BigThink, the video site featuring stylized video clips of leading thinkers in culture, politics, the economy, and academia, is expanding its scope in the academic world, Victoria Brown, co-founder and CEO told me.
The group recently opened an office in New York, announcing its presence with a sleek Web site depicting a stylized Swastika against a darkened Manhattan skyline.
Take these typical elements: Nonlinear narrative, multimedia, abstraction, fractured language, fourth-wall breaking, colorblind casting, stylized acting, drama-interrupting dance, site-specific settings, confessional performance art, politically incorrect provocation, irreverent updating or deconstruction of classic texts, mixing of high and low culture.
West 8's winning proposal would bring a stylized, contemporary park to New York City, on a site that many thought would never be developed.
On the other hand, it is hard to imagine entering the sites in Lynn Geesaman's highly stylized views of formal garden architecture and plantings.
Freewebs has launched a new "social publishing" site called Pagii, aimed at crafting highly stylized personal web pages.
The site allows users to quickly generate highly stylized, web-friendly resumes with a minimum amount of effort, and also lets users swap between styles with one click (jumping between templates using programs like Word can be much more frustrating).
The wood for the tables and chairs was salvaged from demolition sites nearby on Fourth Avenue; a mural of a stylized Andean landscape stretches across one wall.
In this site-specific installation by Tim Watkins, the gallery is transformed into a stylized underwater environment that evokes a sea, at least a conceptual one.
Other carvings represent stylized female genitalia and dancing women, he says, and resemble images found in mainland European sites.
