Within the careful ritual of tea preparation and sharing, the proper blend of object and participants was intended to heighten an awareness of transience and fragility.
The character models were outlined with light colors instead of dark ones, creating the subtle blend of object and background found in oil paintings, and fog effects allowed the team to recreate Frazetta's use of shadows in the middle area of the image.
Mr. Morley's frequently assertive blend of threatening objects rendered in toylike colors lends a quirky sparkle and suggests a rambunctious, constantly youthful mind.
The house's décor is a distinctive blend of found objects, Chinese antiques and bits and pieces collected on the family's travels around Asia. "Every single object in this house has a story," Ms. Elie said, "whether it was bought when we traveled, whether it was found in the garbage, or whether an old neighbor moved away and gave it to us".
Winslow rather fittingly calls this project, a blend of past objects and future-leaning technology, Build the Future.
One highly successful example of Web 2.0 branding is Blendtec's YouTube video campaign "Will It Blend?" The video series features Blendtec's CEO, Tom Dickson, comically attempting to blend all manner of objects in one of his company's appliances.
Rose Troche, who adapted and directed "The Safety of Objects," blended together several of Ms. Homes's characters to create the figures of her film.
Since many objectophiles are on the autistic spectrum, a condition characterized by difficulties in the social domain, this may underlie the phenomenon somehow, and there's also a related psychological trait known as "object personification synesthesia," in which "person" and "object" blend to create the perception of objects endowed with mental states, including sexual desires.
The resulting paintings — with their chaotic intermingling of objects, their fragmented forms, their blend of black and white and color — overflow with detail that may seem impossible to absorb.
Even of objects she likes.
