Window dressing.

So we were inspired by the oyster, but I was also inspired by the life cycle of the oyster.

And so then the object the merchandise that you're interested in can be scanned. It's taken into the dressing room, and in the dressing room there are scanners so that we know exactly what clothing you have in the dressing room.

It can move from a fertilized egg to a spat, which is when they're floating through the water, and when they're ready to attach onto another oyster, to an adult male oyster or female oyster, in a number of weeks.

So the oyster was the basis for a manifesto like urban design project that I did about the New York Harbor called oyster tecture.

Here we are, back to our hero, the oyster.

I explored with actually dressing up as the celebrities myself.

I wanted to see how dressing biblically affected my mind.

And also showing oyster gardening for the community along its edges.

And already, commercial oyster larvae are dying at large scales in some places.

And one oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day.

I spent a lot of time in those early years weeping silently in dressing rooms.

And that oil was used especially for lighting, but also for dressing wounds and other things.

And this glorious, readily available device is basically a floating raft with an oyster nursery below.

Here's the Gowanus future with the oyster rafts on the shorelines the flupsification of the Gowanus.

It's got little dressing rooms and cabanas, where lots of interesting things went on, all summer long.

Basically, New York was built on the backs of oystermen, and our streets were literally built over oyster shells.

Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.

Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.

This image is an image of an oyster cart, which is now as ubiquitous as the hotdog cart is today.

But we imagine, with our calculations, that by 2050, you might be able to sink your teeth into a Gowanus oyster.

Most moms cooked like mine a piece of broiled meat, a quickly made salad with bottled dressing, canned soup, canned fruit salad.

In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth

In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth

Architect Kate Orff sees the oyster as an agent of urban change. Bundled into beds and sunk into city rivers, oysters slurp up pollution and make legendarily dirty waters clean thus driving even more innovation in oyster tecture. Orff shares her vision for an urban landscape that links nature and humanity for mutual benefit.

So now I want to introduce you to my new hero in the global climate change war, and that is the eastern oyster.

We came back to our pile, it was covered with hundreds of pounds of oyster mushrooms, and the color changed to a light form.

We also learned at this time that you could eat an oyster about the size of a dinner plate in the Gowanus Canal itself.

Oyster reefs also covered about a quarter of our harbor and were capable of filtering water in the harbor in a matter of days.

And finally, how much fun it would be to watch the flupsy parade and cheer on the oyster spats as they go down to the reef.

In Mozambique, light industries have mostly women as their major laborers who generally work without any protection (boots, gloves, dressing gowns, mask, helmets) to prevent the harmful effects of the residues released by factors.

But I think it's also a perfectly valid way to spend an afternoon freezing in place with 200 people in the Grand Central terminal or dressing up like a ghostbuster and running through the New York Public Library.

But, as Livni and Barak know, a junior partner more often ends up having no real impact on the core issues, merely providing window dressing for the status quo. Nor are Herzog and Livni free to make that choice on their own.

And the core idea of oyster tecture is to harness the biological power of mussels, eelgrass and oysters species that live in the harbor and, at the same time, harness the power of people who live in the community towards making change now.

We reinterpreted this life cycle on the scale of our sight and took the Gowanus as a giant oyster nursery where oysters would be grown up in the Gowanus, then paraded down in their spat stage and seeded out on the Bayridge Reef.

Compared to the body of an oyster, for example, chimpanzees and humans are at least 99 identical bone for bone, muscle for muscle, nerve for nerve, organ for organ. If anything, the DNA comparison underestimates the profound similarity of the human and ape bodies in the great tapestry of nature.

Clearly, national interests, and sometimes pure power, play a part in how the US and other Western countries apply values like human rights, the rule of law, democracy, and pluralism. But these values are not mere ideological window dressing for Western interests in fact, they are not that to any significant extent.

Instead, performance capture technology, originally invented for the movie Avatar, enables a human actor, Andy Serkis, to play the role of the chimpanzee Caesar, not by dressing in a chimp suit, but by having every gesture and facial movement, even the twitch of an eyebrow, transformed into the movement of an ape.

I locked the house into the site by cutting the back end here you see on the photographs of the site slicing into it and putting all the bathrooms and dressing rooms like a retaining wall, creating a lower level zone for the master bedroom, which I designed like a kind of a barge, looking like a boat.

Might such ease and efficiency not also fuel market instability, and serve the interests of intermediaries rather than their clients? Phrases like sand in the machine and grit in the oyster, which were pejorative in the prelapsarian days of 2006, are now used to support regulatory or fiscal changes that may slow down trading and reduce its volume.

When China summoned India s ambassador in Beijing to the foreign ministry at 2 a.m. for a dressing down over the Tibetan protests in New Delhi, India meekly acquiesced in the insult. Though Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has publicly declared the Dalai Lama to be the personification of nonviolence, India has let it be known that it does not support his political objectives.

The current European stress tests of nuclear power plants are a first step but, as long as they are voluntary and under the operators control, they will be nothing more than political window dressing. For example, there are no plans to test any of the 143 nuclear power plants currently operating in the European Union for core safety risks, such as a terrorist attack or a plane crash.