Think of all those tiny interactions between different ethnic groups on an average British city street: the newsagent, the corner shop, the delivery driver, the postman, friends laughing, children playing, a pair of lovers.
But more memorable are the intimate details and tiny interactions that underlie the big philosophical ideas, like the almost romantic intensity of the separation scene between Wotan and Brünnhilde, or the way that Hagen, saying goodbye to a prostitute after a night of insomnia, touches her shoulder with haunting tenderness.
Ward says, adding: "For this project however, those tiny interactions make up the bulk of the imagery and the typography takes a back seat".
Nilsen often spends a few pages on a brief conversation or the details of a tiny physical interaction, then pulls back to show us an empty, stippled landscape or cuts to an abstract mandala as a caesura in the story.
It's a tiny participation, an interaction that contains an element of surprise (you don't, after all, know precisely what you'll get from the general descriptions), and something you can take with you.
At the end of his life, Lennon's social circle was tiny, his daily interactions pretty much confined to Yoko, record producer Jack Douglas, and the small coterie of fans who waited for him outside his apartment building, The Dakota.
Robert Altman's "Nashville" is widely considered his best film (or at least in the top three), because it's his most ambitious, moving 24 major characters through tiny, human-scaled interactions that add up to a grand statement on America, circa 1975.
Given the faster pace of interaction, even tiny glitches or moments of lag can be enough to make you lose a round.
According to this view, everything is generated from the interactions of tiny stringlike objects, but the theory works only if they are allowed 10 dimensions to play around in.
He also rejects the view of Descartes as a "rationalist" who refused to acknowledge the significance of the empirical sciences: he was, on the contrary, a bold advocate of the principle that physical phenomena are generated by the mechanical interactions of tiny particles.
