Then they insisted on redoing the experiments by swinging a makeshift office on cables inside one of the Lincoln Tunnel's ventilation towers on Manhattan's West Side.
People on the bank made a makeshift rope, using jumper cables and scarves, and threw it to Olian to tie around his waist.
To help organize the shoot, officials with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services approached families in the waiting room and brought them to a makeshift studio — a cabled strobe with umbrella softbox, a spot on the floor marked for the children to stand, and a black muslin cloth, which was gaffer-taped to the wall.
I walked past the camels and up a slope, and came to a group of graduate students crouched on boulders, hunched over a drumlike sieve full of dirt, which was suspended by cables from a makeshift wooden tripod.
"This was my way of working for music without being in the music business," said Mr. Gomelsky, 79, sitting at a makeshift console cluttered with computer monitors, cables, books, cassettes and papers.
Police and security everywhere; bag searches; makeshift metal barriers held together with black cable ties which meant I had to walk 250 yards away from my destination just to cross the road.
For weeks at a time, they camp out in a makeshift tent on the island while Hemy digs for cables and other metal debris.
A single fan, powered by an extension cable from a nearby shop, runs to cool the makeshift camp while stray dogs bark at each other from behind parked cars.
His ethical ideals are perhaps most succinctly expressed in an exchange between the hero and a worker from the municipal utility company who runs a cable from a nearby power line to the man's makeshift home (and later helps repair the jukebox).
