist would quietly pass her subject Rorschach's inkblots, one at a time; first the five black-and-white cards, then two with large splotches of red, and finally three multicolored ones.
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Wolkoff's large-scale gelatin silver prints render this heterogeneous zone in intricate, stylized black-and-white abstractions whose referents — swirls and splotches of lichen; striated and craggy rock formations; roiling bodies of water; reticulated bark beetle marks — are only sometimes discernible without the works' titles.
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As someone who's lived in the Middle East, India and Africa, I've long been curious about the confluence of the three cultures on an archipelago that could, on a map, be mistaken for ink splotches in the Indian Ocean, just off the coast of Tanzania.
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"Yes, these forms stem from the effects of violence," Qureshi told the Metropolitan Museum in the lead-up to his 2011 Roof Garden commission, which saw him adorn the Central Park-side rooftop with the same blood-spattered finesse, delicate floral spirals exploding, in Fibonacci swirls, out of vermilion splotches.
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I placed a lone hungry zombie in New York City, and, within a week, the invasion had spread throughout the East Coast, overrunning Boston and Washington, DC. And those red splotches kept growing… and growing… 28 days later, much of the eastern US was conquered — though, surprisingly, not all of it.
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On one side, behind glass, is Force Majeure, a white room with a pair of white sculptures and a pair of white floral shadow boxes—but the whole thing is overrun with colorful splotches of purple, red, yellow and green bacteria from the skin of folks living in New York's Chinatown and Koreatown, grown in culture.
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Some of the works in this show (her first at this gallery) experiment with a slightly bigger scale but continue to use a Bess-like vocabulary of amoebic splotches and short parallel marks, given added interest by Ms. Baras's stuffed, dented and punctured surfaces and by the little talismanic objects glued to them (slivers of wood, scatterings of pebbles).
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But the more harrowing view was from the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, as we gazed at the multicolored splotches of oil that still rise to the surface, leaking from the Arizona itself, living testimony to what can happen when the United States doesn't prioritize defensive strategies and technologies in an unpredictable world of threat.
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For the series he calls "Rain Studies," Kallat uses watercolor pencil to mark paper with a dark circle, then takes the drawing outside in the rain during monsoon season, which usually lasts for three to four months in Mumbai, leaving the work exposed to the elements, the splotches of rain making starlike dots on the dark circle.
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Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, Wedgwood had managed to navigate the brutal competition among British pottery companies, including Minton and Spode, by innovating with glazes and new patterns, some quite forward-looking for their time — a foreshadowing of what Makeig-Jones would imagine — including scallop shell-shaped dishes, both in iridescent pink and with abstract splotches, and riotously colored majolica.
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