Floating white fabrics create a dreamy effect in Softroom by Sam Liu, while a more stark monochrome aesthetic prevails in Petit Prince Room by Hikaru Katai.
Her images were heavily influenced by Pictorialism, in which soft-focus lenses created a dreamy effect, rendering reality as if seen by a painter (or a Photoshop filter, if computers had existed back then).
The pastor, doubling as disk jockey, lowered the lights to impart "a romantic, dreamy effect," and put on a record of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (presumably the Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban version, from the soundtrack of the 1949 hit movie "Neptune's Daughter").
The silvery and shadowy light creates a dreamy, lunar effect.
Shot through branches, with the sun in the background, the photographs have a dreamy, impressionistic effect; the out-of-focus passages suggest flickering movement and swooning bliss.
In each, a single ghostly male or female torso emerges from blue-black space, turning or twisting this way and that, to dreamy effect, but more nostalgically classical than erotic.
Thus, in the 1920's, they grasped that there was no need with film for dreamy effects or devices -- like dissolves, ghostly music, slow motion, and so on.
Four compositions from Redhooker's second CD, "Vespers," showed Mr. Griesgraber's style: the steady arpeggios, slow harmonic motion and simple melodies of Minimalism wielded with a pop-inspired concision, and a dreamy looseness emphasized with electronic effects.
The effect was both ethereal, causing a dreamy mood, and fleshly, as if these images were coming from inside someone's body.
For dramatic effect, the exhibition begins with a dreamy 1908 painting by Monet of water lilies in the garden at his home in Giverny.
With the arrival of Frank Gehry's twisting, titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in 1997, the small, shipbuilding town of Bilbao became a cultural destination, its name forever bonded to a dreamy urban renewal scheme known as the "Bilbao effect".
