The money was OK, usually, but more than that, the lookalikes found the work thrilling and addictive – getting to pretend to be a sort of moving Tussauds waxwork.
Those devices are designed to form a sort of moving detection curtain so that police officers can be on the street interacting with the public as they seek to detect radioactive material.
Visual projections that pulse in time with the music are nothing new at clubs or concerts, where they have provided a sort of moving wallpaper since bands like Jefferson Airplane ruled this city.
At Stanford, the event, now in its third year, serves as a sort of moving seminar, in which students learn about the ecology and environmental history of the the eight-thousand-two-hundred-acre Stanford site, in the course of a single day.
She walks through a chute with tall walls and suddenly finds herself straddling — not uncomfortably — a conveyor belt that becomes a sort of moving sawhorse supporting her chest.
In most current models, instead, pedestrians simply interpret the presence of other individuals as a sort of moving obstacle or simply as openers of a potential route to follow (in case of imitative behaviours).
"To do such a major exercise as a sort of defensive move would be highly irrational," Mr. Kramer said.
Maybe all are unavoidable but he might be better advised to use the weakness in the oil price to push the cost of fuel higher, in a sort of stabilising move, one that would also be good for the environment and public finances.
An inveterate collector of odd images and curious ideas — her 2003 documentary, "The Gleaners and I," is a personal and philosophical inquiry into the practice of gathering what has been discarded or passed over — Ms. Varda composed "Beaches" as a sort of living, moving collage.
According to Bobby it was just an Adlai sort of move.
