"Get the hotel in the picture," one young man said in Hindi as he posed, straight-faced, for a photographer.
It seems innocuous enough: A Hawaiian shirt-wearing man stands in front of a bank of computer monitors, arms placed awkwardly in front of him in a pose straight out of civil servant media training class.
Later, as John Mayer launched into a blues instrumental version of the Jackson hit Human Nature, a concert image of Jackson with arms raised in a pose straight from a crucifixion painting, and light pouring out from behind him was projected on the overhead screen.
In each painting — generally of young, good-looking men of color — the subject strikes a highly stylized pose straight out of the pages of art history books.
Turning to look at me in an alluring, come-hither pose straight from the Totally Hot album cover, she asked, "So Ray, which of my old songs would you want to hear in concert?" Without question, I said, Have You Never Been Mellow.
The framework seeks to help stakeholders explore how well a particular technology may fit their educational context by posing straight-forward questions such as: "Does the technology create a burden of extra management for the teacher?" and "Is there evidence that use of this technology aids learning?
Sit in lotus pose - sit straight with your right foot on the left thigh and the left foot on your right thigh.
That's one of the questions posed by Straight, D C Moore's entertaining rewrite of the 2009 US Indie movie, Humpday.
At the corner of Pratt and Light Street a few dozen people held up traffic and staged a spontaneous die-in, sprawling themselves on the asphalt in poses straight from crime-scene photos.
The animators took several of Conan's poses straight from the paintings and modeled his movements after those of the characters in the feature animation Tarzan and the action films Troy and Ong Bak.
It's about a dashing gay 1920s movie star who is run out of the business when he refuses to pose as straight by marrying some starlet and giving up the man he loves.
