It's an effectively staged, attention-grabbing scene, with the ships darting in and out of the darkness, smoke and fireball bursts, as the panicked, shrieking citizenry zigzags below.
And in a first for Google, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., it initiated branding ads for Japan and staged attention-grabbing publicity stunts, including one in which it invited passers-by to float into the air with the help of 2,500 balloons.
For the first time in decades the group is overhauling fundraising and staging attention-getting gimmicks in a bid to increase individual donations and lift sagging sales in its 1,550 U.S. thrift shops.
New disclosures about his behavior have dredged up his past, and he has tried to distract from those by staging attention-grabbing stunts, like debating a cutout of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif .. Colbert Busch, meanwhile, is the olD-Calif .r of comedian Stephen Colbert.
Feature Integration Theory proposes a two-stage visual attention process: during first stage humans process several primary visual features; during second stage, the objects are analyzed with details.
As conventional stages enhance illusion through scenery and lights, museum environments set the stage through attention to detail.
That task may be easier without Representative Michele Bachmann, Mr. Huntsman or Herman Cain on the stage, diverting attention from their goal.
He wanted to decentralize his compositions, forsaking buildups and climaxes in favor of a democratized space in which every spot on the stage deserved attention.
Rhythmic stamps and thrusts, trilling hand gestures and expansive spins eventually fray and splinter on stage, calling attention to the torturers' perverse admiration of the tradition.
