Mengestu's skillful sensitivity turned observations from his life into a broader narrative, earning him deserved accolades.
By applying the concepts, methods, and tools of anthropology to business environments, she turns observation into innovation and revitalizes businesses seeking growth.
Too often, this has been the stumbling block in turning observations in the laboratory into a workable therapy.
Paraphrasing National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap definitions, "Translation is the process of turning observations in the laboratory and clinic into interventions that improve the health of individuals and the public from diagnostics and therapeutics to medical procedures and behavioral changes" (http://www.ncats.nih.gov/about/about.html).html
A few years ago, he turned this observation into a wry documentary, "Good Hair," about the art and science of caring for black women's hair.
"Everybody has at least one bad date in their history," said John Blenn, a playwright who has turned that observation into an annual theatrical event, "American Dating Catastrophes".
But, in the self-effacing manner that has earned her the affection of audiences and colleagues, she turned the observation into a bit of critical self-analysis.
It was invented in the 1860s in Paris when a maid in the employ of a dye-works owner named Jean-Baptiste Joly spilled kerosene on a grease-spattered tablecloth; Joly noticed the cloth looked cleaner after the accident and turned his observation into what he called "nettoyage à sec" or dry cleaning.
Unfortunately, most people have turned their observation skills off.
In this sense, necessary experimentation for the purpose of prediction and testing that control is key to observation and in turn observation controls theory.
From the beginning of her career Laurie Anderson has cast an analytical eye over American culture and politics and turned her observations into cutting musical works that straddle the line between art song and stand-up comedy.
