The problem is that Mr. Myers, Mr. Welch and a squad of frantic screenwriters throw in disparate elements out of sheer laziness, concocting a grueling, chaotic stew of forced whimsy that utterly lacks imaginative integrity or visual spark.
The new apps have been updated to more closely resemble the style of the Rdio website, which itself currently ascribes to that new "clean web" look and feel, involving lots of whitespace, simple typography, and careful use of color (album art provides the visual spark on the web).
To add some visual spark to his already flickering song, Marsh unconventionally turned to Craigslist.
Andrew F. Griffin's finely judged lighting adds considerable visual spark to the production (set by James Dardenne, costumes by Brad Musgrove).
Strictly in terms of views, only Mars and Ronson's "Uptown Funk and Sheerann's "Thinking Out Loud" eclipsed "Anaconda" – but neither visual sparked much of a conversation (although the weddings that recreated Sheeran's romantic video were cute).
That each has affixed to it a mirrored blue ball that you might find in a suburban birdbath almost reduces the sculptures to yard ornaments, but it also gives them a visual, contemporary spark — the reflective blue is a perfect foil for the absorbent white.
Its violence and visual intensity sparked many allegations that the main goal of the game is to mutilate characters simply for the sake of doing so.
Inspired by Wayne Thiebauld's pop-art paintings of mass produced food, baker Lily Vanilli trawls Indian sweet shops and unusual cake shops, searching for visual references to spark her latest project.
It is a book of extreme visual clarity that strikes sparks in its viewers because it somehow comes off as a series of riddles people and places exposed by the lens but harboring hidden, off-camera histories and agendas.
When viewers stare at Frei's fleeting electricity and wool clouds, they are not just experiencing the visual appeal of dancing sparks.
