Surfaces often intersect at unusual angles and with the background, muddling traditional perception of depth.
Polls showing that Okinawans tend to be more pro-American and anti-Chinese than mainland Japanese muddle the situation against a background of sensationalized press coverage.
It feels like Buckley has taken what happens in our heads – that hazy muddle of fleeting thoughts and memories, background noise and half-caught sensory impressions – and cast it in three dimensions.
Those who have drama after drama and those who muddle through life, often in the background, as sturdy and dependable as the famous cobbles.
But here he is a novice, still feeling his way with intrusively self-conscious close-ups, long shots that flatten the characters into the backgrounds, and editing that muddles the spatial relationships between the characters.
It is not perfect – background noise and regional accents can mean it gets muddled, and it often mistranslates ambiguous terms – but as it depends on examples to learn, Google says that the quality should improve.
But don't worry, Mr. Currence assured me, "it's there in the background of almost every dish: the side meat in the muddle, cracklings in the cornbread and bacon fat in the Country Captain".
One minor suggestion: The noisy air-conditioner is a necessary evil in the theater, which is slowly undergoing restoration; background noise used to set several of the scenes just served to muddle the sound even more.
What we'll probably see over the next few years is a painful process of muddling through: bailouts accompanied by demands for savage austerity, all against a background of very high unemployment, perpetuated by the grinding deflation I already mentioned.
When lines recede into the background, their various angles should converge at geometrically-predictable "vanishing points," but the artist managed to muddle these.
