Night lighting is equally effective in transforming "Obscured Horizon," rectangular slabs of green, blue and white ice created in Kemi by the Mexican architect Enrique Norten and the American conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner.
The awards also have the rare power to transform an obscure literary novel, like the 2010 winner, Paul Harding's "Tinkers," into an instant best seller.
Or it can transform an obscure choice, like Marlowe, into everyone's new favorite.
She transformed an obscure single written two decades earlier by George Usher, a local musician, from a middling power-pop number into something transcendent.
In 1935, the movement's leadership had declared saluting the flag a form of idolatry, an edict that transformed an obscure sect into a widely known pariah.
With delight he described how he had transformed an obscure long-distance phone company into one of the country's fastest growing corporations.
As soon as the film appeared on YouTube, Sadek promoted it on his website, transforming the obscure clip into a viral source of outrage in the Middle East.
The shift is slowly transforming the obscure hobby of language construction into a viable, albeit rare, career and engaging followers of fantasies like "Lord of the Rings," "Game of Thrones" and "Avatar" on a more fanatical level.
There are many reasons to hate Glastonbury, but I don't detest this festival because it's a betrayal of the original hippie ethic that transformed an obscure Somerset village into a multti-national corporate brand.
Thanks to Lehmann and his fellow biochar advocates, terra preta has been transformed from obscure patches of Amazonian dirt to the subject of some of the biggest debates in climate-policy circles.
