The couple demonstrate for me – Collins plays with his left hand, Grace strums with her right.
To practice he worked on complex rhythms by chattering his teeth, an art he demonstrated for me.
He demonstrates for me, bouncing an imaginary rat across the floor, yells "And then they were fighting!", and demonstrates some more.
On one of his several computers, he demonstrates for me the process by which he animates his images, using a sequence from "My birds".
A recent experience demonstrated for me where the airlines' goal translates into sales pressure, or more graphically, where the heel digs into the floor.
Emogi recently launched a branded-emoji platform, called Wink, which Montaque demonstrated for me one afternoon at the company's offices in the Penn Station outpost of WeWork, the startup-friendly co-working chain.
Scully demonstrated for me, an inexperienced kid, what real passion for a career and a subject matter was, and he opened up a vision of the world and the record of human culture that continues to resonate 50 years later.
I soon consulted a friend of mine, Koji "the gadget master," who had once demonstrated for me a "Directional Speaker" that can convey sound tens of meters with a very sharp direction sensitivity.
This was best demonstrated for me at a screening of Steve Jobs, the new Danny Boyle biopic starring Michael Fassbender and scripted by Aaron Sorkin, who wrote The Social Network and The West Wing, and is current crowned king of walk-and-talk wisecrack dialogue.
As Frodo demonstrates for me the ancient art of shoving a spoon up one's nostril, I realise that, by dedicating years of their lives to honing totally impractical abilities, these performers afford us all an idiosyncratic perspective on how life might be lived away from the rat-race.
