| With five works, "Automatic Update" offers only a small sampling of familiar artists who employ recent technology — it's hardly the "update" of the genre that the title implies.
Organized by Nora Lawrence, the center's recently appointed associate curator, it samples a variety of familiar conceptual approaches relating to natural light by 14 artists.
With perfect deadpan and in well-used wide-screen, Mr. Pen-ek samples a number of familiar hard-boiled codes and conventions, creating a moody intrigue with murder and betrayal, questions and answers, dramatic rules (the loaded gun that must go off) and symbolic figures (the enigmatic hit man, a mysterious boss, a beautiful siren).
Headlines called them the Camelot couple, a sample of a familiar tendency by press and television to treat murder victims as paragons - helpful neighbors, brilliant students, with futures full of promise - a common sort of knee-jerk eulogizing that can be counted on to squeeze audience sympathy.
For an Internet-savvy generation of DJs raised on a diet of familiar samples and pop culture in-jokes, YouTube increasingly became a source for samples during live sets, which are often used to throw each other off-guard.
Axel Willner, the Swedish producer, has fashioned these two exquisitely smacky 15-minute trance tracks—"Love Vs Distance" and "Thought Vs Action"—out of a couple of familiar samples.
A pair of undefined stimuli (a dictated word and a figure) was presented through trials involving the presentation of familiar stimuli as the samples and comparisons.
With its cheeky samples of the flatulent trumpet sound familiar from old Warner Brothers animations, "Cartoon" was whimsical, surprising and like no other reggae track.
If I don't have that, I can't build up my reference file". Catlin said he traded with directors of European labs to amass samples of drugs he was not familiar with.
While no one among a sample of Williamsburgers was familiar with the book's lingo, most agreed that its drawings of hip hairstyles were recognizable depictions of what adorned the heads of local residents.
