And diamond in the rough certainly describes Meier's towers, which have an almost ephemeral lightness, and rise gently amid the uneven jumble of the West Village.
New Darkmail encryption aims to keep government spies out From Snapchat to the music-streaming digital natives and even a whole generation renting rather than buying, 2013 has cemented the rise of ephemeral content and transient technology.
Considering the dramatic rise of ephemeral messaging, it's not surprising that Tinder baked some of that functionality into its own app.
Dancy, who speaks around the world about the rise of ephemeral knowledge and the concepts of data exhaust, is known for the full quantification of the data he creates.
Likewise, in the commercial context, the rise of ephemeral sharing and pro-privacy movements like do-not-track — powered by startups like Snapchat and free-thinkers like DuckDuckGo — puts disruptive business pressure on the overreaching excesses of data-harvesting giants like Facebook and Google that want to grab and store every little thing we do.
More generally, the researcher's challenge is usually seen as rising above ephemeral, situated detail in the search for abstracted, generalisable truths.
After rising to fame playing the ephemeral mother alongside Brad Pitt in "Tree of Life," Chastain will have no problem rising to the demands of the misses.
Many considered it a good sign that Aphex Twin's Rephlex Records was behind the release an indicator, perhaps, that Redwine's talents would outlast the ephemeral "digital petri dish" that he rose out of. .
As if a subterranean civilisation struggles into the light only to extinguish itself, it is possible to observe the rise and fall of these ephemeral cities.
THE EPHEMERAL MUSEUM: OLD MASTER PAINTINGS AND THE RISE OF THE ART EXHIBITION.By Francis Haskell.Yale; 200 pages; $25 and £16.95FRANCIS HASKELL was famous for raising new questions in art history.
