Low budget films such as the comedy / drama Muriel's Wedding, starring Toni Collette, the gently satirical suburban comedy The Castle directed by Rob Sitch ( which cast Eric Bana in his first prominent film role ), and Baz Luhrmann's flamboyant Strictly Ballroom each attained commercial and critical success, and explored quirky characters inhabiting contemporary Australian suburbia-marking something of a departure from the Outback and historical sagas which obtained success in the 1970s and 1980s.

" Filming Low budget ' indie ' type movies do have their advantages ... One has to come up with ideas to try and make the shots work without the use of expensive post production effects .... The opening credits sequence with the large orb of the sun behind the Hero going through his moves was simply shot in the studio with him shot in silhouette against a large silk scrim with a lit red sun ( lots of red filters over the lamp ) from behind the scrim and by lowering the lamp stand it looked like the sun dropping down behind him.

Because it is low budget, most of the traffic travels in only one lane in each direction, however from the Bruce Highway to Kawana Way and from the Nicklin Way to the Mudjimba / David Low Way exit it is dual carriageway.

* Give flight opportunities to the Spanish research community at an affordable budget target each 3 – 4 years, for new experiments and instruments, in orbit demonstration technologies, earth observation and space exploration from Low Earth orbit.

He co-starred with Katharine Hepburn in Alice Adams ( 1935 ), with Joan Crawford in Above Suspicion ( 1943 ), and with Carole Lombard in four films, Hands Across the Table ( 1935 ), The Princess Comes Across ( 1936 ), Swing High, Swing Low ( 1937 ), and True Confession ( 1937 ).

In 1967, the island played a key role in the development of what came to be known as the " Fogo Process ," a model for community media as a tool for addressing community concerns, when Colin Low shot 27 films with Fogo Islanders as part of the National Film Board of Canada's Challenge for Change program.

His subsequent movie work includes Mel Smith's High Heels and Low Lifes ( 2001 ) and starring roles in Borstal Boy ( 2000 ), Mean Machine ( 2002 ) and in all four films by the British film director Nick Love: Goodbye Charlie Bright ( 2001 ); The Football Factory ( 2004 ); The Business ( 2005 ); and Outlaw ( 2007 ).

They have had their music featured in the films and soundtracks for Tromeo and Juliet ( 1996 ) and The Low Life ( 1995 ).

Feature films Boyd has appeared in include High Heels and Low Lifes ( 2002 ), Imagine Me & You ( 2005 ), Magicians ( 2007 ) and Chris Morris ' Four Lions ( 2010 ).

Shooting Fish continues to command a cult status among fans and bears up remarkably well today against films of a similar era / genre, including Up ' n ' Under ( 1998 ) and High Heels and Low Lifes 2001 ).

Low cost, availability, and portability are cited by practitioners as qualities which make this common writing tool a convenient, alternative art supply.

Like Polish, Kashubian includes about 5 % loanwords from Low German, such as kùńszt ( art ), and some from High German.

* August – Calvinists destroy religious art in the Low Countries.

In France unofficial episodes of large scale destruction of art in churches by Huguenot Calvinists had begun in 1560 ; unlike in the Low Countries they were often physically resisted and repulsed by Catholic crowds, but were to continue throughout the Wars of Religion.

Two galleries running along the western side of the Small Hermitage from the Northern to Southern Pavilion house an exhibition of Western European decorative and applied art from the 12th to 15th century and the fine art of the Low Countries from the 15th and 16th centuries.

The use of low forms of art were a part of modernist experimentation as well, as documented in Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik's 1990-91 show High and Low: Popular Culture and Modern Art at New York's Museum of Modern Art, an exhibition that was universally panned at the time as the only event that could bring Douglas Crimp and Hilton Kramer together in a chorus of scorn.

In 1961 Flynt coined the term concept art in the Neo-Dada, proto-Fluxus book An Anthology of Chance Operations ( published by Jackson Mac Low and La Monte Young ) that was released in 1963.

Low relief was relatively rare in Western medieval art, but may be found, for example in wooden figures or scenes on the insides of the folding wings of multi-panel altarpieces.

He was a devoted servant of Napoleon, on whose behalf he personally looted vast numbers of works of art in Italy, the Low Countries and Germany and, through agents ( including Goya ), in Spain, for the Musee Napoleon in Paris.

The Cornfield and the Travellers are characterized by Duplessis as prints of a high order which may be regarded as the most significant expressions of landscape art in the Low Countries.

Trade and commerce in cities like Bruges in the 15th century and Antwerp in the 16th increased cultural exchange between Italy and the Low Countries, however in art, and especially architecture, late Gothic influences remained present until the arrival of Baroque even as painters increasingly drew on Italian models.

# There is a rejection of the notions of " High " and " Low " art.

As well as Maciunas ' concerts at the AG Gallery, March 1961 featuring music and events by Maciunas himself, Ichiyanagi, Mac Low and Higgins, the two other most important precursors to fluxus were La Monte Young's influential series of performances in the Chambers Street loft of Yoko Ono and Ichiyanagi Toshi, in 1961 involving Henry Flynt, La Monte Young, Joseph Byrd & Robert Morris amongst others ; and Robert Watts and George Brecht's Yam Festival, spring 1963 at Rutgers University and New York, which included a series of mail art event scores and performances by John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Ay O and Dick Higgins.

His principal works are his edition of the Sachsenspiegel ( in 3 vols, 1827, 3rd ed., 1861, containing also some other important sources of Saxon or Low German law ), which is still unsurpassed in accuracy and sagacity of research, and his book on Die Haus-und Hofmarken ( 1870 ), in which he has given a history of the use of trade-marks among all the Teutonic nations of Europe, and which is full of important elucidations of the history of law and also contains valuable contributions to the history of art and civilization.

