There was no shortage of recording of rock, pop and R&B music going on in New York in the 1960s, but as a recognizable music scene, New York definitely held a lower profile than those of Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Detroit, Memphis and a few others we might mention.
Markham must avoid recognizable scenes.
It is also more conventional in its interpretation of the local landscape, sticking close to recognizable scenes and subjects.
That influence, and Mr. Say's clever use of it, is especially apparent in his most recent book, published this fall, "The Sign Painter" (Walter Lorraine Books/Houghton Mifflin Company), in which Mr. Say borrows readily recognizable scenes from this deeply American painter and populates them with bright Asian faces, sort of a Hopperesque perspective on the new America.
It's a familiar scene, a recognizable staple of Paranormal Activity -- a film that has spawned three sequels (with a fourth on the way).
George Stern, owner of the George Stern Fine Arts gallery in West Hollywood and an expert on California painters, said that Thomas was a recognizable name on the art scene at the turn of the last century, but his work is modestly priced today.
Warehouses are being dusted off, repainted and revitalized; new galleries, installations and music spaces are springing up; and the arts scene finally has a recognizable -- and locatable -- home.
According to Kring, they wanted to find a way to connect the characters and storylines on a surface level, so by placing the orange soda -- from the fictional brand Citrus O -- throughout different scenes, it becomes a recognizable prop for the viewers.
It gained international attention at the beginning of the new millennium and spread to scenes in London and Berlin, but rapidly faded as a recognizable genre as acts began to experiment with a variety of forms of music.
The new technology uses simple images of a recognizable, moving figure, such as a running man or galloping horse, and converts them into blotches, hidden within a similarly blotchy scene.
