Last December, Gary Wales, a custom-car builder from Woodland Hills, Calif., discovered the Hudson at the back of a garage.
So down I went to this little film studio at the back of a garage on Albany Street, which wasn't how I thought films would be.
Jobs, with incisive assistance from his design team, reshaped the personal computer from a wobbly, Professor Branestawm-like contraption lashed together at the back of a garage, or from an early Moog synthesiser lookalike, into a kind of digital jewellery.
Mr. Lipson, who runs a computer security consulting company in Pearl River, N.Y., is but one of many shoppers who have bought electronic devices lately that end up stuffed into a bottom drawer, on the high shelf of a closet, or in the back of a garage.
Talent will out, they say, whatever the tools that lie to hand, and in a sense they are right: Woods would destroy us with a single rusty five-iron found at the back of a garage, and Cartier-Bresson could have picked up a Box Brownie and done more with a roll of film — summoning his usual miracles of poise and surprise — than the rest of us would manage with a lifetime of Leicas.
Across the city, in two dark rooms at the back of a garage Patricia and six-year-old Carlos (their names have been changed to protect their identity) are waiting for news, too.
Infrared units are best placed on the back wall of a garage facing towards the garage door and angled down at a 45 degree angle.
The innovation myth used to involve the back of a suburban garage or an office park in Silicon Valley.
Eventually, we arrived at a small space on the top floor, at the back of a parking garage.
The garden faces a 2003 public mural of dancers covering the back of a parking garage next door, ready-made art above a scrim of palms.
Many such systems likewise issue an alert if there's cross-traffic approaching when backing out of a garage or parking space.
