But gradually the work began to reflect an exaggerated, Surrealistic view of the natural world, rife with reptilian coils, sinister insectoid palps and spiky vegetation, floating in a kind of cosmic soup and animated by brilliant color transitions.
In his "Geometric Cups" of the 1970's Mr. Price goes all out, adorning their zany hard-edge forms with additional bit and pieces applied helter-skelter that make brilliant color transitions wherever you look.
Nor did he quite make the transition from brilliant hitter to frontline batsman, able to contribute in various modes.
While IBM's transition looks brilliant, and without pain in hindsight, that was far from the case.
He mentions Mr. Juhasz ("brilliant") and Ms. O'Neill ("in transition") but keeps the focus on himself, on his work.
"It's good, the lads are great, Brian Kidd, people behind the scenes, have been brilliant and it's been an easy transition".
In 2013, Hoppus referred to Take Off Your Pants and Jacket as the "permanent record of a band in transition ... our confused, contentious, brilliant, painful, cathartic leap into the unknown".
Brooklyn band YOU has slowly morphed from a two-piece to a four-piece, and the transition has been nothing short of brilliant.
"Newsweek is produced by a gifted and tireless team of professionals who have been offering brilliant work consistently throughout a tough period of ownership transition and media disruption," she said.
Evidently, it's a riveting mix that seamlessly traverses a new genre at each transition from one of EDM's most brilliant minds: Congorock.
Pacelle was a breakthrough messenger, who could reach Manby with a brilliant reframing, articulating a new business model, the inevitable transition to a "humane economy".
