But venture capitalists, formerly willing to finance even fanciful projects, are taking note.
In a city where making a living from art can seem fanciful, projects are often happily uncommercial.
Automakers also highlighted several concept cars, from barely disguised versions of future showroom models to fanciful projects that may never see the light of day: CHRYSLER 200C Chrysler's electric-car technology still seemed less market-ready than its competitors.
Rows of Chinese and foreign architects were working in an almost sepulchral silence, surrounded by models of their fanciful projects: on one end of the second floor, there was a twisting, layered skyscraper designed for Chongqing, on the other a swirly cross section of an opera house and a performing-arts center whose construction Gillen was also overseeing in Harbin.
It's not that fanciful, Michael Bloomberg projects that New York's new engineering school could produce as many as 400 new companies in its first 30 years, to say nothing of the fact that the city already has more college students than Boston has people.
Lowe appears to spend nearly all his profits on fanciful-seeming projects that, in aggregate, mount a serious case that the facsimile can play a central role in art conservation.
(Anderson) ★ My Brightest Diamond (Wednesday) This fanciful baroque-pop project of the local musician Shara Worden transferred its classical gas to a recent score for "Balloonatic," a high-flying film by the silent comedian Buster Keaton.
At 9 p.m., Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North Sixth Street, Brooklyn, (800) 745-3000, musichallofwilliamsburg.com; $20. (Anderson) ★ My Brightest Diamond (Tuesday) This fanciful baroque-pop project of local musician Shara Worden transfers its classical gas to a new score for "The Balloonatic," a high-flying film by the silent comedian Buster Keaton.
(Anderson) Kronos at 40 with My Brightest Diamond (Thursday) My Brightest Diamond, the fanciful baroque-pop project of the local musician Shara Worden, transferred its classical gas to a recent score for "Balloonatic," a high-flying film by the silent comedian Buster Keaton.
By clamping down on a free press, by controlling all media and internet access, the Kremlin has promoted a fanciful narrative that projects an image of Russian power and strength on the world stage.
