ephemeral - February 8, 2010

(adjective) quickly disappearing; transient.

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...sport, one can scale up or down as one sees fit. The same applies to many other interests - music, cinema... - after all. And ephemeral is right, but so what? Whatever sticks, sticks, and the rest doesn't. You can celebrate one goal after another and not remember...
2010-01-14 13:21:51
Source normblog
... This poster promoted Iannis Xenakis' appearance at the Centre Universitaire expérimental de Vincennes in February 1969. During the événements of May 1968 the graffiti slogan Xenakis not Gounod was scrawled on the walls of the Conservatoire National Supéri...
2010-01-22 14:11:49
... Image credit: Nicholas_T/Flickr If you follow a rainbow to its end, the story goes, you will be rewarded with a leprechaun's hidden pot of gold. Though a more natural path could not be imagined, following such a multicolored-arc to its source may prove to...
2010-01-11 17:23:01
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... Spanish photographer Carla Fernández Andrade moonlights as a television producer by day, which may explain the moody narrative quality of her fine art work. Washed-out scenes of apartment life, playgrounds, balconies, and snow feel like vintage film still...
2010-01-20 17:35:44
Source Flavorwire
Well met, knaves, rogues, and scoundrels. I’ve been a fan of the Chicago band Pelican since I first heard Australasia on a late-night drive about six or seven years ago.  The lack of vocals, the chiming guitars over the heavily distorted low end, and
2010-01-20 16:30:53
...into sections, is titled Envelop/Addiction and is an attempt to explore our eternal quest to stop or at least slow down the ephemeral, fundamental nature of the organic, she stated. Bearing a honeycomb quality, the pieces protrude from the wall of the gallery...
2010-01-22 00:38:42
... February 2nd, 2010 We typically try to spare you the dry and often ephemeral tedium of monthly sales reports, but this month, Mercedes-Benz posted a 45.3 percent gain over January 2009--and that's something to take note of. Strong sales of the new E-Class...
2010-02-02 19:26:20
...glacially fed Sutlej  and /or Yamuna flowed into the Saraswati. Later around 1800 B.C or so the channels shifted and the Ghaggar was stranded as a small ephemeral Siwalik fed river. Image below shows the Ghaggar basin flanked by the Sutlej and Yamuna. ...
2010-01-21 11:32:12
Source DesiPundit
...the labyrinths of retaining fences and the individual pieces of equipment that make snow creation and large-scale, though ephemeral, landscape-sculpting possible. [Image: "Scene D6" from Snow Management by Jules Spinatsch, courtesy of the Prix Prictet]. In...
2010-02-07 19:21:07
Source BLDGBLOG
January 28, 2010 -- OLYMPIA – In tandem with the announcement by President Barack Obama today of the award of $8 billion to 31 states for high speed intercity passenger rail service, Washington Governor Chris Gregoire announced that Washington will
2010-02-01 14:06:01
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The ephemeral nature of Granite Plateau Creek on the Mawson Plateau, ... An ephemeral waterbody is a wetland, spring, stream, river, pond or lake that only exists ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeral
Length: 16 Hits: 191 Feb 01, 2010. Her Turn. Recommend (30) Donna <donnah@donnas-stories. ... NOTE: Ephemeral comes with NO GUARANTEES, see About Ephemeral ...
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ephemeral adj. Lasting for a markedly brief time: 'There remain some truths too ephemeral to be captured in the cold pages of a court transcript'
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The Word of the Day in quotes.
We are just at the beginning of the detailed design of the clubhouse and are very pleased with the progress thus far. The design is intended to be an ephemeral mirage floating above the greens.

The technique you learn offers you something concrete, something you can trust and rely on in the seemingly ephemeral field of acting.

It's truly a brand campaign: Google is not selling anything here other than its own brand - that ephemeral sensibility that resides between its customers' ears.

Every year, they rebuild it, which is like an exercise in Buddhist non-attachment ... Workers spend months building this magnificent piece of art. Then it just melts and returns to the river. It's completely ephemeral.

At this stage it is probably safe to say that despite considerable initial confusion over whether the government's problems were ephemeral or structural, the evidence is that there has been a significant shift.

It’s going to have a floating quality. It has all the functional requirements of a building, but it feels ephemeral.

Nan’s world, as good as it was, was put into the shade by the impure pleasures of the studio where the rewards were so unreal and ephemeral.

The music is Stooges-crude and rendered free of distractions, like high-midrange frequencies. It evokes an eavesdrop upon a found practice space transmission, a shambolic rock and roll 'happening' maybe meant to have been purely ephemeral and undocumented.

We looked at last year's entry, 'Two Tons of Love,' and, well, at the end of the day you're just left with two tons of stuff, not to knock that project. We didn't want to do something that would be there at the end. We wanted something more ephemeral.

The news affects my car purchasing decisions to some extent, in that I look favorably upon cars that receive good reviews. Ephemeral events like recalls and quarterly sales figures don't affect me much; I tend to focus more on long-term trends and reports.

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