If nothing else, this sets up a series of creative challenges, compounded by the insularity of the narrative, the characters' retreat from the world.
The designer hoped to attract creative people to the compound, so he created custom closets to fit tenants' possessions and put parquet de Versailles floors in one apartment to lure Billy Baldwin, the interior decorator and Francophile, who painted his entire apartment gardenia-leaf green.
Inside this iconic compound of creative imagination, you can come face-to-face with replicas of the characters and learn about how they were brought to life on screen.
That alarm will be compounded if Creative Scotland does not have the cash which it projects after 2011.
That problem is compounded by the fact that the creative and technological sides of the industry remain dominated by men.
Tom Ford, creative director of Gucci, grew up in Santa Fe, and worked at the Compound, a restaurant that Mr. Girard designed.
This collapse, triggered by Mr. Partidge's paralyzing stage fright and compounded by his having just kicked a Valium addiction, became a creative turning point for both Mr. Partridge and XTC.
Compounding this painful process will be the speeding up of the "creative destruction" in traditional ways of doing business, brought about by the Internet.
LIKE a medieval village, Butch Anthony's 80-acre family compound is a self-contained universe, and every inch of it is an expression of his prodigious creative spirit.
"The magnetic materials, the chemical compounds coated onto the disk, are finer and finer molecular shapes," explained William Ball, a senior product specialist for portable audio at Creative.
