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Vision Recordings
Vision Recordings, usually shortened to VISION, is a Dutch drum and bass record label founded in 2005 by Noisia, best known as the outlet for the trio's own productions.
Vision Thing (album)
Vision Thing is the third studio album by The Sisters of Mercy, released in 1990. It is a dark, danceable mix of goth, industrial, and metal, critiquing contemporary politics.
VisionQuest
VisionQuest (2026) is a Marvel Television Disney+ series concluding the WandaVision trilogy with Agatha All Along. Paul Bettany's rebooted White Vision, with Ultron (James Spader) in his head, searches for identity while hunted by Paladin; eight episodes, October 13 to November 11, 2026.
Visions (2015 film)
Visions (2015) is a Blumhouse supernatural horror film directed by Kevin Greutert, starring Isla Fisher as pregnant Eveleigh Maddox, whose visions at a Paso Robles vineyard prove to be premonitions of a cult attack; 82 minutes, R-rated, direct-to-video in the US.
Visions (Grimes album)
Visions is the third studio album by Canadian singer Grimes, released in 2012, that became her breakthrough and won the Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year.
Visions (Norah Jones album)
Visions is Norah Jones' ninth solo studio album, released March 8, 2024 on Blue Note, produced by Leon Michels; a 12-song, 45-minute garage-soul set that won the 2025 Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.
Visions of Atlantis
Visions of Atlantis is an Austrian symphonic power metal band formed in 2000 in Bruck an der Mur, built around paired male and female lead vocals and nautical, Atlantean themes.
Visions of Cody
Visions of Cody is Jack Kerouac's experimental 1951–52 novel on Neal Cassady (Cody Pomeray), first published in part by New Directions in 1960 (750 signed copies) and in full by McGraw-Hill in 1972; Kerouac considered it his masterwork.
Visitatio Sepulchri
Visitatio Sepulchri is a medieval Easter liturgical ceremony, first recorded in tenth-century France, in which clerics or nuns re-enacted the three Marys' visit to Christ's tomb.
Visitation (film)
Visitation (film) covers several unrelated films: Volker Schlöndorff's 2026 German drama Heimsuchung from Jenny Erpenbeck's novel, the 2006 Peretti supernatural thriller The Visitation, Suzan Pitt's 2011 animated short, and Nicolas Pesce's completed horror film.
Visiting a Garden Without Meeting the Owner
"Visiting a Garden Without Meeting the Owner" (You Yuan Bu Zhi, 游园不值) is a quatrain by Southern Song poet Ye Shaoweng about a closed garden gate and an apricot branch over the wall.
Visitor (album)
Visitor (2026) is the debut studio album by London-born British singer Sienna Spiro, released 3 July 2026 on Capitol Records; a soul and symphonic-pop record that reached UK No. 2 and US No. 9.
Visitor Q (ビジターQ)
Visitor Q (ビジターQ) is Takashi Miike's 2001 Japanese black comedy, also titled Bijita Q, about a stranger who moves in with a collapsing family. Shot on MiniDV in under a week for under $60,000 for the V-cinema market.
Visramiani
Visramiani (ვისრამიანი) is the Old Georgian prose translation of the Persian romance Vis o Ramin, made in the 12th century and attributed to Sargis Tmogveli.
Vista Chino
Vista Chino, formerly Kyuss Lives!, is an American stoner rock band formed in 2010 in Palm Desert, California, by former Kyuss members; it released the album Peace in 2013.
Visu
Visu (Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Viswanathan, விசு), 1945-2020, Tamil screenwriter, director, actor, and talk-show host; directed Samsaram Adhu Minsaram, the first Tamil film to win the National Award for Best Popular Film, and hosted Arattai Arangam.
Visual arts
Visual arts: art forms experienced through sight, spanning painting, sculpture, photography, media, and performance-related visual practice; covers its history, education, artist economics (15% full-time living, median 18,000 euros), gender inequality data, and AI-era museums and benchmarks.
Visual communication
Visual communication is the practice of conveying information through visual structure, encompassing design, psychology, and computation. It is used in fields like architecture and marketing.
Visual design elements and principles
Visual design elements and principles: elements are the basic units of a composition (line, shape, color, texture) and principles are the operations organizing them (balance, contrast, hierarchy, unity); lists vary by tradition, rooted in Bauhaus and Gestalt psychology.
Visual effects
Visual effects, commonly abbreviated VFX, creates or alters imagery in film, television, and interactive media beyond live-action photography, blending computer-generated elements with footage so the result looks seamless.
Visual kei (ヴィジュアル系)
Visual kei (ヴィジュアル系), a Japanese rock movement from the 1980s built around theatrical makeup, androgynous fashion, and elaborate visuals rather than a fixed sound; named from X JAPAN's "PSYCHEDELIC VIOLENCE CRIME OF VISUAL SHOCK" slogan; peaked in the 1990s, now a resilient live-house and international niche scene.
Visual novel
Visual novel (ノベルゲーム, novel game; sound novel): text-forward digital fiction with mostly static graphics, click-advanced text, and branching choices; originated in 1980s Japan, 18,000+ titles on VNDB, major franchises like Fate/stay night.
Visual novel awards
Visual novel awards are prizes recognizing bishōjo games and visual novels; the annual Moe Game Award is the main industry award, while the Getchu.com Bishojo Game Award ran from 2003 to 2023.
Visual poetry
Visual poetry is poetry in which the visual arrangement of language, including typography and layout, carries meaning, sitting at the boundary between literature and the visual arts.
Visualization (graphics)
Visualization (graphics) is the visual or graphic representation of data using marks and encodings such as bars, lines, and points. Covers its history from Bertin and Beck, graphical perception rankings, comparison layouts, pitfalls, literacy, and standards like ISO 10303-46.
Viswadarshanam
Viswadarshanam (വിശ്വദർശനം, "Vision of the Universe") is a 1960 Malayalam poetry collection by G. Sankara Kurup, winning the Kerala Sahitya Akademi and Kendra Sahitya Akademi Awards.
Viswam (విశ్వం) (film)
Viswam (విశ్వం), 2024 Telugu action comedy thriller directed by Sreenu Vaitla, starring Gopichand and Kavya Thapar; released 11 October 2024, U/A certified, grossed ₹15.58 crore, streamed on Prime Video and Aha.
Viswanatha Satyanarayana
Viswanatha Satyanarayana (విశ్వనాథ సత్యనారాయణ, 1895–1976) was a Telugu poet and novelist known as Kavi Samrat, who wrote hundreds of works and won the first Telugu Jnanpith Award for his verse Ramayana.
Viswasam
Viswasam (விஸ்வாசம், transl. Loyalty) is a 2019 Indian Tamil-language action drama film directed by Siva, starring Ajith Kumar and Nayanthara, released for Pongal and among the year's highest-grossing Tamil films.
Vita Andersen
Vita Andersen (1942–2021) was a Danish author whose 1977 debut Tryghedsnarkomaner sold about 90,000 copies and introduced knækprosa, a plain, speech-like verse form; she won Kritikerprisen in 1987.