Shooting at the station house would stop, and the crew would quickly set up needed shots of the train passing in the background.
He thinks nothing of punctuating a conversation in a forest with a completely random camel passing in the background, or shooting a bizarre, entirely silent, dance sequence in slow motion.
Meanwhile time continues to pass in the background, albeit slowly, so you're doing all this under pressure.
"The study shows how we can retain our memory of distinct events while also being aware of time passing in the background," says Wendy Suzuki of New York University.
In letting go of attending to all that is arising and passing in the background, we're freed to attend to that which we can influence: for example, we work with the breath, extending the exhalations to calm the mind, exploring the sensations of respiration to center awareness.
"I remember a caretaker, who worked in the hall we were using, passing by in the background, shooting me glances.
Their sparse and wistful songs are peppered with the unexpected — a bit of banjo on "Blue to White," a passing siren in the background of "White to Red".
But there have been tougher moments of scrutiny for Zuckerberg and his company in 2018, as public awareness about how people's data is being ceaselessly sucked out of platforms and passed around in the background, as fuel for a certain slice of the digital economy, has grown and grown — fuelled by a steady parade of data breaches and privacy scandals which provide a glimpse behind the curtain.
A character who had faced and perhaps failed a moral challenge in one film might be transformed into a mere extra in the next, passing through the background.
The items, mostly copies of luxury objects, inside the little shop in downtown Manhattan are made of thin cardboard and might not even pass muster deep in the background of a movie set.
