More than any other company, Google has proven willing to support bold, costly and unorthodox projects far from its core business.
The Canadian violinist Lara St. John has dedicated much energy recently to contemporary music and unorthodox projects, recording works by John Corigliano and the Australian composer Matthew Hindson as well as a disc of polka-inspired music yet to be released.
They wanted to create something more like a studio than a company, to pursue unorthodox projects over brief durations that incorporated other disciplines, like art, modern dance and theater.
But the gathering's attendees, who each received bright-blue messenger bags with bicycle-themed pins and bumper stickers, said they felt inspired by Ms. Sadik-Khan's ability to swiftly execute unorthodox projects that, in other cities, had often suffered a quick political death.
Oct. 22-March 11. * "MADE IN CALIFORNIA: IMAGE AND IDENTITY, 1900-2000" This broad-spectrum thematic take on a century of art in California is the largest exhibition ever done by a museum noted for its compendious and unorthodox projects, and the results could be absorbing.
The meeting in Maidan Shahr, Wardak Province's capital, tucked into the mountains about 30 miles southwest of Kabul, concerned one of the most unorthodox projects the Americans have undertaken here since the war began in 2001: to arm, with minimal training, groups of Afghan men to guard their own neighborhoods.
Whether through allowing engineers 20percentt of their time to work on unorthodox projects, hosting week-long office hackathons or giving a helpful nudge (or turning a blind eye) to an internal skunkworks initiative, innovation breeds best in a bit of chaos.
They overlooked the appeal of richness and diversity in a book list and so refused to invest in truly original, unorthodox projects.
"An unorthodox music project looking for a home.
