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Jerry Martin is an American composer, best known for his work composing music (particularly jazz) for television commercials, and being the lead composer for several games in The Sims franchise, including SimCity 3000, The Sims, The Sims Bustin' Out, The Sims 2 and SimCity 4. He made a return in 2020 with SimCasino.
Simlish is a constructed language devised by game designer Will Wright for the Sims game series developed by Electronic Arts.During the development of SimCopter (1996), Wright sought to avoid real-world languages, believing that players would grow to show disdain for repetitive dialogue.
Flat design has been criticized for making user interfaces unintuitive and less usable. By making all design elements (menus, buttons, links, etc.) flat, distinguishing what function an element serves may become more difficult, for example, determining whether an element is a button or an indicator.
A pie menu. In user interface design, a pie menu or radial menu is a circular context menu where selection depends on direction. It is a graphical control element. A pie menu is made of several "pie slices" around an inactive center and works best with stylus input, and well with a mouse. Pie slices are drawn with a hole in the middle for an ...
Lowercase is an extreme form of ambient [1] [2] minimalism in which very quiet sounds are amplified to extreme levels. Minimal artist Steve Roden popularized the movement with an album entitled Forms of Paper, in which he made recordings of himself handling paper in various ways.
Jakob van Domselaer, whose early-20th century experiments in translating the theories of Piet Mondrian's De Stijl movement into music represent an early precedent to minimalist music. Alexander Mosolov , whose orchestral composition Iron Foundry (1923) is made up of mechanical and repetitive patterns.
Elfman shifted the band to a more guitar-oriented rock sound in the late 1980s, [32] which continued through their last album Boingo in 1994. Citing permanent hearing damage from performing live and conflicts with his film-scoring career, [ 20 ] : 137 Elfman retired Oingo Boingo in 1995 with a series of five sold-out final concerts at the ...
432 Park Avenue is a residential skyscraper at 57th Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States.The 1,396-foot-tall (425.5 m) tower was developed by CIM Group and Harry B. Macklowe and designed by Rafael Viñoly.