As they prepare to perform it in its entirety, the band's Wayne Coyne and photographer Lawrence Schiller explain the origins and enduring appeal of the shot … The black-and-white original is an enigma: a scruffy figure stands by an illuminated wall, transfixed by his own shadow.
While the original is an elaborate 3-D game with state-of-the-art graphics, the Flash version is a simple two-dimensional game.
The new concrete façade, preserving the low-slung swagger of the original, is an incongruous medieval pastiche squatting in the middle of Tokyo's glitziest shopping district.
The Archizoom chair ($1,525), below, a re-issue of a 1979 original, is an unusually inviting piece for the Italian design association of the same name that created it.
"The original is an awesome game, for what it was, but we wanted to do some radically different things, and improve the graphics, so we knew we'd have to start afresh.
David Fielding's production, a supersized version of Garsington Opera's 1997 original, is an English country-house playground suspended between "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges," but it doesn't get in the way of Strauss's surprisingly compelling music.
