Someone had already thought of taking a Pontiac shaped like a rocket ship on an electronic superhighway, so putting the wild idea to practice in a couple of basic G.M. sedans probably seemed a lot closer to Earth, reality-wise.
But having to spend his architectural capital carefully -- and having to tailor grand design precedents to a more down-to-earth reality -- didn't faze Gluckman for a minute.
Yet behind the veneer of bustle in the crowded gallery the artists and curators were grappling with a far more sombre and down-to-earth reality in terms of the precarious state of London's once-thriving art scene.
Pan's Labyrinth 2006, 15 Optimum, £17.99 Mexican maestro Guillermo del Toro's masterpiece is an extraordinary collision of exotic fantasy and down-to-earth reality that seamlessly blends themes of personal and political import.
Stella had a marvelous way of mixing erudition with down-to-earth realities, show business know-how with a few Yiddishisms, all combined with a vivid sense of what she called a theater of "heightened reality".
Folman juggles live action with animation, earth-toned reality with candied fantasy, to spin the tale of Robin Wright (played, naturally, by Robin Wright), a Hollywood actor on the wrong side of 40, gazing glumly at her youthful self on the Princess Bride poster.
For example, governmental restrictions on carbon emissions are repeatedly referred to as restrictions that "artificially constrain" the burning of fossil fuels, as if such restrictions are wholly detached from any earth-bound reality.
It is a corrective lens that helps focus the earth's blurred reality.
The brothers first came in contact with the membrane that divides the dreamlike earth from mathematical reality when they were boys, growing up in Kiev, and their father gave David a book entitled "What Is Mathematics?," by two mathematicians named Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins.
Today, Google announced on its blog that it's bringing Google Earth to virtual reality by way of the HTC Vive.