Low necklines were commonly worn by women during the period, but according to the art historian Zahira Veliz, " the codes of pictorial decorum would not easily permit a known lady to be painted in this way ".

Other artists linked to the art community include Joan Glass, Duffy Ayers, Laurence Scarfe and the political cartoonist David Low.

The art was produced in several centres in what are now France, Germany, Austria, northern Italy and the Low Countries, and received considerable influence, via continental mission centres, from the Insular art of the British Isles, as well as a number of Byzantine artists who appear to have been resident in Carolingian centres.

In the Protestant Reformation, the great majority of medieval religious art was destroyed in Protestant areas, mostly in orderly official removals, but sometimes in riotous attacks, of which the most widespread were those of the Beeldenstorm which swept the Low Countries in the summer of 1566.

Upon completion of principal photography, art director Max Parker assembled a rough cut that so confused studio heads they assigned Warren Low to re-edit it.

Low End Theory is a weekly experimental hip hop and electronic music club night that takes place every Wednesday at The Airliner in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California.

He also recorded several albums for Force Inc .' s experimental sub-label Mille Plateaux, including Generation Star Wars ( his first full solo album ) and Low on Ice, which he recorded entirely on his laptop during a three day tour of Iceland with ATR.

On creating DHR his solo recordings for that label consisted largely of the digital hardcore staples of breakcore ( as heard on The Destroyer album and EPs ) and later experimental noise ( as heard on Miss Black America ), while his work during the same period for Mille Plateaux saw him experimenting with minimal techno ( Pulse Code ), ambient ( Low on Ice ) and musique concrète ( Les Étoiles des Filles Mortes ).

Other prominent, recent rock acts from Minnesota include slowcore band Low from Duluth experimental rock band Cloud Cult and indie rockers Tapes ' n Tapes both from Minneapolis.

* Ambient / experimental musical band, House of Low Culture, not only named their second full length album, Edward's Lament, after the film's main character, but also based the album on some of the film's themes.

Codeine pioneered the slowcore and sadcore subgenres of indie rock, but with a more experimental attitude than other bands in the genre, such as Low, Idaho and Red House Painters.

* August 15-' GLEEP ' ( the Graphite Low Energy Experimental Pile ) experimental nuclear reactor runs for the first time at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Oxfordshire, the first reactor to operate in Western Europe.

Low specialized in experimental and theoretical research in the fields of heat transfer, boundary layer flows, and internal aerodynamics.

* Storms, E. “ The Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction ” World Scientific, 2007, describes the experimental work of Dr. Storms and compiles and summarizes most of the experimental and theoretical work in the field up to 2007.

Using their scale, Christie and Geis conducted multiple experimental tests that showed that the interpersonal strategies and behavior of " High Machs " and " Low Machs " differ.

we are stronger and more self-confident -- and Low cannot so easily put us to rights.

( c ) Ligeantia localis, by operation of law, when a friendly alien enters the country, because so long as they are in the country they are within the Sovereign's protection, therefore they owe the Sovereign a local obedience or allegiance ( R v Cowle ( 1759 ) 2 Burr 834 ; Low v Routledge ( 1865 ) 1 Ch App 42 ; Re Johnson, Roberts v Attorney-General 1 Ch 821 ; Tingley v Muller 2 Ch 144 ; Rodriguez v Speyer AC 59 ; Johnstone v Pedlar 2 AC 262 ; R v Tucker ( 1694 ) Show Parl Cas 186 ; R v Keyn ( 1876 ) 2 Ex D 63 ; Re Stepney Election Petn, Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 17 QBD 54 );

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Low serves are also used frequently, either forehand or backhand.

Low concentrations are not a problem for bacteria because they simply ignore the waste that surrounds the metals, attaining extraction yields of over 90 % in some cases.

Low, broken-in, soft-soled, non-marking shoes, such as dance shoes, sneakers, or sandals, are recommended and, in some places, required.

The term " Low Fantasy " is used to represent other types of fantasy, however, so while comic fantasies may also correctly be classified as low fantasy, many examples of low fantasy are not comic in nature.

Low carbohydrate diets such as Atkins and Protein Power are relatively high in protein and fats.

Low surface brightness dwarf galaxies are important sources of information for studying dark matter, as they have an uncommonly low ratio of visible matter to dark matter, and have few bright stars at the center which would otherwise impair observations of the rotation curve of outlying stars.

In English, the terms poniard and dirk are loaned during the late 16th to early 17th century, the latter in the spelling dork, durk ( presumably via Low German, Dutch or Scandinavian dolk, dolch, ultimately from a West Slavic tulich ), the modern spelling dirk dating to 18th-century Scots.

Low explosives are compounds where the rate of decomposition proceeds through the material at less than the speed of sound.

Low explosives are normally employed as propellants.

Low percentage gels are very weak and may break when you try to lift them.

Low numbers ( below 31 and especially below 12 ) are popular because people play birthdays as their so-called lucky numbers ; hence a win in which these numbers are over-represented is more likely to result in a shared payout.

Low frequency inductors are constructed like transformers, with cores of electrical steel laminated to prevent eddy currents.

While Dutch is classified as a Low Franconian language, the Dutch Low Saxon varieties, which are also defined as Dutch dialects, form a dialect continuum with the Westphalian language.

Low temperature, starvation of the cells and high multiplicity of infection ( MOI ) are known to favor lysogeny ( see later discussion ).

Low male-to-female ratios are usually the result of a war, but these figures were lower than the sex ratio of 88. 3 males per 100 females recorded for 1953, the last year of the Korean War.

Low phosphate levels are an important limit to growth in some aquatic systems.

Low passes are lacking, and the principal roads and the railroads between France and Spain run only in the lowlands at the western and eastern ends of the Pyrenees, near sea level.