Like so many other non-Pixar computer-animated family movies, this one, from Fox's Blue Sky Studios, runs on visual novelty and narrative familiarity.
San Francisco is destroyed, and a few other kind of cool things happen, but in spite of its striving for visual novelty, the movie is curiously unmemorable, partly because nearly all of its humor depends on your having seen something like it before, even if you haven't.
I knew nothing about veggie baskets, but there was instruction: a number (less than six veggies, too "skimpy"; more than twelve, too much), a technique (blanch your beans, then ice them, so the green pops), and a commitment to visual novelty (yellow carrots, purple peppers, rainbow greens).
Granted, you won't really be able to enjoy the visual novelty of your $27,000 piano playing itself, but you'll know it's there… and that should be enough, right?
The app is a free download, as you'd expect for this sort of visual novelty, but the team reckons there could be monetization potential in future by integrating with large cosmetics companies — i.e. those which sell hair dyes, since the app can reproduce the colors at least quasi-realistically and offer 'try before you dye'.
But such positivity papers over the huge challenge ahead of it in trying to make its art effects stand on their own two feet as a fully fledged social platform — rather than, as it has so far been, a tool for injecting a little visual novelty into other, more popular platforms.
If the performers can't seem to keep their minds on the show, why should we?) "Women" — which features sets by Michael Yeargan and costumes by Catherine Zuber — is chockablock with visual novelties.
Born to a Jewish family in Hungary in 1895, he assimilated all the advances and visual novelties of the early part of the twentieth century, from Russia and Paris alike, and turned them into an adaptable graphic manner that made him one of the indispensable teachers at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany, in the nineteen-twenties, under Walter Gropius.
He suggests that synthetic fabrics like Quiana ("a kind of nylon made by DuPont that was marketed as an affordable and convenient substitute for silk") and Ultrasuede (a synthetic used most famously by Halston) became popular in the '70s because "new ways of standing, lounging, dancing and living seemed to call for new fabrics," and people were "looking for visual appeal, novelty and ease of care".
Scopolamine infusions into dorsal CA3 caused deficits for both spatial and nonspatial (visual object) novelty detection.
Physostigmine infusions into dorsal CA3 enhanced both spatial and nonspatial (visual object) novelty detection.
