The publisher even opened a temporary gathering place for Monster Hunter fans in London.
To give it its proper name, the Bargenale, as its creator Michèle Lamy titled it, was for most of last week a temporary gathering place, installation artwork, floating restaurant, recording studio and situationist theatre space docked at the garden island of Certosa.
With more companies trying to reach on-the-go consumers, we will see more pop-up (temporary) gathering places, including restaurants, bars and stores for special promotions and events.
If you're like me and have never heard of a LAN party, Wikipedia defines it as, "a temporary gathering of people with computers or compatible game consoles, between which they establish a local area network (LAN), primarily for the purpose of playing multiplayer video games".
As Governors Island revs up for another summer of arts and cultural activities, the sponsors of the City of Dreams Pavilion 2011 have announced a winner in their second annual competition to design a temporary gathering place made of sustainable materials for the isle.
"This will be the largest data set of its kind in a temporary mass gathering, its size allowing us to develop new metrics for detecting epidemics when total population size fluctuates widely from day to day," said Dr. Satchit Balsari, a fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard and a doctor at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) regulates all businesses supplying temporary workers for gathering shellfish.
Its isolation is surely a temporary condition, a gathering of strength before the dynamic Fujianese claim a dominant place in the larger Chinese establishment.
While the returns of such a strategy might not always have sufficed for subsistence, temporary reversion to gathering, bone scavenging and opportunistic hunting was always a possibility.
The area's divisional commissioner, Anil Kumar Gupta, said that the procession had allowed activists to vent, even if it had violated the temporary injunction against public gatherings.
