There is even a project on paper to build a multibillion-dollar, 18-mile bridge across the Red Sea, captained by Tarek bin Laden, the half brother of Osama bin Laden.
Perhaps that's why, despite all the turkeys, the vanity project prevails: what looks like a brazenly self-serving passion project on paper might still turn out to be an Oscar-winner and a box-office smash that actually does elevate its maker to a higher artistic plane.
As opposed to just projecting on paper or importing a sketch drawn with a digital pen, this way uses thermo-sensitive ink which disappears when heated, so an image is erased using a laser which heats the ink from behind.
In Spiegelman's SoHo studio, described by the New York Times as "also a kind of haphazard museum of comic-strip history", he works on a computer for some projects and on paper for others.
Willis, who created the Mirror's Pride of Britain awards, is expected to take charge of special projects on the paper.
If you flip through it from the front, you will see images of Ms. Blaisse's landscape projects on matte paper, and the word "Outside" printed on the page edges.
(Interview with E, project director for the eating disorder project) The latitude afforded to the project leaders in developing their programs means that the translation from the project plan on paper to action in practice can be done in a number of ways: as a drastic reorganization, in phases, or first as a project with later spoken or unspoken plans for integration into the system.
And, however great a project looks on paper, practical implementation is often a sobering experience.
But the rebound that makes the project viable, on paper at least, could be a long time coming.
