So with Posmetrics, the interface has been customized to be very quick and easy – something that a customer can tap their way through in about 20 seconds.
But every item has been customized to carry evidence, however fragmentary, of the artists' pasts.
LAGOS — For the first time, Monopoly, the American board game, has been customized for Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital.
"Every window has been customized, metal extensions have been added to create more space, neon signs cantilevering over the street vying for attention," Mr. Young said.
This explains why the shock boat has been customized to ward off carp attacks that have bruised bodies and damaged equipment, including one brand-new depth finder.
About those skulls and skeletons on the walls: the Día de los Muertos motif of the Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada has been customized in Dumbo-centric wallpaper.
"First of all, your wheel has to be chrome," Flex said, crouching to examine the wheels on his prototype Yukon, which has been customized by Best Tire and Car Audio of Great Neck.
And while there was criticism of the project's look-alike architecture back then, just as the Levittown box soon blossomed with add-ons and build-ups, much of Sommerville has been customized over the years.
We went for a spin through Midtown, and Tigger, whose Lex Bubble has been customized with 20-inch Auto Couture chrome wheels, expounded on the keeping-ahead-of the-Joneses ethic that drives hip-hop's wheel culture.
One of the strongest stories in the collection is "Driver," in which the narrator, an average middle-class guy (and Toyota owner), impulsively buys a Lincoln that has been customized as a lowrider and adorned on the side with an airbrushed illustration of the Virgin Mary ambling around an orange grove.
