Each piece starts with a flat wooden base and a core of hand-sculpted Styrofoam.
For my artists, their fans that follow and interact on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram is their core fan base that lives and breathes with them on a daily level.
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"The market for BlackBerry is our core customer base and that's what we've targeted, " said RIM president Mike Lazaridis.
However, the company is now realigning its asset base, revamping management and selling non-core assets.
But more so than Bush, Perry has stronger bona fides with its hard core base of fiscal conservatives and the religious right.
Apple is targeting their hard-core base of media professionals and prosumers with messages of an improved photo and video playback and editing experience.
Man U also lays claim to an unmatched global fan base: 333 million followers and 139 million core fans, with more than half coming from Asia.
Obviously Project Eternity has shown us that a company can successfully drive their way to Kickstarter success without much to show, but Obsidian comes at this from a unique perch, with many beloved titles under their belt and a core fan-base.
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" Pandit also reaffirmed his committment to stabilizing Citi's capital base and said he is still looking at "non-core assets and businesses.
Rather than expanding more broadly into personal computers (a move that many at the time discussed), the company refocused on its base and specifically targeted consumers and creative professionals with an improved core Mac offering.
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The Call of Duty series is popular with both casual and core gamers, fostered by a sizeable install base with current-gen consoles.
Much of that first two-thirds of his speech was spent in a defense of government and I am sure drew cheers from his core Democratic activist base watching at home.
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"Over the past several years, we have rebuilt Citi's capital base and strengthened our balance sheet as well as shed assets and businesses not core to our strategy, " said Michael Corbat, Citi's CEO since October.
Johnson seems clueless and unable to appreciate the fact that driving away your core customer base is a dangerous move.
Now much of the ruling party's core Sinhalese base seems to be lining up behind Mr Wickremanayake, and he has the backing of the country's powerful Buddhist monks.
O3b, by contrast, intends to offer bandwidth on a wholesale basis to internet-service providers, and transmission services to telecom operators, to link remote base stations to their core networks.
In addition to lowering taxes, broadening the tax base and lessening regulation, Wilson see a more manufacturing-friendly economy as a core of long term growth in the United States.
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With carriers moving to higher-speed 4G networks like LTE to support the explosion of data traffic caused by the rapid adoption of cloud computing solutions and burgeoning video usage, Alcatel Lucent is looking to take advantage of the industry transition and leverage its existing base of edge routers to find an opening in the core router market.
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But I do think RIM is scrappy enough to hold on to a core portion of its core user group businesses and then build from that base, especially with the rollout of BB 10.
The Transformer AiO has a laundry list of specs: An Intel Core i5 and an NVIDIA Tegra 3, 8GB of RAM on the base station side with 2GB inside the tablet display. 4 USB 3.0 ports, and HDMI out for running a secondary display. (For example, if a user wants to take the tablet and you want to remain working at your desk).
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Their base is dispirited, and without Obama on the ballot, the party's ability to energize its core vote will be severely limited (as we saw in the two 2009 gubernatorial races).
Sure, the Xbox 360 can be righteous and cool with hard-core gamers, but this is not a sufficiently large user base to recoup the magnitude of investment Microsoft has made in its gaming platform.
There will likely be a significant drop-off in demand for the munitions that the unit supplies to the Army and Marine Corps, but GD has built up a strong base of support in Congress for protecting its core vehicle franchises.
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While there is no doubt that AAPL has earned loyalty and admiration from its customers and its market valuation, much of the traction it has developed has been due to a core base of loyalty.
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