Through it all Mr. Childs sat tight, weathering turnover in developers, mayors, tenants and even public taste in order to see his double-towered complex -- a new home for a new AOL Time Warner -- finally cast its huge shadow across the edge of Central Park.
In one piece a tiny sculptural figure of a European soldier casts a huge drawn shadow on the gallery wall.
Barcelona, Aug. 4, 1999," a stretch of blue-gray grid that could be a paved sidewalk is littered with debris: beams, boxes, hunks of twisted metal, with a huge, looming shadow behind it that looks like an intact building.
On our second drift, I sent a 40-foot backcast into the rip, stripped for dear life and saw a huge gray shadow become a charging bass that grabbed my fly and took off.
The band's nihilism and intensity cast a huge musical shadow over countless groups, but Ginn's influence was perhaps even greater in his invention of hardcore's do-it-yourself ethos — he founded his own label, SST, and helped book Black Flag's relentless tours.
