Andrew O'Malley's Sky Spectrum directly reflects the sky patterns above Ottawa's Peace Tower turning what was a blank canvas into a living cloud computation.
Ashbery also juggles the infinite possibilities of genre, his mind running through many exhausted topics at once, trying for one that still has life in it: Why what a lovely day/street/ blank canvas/pause/orb/ old person/new song/milestone/ caned seat this is!
Her idea was to give Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim and Maurizio Pollini Peter Serkinn has been added this season) what amounts to a blank check.
Ms Zheng, who runs a headhunting firm in Beijing, laments what she calls a "blank space" of road-themed music to accompany China's fast-developing car culture.
How much higher is, once again, entirely up to Feinberg, who has been granted what amounts to a blank check on the federal Treasury.
Ms Barra signalled that there may be more recalls in the "near term .GM will issue what is essentially a blank cheque to Kenneth Feinberg, a lawyer who will manage the fund for victims of the ignition-switch problem.
But committee leaders hoped to draw out colleagues for what is termed a "blank slate" process designed to wrest honest input from politicians usually given to trimming their views to protect incumbency.
One committee member, Senator Carlos Uresti, Democrat of San Antonio, voted against the bill, but his opposition had less to do with guns and more to do with giving the governor what Mr. Uresti called "a blank check to offer a variety of tax exemptions and other incentives" to such manufacturers.
Harding overreaches when she attempts to make Cave's experiences emblematic of humankind's predatory relationship with the natural world, but her accounts of Cave's daily struggle for survival (even inside his tent "everything that does not face towards the fire is frozen") are powerful, and she reveals myriad gradations of light and color in what first appears a blank and unchanging landscape.
What starts with a blank page or often a wing and prayer ends with you standing on a set marvelling at how many people it takes to make an hour of drama – infinite, brilliant people taping down wires and adjusting wigs and murmuring lines in the quiet of a canteen and staring at continuity photos; all doing what they are doing because while it's not brain surgery, it matters.
