After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

Whenever he deigned to appear at the studio he was `` hung over '', uncooperative, rude and insulting.

When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

The upshot of the evening was that I got the address of Pendleton's studio -- or rather, of the studio in which he gave his classes, for he didn't work there himself -- and joined the life class, which met every Tuesday and Thursday from ten to twelve in the morning.

I think I was what you might call a convivial man, and yet it was when I was alone in my studio, doing my work, that I really felt alive.

Gershwin was on hand to " supervise " the recording ; however, Shilkret was reported to be in charge and eventually asked the composer to leave the recording studio.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

His studio, The Factory, was a famous gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.

Kurosawa's essay earned him a call to take the follow-up exams, and director Kajirō Yamamoto, who was among the examiners, took a liking to Kurosawa and insisted that the studio hire him.

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

This was because Woolfson and Parsons saw themselves mainly in the roles of writing and production, and also because of the technical difficulties of reproducing on stage the complex instrumentation used in the studio.

Algardi was born in Bologna, where at a young age, he was apprenticed in the studio of Agostino Carracci.

His mind was entirely absorbed in the labors of his studio, and, with the exception of his journeys to Paris, one to Vienna, and a few short intervals of absence in Florence and other parts of Italy, he never quit Rome.

Audio processing was necessary for early radio broadcasting, as there were many problems with studio to transmitter links.

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

A Cuyp drawing may look like he intended it to be a finished work of art, but it was most likely taken back to the studio and used as a reference for his paintings.

Chaplin founded a new production company, Attica, for the film and rented a studio from Shepperton Studios for the shooting.

In 1929, Gini founded the Italian Committee for the Study of Population Problems ( Comitato italiano per lo studio dei problemi della popolazione ) which, two years later, organised the first Population Congress in Rome.

* Gauntlet ( body piercing studio ) founded by Jim Ward that pioneered the field of body piercing

* 1936 – The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.

In Japan, there are " branch kilns " ( wakigama ), in the raku-ware tradition, that have been founded by Raku-family members or potters who apprenticed at the head family's studio.

The Thanhouser film studio was founded in New Rochelle, New York in 1909 by American theatrical impresario Edwin Thanhouser.

* 1974 – Yutaka Yamamoto, Japanese cartoonist and director, founded Ordet animation studio

Square Visual Works ( CG studio ), Square Sounds ( sound studio ), Squartz ( quality assurance ) and Square Next were all founded in June 1999.

Hasty and Hoffman later joined an independent development studio, 1st Playable Productions, and founded a website oriented towards the discussion of the game development environment industry wide, Gamewatch.

He is considered one of the most important contributors to the development of the medium and is known for the cartooning studio he founded ; for his highly influential series The Spirit ; for his use of comics as an instructional medium ; for his leading role in establishing the graphic novel as a form of literature with his book A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories.

* The first African American owned studio, the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, was founded in 1917.

Together, they founded the second Jun Fan martial art studio in Oakland.

Sports page editor Grantland Rice had a long career in journalism and founded a motion picture studio called Grantland Rice Sportlight.

* Synergistic Studios, founded in 1978, acquired in 1996, studio closed in 1999.

In 2007, digital studio Worldwide Biggies, founded by Nickelodeon and Spike TV executive Albie Hecht, acquired film rights to Tom Swift.

In the 1940s, Tsuburaya started his own special effects laboratory ( set up at his home ), and in 1963, founded his own studio for visual effects, Tsuburaya Productions.

According to an interview with members of Sunrise the studio was founded by former members of Mushi Production in 1972, under the name.

* Trigger, a Japanese animation studio founded by Hiroyuki Imaishi

* Perennial Pictures Film Corporation, an independent American animated cartoon studio founded in 1979

Real World Studios is a residential recording studio in Box, Wiltshire, England associated with the Real World Records Ltd. record label founded by rock musician Peter Gabriel.

In 1996, McFarlane founded Todd McFarlane Entertainment, a film and animation studio.

Bakshi soon founded his own studio, Bakshi Productions, in the Garment District of Manhattan, where his mother used to work and which Bakshi described as " the worst neighborhood in the world ".

Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1963.

The studio Hubley founded was a newer, smaller animation studio that focused on pursuing Hubley's own vision of trying out newer, more abstract and experimental styles of animation.