It may still be known for suntans, nonstop parties, look-at-me cars and not-so-subtle plastic surgery, but the city's power brokers have long since concluded that the arts can survive there.
What's clear is that, developmentally, the body is sufficiently plastic that subtle differences in the conditions of growth and life can affect it profoundly.
It's a very round little thing, and the models on display here were swathed in a nice orange or blue soft-touch plastic (a not-so-subtle nod to Firefox's emblem, methinks).
Although many of these design guidelines are similar to those used for plastic injection molding, there are subtle differences in how MIM components are designed to account for the subsequent thermal processing.
My own favourite is a green, striped plastic launderette-style bag with a subtle Marni logo.
Soft beige dresses shifting across the body (one revealing bosoms with plastic pasties) did not have that subtle eroticism that was seen in the past from other minimalists, like Calvin Klein.
Besides roughening, the severe plastic deformation imposed during blasting yields subtle sub-surface microstructural changes such as grain size refinement, α′-martensite formation, and work hardening.
A humanoid robot making stiff, pre-recorded dance moves is offputting — but these buglike, plastic things manage to endear through subtler cues, little things.
