When she began working at Creative Growth, she fostered obsessions with the band Kiss and the Addams Family, traces of which are sprinkled throughout her images.
Foster's obsession with "the exhilarating mysteriousness" of wild creatures began in childhood.
In our recent interview, she shared several key principles that have been deployed at Suterra that are instructive for anyone wanting to foster customer obsession in their organization.
Is fostering an obsession with sports a harmless way to make a living or does it contribute to the glorification of celebrity culture and to the coarsening and trivialization of public discourse?
Thematically, the band are still fostering their obsession with time (think back to singles Skip to the End and Meantime, and also the rip it up and start again connotation of their record label moniker), kicking off their current single with the lines: "It's time to wake up!
It advanced what Finley Kumble had pioneered and fostered an obsession with PPP.
An early image of Apollonia, the Dutch model, pulled and shoved by flash-popping paparazzi while fans tear at her dress, evokes David's "Intervention of the Sabine Women," with its pile-up of tangled bodies and flailing limbs, and calls into question the celebrity obsession fostered by the very magazines that Gallant worked for.
Dungeons & Dragons could "foster an inmate's obsession with escaping from the real-life correctional environment, fostering hostility, violence and escape behavior," prison officials said in court.
The responses suggest that the critics of college lists are onto something: maybe the devaluing of the rankings can serve as a tonic to the unrelenting obsession they foster among many applicants and their parents.
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's soap operafication of the superhero genre in the 1960s with convoluted continuity and unrequited love affairs—has fostered our current superhero obsession, from Daredevil's tragic back story to Age of Ultron's weepy, unlikely Hulk/Black Widow romance.
