"Lying in bed you could see the World Trade Center framed with vines," he said, recalling the garden.
I gaze out at garish signs announcing a muffler shop, a convenience store and a wireless phone center, framed by a web of telephone poles and wires.
In each stamp, a lynx appeared at the center, framed by two oval borders, a wrap of Latin text ("From the Library of Federico Cesi, Prince and Marquis of Monticelli"), and a third oval border.
Images of the suave Sheikhs, ageless faces framed by the traditional black-and-white headwear, abound: projected onto the gigantic white sails of the Burj Al-Arab hotel, adorning billboards in the city center, framed along the foyer of the high school where I spent a couple of halcyon years larking in the bathwater.
Each of the paintings (up to 12 feet wide) has a dark center, framed by thick pigment that tools and hands have swirled and streaked through.
"We are seeing more centers framed as sustainability, but they may not be qualitatively different from the ethics, innovation or globalization centers of 15 years ago," he said.
One stirring sequence begins with a lion hauling a zebra to the ground in center frame; for a few hours after, the carcass is the site of a busy feast.
And when there's a third person present — Mapplethorpe, some other boy — they make a little room for him, but he's rarely center frame; the pictures are rare in that they circumvent the male gaze and thus approval; instead, they document how each woman's vision is equal to the other's.
Hathaway and Marshall are resourceful and craftsmanlike in dealing with these limitations, finding ways to position the actors so that the join lines are hidden, or filling the unused space beyond the center frame with vertiginously detailed landscapes that fall off into infinite distance.
In the experiment above, the DAE was trained with only the center frame of static LMFB feature parameters as target.
