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- noun Plural form of
lightbox .
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'lightboxes' or user-generated collections of images of objects from different museums has been done to death, and never seems to get a great take-up.
Museum Blogs 2009
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"lightboxes" modules that you can use for effective presentations of your content (text or images). jQuery pageSlide is a plugin for jQuery that slides the viewable webpage off-screen, revealing and populating a secondary interaction pane.
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"lightboxes" modules that you can use for effective presentations of your content (text or images). jQuery pageSlide is a plugin for jQuery that slides the viewable webpage off-screen, revealing and populating a secondary interaction pane.
doggdot.us 2009
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There are blocks to play with, magnets to experiment with, lightboxes, kalidoscopes to make, and just a TON of fun stuff for the kids to learn about/play with.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2010
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Here were large-scale photographs (displayed for the first time in lightboxes) of her latest montages: originally hand-spliced (then rephotographed) juxtapositions of images from contemporary porn magazines, pictures of cars, cosmetics and accessories from more mainstream magazines and queasily close-up photographs of food.
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Her evocative images, often ironically contained within commercial lightboxes, could be taken as a series of celebrations of Proustian memory.
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She is represented by a tree trunk impaled on a buckled railing, a found piece which fits in with other conceptual installations, such as John Wynne's "Installation for 300 Speakers, Pianola and vacuum cleaner;" Fergal Stapleton's black perspex lightboxes; the hooded figures grouped in a corner by littlewhitehead, the Glasgow artists; and Karla Black's "Pleaser," painted cellophane suspended from the ceiling by thread.
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Walls are therefore in a white vinyl wallpaper with mirrored graphic panels, which work effectively like lightboxes with an etched pattern and a cut pattern, with light allowing the cut pattern to shine through.
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The show includes brightly-colored hearts and skulls he painted over X-rays attached to lightboxes, as well as other organ-centric pieces including the diminutive Organ Donor dolls.
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In the clip above, the two gentlemen responsible for the placement of the lightboxes have some fun with the media frenzy, discussing various hairstyles of the 60s and 70s.
Boing Boing 2007
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