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A sideshow in San Jose, 2021.. A sideshow (so-called in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a street takeover in the Los Angeles area [1] [2]) is an informal and often illegal demonstration of automotive stunts now often held in vacant lots, and public intersections, originally seen in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, United States.
Streetcars or trolley(car)s (American English for the European word tram) were once the chief mode of public transit in hundreds of North American cities and towns. Most of the original urban streetcar systems were either dismantled in the mid-20th century or converted to other modes of operation, such as light rail.
Haskell insisted on stopping the car upon seeing Googies and proclaimed "This is Googie architecture." [10] He popularized the name after an article he wrote appeared in a 1952 edition of House and Home magazine. [14] [15] Though Haskell coined the term Googie and was an advocate of modernism, he did not appreciate the Googie aesthetic.
GIF art has been around since the year 1987, increasingly gaining attention from the audience some years after 2000. [1] one of the earlier implementation of GIF art can be traced back to web design in which they were used as banners, later they were adopted into the greater meme culture as a niche and have now become a staple on the internet through social media most notably from Giphy ...
A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. [1] The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her once-prosperous situation to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister Stella and brother-in-law ...
The traditional cel animation process became obsolete by the beginning of the 21st century. In modern traditionally animated films, animators' drawings and the backgrounds are either scanned into or drawn directly into a computer system. [1] [66] Various software programs are used to color the drawings and simulate camera movement and effects. [67]
Julian Beever (born c. 1959) is a British sidewalk chalk artist [1] who has been creating trompe-l'œil chalk drawings on pavement surfaces since the mid-1990s. He uses a projection technique called anamorphosis to create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle.
The Lake Worth Street Painting Festival in 2009, looking eastward along Lake Avenue near the City Hall Annex. In 1987, Wenner and Manfred Stader introduced street painting to Old Mission Santa Barbara, California. One of the largest events in the United States is the Lake Worth Beach Street Painting Festival, held in Lake Worth Beach, Florida ...